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EXHIBIT 10.1
Execution Copy
PLEDGE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT
Dated as of May 18,
2007,
among
SPANSION
INC.,
SPANSION
LLC,
and
CERTAIN OF THEIR
SUBSIDIARIES
party hereto from time to
time,
as Grantors,
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
as Collateral
Agent.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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| ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS |
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| SECTION 1.01 |
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Definitions and Construction |
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| SECTION
1.02 |
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UCC
Definitions |
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| SECTION
1.03 |
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Other
Defined Terms |
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| ARTICLE
II |
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PLEDGED
COLLATERAL |
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| SECTION
2.01 |
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Pledged
Collateral |
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| SECTION
2.02 |
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Delivery
of the Pledged Collateral |
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| SECTION
2.03 |
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Agreements of Issuers |
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2.04 |
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Representations, Warranties and Covenants with respect to
Pledged Collateral |
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13 |
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| SECTION
2.05 |
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Voting
Rights; Dividends and Interest, etc |
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| SECTION
2.06 |
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Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations |
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| ARTICLE
III SECURITY
INTERESTS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY |
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| SECTION
3.01 |
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The
Security Interests |
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| SECTION
3.02 |
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Filing
Authorization |
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| SECTION
3.03 |
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Continuing Security Interest; Transfer of Credit
Extensions |
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| SECTION
3.04 |
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Grantors
Remain Liable |
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| SECTION
3.05 |
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Security
Interest Absolute |
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| SECTION
3.06 |
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Waiver of
Subrogation |
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| SECTION
3.07 |
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Release;
Termination |
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| ARTICLE
IV PERFECTION
OF SECURITY INTERESTS; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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| SECTION
4.01 |
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Perfection of Security Interest |
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| SECTION
4.02 |
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Representations and Warranties |
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| ARTICLE
V COVENANTS |
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| SECTION
5.01 |
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Perfection of Security Interests |
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| ARTICLE
VI REMEDIES;
RIGHTS UPON DEFAULT |
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| SECTION
6.01 |
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Remedies
upon Default |
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| SECTION
6.02 |
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Application of Proceeds |
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| SECTION 6.03 |
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Grant of
License to Use Intellectual Property |
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| SECTION
6.04 |
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Securities Act, etc |
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| SECTION
6.05 |
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Expenses;
Indemnification |
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| ARTICLE
VII MISCELLANEOUS |
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| SECTION
7.01 |
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Notices |
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7.02 |
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Amendments, etc.; Additional Grantors; Successors and
Assigns |
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7.03 |
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Survival
of Agreement |
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7.04 |
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Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact |
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7.05 |
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Counterparts |
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7.06 |
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Severability |
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7.07 |
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GOVERNING
LAW; JURISDICTION; ETC |
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7.08 |
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WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL |
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7.09 |
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ENTIRE
AGREEMENT |
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7.10 |
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Mortgages |
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7.11 |
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No
Waiver; Remedies |
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7.12 |
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Headings |
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7.13 |
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Intercreditor Agreement |
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Schedules
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| Schedule 1 |
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Subsidiary Grantors |
| Schedule 2 |
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Commercial Tort Claims |
| Schedule 3 |
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Place of
Incorporation, Organizational Numbers, Chief Executive Office and
Principal Place of Business; Locations of Records |
| Schedule 4 |
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Pledged
Collateral |
| Schedule 5 |
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Locations
and Descriptions of Equipment, Inventory and Motor
Vehicles |
| Schedule 6 |
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Trade
Names, Division Names, etc. |
| Schedule 7 |
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Required
Filings and Recordings; Existing Liens |
| Schedule 8 |
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Licenses
and Material Contracts |
| Schedule 9 |
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Deposit
Accounts and Security Accounts |
| Schedule 10 |
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Real
Property and Leased Real Property |
Exhibits
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| Exhibit A |
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Form of
Perfection Certificate |
| Exhibit B |
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Form of
Security Agreement Supplement |
| Exhibit C |
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[
Reserved ] |
| Exhibit D |
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Form of
Waiver |
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This PLEDGE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT, dated as of May 18, 2007 (this “
Agreement ”), among SPANSION LLC , a Delaware
limited liability company (the “ Issuer ”),
SPANSION INC. , a Delaware corporation (“
Holdings ”), and each other Subsidiary (such term and
the other capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings
assigned thereto in Article I of this Agreement) of Holdings
identified on the signature pages hereof (all such Subsidiaries,
the “ Subsidiary Grantors ” and, together with
Holdings and the Issuer, hereinafter collectively referred to as
the “ Grantors ”, and each individually as a
“ Grantor ”) and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as trustee and collateral agent (in such capacity,
the “ Collateral Agent ”) for the Secured
Parties (as defined below).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Issuer,
Holdings, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Collateral Agent, have
entered into an Indenture, dated as of May 18, 2007 (as
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “ Indenture ”), providing for the
issuance of the Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2013
(“Notes”) of the Issuer, all as contemplated therein
(with the holders from time to time of Notes being referred to
herein as the “ Noteholders ” and, together with
the Collateral Agent, as the “ Secured Parties
”);
WHEREAS, pursuant to
Section 10 of the Indenture, each Grantor (other than the
Issuer) has jointly and severally guaranteed to the Secured Parties
the payment when due of all the Secured Obligations (as hereinafter
defined);
WHEREAS, it is a condition
precedent to the issuance of Notes by the Issuer that each Grantor
shall have executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent this
Agreement;
NOW THEREFORE, for good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, each Grantor hereby agrees, for the benefit of
each Secured Party, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Definitions
and Construction . Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and
not otherwise defined herein have the meanings specified in the
Indenture.
