Exhibit 10.58
SECOND AMENDED AND
RESTATED
COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
dated and effective as of
November 3, 2006,
among
HEXION LLC,
HEXION SPECIALTY CHEMICALS,
INC.,
each Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower
identified herein,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I.
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Definitions
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SECTION 1.01.
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Credit
Agreement
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SECTION 1.02.
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Other Defined
Terms
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ARTICLE II.
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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ARTICLE III.
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Pledge of Securities
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SECTION 3.01.
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Pledge
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SECTION 3.02.
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Delivery of the
Pledged Collateral
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SECTION 3.03.
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Representations, Warranties and
Covenants
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SECTION 3.04.
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Certification
of Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership
Interests
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SECTION 3.05.
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Registration in
Nominee Name; Denominations
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SECTION 3.06.
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Voting Rights;
Dividends and Interest, etc
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ARTICLE IV.
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Security Interests in Personal
Property
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SECTION 4.01.
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Security
Interest
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SECTION 4.02.
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Representations
and Warranties
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SECTION 4.03.
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Covenants
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SECTION 4.04.
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Other
Actions
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SECTION 4.05.
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Covenants
Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral
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ARTICLE V.
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Remedies
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SECTION 5.01.
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Remedies Upon
Default
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SECTION 5.02.
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Application of
Proceeds
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SECTION 5.03.
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Grant of
License to Use Intellectual Property
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SECTION 5.04.
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Securities Act,
etc
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SECTION 5.05.
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Registration,
etc
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ARTICLE VI.
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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ARTICLE VII.
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Miscellaneous
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SECTION 7.01.
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Notices
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SECTION 7.02.
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Security
Interest Absolute
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SECTION 7.03.
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Limitation By
Law
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SECTION 7.04.
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Binding Effect;
Several Agreement
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SECTION 7.05.
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Successors and
Assigns
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SECTION 7.06.
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Administrative
Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification
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SECTION 7.07.
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Administrative
Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact
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SECTION 7.08.
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GOVERNING
LAW
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SECTION 7.09.
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Waivers;
Amendment
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SECTION 7.10.
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WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL
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SECTION 7.11.
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Severability
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SECTION 7.12.
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Counterparts
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SECTION 7.13.
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Headings
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SECTION 7.14.
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Jurisdiction;
Consent to Service of Process
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SECTION 7.15.
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Termination or
Release
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SECTION 7.16.
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Additional
Subsidiaries
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SECTION 7.17.
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Right of
Set-off
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SECTION 7.18.
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Intercreditor
Agreement
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SECTION 7.19.
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[Reserved]
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SECTION 7.20.
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Dutch Parallel
Debt
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SECTION 7.21.
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ULC
Shares
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Schedules
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Schedule I
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Subsidiary
Parties
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Schedule II
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Commercial Tort
Claims
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Schedule III
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Pledged Stock;
Debt Securities
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Schedule IV
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Intellectual
Property
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Exhibits
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Exhibit I
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Form of
Supplement to the Collateral Agreement
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Exhibit II
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Form of
Perfection Certificate
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-iv-
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated and effective as of November 3, 2006
(this “ Agreement ”), among HEXION LLC ,
a Delaware limited liability company (“ Holdings
”), HEXION SPECIALTY CHEMICALS, INC. , a New Jersey
corporation (the “ U.S. Borrower ”), each
Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower listed on Schedule I hereto and
each Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower that becomes a party hereto
(each, a “ Subsidiary Party ”) and JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent (in such capacity,
the “ Administrative Agent ”) for the Secured
Parties (as defined below).
This Agreement is an amendment and
restatement of the Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement dated
as of May 31, 2005, among Holdings, the U.S. Borrower, each
subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower party thereto and the
Administrative Agent.
Reference is made to (a) the
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
November 3, 2006 (as further amended, restated, supplemented,
waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the “
Credit Agreement ”), among Holdings, the U.S.
