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Title: SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 3/11/2009

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, Parties: hexion specialty chemicals  inc. , borden chemical uk limited
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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

 

 

 

 

  

Page

 

ARTICLE I.

  

 

Definitions

  

 

1

  

SECTION 1.01.

 

Credit Agreement

  

1

SECTION 1.02.

 

Other Defined Terms

  

2

 

ARTICLE II.

  

 

[Intentionally Omitted]

  

 

5

  

 

ARTICLE III.

  

 

Pledge of Securities

  

 

5

  

SECTION 3.01.

 

Pledge

  

5

SECTION 3.02.

 

Delivery of the Pledged Collateral

  

6

SECTION 3.03.

 

Representations, Warranties and Covenants

  

7

SECTION 3.04.

 

Certification of Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Interests

  

8

SECTION 3.05.

 

Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations

  

8

SECTION 3.06.

 

Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest, etc

  

9

 

ARTICLE IV.

  

 

Security Interests in Personal Property

  

 

10

  

SECTION 4.01.

 

Security Interest

  

11

SECTION 4.02.

 

Representations and Warranties

  

12

SECTION 4.03.

 

Covenants

  

14

 

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SECTION 4.04.

 

Other Actions

  

17

SECTION 4.05.

 

Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral

  

18

 

ARTICLE V.

  

 

Remedies

  

 

19

  

SECTION 5.01.

 

Remedies Upon Default

  

19

SECTION 5.02.

 

Application of Proceeds

  

21

SECTION 5.03.

 

Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property

  

22

SECTION 5.04.

 

Securities Act, etc

  

22

SECTION 5.05.

 

Registration, etc

  

23

 

ARTICLE VI.

  

 

[Intentionally Omitted]

  

 

23

  

 

ARTICLE VII.

  

 

Miscellaneous

  

 

23

  

SECTION 7.01.

 

Notices

  

23

SECTION 7.02.

 

Security Interest Absolute

  

24

SECTION 7.03.

 

Limitation By Law

  

24

SECTION 7.04.

 

Binding Effect; Several Agreement

  

24

SECTION 7.05.

 

Successors and Assigns

  

24

SECTION 7.06.

 

Administrative Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification

  

25

SECTION 7.07.

 

Administrative Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact

  

25

SECTION 7.08.

 

GOVERNING LAW

  

26

SECTION 7.09.

 

Waivers; Amendment

  

26

SECTION 7.10.

 

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

  

27

 

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SECTION 7.11.

 

Severability

  

27

SECTION 7.12.

 

Counterparts

  

27

SECTION 7.13.

 

Headings

  

27

SECTION 7.14.

 

Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process

  

27

SECTION 7.15.

 

Termination or Release

  

28

SECTION 7.16.

 

Additional Subsidiaries

  

29

SECTION 7.17.

 

Right of Set-off

  

29

SECTION 7.18.

 

Intercreditor Agreement

  

29

SECTION 7.19.

 

[Reserved]

  

29

SECTION 7.20.

 

Dutch Parallel Debt

  

29

SECTION 7.21.

 

ULC Shares

  

29

Schedules

 

Schedule I

 

Subsidiary Parties

Schedule II

 

Commercial Tort Claims

Schedule III

 

Pledged Stock; Debt Securities

Schedule IV

 

Intellectual Property

Exhibits

 

Exhibit I

 

Form of Supplement to the Collateral Agreement

Exhibit II

 

Form of Perfection Certificate

 

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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 ]

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


 
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