SECTION 1.02 UCC
Definitions . All terms defined in the UCC and not defined in
this Agreement have the meanings specified therein.
SECTION 1.03 Other Defined
Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings specified below:
“ Account
” means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether
or not earned by performance (and shall include invoices,
contracts, rights, accounts receivable, notes, refunds,
indemnities, interest, late charges, fees, undertakings, and all
other obligations and amounts owing to any Grantor from any
Person): (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 policy of insurance issued or to be issued; (d) for a
secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred; (e) for
energy provided or to be provided; or (f) arising out of the
use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for
use with the card.
“ Account Control
Agreement ” means an account control agreement in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
entered into among a Grantor, the Collateral Agent and the bank or
Securities Intermediary where a Deposit Account or Securities
Account, respectively, of such Grantor is maintained.
“ Account Debtor
” means any Person who is or who may become obligated to any
Grantor under, with respect to or on account of an
Account.
“ Accounts
Receivable ” means, at any date of
determination, the difference of (a) the gross amount of
Accounts originated and owned by the Issuer on the date of
such determination arising from fully consummated unconditional
sales in the ordinary course of business to Persons who are not
Affiliates of the Issuer with respect to which no more than 90 days
have elapsed since the date of the original invoice therefor or
which is no more than 60 days past due and which have not been
determined by the Issuer or the Collateral Trustee to be
uncollectible for any reason less (b) sales, excise or
similar taxes, and less returns, discounts, claims, credits and
allowances, accrued rebates, offsets, deductions, counterclaims,
disputes and other defenses of any nature at any time issued,
owing, granted, outstanding, available or claimed with respect to
such Accounts.
“ Acknowledgment and
Agreement ” means an acknowledgment in the form of
Exhibit C hereto, or otherwise in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, with respect to the
collateral assignment by the applicable Grantor hereunder of its
rights under any Material Contract, duly executed by the other
party or parties to such Material Contract.
“ Cash Collateral
Account ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.08.
“ Cash
Distributions ” means dividends, interest and other
distributions and payments (including proceeds of liquidation, sale
or other disposition) made or received in cash upon or with respect
to any Collateral.
“ Chattel Paper
” means a record or records that evidence both a monetary
obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security
interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a
security interest in specific goods and license of software used in
the goods, a lease of specific goods, or a lease of specific goods
and license of software used in the goods.
“ Collateral
” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01
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“ Collateral
Agent ” has the meaning specified in the preamble
hereto.
“ Commercial Tort
Claim ” means a claim arising in tort with respect to
which the claimant is a Grantor.
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“ Copyright
License ” means any written agreement, now or hereinafter
in effect, granting any right to any third party under any
Copyright now or hereafter owned by any Grantor or that any Grantor
otherwise has the right to license, or granting any right to any
Grantor under any Copyright now or hereafter owned by any third
party, and all rights of any Grantor under any such
agreement.
“ Copyrights
” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired
by any Grantor, (a) all copyright rights in any work subject
to the copyright laws of the United States or any other country,
whether as author, assignee, transferee or otherwise, and
(b) all registrations and applications for registration of any
such copyright in the United States or any other country, including
registrations, recordings, supplemental registrations and pending
applications for registration in the United States Copyright
Office.