Borrower, Hexion Specialty Chemicals Canada, Inc., a Canadian
corporation (the “ Canadian Borrower ”), Hexion
Specialty Chemicals B.V., a company organized under the laws of The
Netherlands (the “ Dutch Borrower ”), Hexion
Specialty Chemicals UK Limited, a corporation organized under the
laws of England and Wales, and Borden Chemical UK Limited, a
corporation organized under the laws of England and Wales
(together, the “ U.K. Borrowers ” and, together
with the U.S. Borrower, the Canadian Borrower and the Dutch
Borrower, the “ Borrowers ”), the Lenders party
thereto from time to time, the Administrative Agent, Credit Suisse,
as syndication agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Credit
Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint
bookrunners, and (b) the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of
November 3, 2006 (as amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Intercreditor
Agreement ”), among Holdings, the U.S. Borrower, each
Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower identified therein, Wilmington
Trust Company as trustee and collateral agent, and the
Administrative Agent.
The Lenders have agreed to extend
credit to the Borrowers subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in the Credit Agreement. The obligations of the Lenders to
extend such credit are conditioned upon, among other things, the
execution and delivery of this Agreement. The Subsidiary Parties
are subsidiaries of the U.S. Borrower, will derive substantial
benefits from the extension of credit to the Borrowers pursuant to
the Credit Agreement and are willing to execute and deliver this
Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to extend such credit.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Credit
Agreement. (a) Capitalized terms used in this Agreement
and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings
assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. All terms defined in the
New York UCC (as defined herein) and not defined in this Agreement
have the meanings specified therein. The term
“instrument” shall have the meaning specified in
Article 9 of the New York UCC.
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(b) The rules of construction
specified in Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement also apply
to this Agreement.
SECTION 1.02. Other Defined
Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings specified below:
“ Account Debtor
” means any person who is or who may become obligated to any
Pledgor under, with respect to or on account of an
Account.
“ Article 9
Collateral ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 4.01.
“ Collateral ”
means Article 9 Collateral and Pledged Collateral.
“ Control Agreement
” means a securities account control agreement or a commodity
account control agreement, as applicable, enabling the
Administrative Agent to obtain “control” (within the
meaning of the New York UCC) of any such accounts, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
“ Copyright License
” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect,
granting any right to any Pledgor under any Copyright now or
hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Pledgor
under any such agreement (including any such rights that such
Pledgor has the right to license).
“ Copyrights ”
means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any
Pledgor (or, as required in the context of the definition of
“Copyright License,” any third party
licensor): (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, supplemental registrations and pending applications
for registration in the United States Copyright Office, including
those listed on Schedule IV .
“ Credit Agreement
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary
statement of this Agreement.
“ Federal Securities
Laws ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 5.04.
“ General Intangibles
” means all “General Intangibles” as defined in
the New York UCC, including all choses in action and causes of
action and all other intangible personal property of any Pledgor of
every kind and nature (other than Accounts) now owned or hereafter
acquired by any Pledgor, including corporate or other business
records, indemnification claims, contract rights (including rights
under leases, whether entered into as lessor or lessee, Swap
Agreements and other agreements), Intellectual Property, goodwill,
registrations, franchises, tax refund claims and any letter of
credit, guarantee, claim, security interest or other security held
by or granted to any Pledgor to secure payment by an Account Debtor
of any of the Accounts.
“ Intellectual Property
” means all intellectual and similar property of every kind
and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any Pledgor,
including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks,
Patent Licenses, Copyright Licenses, Trademark Licenses, trade
secrets, domain names, confidential or proprietary technical and
business information, know-how, show-how or other data or
information and all related documentation.
“ Loan Document
Obligations ” means (a) the due and punctual payment
by each Borrower of (i) the principal of and interest
(including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of
whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans and
B/As, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon
one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each
payment required to be made by each Borrower under the Credit
Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit or B/A, when and as
due, including payments in respect of reimbursement of
disbursements, interest thereon and obligations to provide cash
collateral, and (iii) all other monetary obligations of each
Borrower to any of the Secured Parties under the Credit Agreement
and each of the other Loan Documents, including obligations to pay
fees, expense reimbursement obligations and indemnification
obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed
or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the
pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other
similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in
such proceeding), (b) the due and punctual performance of all
other obligations of each Borrower under or pursuant to the Credit
Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents and (c) the due
and punctual payment and performance of all the obligations of each
other Loan Party under or pursuant to this Agreement and each of
the other Loan Documents.
