CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT REQUESTED BY USG CORPORATION — CONFIDENTIAL
PORTIONS OF THIS DOCUMENT HAVE BEEN REDACTED AND HAVE BEEN
SEPARATELY FILED WITH THE COMMISSION
PLEDGE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT
dated as of January 7,
2009
The Other Grantors Party
Hereto
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
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ARTICLE I
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DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01. Terms Defined in Credit
Agreement
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SECTION 1.02. Terms Defined in UCC
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SECTION 1.03. Definitions of Certain Terms Used
Herein
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ARTICLE II
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GRANT OF SECURITY
INTEREST
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SECTION 2.01. Security Interest
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ARTICLE III
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REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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SECTION 3.01. Title, Perfection and
Priority
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SECTION 3.02. Type and Jurisdiction of
Organization, Organizational and Identification Numbers
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SECTION 3.03. Principal Location
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SECTION 3.04. Collateral Locations
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SECTION 3.05. Deposit Accounts
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SECTION 3.06. Exact Names
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SECTION 3.07. Perfection Certificate
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SECTION 3.08. Validity of Security
Interest
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SECTION 3.09. Security Interest as Security
Only
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SECTION 3.12. Intellectual Property
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SECTION 3.13. Filing Requirements
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SECTION 3.14. No Financing Statements, Security
Agreements
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ARTICLE IV
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COVENANTS
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SECTION 4.04. Intellectual Property
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SECTION 4.05. Collateral Access
Agreements
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SECTION 4.06. Change of Name or Location; Change
of Fiscal Year
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ARTICLE V
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REMEDIES
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SECTION 5.02. Grantor’s Obligations Upon
an Event of Default
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SECTION 5.03. Grant of Intellectual Property
License
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ARTICLE VI
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ACCOUNT VERIFICATION; ATTORNEY IN
FACT; PROXY
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SECTION 6.01. Account Verification
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SECTION 6.02. Authorization for Secured Party to
Take Certain Action
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ARTICLE VII
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COLLECTION AND APPLICATION OF
COLLATERAL PROCEEDS; DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS
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SECTION 7.01. Collection of Accounts
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SECTION 7.02. Covenant Regarding New Deposit
Accounts
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SECTION 7.03. Cash Dominion Periods; Application
of Proceeds
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ARTICLE VIII
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
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SECTION 8.02. Limitation on Administrative
Agent’s and Lenders’ Duty with Respect to the
Collateral
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SECTION 8.03. Compromises and Collection of
Collateral
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SECTION 8.04. Secured Party Performance of
Debtor Obligations
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SECTION 8.05. Specific Performance of Certain
Covenants
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SECTION 8.06. Dispositions Not
Authorized
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SECTION 8.07. No Waiver; Amendments; Cumulative
Remedies
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SECTION 8.08. Limitation by Law; Severability of
Provisions
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SECTION 8.09. Reinstatement
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SECTION 8.10. Benefit of Agreement
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SECTION 8.11. Survival of
Representations
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SECTION 8.13. Termination
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SECTION 8.14. Additional Subsidiaries
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SECTION 8.15. Right of Setoff
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SECTION 8.16. Lien Absolute
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SECTION 8.18. Entire Agreement
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SECTION 8.19. Governing Law; Jurisdiction;
Consent to Service of Process
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SECTION 8.20. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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SECTION 8.21. Taxes and Expenses;
Indemnity
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SECTION 8.22. Counterparts
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ARTICLE IX
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NOTICES
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SECTION 9.01. Sending Notices
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ARTICLE X
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THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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Subsidiary
Grantors
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Information for
each Grantor
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Collateral
Deposit Accounts
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Financing
Statement Filing Offices
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Form of New
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PLEDGE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT
THIS
PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement
”) is entered into as of January 7, 2009, among USG
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower
”), each Subsidiary identified on Schedule I hereto and
each other Subsidiary that becomes a party to this Agreement after
the Restatement Effective Date pursuant to Section 8.14 hereof
(each such Subsidiary and the Borrower, a “ Grantor
” and, collectively, the “ Grantors ”) and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent
(the “ Administrative Agent ”) for the lenders
party to the Credit Agreement referred to below.
Reference
is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated
as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Credit
Agreement ”), among the Borrower, the Lenders from time
to time party thereto, the Administrative Agent and Goldman Sachs
Credit Partners, L.P., as syndication agent. Each Grantor is
entering into this Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to
enter into and extend credit to the Borrower under the Credit
Agreement and to secure the Secured Obligations.
ACCORDINGLY,
the Grantors and the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the
Lenders, hereby agree as follows:
SECTION
1.01. Terms Defined in Credit Agreement . All capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings
assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
SECTION
1.02. Terms Defined in UCC . Terms defined in the UCC which
are not otherwise defined in this Agreement are used herein as
defined in the UCC.
SECTION
1.03. Definitions of Certain Terms Used Herein . As used in
this Agreement, in addition to the terms defined in the preamble
hereto and in the Preliminary Statement, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
“
Accounts ” means all rights to payment, whether or not
earned by performance, for the sale or lease of goods or the
rendition of services, in each case in the ordinary course of the
Grantors’ business, whether such rights constitute or are
evidenced by any Account (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC),
Chattel Paper, Instrument or General Intangible.
“
Article ” means a numbered article of this Agreement,
unless another document is specifically referenced.