“ Deposit
Account ” means a demand, time, savings, passbook, or
similar account (including all bank accounts, collection accounts
and concentration accounts, together with all funds held therein
and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time
representing or evidencing such accounts) maintained by or in the
name of any Grantor with a bank, including, without limitation, all
such accounts listed on Schedule 9 hereto, as such schedule
may be supplemented from time to time.
“ Documents
” means a document of title or a receipt of the type
described in Section 7-201(2) of the UCC.
“ Electronic Chattel
Paper ” means Chattel Paper evidenced by a record or
records consisting of information stored in an electronic
medium.
“ Entitlement
Holder ” means a Person identified in the records of a
Securities Intermediary as the Person having a Security Entitlement
against the Securities Intermediary. If a Person acquires a
Security Entitlement by virtue of Section 8-501(b)(2) or
(3) of the UCC, such Person is the Entitlement
Holder.
“ Environmental
Laws ” means any and all Federal, state, local, and
foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments,
orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises,
licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to
pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of
any materials into the environment, including those related to
hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to
waste or public systems.
“ Environmental
Liability ” means any liability, contingent or otherwise
(including any liability for damages, costs of environmental
remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Issuer and
Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or
indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any
Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling,
transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous
Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials,
(d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous
Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement
or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is
assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
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“ Equipment
” means all machinery, equipment in all its forms, wherever
located, including, without limitation, all repair equipment,
office equipment, motor vehicles, furniture and furnishings, all
other property similar to the foregoing (including tools, parts and
supplies of every kind and description), components, parts and
accessories installed thereon or affixed thereto and all parts
thereof, and all Fixtures and all accessories, additions,
attachments, improvements, substitutions and replacements thereto
and therefor.
“ Equity
Interests ” means, with respect to any Person, all of the
shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests
in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for
the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital
stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person,
all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares
of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in)
such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or
acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other
interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in
such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests
therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such
shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are
outstanding on any date of determination.
“ Federal Securities
Laws ” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.07 .
“ Financial
Asset ” means:
(a) a Security;
(b) an obligation of a Person
or a share, participation or other interest in a Person or in
property or an enterprise of a Person, which is, or is of a type,
dealt with in or traded on financial markets, or which is
recognized in any area in which it is issued or dealt in as a
medium for investment; or
(c) any property that is held
by a Securities Intermediary for another Person in a Securities
Account if the Securities Intermediary has expressly agreed with
the other Person that the property is to be treated as a Financial
Asset under Article 8 of the UCC. As the context requires, the term
Financial Asset means either the interest itself or the means by
which a Person’s claim to it is evidenced, including a
certificated or uncertificated Security, a certificate representing
a Security or a Security Entitlement.
“ Fixtures
” means all items of Goods, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, of any Grantor that become so related to particular real
property that an interest in them arises under any real property
law applicable thereto.
“ Foreign
Subsidiary ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(a).
“ General
Intangibles ” means all “General Intangibles”
as defined in the UCC, including things in action and all other
intangible personal property of any Grantor of every kind and
nature (other than Accounts, Chattel Paper, Commercial Tort Claims,
Deposit Accounts, Documents, Goods, Instruments, Investment
Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights, letters of credit, and money)
now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, including
corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership or other
business records, indemnification claims, contract rights
(including rights under leases, whether entered into as lessor or
lessee, Swap Contracts and other agreements), Intellectual
Property, Payment Intangibles and tax refund claims.
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“ Goods ”
means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches
(including (a) Fixtures and (b) computer programs
embedded in goods and any supporting information provided in
connection with a transaction relating to the program if
(i) the program is associated with the goods in such a manner
that is customarily considered part of the goods, or (ii) by
becoming the owner of the goods, a Person acquires a right to use
the program in connection with the goods).
“ Governmental
Authority ” means the government of the United States or
any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether
state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality,
regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government
(including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or
the European Central Bank).
“ Grantors
” has the meaning specified in the preamble
hereto.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” means all explosive or radioactive substances
or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other
pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos
or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon
gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or
wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental
Law.
“ Holdings
” has the meaning specified in the preamble
hereto.
“ Indemnitee
” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05
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“ Indenture
” has the meaning specified in the recitals
hereto.
“ Instrument
” means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that
evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not
itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in
ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any
necessary endorsement or assignment.
“ Intellectual
Property ” means all intellectual and similar property of
every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any
Grantor, including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights,
Licenses, Trademarks, trade secrets, domain names, confidential or
proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how
or other data or information, Software and databases and all
embodiments or fixations thereof and related documentation,
goodwill, registrations and franchises, and all additions,
improvements and accessions to, and books and records describing or
used in connection with, any of the foregoing.