“ New York UCC ”
means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in
the State of New York.
“ Obligations ”
means (a) the Loan Document Obligations, (b) the due and
punctual payment and performance of all obligations of each Loan
Party under each Swap Agreement that (i) is in effect on the
Closing Date with a counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate
of a Lender as of the Closing Date or (ii) is entered into
after the Closing Date with any counterparty that is a Lender or an
Affiliate of a Lender at the time such Swap Agreement is entered
into and (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of
all obligations in respect of the Overdraft Line; provided
that in no event shall the holders of the obligations referred to
in this clause (c) have the right to receive proceeds in
respect of a claim in excess of $40.0 million in the aggregate
(plus (i) any accrued and unpaid interest in respect of
Indebtedness incurred by the U.S. Borrower and the Subsidiaries
under the Overdraft Line and (ii) any accrued and unpaid fees
and expenses owing by the U.S. Borrower and the Subsidiaries under
the Overdraft Line) from the enforcement of any remedies available
to the Secured Parties under all of the Loan Documents.
“ Patent License
” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect,
granting to any Pledgor any right to make, use or sell any
invention covered by a Patent, now or hereafter owned by any third
party (including any such rights that such Pledgor has the right to
license).
“ Patents ” means
all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Pledgor
(or, as required in the context of the definition of “Patent
License,” any third party licensor): (a) all
letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in
any other country, and all applications for letters patent of the
United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country,
including those listed on Schedule IV , and
(b) all reissues, continuations, divisions,
continuations-in-part or extensions thereof, and the inventions
disclosed or claimed therein, including the right to make, use
and/or sell the inventions disclosed or claimed therein.
“ Perfection
Certificate ” means a certificate substantially in the
form of Exhibit II , completed and supplemented with
the schedules and attachments contemplated thereby, and duly
executed by an officer of each Pledgor.
“ Permitted Liens
” means, with respect to any asset, any Lien permitted to
exist on such asset by Section 6.02 of the Credit
Agreement.
“ Pledged Collateral
” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.01.
“ Pledged Debt
Securities ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.01.
“ Pledged Securities
” means any promissory notes, stock certificates or other
certificated securities now or hereafter included in the Pledged
Collateral, including all certificates, instruments or other
documents representing or evidencing any Pledged
Collateral.
“ Pledged Stock ”
has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.01.
“ Pledged ULC Shares
” means Pledged Stock which are shares of a ULC.
“ Pledgor ” shall
mean Holdings, the U.S. Borrower and each Subsidiary
Party.
“ Requirement of Law
” means, with respect to any person, the common law and all
federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and regulations,
orders, judgments, decrees and other legal requirements or
determinations of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator,
applicable to or binding upon such person or any of its property or
to which such person or any of its property is subject.
“ Secured Parties
” means (a) the Lenders, (b) the Administrative
Agent, (c) each Issuing Bank, (d) each counterparty to
any Swap Agreement with a Loan Party the obligations under which
constitute Obligations, (e) the beneficiaries of each
indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any
Loan Document, (f) the providers of the Overdraft Line, the
obligations in respect of which constitute Obligations and
(g) the successors and permitted assigns of each of the
foregoing.
“ Security Interest
” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 4.01.
“ Subsidiary Party
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary
statement of this Agreement.
“ Trademark License
” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect,
granting to any Pledgor any right to use any Trademark now or
hereafter owned by any third party (including any such rights that
such Pledgor has the right to license).
“ Trademarks ”
means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any
Pledgor (or, as required in the context of the definition of
“Trademark License,” any third party
licensor): (a) all trademarks, service marks, 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
thereof (if any), and all registration and recording applications
filed in connection therewith, including registrations and
registration applications in the United States Patent and Trademark
Office or any similar offices in any State of the United States or
any other country or any political subdivision thereof, and all
renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule IV
and (b) all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized
thereby.
“ ULC ” means an
unlimited company existing under the laws of the Province of Nova
Scotia, Canada.
ARTICLE II.
[ Intentionally Omitted
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ARTICLE III.