“
Cash Dominion Period ” means any of (a) a period
commencing on the date on which Excess Availability shall have been
less than the Threshold Amount for five (5) consecutive
Business Days and ending on the first date thereafter on which
Excess Availability shall have been equal to or greater than the
Threshold Amount for thirty (30) consecutive calendar days and
(b) a period during which an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing. For purposes of clarity, if, during the continuance
of a Cash Dominion Period triggered by an event described in either
clause (a) or (b) of this definition, an event described
in clause (a) or (b) of this definition shall occur, then
such Cash Dominion Period shall be deemed not to have terminated
until such time as a Cash Dominion Period would no longer exist
under both clauses (a) and (b) of this
definition.
“
Cash Dominion Period Notice ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 7.03(a).
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Cash Dominion Termination Notice ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 7.03(a).
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Cash Dominion Termination Period ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 7.03(a).
“
Collateral ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Article II.
“
Collateral Access Agreement ” means any landlord
waiver or other agreement (as such waiver or agreement may be
amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time), in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
pursuant to which a mortgagee or lessor of real property on which
Collateral is stored or otherwise located, or a bailee, consignee
or similar Person with respect to any warehouse, processor or
converter facility or other location where Collateral is stored or
located, (a) acknowledges the Lien of the Administrative
Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, in respect of such
Collateral, (b) waives or, in the reasonable discretion of the
Administrative Agent, subordinates on terms reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent any Lien or other claim that such
Person may assert against such Collateral and (c) where
applicable, grants to the Administrative Agent reasonable access to
and use of such real property or facility, as the case may be,
following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, to assemble, complete and sell such Collateral.
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Collateral Access Agreement Deadline ” means the date
that is 90 days (or such longer period as the Administrative
Agent, in its sole discretion, may agree) after the Restatement
Effective Date.
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Collateral Deposit Account ” means, with respect to
each Grantor, any lockbox account maintained by such Grantor to
which any cash, checks or other similar payments constituting
payments made in respect of Accounts and/or proceeds of Inventory
are or are to be remitted and all Deposit Accounts maintained by
such Grantor into which any such payments are directed to be
deposited, as well as any other Deposit
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Accounts
maintained by such Grantor into which any cash, checks or other
similar payments constituting payments made in respect of Accounts
and/or proceeds of Inventory are or are to be deposited.
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Collateral Deposit Account Bank ” means each bank or
other financial institution at which any Grantor maintains a
Collateral Deposit Account.
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Collateral Report ” means any certificate (including
any Borrowing Base Certificate), report or other document delivered
by any Grantor to the Administrative Agent relating to the
Collateral pursuant to any Loan Document.
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Collection Account ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 7.03(a).
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Control ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 9-104 or Section 9-105, as applicable, of
Article 9 of the UCC.
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Control Agreement Deadline ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 7.01(a).
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Copyrights ” means, with respect to any Person, all of
such Person’s right, title and interest in and to the
following: (a) all copyrights, rights and interests in
copyrights, works protectable by copyright, copyright
registrations, and copyright applications; (b) all renewals of
any of the foregoing; (c) all licenses of the foregoing; and
(d) the rights corresponding to the use or sublicense of any
of the foregoing throughout the world.
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Deposit Account Control Agreement ” means an
agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, among any Grantor, a Collateral Deposit
Account Bank and the Administrative Agent with respect to Control
of the Collateral Deposit Accounts listed therein and the
disposition of funds on deposit in such Collateral Deposit
Accounts.
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Exhibit ” refers to a specific exhibit to this
Agreement (as amended or supplemented from time to time in
accordance with this Agreement or any Supplement), unless another
document is specifically referenced.
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Financing Statement ” means, with respect to any
Grantor, each UCC financing statement naming the Administrative
Agent as secured party and such Grantor as debtor and describing
the Collateral in a manner consistent with the requirements set
forth in Section 4.01(b).
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Intellectual Property ” means the collective reference
to all intellectual and similar property of every kind and nature,
including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks,
trade secrets, domain names, confidential or proprietary technical
and business information, know how or other data or information,
software and databases and all embodiments or fixations thereof and
related documentation, registrations and franchises, and all
additions, improvements and accessions to, and books and records
describing or used in connection with, any of the
foregoing.
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Inventory ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Article 9 of the UCC.
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Patents ” means, with respect to any Person, all of
such Person’s right, title and interest in and to:
(a) any and all patents and patent applications; (b) all
inventions and improvements described and claimed therein;
(c) all reissues, divisions, continuations, renewals,
extensions and continuations-in-part thereof; (d) all licenses
of the foregoing; and (e) all rights corresponding to the use
or sublicense of any of the foregoing throughout the
world.
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Proceeds ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Article 9 of the UCC.
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Section ” means a numbered section of this Agreement,
unless another document is specifically referenced.
“
Security Interest ” has the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.01.
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Specified L&W Grantors ” means, collectively, each
of L & W Supply Corporation, a Delaware corporation, California
Wholesale Material Supply, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company, Livonia Building Materials, LLC, a Michigan limited
liability company, and River City Materials, Inc., an Arkansas
corporation, in each case for so long as such entity is required to
be a Grantor hereunder.
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Supplement ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 8.14.
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Trademarks ” means, with respect to any Person, all of
such Person’s right, title and interest in and to the
following: (a) all trademarks (including service marks), trade
names, trade dress and trade styles and the registrations and
applications for registration thereof; (b) all licenses of the
foregoing, whether as licensee or licensor; (c) all renewals
of the foregoing; and (d) all rights corresponding to the use
or sublicense of any of the foregoing throughout the
world.