“ Intercompany
Note ” means a promissory note hereto evidencing Debt for
borrowed money of Holdings or any of its direct or indirect
Subsidiaries to and in favor of any Grantor.
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“ Inventory
” means Goods, other than farm products, which: (a) are
leased by a Person as lessor; (b) are held by a Person for
sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service;
(c) are furnished by a Person under a contract of service; or
(d) consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials
used or consumed in a business, and includes, without limitation,
(i) finished goods, returned goods and materials and supplies
of any kind, nature or description which are or might be used in
connection with the manufacture, packing, shipping, advertising,
selling or finishing of any of the foregoing, (ii) all goods
in which a Grantor has an interest in mass or a joint or other
interest or right of any kind (including goods in which a Grantor
has an interest or right as consignee), (iii) all goods which
are returned to or repossessed by any Grantor, and (iv) all
accessions thereto, products thereof and documents
therefor.
“ Investment
Property ” means all Securities (whether certificated or
uncertificated), Security Entitlements, Securities Accounts,
Financial Assets, commodity contracts and commodity accounts of
each Grantor; provided , however , that Investment
Property shall not include any Securities constituting Pledged
Collateral and identified on Schedule 4 hereto, as such
Schedule may be supplemented from time to time.
“ Issuer ”
has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.
“ Laws ”
means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and
local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations,
ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or
authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof
by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement,
interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable
administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses,
authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any
Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the
force of law.
“ Letter-of-Credit
Right ” means a right to payment or performance under a
letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has demanded or is
at the time entitled to demand payment or performance, but excludes
the right of a beneficiary to demand payment or performance under a
letter of credit.
“ License
” means any Patent License, Trademark License, Copyright
License or other license or sublicense as to which any Grantor is
now or hereafter a party.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” means (a) a material adverse change in, or
a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business,
properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or financial
condition of the Grantors and their respective Subsidiaries taken
as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and
remedies of the Collateral Agent or any Noteholder under any
Noteholder Document, or of the ability of any Grantor to perform
its material obligations under any Noteholder Document to which it
is a party; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the
legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any
Grantor of any Noteholder Document to which it is a
party.
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“ Material
Contract ” means, with respect to any Person, each
contract to which such Person is a party which is material to the
business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations,
performance or properties of such Person.
“ Motor Vehicles
” means all titled vehicles of any kind (including any
trailers and aircraft).
“ Noteholder
Documents ” means the Indenture, the Notes and each of
the other agreements, documents and instruments providing for or
evidencing any Secured Obligation of the Issuer under the Indenture
and the Notes, and any other document or instrument executed or
delivered at any time in connection with any Secured Obligations of
the Issuer under the Indenture and the Notes, including any
intercreditor agreement among holders of Secured Obligations of the
Issuer or Supplemental Indenture, in each case to the extent such
are effective at the relevant time and as each may be amended,
restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or refinanced
from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the
Noteholder Documents.
“ Organization
Documents ” means, (a) with respect to any
corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the
bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with
respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any
limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation
or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect
to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business
entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable
agreement of formation or organization and any agreement,
instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in
connection with its formation or organization with the applicable
governmental authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or
organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of
formation or organization of such entity.
“ Patent License
” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect,
granting to any third party any right to make, use or sell any
invention on which a Patent, now or hereafter owned by any Grantor
or that any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, is in
existence, or granting to any Grantor any right to make, use or
sell any invention on which a Patent, now or hereafter owned by any
third party, is in existence, and all rights of any Grantor under
any such agreement.
“ Patents
” means all right, title and interest of any Grantor in and
to all of the following, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired:
(a) all letters patent of the
United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country, all
registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications for
letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in
any other country, including registrations, recordings and pending
applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or
any similar offices in any other country; and
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(b) all reissues,
continuations, divisions, continuations-in-part, renewals or
extensions thereof and the inventions disclosed or claimed therein,
including the right to make, use, sell and/or offer to sell the
inventions disclosed or claimed therein.
“ Payment
Intangible ” means a general intangible under which the
account debtor’s principal obligation is a monetary
obligation.
“ Perfection
Certificate ” means a certificate substantially in the
form of Exhibit A hereto, completed by Holdings on behalf of
itself and each other Grantor to include the scheduled information
contemplated by Exhibit A hereto with respect to each
Grantor.