Pledge of
Securities
SECTION 3.01. Pledge. As
security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in
full of the Obligations, each Pledgor hereby (except in the case of
Pledged ULC Shares) assigns and (in all cases) pledges to the
Administrative Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the
ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the
Administrative Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the
ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in all
of such Pledgor’s right, title and interest in, to and under
(a) the Equity Interests directly owned by it (which such
Equity Interests constituting Pledged Stock shall be listed on
Schedule III) and any other Equity Interests obtained in the
future by such Pledgor and any certificates representing all such
Equity Interests; provided that the Pledged Stock shall not
include (i) to the extent such pledge is made as security for
the payment or performance, as the case may be, of the Obligations
of any Domestic Loan Party, more than 65% of the issued and
outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary,
which pledge, except in the case of a pledge of Pledged ULC Shares,
shall be duly noted on the share register, if any, of such Foreign
Subsidiary, (ii) any Equity Interests with respect to which
the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the other paragraphs of
Section 5.10 of the Credit Agreement need not be satisfied by
reason of Section 5.10(g) of the Credit Agreement,
(iii) any Equity Interests of a Subsidiary to the extent that,
as of the Closing Date, and for so long as, such a pledge of such
Equity Interests would violate a contractual obligation binding on
or relating to such Equity Interests, (iv) any Equity
Interests of any Indenture Restricted Subsidiary owned by the U.S.
Borrower or any Indenture Restricted Subsidiary or (v) any
Equity Interests of the U.S. Borrower following a Qualified IPO
(the Equity Interests pledged pursuant to this clause (a), the
“ Pledged Stock ”); (b)(i) the debt
securities currently issued to any Pledgor (which such debt
securities constituting Pledged Debt Securities shall be listed on
Schedule III), (ii) any debt securities in the future
issued to such Pledgor and (iii) the promissory notes and any
other instruments, if any, evidencing such debt securities;
provided that the Pledged Debt Securities
shall not include debt securities
(A) issued by any Indenture Restricted Subsidiary to the U.S.
Borrower or any Indenture Restricted Subsidiary or (B) issued
by any Foreign Subsidiary to the U.S. Borrower or a Domestic
Subsidiary, in the case of this clause (B), for so long as the
pledge of such Indebtedness would be deemed an incurrence of
Indebtedness under any of the Existing Notes Documents or the New
Second Secured Notes Documents (the debt securities pledged
pursuant to this clause (b), the “ Pledged Debt
Securities ”); (c) subject to Section 3.06, 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, and all other proceeds received in respect of, the securities
referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above;
(d) subject to Section 3.06, all rights and privileges of
such Pledgor with respect to the securities and other property
referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above; and
(e) all proceeds of any of the foregoing (the items referred
to in clauses (a) through (e) above being collectively
referred to as the “ Pledged Collateral
”).
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Pledged
Collateral, together with all right, title, interest, powers,
privileges and preferences pertaining or incidental thereto, unto
the Administrative Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for
the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, forever; subject
, however , to the terms, covenants and conditions
hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 3.02. Delivery of the
Pledged Collateral . (a) Each Pledgor agrees promptly to
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, for
the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, any and all Pledged
Securities to the extent such Pledged Securities, in the case of
promissory notes or other instruments evidencing Indebtedness, are
required to be delivered pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
Section 3.02.
(b) Each Pledgor will cause any
Pledged Debt Security or other Indebtedness for borrowed money
(i) having an aggregate principal amount in excess of
$15,000,000 or (ii) payable by the U.S. Borrower or any
Subsidiary (other than, in the case of this clause (ii), any
such Indebtedness referred to in clause (A) or (B) of the
proviso to Section 3.01(b) and intercompany Indebtedness
incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the
cash management operations and intercompany sales of the U.S.
Borrower and each Subsidiary) owed to such Pledgor by any person to
be evidenced by a duly executed promissory note that is pledged and
delivered to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of
the Secured Parties, pursuant to the terms hereof. To the extent
any such promissory note is a demand note, each Pledgor party
thereto agrees, if requested by the Administrative Agent, to
immediately demand payment thereunder upon an Event of Default
specified under Section 7.01(b), (c), (f), (h) or
(i) of the Credit Agreement.