The
foregoing definitions shall be equally applicable to both the
singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
GRANT OF SECURITY
INTEREST
SECTION
2.01. Security Interest . As security for the payment or
performance, as the case may be, in full of the Secured
Obligations, each Grantor hereby pledges, assigns and grants to the
Administrative Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, on
behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security
interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest
in (a) Accounts, and Proceeds in respect thereof, whether now owned
by or owing to, or hereafter acquired by or arising in favor of,
such Grantor (including under any trade name or derivations
thereof), and regardless of where located, (b) Inventory, and
Proceeds in respect thereof, whether now owned by, or hereafter
acquired by, such Grantor (including under any trade name or
derivations thereof), and regardless of where located, and
(c) all Collateral Deposit Accounts of such
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Grantor (all of
the assets referenced in the immediately preceding clauses (a),
(b) and (c), and all such right, title and interest therein,
are collectively referred to as the “ Collateral
”; the security interest in the Collateral granted pursuant
to this Section 2.01 is referred to as the “ Security
Interest ”).
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
Each
Grantor represents, warrants and covenants to and with the Secured
Parties that:
SECTION
3.01. Title, Perfection and Priority . Such Grantor has good
and valid rights in or the power to transfer the Collateral and
title to the Collateral with respect to which it has purported to
grant the Security Interest hereunder, free and clear of all Liens
except for Liens permitted under Section 4.01(g), and has full
power and authority to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties, the Security Interest pursuant
hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without the consent or
approval of any other Person other than any consent or approval
that has been obtained, except such consents or approvals the
failure of which to have been obtained will not impair the Security
Interest. When a properly completed Financing Statement has been
filed in the appropriate office against such Grantor in the
applicable location listed on Exhibit C (or, in the
case of any Grantor that becomes a party hereto after the
Restatement Effective Date, in the jurisdiction of organization of
such Grantor specified in Schedule I to the Supplement for
such Grantor) and any applicable filing fees or taxes are paid in
connection with such filing, the Administrative Agent will have a
fully perfected first priority security interest in that Collateral
of such Grantor in which a security interest may be perfected by
filing a UCC financing statement, subject only to Liens permitted
under Section 4.01(g).
SECTION
3.02. Type and Jurisdiction of Organization, Organizational and
Identification Numbers . The type of entity of such Grantor,
its state of organization, the organizational number issued to it
by its state of organization and its federal employer
identification number are set forth on Exhibit A
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SECTION
3.03. Principal Location . The location of such
Grantor’s place of business (if it has only one) or its chief
executive office (if it has more than one place of business) is
disclosed in Exhibit A . In addition, such Grantor has
no other places of business where books and records with respect to
the Collateral are maintained, except those set forth in
Exhibit A .
SECTION
3.04. Collateral Locations . All of such Grantor’s
locations where Collateral is located are listed on
Exhibit A . All of said locations are owned by such
Grantor except for locations (a) which are leased by the
Grantor as lessee and designated in Exhibit A and
(b) at which Inventory is held in a public warehouse or is
otherwise held by a bailee or on consignment as designated in
Exhibit A .
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SECTION
3.05. Deposit Accounts . Exhibit B sets forth a
complete list of the Collateral Deposit Accounts of such Grantor,
including, with respect to each such Collateral Deposit Account,
each depositary institution’s name and location and such
Grantor’s account number.
SECTION
3.06. Exact Names . Such Grantor’s name, as set forth
on Exhibit A , is the exact name as it appears in such
Grantor’s organizational documents, as amended, as filed with
such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization. Such Grantor has
not, during the past two years prior to the Restatement Effective
Date, been known by or used any other corporate or fictitious name,
or been a party to any merger or consolidation, or been a party to
any acquisition, in each case except as otherwise specified in the
Perfection Certificate or any certificate delivered to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 4.01(f).
SECTION
3.07. Perfection Certificate . The Perfection Certificate
has been duly prepared, completed and executed by the Borrower and
the information set forth therein with respect to each Grantor is
correct and complete as of the Restatement Effective Date, and the
Financing Statements (including any amendments thereto) prepared by
the Administrative Agent based upon the information provided to the
Administrative Agent in the Perfection Certificate for filing in
each governmental, municipal or other office specified in Section
2(d) to the Perfection Certificate (or specified by notice from the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent after the Restatement
Effective Date in the case of filings, recordings or registrations
required by Section 5.10 of the Credit Agreement or
Sections 4.01 and 4.06 hereof) are all the filings, recordings
and registrations that are necessary to perfect a security interest
in favor of the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the
Secured Parties) in respect of all the Collateral in which the
Security Interest may be perfected by filing, recording or
registering in the U.S. (or any political subdivision thereof), and
no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording,
registration or reregistration is necessary in any such
jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable law with respect
to the filing of continuation statements.
SECTION
3.08. Validity of Security Interest . The Security Interest
constitutes a legal and valid security interest in all the
Collateral securing the payment and performance of the Secured
Obligations.
SECTION
3.09. Security Interest as Security Only . The Security
Interest granted by such Grantor is granted as security only and
shall not subject the Administrative Agent or any other Secured
Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or
liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the
Collateral.
SECTION
3.10. Accounts . (a) The names of the Account Debtors,
amounts owing, due dates and other information with respect to such
Grantor’s Accounts are and will be complete, true and correct
in all material respects in the records of such Grantor relating
thereto and in all invoices and Collateral Reports with respect
thereto furnished to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Loan
Documents from time to time. As of the time when each Account
arises, such Grantor shall be deemed to have
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represented and
warranted that such Account and all records relating thereto are
genuine and in all respects what they purport to be.