“ Permitted
Liens ” means Liens permitted under
Section 1.01 of the Indenture.
“ Pledged
Collateral ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01 .
“ Pledged Debt
” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01
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“ Pledged Equity
” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01
.
“ Pledged
Securities ” means any promissory notes (including
Intercompany Notes), stock certificates or instruments,
certificates and other documents representing or evidencing any of
the Pledged Debt or Pledged Equity, as the case may be.
“ Proceeds
” means the following property:
(a) whatever is acquired upon
the sale, lease, license, exchange, or other disposition of the
Collateral;
(b) whatever is collected on,
or distributed on account of, the Collateral;
(c) rights arising out of the
Collateral; and
(d) to the extent of the
value of the Collateral and to the extent payable to the debtor or
the secured party, insurance payable by reason of the loss or
nonconformity of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage
to, the Collateral.
“ Schedules
” means the schedules to this Agreement, as supplemented from
time to time by a Security Agreement Supplement.
“ Secured
Obligations ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.01.
“ Securities
” means any obligations of an issuer or any shares,
participations or other interests in an issuer or in property or an
enterprise of an issuer which
(a) are represented by a
certificate representing a security in bearer or registered form,
or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained
for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer;
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(b) are one of a class or
series or by its terms is divisible into a class or series of
shares, participations, interests or obligations; and
(c) (i) are, or are of a
type, dealt with or traded on securities exchanges or securities
markets or (ii) are a medium for investment and by their terms
expressly provide that they are a security governed by Article 8 of
the UCC.
“ Securities
Account ” means an account to which a Financial Asset is
or may be credited in accordance with an agreement under which the
Person maintaining the account undertakes to treat the Person for
whom the account is maintained as entitled to exercise rights that
comprise the Financial Asset, including, without limitation, all
such accounts listed on Schedule 9 hereto, as such schedule
may be supplemented from time to time.
“ Security Agreement
Supplement ” means either (i) a Supplement to this
Agreement in the form of Exhibit B executed by the
applicable Grantor and delivered to the Collateral Agent or
(ii) an update to the Schedules to this Agreement by existing
Grantors and delivered to the Collateral Agent, in each case
pursuant Section 5.01(c).
“ Security
Entitlements ” means the rights and property interests of
an Entitlement Holder with respect to a Financial Asset.
“ Security
Interest ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.01 .
“ Security
Intermediary ” means:
(a) a clearing corporation;
or
(b) a Person, including a
bank or broker, that in the ordinary course of its business
maintains Securities Accounts for others and is acting in that
capacity.
“ Software
” means a computer program and any supporting information
provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program,
not including a computer program that is included in the definition
of Goods.
“ Subsidiary
Grantor ” has the meaning specified in the preamble
hereto.
“ Supplemental
Indenture ” means the supplemental indenture in the form
of Exhibit B to the Indenture.
“ Supporting
Obligation ” means a Letter-of-Credit Right or secondary
obligation that supports the payment or performance of an Account,
Chattel Paper, Document, General Intangible, Instrument or
Investment Property, including, without limitation, all security
agreements, guaranties, leases and other contracts securing or
otherwise relating to any such Accounts, Chattel Paper, Documents,
General Intangible, Instruments or Investment Property, including
Goods represented by the sale or lease of delivery which gave rise
to any of the foregoing, returned or repossessed merchandise and
rights of stoppage in transit, replevin, reclamation and other
rights and remedies of an unpaid vendor, lienor or secured
party.
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“ Swap Contract
” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis
swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions,
commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts,
equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond
index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or
forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward
foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor
transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions,
cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot
contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of
any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of
the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by
or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all
transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are
subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of
master agreement published by the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange
Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master
agreement, together with any related schedules, a “ Master
Agreement ”), including any such obligations or
liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“ Tangible Chattel
Paper ” means Chattel Paper evidenced by a record or
records consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible
medium.
“ Termination
Date ” means (i) for all Grantors, the date on which
the Secured Obligations (other than contingent indemnity
obligations) of all Grantors are paid in full and in cash or
(ii) in the case of any Grantor (other than the Issuer), the
date on which such Grantor ceases to be Guarantor under
Section 10.09 of the Indenture.
“ Trademark
License ” means any written agreement, now or hereafter
in effect, granting to any third party any right to use any
Trademark now or hereafter owned by any Grantor or that any Grantor
otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any Grantor any
right to use any Trademark now or hereafter owned by any third
party, and all rights of any Grantor under any such
agreement.