(c) Upon delivery to the
Administrative Agent, (i) any Pledged Securities required to
be delivered pursuant to the foregoing paragraphs (a) and
(b) of this Section 3.02 shall be accompanied by stock
powers or note powers, as applicable, duly executed in blank or
other instruments of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and by such other instruments and documents as
the Administrative Agent may reasonably request and (ii) all
other property composing part of the Pledged Collateral delivered
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be accompanied to the
extent necessary to perfect the security interest in or allow
realization on the Pledged Collateral by proper instruments of
assignment duly executed by the applicable Pledgor and such other
instruments or documents (including issuer acknowledgments in
respect of uncertificated securities) as the
Administrative
Agent may reasonably request. Each delivery of
Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by a schedule describing
the securities, which schedule shall be attached hereto as
Schedule III 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 supplement any prior schedules so
delivered.
SECTION 3.03. Representations,
Warranties and Covenants. The Pledgors, jointly and severally,
represent, warrant and covenant to and with the Administrative
Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties,
that:
(a) Schedule III
correctly sets forth the percentage of the issued and outstanding
shares of each class of the Equity Interests of the issuer thereof
represented by such Pledged Stock and includes all Equity
Interests, debt securities and promissory notes or instruments
evidencing Indebtedness required to be (i) pledged in order to
satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or
(ii) delivered pursuant to Section 3.02(b);
(b) the Pledged Stock, to the best
of each Pledgor’s knowledge, have been duly and validly
authorized and issued by the issuers thereof and are fully paid and
nonassessable, subject to the assessability of the Pledged ULC
Shares under the Companies Act (Nova Scotia);
(c) except for the security
interests granted hereunder, each Pledgor (i) is and, subject
to any transfers made in compliance with the Credit Agreement, will
continue to be the direct owner, beneficially and of record, of the
Pledged Securities indicated on Schedule III as owned by
such Pledgor, (ii) holds the same free and clear of all Liens,
other than 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 pursuant to a transaction permitted by the Credit
Agreement and other than Permitted Liens, and (iv) subject to
the rights of such Pledgor under the Loan Documents to dispose of
Pledged Collateral, will use commercially reasonable efforts to
defend its title or interest thereto or therein against any and all
Liens (other than Permitted Liens), however arising, of all
persons;
(d) other than as set forth in the
Credit Agreement or the schedules thereto, and except for
restrictions and limitations imposed by the Loan Documents, the New
Second Secured Note Documents or securities laws generally, 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, charter, by-law, memorandum of association or articles
of association provisions or contractual restriction of any nature,
other than restrictions on transfer in the articles of association
of a ULC, 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
Administrative Agent of rights and remedies hereunder;
(e) each Pledgor has the power and
authority to pledge the Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder
in the manner hereby done or contemplated;
(f) other than as set forth in the
Credit Agreement or the schedules thereto, no consent or approval
of any Governmental Authority, any securities exchange or any other
person was or is necessary to the validity of the pledge effected
hereby (other than such as have been obtained and are in full force
and effect);
(g) by virtue of the execution and
delivery by the Pledgors of this Agreement and the Foreign Pledge
Agreements, when any Pledged Securities (excluding any foreign
stock not covered by a Foreign Pledge Agreement) are delivered to
the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured
Parties, in accordance with this Agreement, the Administrative
Agent will obtain, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties,
a legal, valid and perfected lien upon and security interest in
such Pledged Securities, subject only to Permitted Liens or Liens
arising by operation of law, as security for the payment and
performance of the Obligations; and
(h) the pledge effected hereby is
effective to vest in the Administrative Agent, for the ratable
benefit of the Secured Parties, the rights of the Administrative
Agent in the Pledged Collateral as set forth herein.
SECTION 3.04. Certification of
Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Interests .
(a) Each interest in any limited liability company or limited
partnership Controlled by any Pledgor, pledged hereunder and
represented by a certificate, shall be a “security”
within the meaning of Article 8 of the New York UCC and shall
be governed by Article 8 of the New York UCC, and each such
interest shall at all times hereafter be represented by a
certificate.