(b) In
addition, with respect to all of its Accounts, except as disclosed
in the most recent Collateral Report, (i) the amounts shown on
all invoices, statements and Collateral Reports with respect
thereto are actually and absolutely owing to such Grantor as
indicated thereon and are not in any way contingent (other than
with respect to discounts, rebates, billing errors, setoffs,
counterclaims and other Dilution Factors); (ii) no payments
have been or shall be made thereon except payments delivered or to
be delivered to a Collateral Deposit Account as required pursuant
to Section 7.01; and (iii) to such Grantor’s
knowledge, all Account Debtors relating to such Accounts have the
capacity to contract.
SECTION
3.11. Inventory . With respect to any of its Inventory
represented as being Eligible Inventory on the most recent
Collateral Report, (a) as of the last day of the period
covered by such Collateral Report, such Inventory (other than
Inventory in transit) is located at one of such Grantor’s
locations set forth on Exhibit A and such Inventory
(other than Inventory in transit and other than Inventory that has
subsequently been sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by
such Grantor (other than to another Grantor) in the ordinary course
of business) shall not be stored at any other location except as
permitted by Section 4.01(j), (b) other than any Inventory
that has subsequently been sold, transferred or otherwise disposed
of by such Grantor (other than to another Grantor) in the ordinary
course of business, such Grantor has good and merchantable title to
such Inventory and such Inventory is not subject to any Lien,
except for Liens permitted by Section 4.01(g), (c) except
as specifically disclosed in such Collateral Report (or in any
notification provided to the Administrative Agent subsequent to the
last day of the period covered by such Collateral Report in
accordance with Section 5.01(i) of the Credit Agreement), such
Inventory (except for de minimis portions of such Inventory) is
Eligible Inventory of good and merchantable quality, free from any
defects, (d) such Inventory is not subject to any licensing,
patent, royalty, trademark, trade name or copyright agreements with
any third parties which would require any consent of any third
party upon sale or disposition of that Inventory or the payment of
any monies to any third party upon such sale or other disposition
(other than any such consent that has already been obtained or any
such payment obligation that has already been waived),
(e) such Inventory has been produced in accordance with the
Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, and all
rules, regulations and orders thereunder and (f) the
preparation for sale, marketing or sale of such Inventory by the
Administrative Agent after the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default shall not require the consent of
any Person (except as required by applicable law) and shall not
constitute a breach or default under any contract or agreement to
which such Grantor is a party or to which such Inventory is
subject.
SECTION
3.12. Intellectual Property . Such Grantor owns, or is
licensed to use, all Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights or other
Intellectual Property material to its business, and the use thereof
by such Grantor does not infringe upon the rights of any other
Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in
the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, and no such
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Intellectual
Property is subject to any Lien or other restriction (other than
any such Lien or other restriction with respect to which a waiver
or release has been obtained) that would materially interfere with
the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s rights with
respect to such Intellectual Property to prepare for sale, market
and sell any Eligible Inventory under Section 5.03.
SECTION
3.13. Filing Requirements . None of the Collateral owned by
it is of a type for which security interests or liens may be
perfected by filing under any Federal statute. Notwithstanding
anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, the Administrative
Agent agrees that the Grantors shall not be required to make
filings under the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, 31 U.S.C.
§3727 and 41 U.S.C. § 15.
SECTION
3.14. No Financing Statements, Security Agreements . No
financing statement or security agreement describing all or any
portion of the Collateral which has not lapsed or been terminated
naming such Grantor as debtor has been filed or is of record in any
jurisdiction except (a) for the Financing Statements and
(b) as permitted under Section 4.01(g).
From
the date of this Agreement, and thereafter until this Agreement is
terminated, each Grantor agrees that:
SECTION
4.01. General . (a) Collateral Records . Such Grantor
will maintain books and records with respect to the Collateral
owned by it in accordance Section 5.07 of the Credit
Agreement, and furnish to the Administrative Agent, with sufficient
copies for each of the Lenders, such reports relating to such
Collateral as the Administrative Agent may from time to time
reasonably request.
(b)
Authorization to File Financing Statements; Ratification .
Such Grantor hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to file,
and if requested will deliver to the Administrative Agent, all
Financing Statements and other documents and take such other
actions as may from time to time be reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent in order to maintain, subject to any Liens
permitted under Section 4.01(g), a first priority perfected
security interest in and, if applicable and contemplated by the
terms hereof, Control of, the Collateral owned by such Grantor. Any
Financing Statement (or amendment thereto) filed by the
Administrative Agent shall (i) indicate such Grantor’s
Collateral by any description that reasonably approximates the
description of such Collateral contained in this Agreement and
(ii) contain any other information required by part 5 of
Article 9 of the UCC for the sufficiency or filing office
acceptance of such Financing Statement (or amendment thereto). Such
Grantor agrees to furnish any such information to the
Administrative Agent promptly upon request. Such Grantor also
ratifies its authorization for the Administrative Agent to have
filed any initial Financing Statements if filed prior to the
Restatement Effective Date.
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(c)
Further Assurances . Such Grantor agrees to take any and all
actions that it shall reasonably deem necessary to defend title to
the Collateral against all persons and to defend the Security
Interest of the Administrative Agent in its Collateral and the
priority thereof against any Lien not expressly permitted under
Section 4.01(g).
(d)
Disposition of Collateral . Such Grantor will not sell,
lease or otherwise dispose of the Collateral owned by it except for
dispositions not otherwise prohibited by Section 6.03 of the Credit
Agreement.