“ Trademarks
” means all of the following now or hereafter owned by any
Grantor, (a) all trademarks, service marks, trade names,
corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business
names, trade styles, trade dress, logos, other source or business
identifiers, designs and general intangibles of like nature, now
existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and
recordings thereof, and all applications filed in connection
therewith, including registrations and applications in the United
States Patent and Trademark Office, any State of the United States
or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, and all
extensions or renewals thereof, (b) all goodwill associated
therewith and (c) all other assets, rights and interests that
uniquely reflect or embody such goodwill.
“ UCC ”
means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in
the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the
effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any Lien
on any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in a jurisdiction other than New York, “UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in
such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof
relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection
or priority.
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“ Waiver
Agreement ” means a waiver agreement with a landlord or
bailee of a Grantor substantially in the form of Exhibit D
hereto or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent, entered into among such landlord or
bailee, as the case may be, such Grantor and the Collateral Agent,
as such agreement may be amended, restated, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
ARTICLE II
PLEDGED
COLLATERAL
SECTION 2.01 Pledged
Collateral . The Collateral pledged by each Grantor under this
Agreement shall include all of such Grantor’s right, title
and interest in, to and under the following Equity Interests and
Debt now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor (collectively,
the “ Pledged Collateral ”):
(a) Pledged Equity .
(i) The shares of capital stock, membership interests, limited
partnership interests and other Equity Interests in any Person
owned by such Grantor on the Issue Date and listed opposite the
name of such Grantor on Schedule 4 , (ii) any other
Equity Interests of any Person obtained in the future by such
Grantor and identified in a supplement to Schedule 4
attached to a Security Agreement Supplement and (iii) the
certificates representing all such Equity Interests (collectively,
the “ Pledged Equity ”); provided ,
however , that the Pledged Equity of any Grantor shall not
include (A) the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary formed or
organized outside of the United States (a “ Foreign
Subsidiary ”) owned directly by such Grantor, or
(B) any Equity Interest in any Person which is evidenced by a
Security or a Security Entitlement which is maintained in a
Securities Account which is either (1) maintained with the
Collateral Agent or (2) maintained with any other Securities
Intermediary; provided that, to the extent required by
Section 4.01(g) , any such other Securities
Intermediary shall have entered into an Account Control Agreement
with the Collateral Agent with respect to such Securities
Account.
(b) Pledged Debt .
(i) The promissory notes (including Intercompany Notes) and
debt securities of any other Person owned by such Grantor on the
Issue Date and the loans and advances for money borrowed made by
such Grantor to any other Person which are outstanding on the Issue
Date, in each case, which are listed opposite the name of such
Grantor on Schedule 4 , (ii) any promissory notes
(including Intercompany Notes), debt securities, and loans or
advances for money borrowed in the future issued to or owed to such
Grantor by any other Person and identified in a supplement to
Schedule 4 attached to a Security Agreement Supplement and
(iii) the promissory notes (including, Intercompany Notes) and
any other instruments as may hereafter be issued to evidence such
loans or advances for money borrowed (collectively, the “
Pledged Debt ”); provided , however, that the
Pledged Debt of any Grantor shall exclude any Intercompany Note
evidencing a loan or other extension of credit by a Grantor to any
Foreign Subsidiary to the extent that a pledge or Lien to the
Collateral Agent with respect to such Intercompany Note would
create a material increased tax liability for any Grantor as a
result of Section 956 of the Code.
(c) Distributions .
Subject to Section 2.05 , all payments of principal or
interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time
to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect
of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of the items referred to
in clauses (a) and (b) above.
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(d) Rights and
Privileges . Subject to Section 2.05 , all rights
and privileges of such Grantor with respect to the securities,
instruments and other property referred to in clauses (a),
(b) and (c) above.
(e) Proceeds . All
Proceeds of any of the foregoing.
SECTION 2.02 Delivery of
the Pledged Collateral . Subject to delivery to the Revolving
Credit Agent and the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement:
(a) Certificated
Collateral . Each Grantor agrees promptly to deliver or cause
to be delivered to the Collateral Agent any and all Pledged
Securities representing any Pledged Equity or Pledged Debt, as the
case may be.
(b) Intercompany Notes
. If any Debt for borrowed money owed to such Grantor by any other
Grantor or by any other Subsidiary of Holdings is evidenced by an
Intercompany Note, such Intercompany Note shall be pledged and
delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms
hereof.