(b) Each interest in any limited
liability company or limited partnership Controlled by a Pledgor,
pledged hereunder and not represented by a certificate shall not be
a “security” within the meaning of Article 8 of the New
York UCC and shall not be governed by Article 8 of the New
York UCC, and the Pledgors shall at no time elect to treat any such
interest as a “security” within the meaning of
Article 8 of the New York UCC or issue any certificate
representing such interest, unless the applicable Pledgor provides
prior written notification to the Administrative Agent of such
election and immediately delivers any such certificate to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms hereof.
SECTION 3.05. Registration in
Nominee Name; Denominations . The Administrative Agent, on
behalf of the Secured Parties, shall have the right (in its sole
and absolute discretion) to hold the Pledged Securities in the name
of the applicable Pledgor, endorsed or assigned in blank or, except
in the case of the Pledged ULC Shares, in favor of the
Administrative Agent or, except in the case of Pledged ULC Shares,
if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, in
its own name as pledgee or the name of its nominee (as pledgee or
as sub-agent). Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each
Pledgor will promptly give to the Administrative Agent copies of
any notices or other communications received by it with respect to
Pledged Securities registered in the name of such Pledgor. If an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Administrative Agent shall have the right to exchange the
certificates representing Pledged Securities for certificates of
smaller or larger denominations for any purpose consistent with
this Agreement. Each Pledgor shall use its commercially reasonable
efforts to cause any Subsidiary that is not a party to this
Agreement to comply with a request by the Administrative Agent,
pursuant to this Section 3.05, to exchange certificates
representing Pledged Securities of such Subsidiary for certificates
of smaller or larger denominations.
SECTION 3.06. Voting Rights;
Dividends and Interest, etc. (a) Unless and until an Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Administrative Agent shall have given notice to the relevant
Pledgors of the Administrative Agent’s intention to exercise
its rights hereunder:
(i) Each Pledgor shall be entitled
to exercise any and all voting and/or other consensual rights and
powers inuring to an owner of Pledged Collateral or any part
thereof for any purpose consistent with the terms of this
Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
provided that such rights and powers shall not be exercised
in any manner that could materially and adversely affect the rights
and remedies of any of the Administrative Agent or the other
Secured Parties under this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any
other Loan Document or the ability of the Secured Parties to
exercise the same.
(ii) The Administrative Agent shall
promptly execute and deliver to each Pledgor, or cause to be
executed and delivered to such Pledgor, all such proxies, powers of
attorney and other instruments as such Pledgor may reasonably
request for the purpose of enabling such Pledgor to exercise the
voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to
exercise pursuant to subparagraph (i) above.
(iii) Each Pledgor shall be entitled
to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest, principal
and other distributions paid on or distributed in respect of the
Pledged Collateral to the extent and only to the extent that such
dividends, interest, principal and other distributions are
permitted by, and otherwise paid or distributed in accordance with,
the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, the other Loan
Documents and applicable laws; provided that any noncash
dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that would
constitute Pledged Securities, whether resulting from a
subdivision, combination or reclassification of the outstanding
Equity Interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities or
received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or
in redemption thereof, or as a result of any merger, consolidation,
acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be
a party or otherwise, shall be and become part of the Pledged
Collateral, and, if received by any Pledgor, shall not be
commingled by such Pledgor with any of its other funds or property
but shall be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in
trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, for the ratable
benefit of the Secured Parties, and shall be forthwith delivered to
the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured
Parties, in the same form as so received (endorsed in a manner
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent).
(b) Except in the case of Pledged
ULC Shares (in which case the Pledgors shall maintain all
membership rights described herein until they cease to be
registered as members of the applicable ULC), upon the occurrence
and during the continuance of an Event of Default and after notice
by the Administrative Agent to the relevant Pledgors of the
Administrative Agent’s intention to
exercise its rights hereunder, all rights of any
Pledgor to dividends, interest, principal or other distributions
that such Pledgor is authorized to receive pursuant to
paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 shall cease, and
all such rights shall thereupon become vested, for the ratable
benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Administrative Agent, which
shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to receive
and retain such dividends, interest, principal or other
distributions. All dividends, interest, principal or other
distributions received by any Pledgor contrary to the provisions of
this Section 3.06 shall not be commingled by such Pledgor with
any of its other funds or property but shall be held separate and
apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the
Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured
Parties, and shall be forthwith delivered to the Administrative
Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, in the same
form as so received (endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent). Any and all money and other property
paid over to or received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
the provisions of this paragraph (b) shall be retained by the
Administrative Agent in an account to be established by the
Administrative Agent upon receipt of such money or other property
and shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of
Section 5.02. After all Events of Default have been cured or
waived and the U.S. Borrower has delivered to the Administrative
Agent a certificate to that effect, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly repay to each Pledgor (without interest) all dividends,
interest, principal or other distributions that such Pledgor would
otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of
paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 and that remain
in such account.