(e)
Maintaining Perfection of Security Interest . Each Grantor
agrees, at its own expense, to execute, acknowledge, deliver and
cause to be duly filed all such further instruments and documents
and take all such actions as the Administrative Agent may from time
to time reasonably request to preserve, protect and perfect the
Security Interest and the rights and remedies created hereby,
including the payment of any fees and taxes required in connection
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the granting of
the Security Interest and the filing of any Financing Statements or
other documents in connection herewith or therewith. If any amount
payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral shall be
or become evidenced by any promissory note or other instrument
(other than any promissory note or other instrument in an aggregate
principal amount of less than $500,000 owed to the applicable
Grantor by any Person that is not the Borrower or any Subsidiary,
provided that the aggregate principal amount of promissory
notes that may be excluded from the delivery requirements of this
paragraph (e) may not exceed $2,000,000 at any one time), such
note or instrument shall be immediately pledged and delivered to
the Administrative Agent, duly endorsed in a manner satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent.
(f)
Annual Confirmation of Perfection Certificate . Each year,
at the time of delivery of annual financial statements with respect
to the preceding fiscal year pursuant to Section 5.01(a) of
the Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent a certificate executed by a Financial Officer
(i) setting forth any changes to the information required
pursuant to the Perfection Certificate, or confirming that there
has been no change in such information, in each case since the date
of the Perfection Certificate or the date of the most recent
certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 4.01(f) and
(ii) certifying that all initial UCC financing statements or
other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations, including
all refilings, rerecordings, reregistrations and amendments to the
initial UCC financing statements, containing a description of the
Collateral have been filed of record in each governmental,
municipal or other appropriate office in the jurisdiction
identified pursuant to Section 4.06 to the extent necessary to
protect and perfect the Security Interest as of the date of such
certificate.
(g)
Liens . Such Grantor will not create, incur, or suffer to
exist any Lien on the Collateral owned by it except Liens permitted
under clauses (i) through (iv), (vi) and (xi) of
Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement.
(h)
Other Financing Statements . Such Grantor will not authorize
the filing of any financing statement naming it as debtor covering
all or any portion of the Collateral owned by it, except with
respect to any Lien permitted under
Section 4.01(g).
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Such Grantor
acknowledges that it is not authorized to file (i) any
financing statement with respect to the Collateral, except with
respect to any Lien permitted under Section 4.01(g), without
providing prior written notice to the Administrative Agent or
(ii) any amendment or termination statement with respect to
any Financing Statement filed in accordance with the terms hereof
without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent,
subject to such Grantor’s rights under
Section 9-509(d)(2) of the UCC.
(i)
Compliance with Terms . Such Grantor shall observe, perform
and comply with all obligations in respect of the Collateral owned
by it (in each case, in a manner consistent with past business
practices of such Grantor), unless the failure to observe, perform
or comply with such obligations would not adversely affect the
validity, perfection and priority of the Security
Interest.
(j)
Locations . Such Grantor will not maintain any Collateral
owned by it at any location other than those locations listed on
Exhibit A (or any other location with respect to which
advance written notice has been provided as contemplated by
Section 4.05).
SECTION
4.02. Accounts . (a) Certain Agreements on Accounts.
No Grantor will make or agree to make any discount, credit, rebate
or other reduction in the original amount owing on an Account or
accept in satisfaction of an Account less than the original amount
thereof, except that, for so long as no Event of Default is
continuing, such Grantor may reduce the amount owing on Accounts
arising from the sale of Inventory in accordance with its past
business practices.
(b)
Collection of Accounts . Except as otherwise provided in
this Agreement, each Grantor will, consistent with its past
business practices, collect and enforce, at no expense to any
Secured Party, all amounts due or hereafter due to such Grantor
under the Accounts owned by it.
(c)
Security Interest in Property to Satisfy Account Debt . If
at any time any Grantor shall take a security interest in any
property of an Account Debtor or any other Person to secure payment
and performance of an Account, such Grantor shall promptly assign
such security interest to the Administrative Agent. Such assignment
need not be filed of public record unless necessary to continue the
perfected status of the security interest against creditors of and
transferees from the Account Debtor or other Person granting the
security interest.
(d)
Delivery of Invoices . Such Grantor will deliver to the
Administrative Agent, immediately upon its request after the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default,
duplicate invoices with respect to each Account owned by it bearing
such language of assignment as the Administrative Agent shall
specify.
(e)
Disclosure of Material Reductions in Accounts . Such
Grantor, promptly upon obtaining knowledge of any event,
circumstance or change that has occurred since the most recent date
on which a Borrowing Base Certificate was required to be delivered
pursuant to Section 5.01(e) of the Credit Agreement that would
materially
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reduce the
aggregate amount of Eligible Accounts or result in a material
portion of the Eligible Accounts ceasing to be Eligible Accounts,
shall cause the Borrower to promptly disclose such fact to the
Administrative Agent in writing.
SECTION
4.03. Inventory . (a) Maintenance of Goods . Such
Grantor will maintain, preserve, protect and keep its Inventory in
a manner consistent with its past business practices.
(b)
Returned Inventory . If an Account Debtor returns any
Inventory to such Grantor when no Event of Default exists, then
such Grantor shall promptly determine the reason for such return
and, if reasonably deemed appropriate by such Grantor, shall issue
a credit memorandum to the Account Debtor in the appropriate amount
and in a manner consistent with its past business practices. Such
Grantor shall promptly report to the Administrative Agent any
return of Inventory involving an amount in excess of $2,000,000.