(c) Stock Powers .
Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent, any Pledged Securities shall
be accompanied by stock powers, bond powers or other instruments of
transfer reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent duly
executed in blank by the applicable Grantor and such other
instruments and documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably
request. Unless previously delivered with this Security Agreement
or any Security Agreement Supplement, as the case may be, each
delivery of Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by a schedule
describing the Pledged Collateral evidenced thereby, which schedule
shall be attached hereto as a supplement to Schedule 4 and
made a part hereof; provided that failure to attach any such
schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such pledge of
such Pledged Securities. Each schedule so delivered shall be in
form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent
and shall supplement any prior schedules so delivered.
(d) Uncertificated
Collateral . With respect to any Pledged Equity owned by any
Grantor that constitutes an uncertificated security of a Subsidiary
or Affiliate of such Grantor, such Grantor will cause the issuer
thereof (if, either individually or together with Holdings and its
other Affiliates, it controls such issuer) or will use commercially
reasonable efforts to cause such issuer (if it does not so control
such issuer) either (i) to register the Collateral Agent as
the registered owner of such Pledged Equity or
(ii) (A) to acknowledge the security interest of the
Collateral Agent in such Pledged Equity granted hereunder,
(B) to confirm to the Collateral Agent that it has not
received notice of any other Lien in such Pledged Equity other than
the Lien of the Revolving Credit Agent (and has not agreed to
accept instructions from any other Person in respect of such
Pledged Equity other than the Collateral Agent and the Revolving
Credit Agent) and (C) to agree in writing with such Grantor
and the Collateral Agent that such issuer will comply with
instructions with respect to such Pledged Equity originated by the
Collateral Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such
agreement to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Collateral Agent.
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(e) Intercreditor
Agreement . Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that
any of the Pledged Collateral has been delivered to the Revolving
Credit Agent in connection with the Revolving Credit Agreement,
such Pledged Collateral shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent
in compliance with this Section 2.02 in accordance with
the Intercreditor Agreement.
SECTION 2.03 Agreements of
Issuers .
(a) Acknowledgment and
Confirmation of Issuers . Each Grantor that is the issuer of
any Pledged Equity owned by any other Grantor, hereby
(i) acknowledges the security interest of the Collateral Agent
in such Pledged Equity granted by such other Grantor hereunder,
(ii) confirms that it has not received notice of any other
Lien (except Permitted Liens) as of the Issue Date in such Pledged
Equity (and has not agreed to accept instructions from any other
Person in respect of such Pledged Equity other than the Revolving
Credit Agent and Collateral Agent), (iii) agrees that it will
comply with the instructions with respect to such Pledged Equity
originated by the Collateral Agent without further consent of such
other Grantor and (iv) otherwise agrees that it will be bound
by the terms of this Agreement relating to the Pledged Collateral
issued by it.
(b) Partnerships and
Limited Liability Companies . In the case of each Grantor which
is a partner in a partnership, limited liability company or other
entity, such Grantor hereby consents to the extent required by
applicable Organization Documents to the pledge by each other
Grantor, pursuant to the terms hereof, of the Pledged Equity in
such partnership, limited liability company or other entity, and
upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, to the transfer of such Pledged Equity to the Collateral
Agent or its nominee and to the substitution of the Collateral
Agent or its nominee as the substituted partner or member in such
limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity with
all rights, powers and duties of a partner or a general partner or
a limited member, as the case may be
SECTION 2.04
Representations, Warranties and Covenants with respect to
Pledged Collateral . The Grantors represent, warrant and
covenant to and with the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the
Secured Parties, that:
(a) Pledged Collateral
. Schedule 4 (as of the Issue Date and as supplemented from
time to time by any Security Agreement Supplements) correctly sets
forth for each Grantor on and as of the Issue Date and as of the
date of each Security Agreement Supplement, (i) the percentage
of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each class of any
other Person directly owned by such Grantor (and the aggregate
outstanding Equity Interests of such class of such issuer) that is
Pledged Collateral and (ii) all Debt for borrowed money of any
other Person and all other Debt evidenced by a promissory note or
debt security issued by any other Person which is payable or due to
such Grantor that is Pledged Collateral.
(b) Due Authorization and
Issuance . All Pledged Equity and Pledged Debt issued by any
Subsidiary or Affiliate of Holdings to any Grantor has been, and to
the extent that any such Pledged Equity or Pledged Debt is
hereafter issued, such Pledged Equity or Pledged Debt
will
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be, upon such issuance, duly and validly
issued by such issuer and (i) in the case of such Pledged
Equity, is fully paid and nonassessable and (ii) in the case
of such Pledged Debt, is the legal, valid and binding obligation of
such issuer.