(c) Except in the case of Pledged
ULC Shares (in which case the Pledgors shall maintain all
membership rights described herein until they cease to be
registered as members of the applicable ULC), upon the occurrence
and during the continuance of an Event of Default and after notice
by the Administrative Agent to the relevant Pledgors of the
Administrative Agent’s intention to exercise its rights
hereunder, all rights of any Pledgor to exercise the voting and/or
consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to
paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 3.06, and the
obligations of the Administrative Agent under
paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section 3.06, shall cease, and
all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Administrative
Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, which shall
have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise such
voting and consensual rights and powers; provided that,
unless otherwise directed by the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent shall have the right from time to time
following and during the continuance of an Event of Default to
permit the Pledgors to exercise such rights.
(d) Any notice given by the
Administrative Agent to the Pledgors suspending their rights under
paragraph (a) of this Section 3.06 (i) may be given
by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing, (ii) may be
given to one or more of the Pledgors at the same or different times
and (iii) may suspend the rights of the Pledgors under
paragraph (a)(i) or paragraph (a)(iii) in part without
suspending all such rights (as specified by the Administrative
Agent in its sole and absolute discretion) and without waiving or
otherwise affecting the Administrative Agent’s rights to give
additional notices from time to time suspending other rights so
long as an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing.
ARTICLE IV.
Security Interests in Personal
Property
SECTION 4.01. Security
Interest. (a) As security for the payment or performance,
as the case may be, in full of the Obligations, each Pledgor hereby
assigns and pledges to the Administrative Agent, its successors and
assigns, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby
grants to the Administrative Agent, its successors and assigns, for
the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest
(the “ Security Interest ”) in all right, title
and interest in or to any and all of the following assets and
properties now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such
Pledgor or in which such Pledgor now has or at any time in the
future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the
“ Article 9 Collateral ”):
(i) all Accounts;
(ii) all Chattel Paper;
(iii) all cash and Deposit
Accounts;
(iv) all Documents;
(v) all Equipment;
(vi) all General
Intangibles;
(vii) all Instruments;
(viii) all Intellectual
Property;
(ix) all Inventory;
(x) all Investment
Property;
(xi) all Letter of Credit
Rights;
(xii) all Commercial Tort Claims as
described on Schedule II hereto;
(xiii) all books and records
pertaining to the Article 9 Collateral; and
(xiv) to the extent not otherwise
included, all proceeds, Supporting Obligations and products of any
and all of the foregoing and all collateral security and guarantees
given by any person with respect to any of the
foregoing.
Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, this Agreement shall not constitute a
grant of a security interest in (and the Article 9 Collateral shall
not include) (a) any vehicle covered by a certificate of title
or ownership, (b) any assets with respect to which the
Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the other paragraphs of
Section 5.10 of the Credit Agreement need not be satisfied by
reason of Section 5.10(g) of the Credit Agreement,
(c) any Letter of Credit Rights to the extent any Pledgor is
required by applicable law to apply the proceeds of a drawing of
such Letter of Credit for a specified purpose, (d) any Equity
Interests or debt securities excluded from the pledge made pursuant
to Section 3.01 hereof (e) any Pledgor’s right,
title or interest in any license, contract or agreement to which
such Pledgor is a party or any of its right, title or interest
thereunder to the extent, but only to the
extent, that such a grant would, under the terms
of such license, contract or agreement, result in a breach of the
terms of, or constitute a default under, any license, contract or
agreement to which such Pledgor is a party (other than to the
extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant
to