Each such report shall indicate each applicable Account
Debtor’s stated reasons for the returns and the locations and
condition of the returned Inventory. In the event any Account
Debtor returns Inventory to such Grantor when an Event of Default
exists, such Grantor, upon the request of the Administrative Agent,
shall: (i) hold the returned Inventory in trust for the
Administrative Agent; (ii) segregate all returned Inventory
from all of its other property; (iii) dispose of the returned
Inventory solely according to the Administrative Agent’s
written instructions; and (iv) not issue any credits or
allowances with respect thereto without the Administrative
Agent’s prior written consent. All returned Inventory shall
be subject to the Administrative Agent’s Liens thereon.
Whenever any Inventory is returned, the related Account shall be
deemed not to be an Eligible Account to the extent of the amount
owing by the Account Debtor with respect to such returned
Inventory.
(c)
Inventory Count; Perpetual Inventory System. Such Grantor
will conduct cycle counts of its Inventory in a manner consistent
with past business practices and reasonably acceptable to such
Grantor’s auditors. Upon the request of the Administrative
Agent in connection with any field examination conducted in
accordance with Section 5.07(b) of the Credit Agreement, such
Grantor, at its own expense, shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent the results of each physical verification which such Grantor
has made, or has caused any other Person to make on its behalf, of
all or any portion of its Inventory. Such Grantor will maintain a
perpetual inventory reporting system at all times.
SECTION
4.04. Intellectual Property . Such Grantor will use
commercially reasonable efforts to secure all consents, waivers and
approvals necessary or appropriate to ensure the ability of the
Administrative Agent to fully exercise the rights granted to it in
Section 5.03.
SECTION
4.05. Collateral Access Agreements . Such Grantor shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a Collateral Access
Agreement from the lessor of each leased property, mortgagee of
each owned property and bailee, consignee or similar Person with
respect to any warehouse, processor or converter facility or other
location, in each case where Collateral is or is to be stored or
located as of the
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Restatement
Effective Date or at any time thereafter, provided that
(a) no Grantor shall be required to obtain a Collateral Access
Agreement with respect to any location at which the Inventory
on-hand has a book value of less than $100,000 and (b) in
accordance with Section 5.11(b) of the Credit Agreement, no
Collateral Access Agreement shall be required to be in effect prior
to the Collateral Access Agreement Deadline. For purposes of
clarity, it is understood and agreed that any Grantor’s
failure, after having used commercially reasonable efforts, to
obtain a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to any such
location where Collateral is stored or located shall not constitute
an Event of Default. With respect to any such location where
Inventory is stored or located as of the Restatement Effective Date
or at any time thereafter, if the Administrative Agent has not
received a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to such
location, the Borrower’s Eligible Inventory at such location
shall be subject to such Reserves as may be established by the
Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms of the Credit
Agreement. Such Grantor shall provide to the Administrative Agent
reasonable (but in no event less than three Business Days’)
advance written notice of (i) any arrangement or agreement
entered into by such Grantor to lease or mortgage real property or
any warehouse or similar location at which Collateral is to be
stored or located, unless a Collateral Access Agreement that would
cover such Collateral is in effect with respect to such location
and (ii) any arrangement or agreement to ship or otherwise
transfer any Collateral to any mortgaged or leased real property,
or to any warehouse, processor or converter facility or other
location, in each case unless a Collateral Access Agreement that
would cover such Collateral is in effect with respect to such
location, and such Grantor shall provide to the Administrative
Agent prompt written notice of the termination of any such existing
arrangement or agreement with respect to any location at which
Collateral is stored or located at the time of such termination.
Not later than the last day of the calendar quarter during which
any arrangement, agreement or termination referenced in the
immediately preceding sentence is established or occurs, the
Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a supplement to
Exhibit A , setting forth the information with respect
to the locations applicable to any such new arrangement or
agreement required therein or indicating the termination of any
such arrangement or agreement, as the case may be. Such Grantor
shall timely and fully pay and perform its obligations under all
leases and other agreements with respect to each location where any
Collateral is or may be stored or located.
SECTION
4.06. Change of Name or Location; Change of Fiscal Year .
Such Grantor shall not (a) change its name as it appears in
official filings in the state of its incorporation or organization,
(b) change its chief executive office, principal place of
business or corporate offices, or the location of its records
concerning the Collateral as set forth in the Security Agreement,
(c) change the type of entity that it is, (d) change its
organization identification number, if any, issued by its state of
incorporation or other organization or (e) change its state of
incorporation or organization, in each case, unless the
Administrative Agent shall have received at least ten days prior
written notice of such change and such Grantor (or the
Administrative Agent on behalf of such Grantor) shall have taken
all action reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to
continue the validity, perfection and priority of any Liens in
favor of the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured
Parties, in any Collateral, provided that any new
jurisdiction of organization shall be in the U.S., any State
thereof or the District of Columbia. In
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connection with
any such change permitted under this Section 4.06,
Exhibit A hereto shall be deemed to be amended to
reflect such change (effective as of the date of such
change).
SECTION
5.01. Remedies . (a) Upon the occurrence, and during
the continuance, of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent
may exercise any or all of the following rights and
remedies:
(i)
those rights and remedies provided in this Agreement, the Credit
Agreement or any other Loan Document, provided that this
Section 5.01(a) shall not be understood to limit any rights or
remedies available to the Secured Parties prior to an Event of
Default;
(ii)
those rights and remedies available to a secured party under the
UCC (whether or not the UCC applies to the affected Collateral) or
under any other applicable law (including, without limitation, any
law governing the exercise of a bank’s right of setoff or
bankers’ lien) when a debtor is in default under a security
agreement;
(iii)
institute a Cash Dominion Period as per the terms of
Section 7.03; and
(iv)
without notice (except as specifically provided in
Section 8.01 or elsewhere herein), demand or advertisement of
any kind to any Grantor or any other Person, enter the premises of
any Grantor where any Collateral is located (through self-help and
without judicial process) to collect, receive, assemble, process,
appropriate, sell, lease, assign, grant an option or options to
purchase or otherwise dispose of, deliver or realize upon, the
Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or
private sale or sales (which sales may be adjourned or continued
from time to time with or without notice and may take place at any
Grantor’s premises or elsewhere), for cash, on credit or for
future delivery without assumption of any credit risk, and upon
such other terms as the Administrative Agent may deem commercially
reasonable.