(c) Title . Each
Grantor (i) is the owner, beneficially and of record, of the
Pledged Collateral indicated on Schedule 4 (as of the Issue
Date and as supplemented by any Security Agreement Supplement from
time to time) as owned by such Grantor, (ii) holds the same
free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens created by this
Agreement and Permitted Liens, (iii) will make no assignment,
pledge, hypothecation or transfer of, or create or permit to exist
any security interest in or other Lien on, the Pledged Collateral,
other than the Security Interest created by this Agreement,
Permitted Liens and other assignments and transfers permitted
pursuant to the Indenture, and (iv) will defend its title or
interest hereto or therein against any and all Liens (other than
the Security Interest created by this Agreement and other Permitted
Liens), however arising, of all Persons.
(d) Transferability of
Pledged Collateral . Except for (i) restrictions and
limitations imposed by the Noteholder Documents or securities laws
generally and (ii) consents required and obtained in
connection herewith, the Pledged Collateral is and will continue to
be freely transferable and assignable, and none of the Pledged
Collateral is or will be subject to any option, right of first
refusal, shareholders agreement, provision of any Organization
Document or contractual restriction of any nature that might
prohibit, impair, delay or otherwise affect the pledge of such
Pledged Collateral hereunder, the sale or disposition thereof
pursuant hereto or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of rights
and remedies hereunder.
(e) Validity of Security
Interest . By virtue of the execution and delivery by each
Grantor of this Agreement or a Supplemental Indenture and Security
Agreement Supplement, as the case may be, when all Pledged
Securities evidencing any Pledged Collateral of such Grantor are
delivered to the Collateral Agent in accordance with this
Agreement, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of itself and the
other Secured Parties, will obtain a valid and perfected first
priority lien, subject to Permitted Liens, upon and security
interest in all Pledged Collateral of such Grantor as security for
the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations of such
Grantor.
(f) No Violation .
Such Grantor is not in default in the payment of any portion of any
mandatory capital contribution, if any, required to be made under
any agreement to which such Grantor is a party relating to the
Pledged Equity pledged by it.
(g) No Defaults . No
Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor is subject to any defense,
offset or counterclaim, nor have any of the foregoing been asserted
or alleged against such Grantor by any Person with respect thereto,
and on and as of the Issue Date and as of the date of each Security
Agreement Supplement and Supplemental Indenture, there are no
certificates, instruments, documents or other writings (other than
the Organization Documents and certificates (if any) delivered to
the Revolving Credit Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable)
which evidence any Pledged Equity of such Grantor.
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(h) Notices . Each
Grantor agrees to (i) furnish to the Collateral Agent such
information and reports regarding the Pledged Equity and any such
Pledged Collateral as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request,
and (ii) upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent,
make to any other party to the Pledged Equity or any other contract
or agreement included in the Pledged Collateral such demands and
requests for information and reports or for action as the Grantor
is entitled to make thereunder.
(i) No Termination or
Modifications (Pledged Equity) . No Grantor of a Pledged Equity
shall, except as otherwise permitted by the Indenture:
(i) cancel or terminate any Pledged Equity or any other
contract or agreement included in the Pledged Collateral to which
it is a party or consent to or accept any cancellation or
termination thereof; (ii) amend or otherwise modify any such
or any such contract or agreement or give any consent, waiver, or
approval thereunder; (iii) waive any default under or breach
of any such Pledged Equity or any such other contract or agreement;
or (iv) take any other action in connection with any such
Pledged Equity or any such other contract or agreement the taking
or omission of which could reasonably be expected to impair the
value of the interest or rights of such Grantor thereunder or that
would impair the interest or rights of the Collateral
Agent.
(j) No Amendment or Other
Actions (Pledged Debt) . No Grantor will, without the prior
written consent of the Collateral Agent, except as otherwise
permitted by the Indenture: (i) enter into any agreement
amending, supplementing, or waiving any provision of any Pledged
Debt (other than Pledged Debt constituting intercompany debt)
(including any underlying instrument pursuant to which such Pledged
Debt is issued) or compromising or releasing or extending the time
for payment of any obligation of the maker thereof that could
reasonably be expected to materially impair the value of the
interest or rights of such Grantor thereunder or that would
materially impair the interest or rights of the Collateral Agent
therein; or (ii) take or omit to take
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