(b) The
Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, may comply
with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection
with a disposition of the Collateral and such compliance will not
be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of
any sale of the Collateral.
(c) The
Administrative Agent shall have the right upon any such public sale
or sales and, to the extent permitted by law, upon any such private
sale or sales, to purchase for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
the whole or any part of the Collateral so sold, free of any right
of equity redemption, which equity redemption the Grantor hereby
expressly releases.
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(d) Until
the Administrative Agent is able to effect a sale, lease, or other
disposition of Collateral, the Administrative Agent shall have the
right to hold or use Collateral, or any part thereof, to the extent
that it deems appropriate for the purpose of preserving Collateral
or its value or for any other purpose deemed appropriate by the
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may, if it so
elects, seek the appointment of a receiver or keeper to enforce any
of the Administrative Agent’s remedies (for the benefit of
the Secured Parties) with respect to such appointment without prior
notice or hearing as to such appointment.
(e) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no Secured Party shall be required to (i) make
any demand upon, or pursue or exhaust any of their rights or
remedies against, any Grantor, any other obligor, guarantor,
pledgor or any other Person with respect to the payment of the
Secured Obligations or to pursue or exhaust any of their rights or
remedies with respect to any Collateral therefor or any direct or
indirect guarantee thereof, (ii) marshal the Collateral or any
guarantee of the Secured Obligations or resort to the Collateral or
any such guarantee in any particular order or (iii) effect a public
sale of any Collateral.
SECTION
5.02. Grantor’s Obligations Upon an Event of Default .
Without limiting the foregoing or any other inspection rights the
Administrative Agent may have under the Loan Documents, upon the
request of the Administrative Agent after the occurrence and during
the continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor
will:
(a) assemble
and make available to the Administrative Agent all books and
records relating to the Collateral at any place or places specified
by the Administrative Agent, whether at a Grantor’s premises
or elsewhere;
(b) permit
the Administrative Agent, by the Administrative Agent’s
representatives and agents, to enter, occupy and use any premises
where all or any part of the Collateral, or the books and records
relating thereto, or both, are located, to take possession of
and/or remove all or any part of the Collateral or make copies of
the books and records relating thereto, or both, and to conduct
sales of the Collateral in accordance with the terms hereof, any
applicable Collateral Access Agreements and applicable law, without
any obligation to pay the Grantor for such use and occupancy;
and
(c) at
its own expense, cause the independent certified public accountants
then engaged by each Grantor to prepare and deliver to the
Administrative Agent, promptly upon the Administrative
Agent’s request, the following reports with respect to the
Accounts of such Grantor: (i) a reconciliation of all such
Accounts; (ii) an aging of all such Accounts; (iii) trial
balances; and (iv) a test verification of all such
Accounts.
SECTION
5.03. Grant of Intellectual Property License . Solely for
the purpose of enabling, and solely to the extent necessary to
enable, the Administrative Agent to exercise the rights and
remedies to prepare for sale, market and sell Inventory under this
Article V at such time as the Administrative Agent shall be
lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each
Grantor hereby (a) grants to the Administrative Agent, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive
license
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(exercisable
without payment of royalty or other compensation to any Grantor) to
use, license or sublicense any Intellectual Property now owned or
hereafter acquired by such Grantor, and wherever the same may be
located, and including in such license access to all media in which
any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all
computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout
thereof and (b) irrevocably agrees that the Administrative
Agent may sell any of such Grantor’s Inventory directly to
any person, and, in connection with any such sale or other
enforcement of the Administrative Agent’s rights under this
Agreement, may sell Inventory which bears any Trademark owned by or
licensed to such Grantor and any Inventory that is covered by any
Copyright owned by or licensed to such Grantor, and the
Administrative Agent may finish any work in process using any
Patent (or other Intellectual Property) owned by or licensed to
such Grantor and affix any appropriate Trademark owned by or
licensed to such Grantor and sell such Inventory as provided
herein. The use of such license by the Administrative Agent may be
exercised, at the option of the Administrative Agent, only upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default,
provided that any license, sublicense or other transaction
entered into by the Administrative Agent in accordance herewith
shall be binding upon the Grantors notwithstanding any subsequent
cure of such Event of Default. All actions taken by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this Article V, as well as
the Administrative Agent’s use of any trade secrets or other
Intellectual Property pursuant to this Agreement, shall be subject
to the confidentiality restrictions set forth in Section 9.12
of the Credit Agreement.
ACCOUNT VERIFICATION; ATTORNEY IN
FACT; PROXY
SECTION
6.01. Account Verification . The Administrative Agent may at
any time, in the name of the applicable Grantor or, after the
occurrence, and during the continuance, of an Event of Default, in
the Administrative Agent’s own name or in the name of a
nominee of the Administrative Agent, communicate (by mail,
telephone, facsimile or otherwise) with the Account Debtors of any
such Grantor to verify with such Account Debtors, to the
Administrative Agent’s reasonable satisfaction, any
information relating to the existence, amount, terms of, and any
other material matter relating to, the Accounts of such Account
Debtors.
SECTION
6.02. Authorization for Secured Party to Take Certain Action
. (a) Each Grantor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent
the attorney-in-fact of such Grantor for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this Agreement and taking any action and
executing any instrument that the Administrative Agent may
reasonably deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes
hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an
interest. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Administrative Agent shall have the right with full power of
substitution either in the name of such Grantor or, after the
occurrence, and during the continuance, of an Event of Default, in
the Administrative Agent’s name, to (i) file Financing
Statements necessary or desirable in the Administrative
Agent’s sole discretion to perfect and to maintain the
perfection and priority of the Administrative Agent’s
security interest in the
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Collateral,
(ii) endorse and collect any cash proceeds of the Collateral
of such Grantor, (iii) file a carbon, photographic or other
reproduction of this Agreement or any Financing Statement as a
financing statement and to file any other financing statement or
amendment of a financing statement (which does not add new
collateral or add a debtor) in such offices as the Administrative
Agent in its sole discretion deems necessary or desirable to
perfect and to maintain the perfection and priority of the Security
Interest, (iv) apply the proceeds of any Collateral of such
Grantor received by the Administrative Agent to the Secured
Obligations as provided in Section 2.09(b) or Section 2.17(b)
of the Credit Agreement, as applicable, (v) discharge past due
taxes, assessments, charges, fees or Liens on the Collateral
(except for such Liens as are specifically permitted under
Section 4.01(g)), (vi) contact the Account Debtors of
such Grantor for any reason, (vii) demand payment or enforce
payment of the Accounts in the name of the Administrative Agent or
such Grantor, (viii) endorse any and all checks, drafts and
other instruments for the payment of money relating to the
Accounts, (ix) sign such Grantor’s name on any invoice
or bill of lading relating to the Accounts, drafts against any
Account Debtor or assignments and verifications of Accounts,
(x) exercise all of such Grantor’s rights and remedies
with respect to the collection of the Accounts and any other
Collateral, (xi) settle, adjust, compromise, extend or renew
the Accounts or any legal proceedings brought to collect Accounts,
(xii) prepare, file and sign such Grantor’s name on a
proof of claim in bankruptcy or similar document against any
Account Debtor of such Grantor, (xiii) prepare, file and sign
such Grantor’s name on any notice of Lien, assignment or
satisfaction of Lien or similar document in connection with the
Accounts, (xiv) change the address for delivery of mail
relating to the Accounts of such Grantor to such address as the
Administrative Agent may designate and to receive, open and dispose
of all such mail addressed to such Grantor, (xv) use, sell,
assign, transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or
otherwise deal with all or any of the Collateral and (xvi) do
all other acts and things necessary to carry out the purposes of
this Agreement, as fully and completely as though the
Administrative Agent were the absolute owner of the Collateral for
all purposes, provided that (A) nothing herein
contained shall be construed as requiring or obligating the
Administrative Agent to make any commitment or to make any inquiry
as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the
Administrative Agent, or to present or file any claim or notice, or
to take any action with respect to the Collateral or any part
thereof or the moneys due or to become due in respect thereof or
any property covered thereby and such Grantor agrees to reimburse
the Administrative Agent on demand for any payment made or any
expense incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with any
of the foregoing and (B) this authorization shall not relieve
such Grantor of any of its obligations under this Agreement or
under the Credit Agreement. The Administrative Agent and the other
Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts actually
received as a result of the exercise of the powers granted to them
herein, and neither they nor their officers, directors, employees
or agents shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or
failure to act hereunder, except for their own gross negligence or
wilful misconduct. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the
Administrative Agent or a Secured Party determines (after being
given notice of such) that any portion of a payment from an Account
Debtor received by it constitutes the excess portion of a joint
remittance from such Account Debtor (which such portion was not
owed to a Grantor but paid to the joint order of a Grantor and a
non-Affiliated
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contractor or
sub-contractor in respect of an Account), the Administrative Agent
or other Secured Party, as applicable, shall promptly remit such
excess portion of the payment to the Grantors.
(b) All
acts of said attorney or designee are hereby ratified and approved.
The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent, for the benefit
of the Secured Parties, under this Section 6.02 are solely to
protect the Administrative Agent’s interests in the
Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon the Administrative
Agent or any other Secured Party to exercise any such powers. The
Administrative Agent agrees that, except for the powers granted in
Sections 6.02(a)(i), (a)(iii) or (a)(v), it shall not exercise any
power or authority granted to it unless an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, provided , however , that
the Administrative Agent may exercise the powers granted in
Sections 6.02(a)(ii), (a)(iv) and (a)(viii) at any time during
the continuance of a Cash Dominion Period.
COLLECTION AND APPLICATION OF
COLLATERAL PROCEEDS; DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS
SECTION
7.01. Collection of Accounts. (a) Each Grantor shall
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (no later than the
date (the “ Control Agreement Deadline ”)
specified in, or determined in accordance with,
Section 5.11(a) of the Credit Agreement) Deposit Account
Control Agreements for each Collateral Deposit Account maintained
by such Grantor as of the Restatement Effective Date. After the
Restatement Effective Date, each Grantor will comply with the terms
of Section 7.02.
(b) Within
45 days after the Restatement Effective Date, each Grantor
shall direct all of its Account Debtors to forward payments
directly to one or more of the Collateral Deposit Accounts of such
Grantor; provided , however , that with respect to
the Account Debtors of the Specified L&W Grantors, the
Specified L&W Grantors shall not be required to so direct such
Account Debtors (and, accordingly, shall not be deemed to have
breached this Section 7.01(b)) so long as the Specified
L&W Grantors each deposit any cash, checks or other similar
payments constituting pa
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