ICELAND ACQUISITION SUBSIDIARY,
INC.,
I-FLOW CORPORATION,
as Secured Party
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1.1 Credit Agreement Defined Terms; New York UCC
Definitions
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1.3 Rules of Interpretation
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ARTICLE II SECURITY INTEREST
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2.1 Grant of Security Interest
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2.2 Security for Secured Obligations
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2.3 Transfer of Collateral
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ARTICLE III Representations and
Warranties
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3.1 Annex IV and Representations In Other Loan
Documents
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3.2 Title; No Other Liens
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3.3 Perfected First Priority Liens
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3.4 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief
Executive Office
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3.5 Inventory and Equipment
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3.9 Intellectual Property
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3.10 Deposit Accounts and Securities
Accounts
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3.11 Benefit to each Subsidiary
Grantor
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4.1 Covenants in Credit Agreement
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4.2 Delivery of Instruments, Certificated
Securities and Chattel Paper
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4.3 Maintenance of Insurance
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4.4 Payment of Obligations
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4.5 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest;
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4.6 Changes in Locations, Name, etc
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4.10 Intellectual Property
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4.13 Commercial Tort Claims
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ARTICLE V REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
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5.1 Certain Matters Relating to
Receivables
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5.2 Communications with Obligors; Grantors
Remain Liable
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5.4 Proceeds To Be Turned Over to Secured
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5.5 Application of Proceeds
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5.6 Code and Other Remedies
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5.9 Non-Judicial Enforcement
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ARTICLE VI THE SECURED PARTY
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6.1 Secured Party’s Appointment as
Attorney-in-Fact, etc
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Table of
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6.2 [Intentionally Omitted]
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6.3 Duty of the Secured Party
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6.4 Execution of Financing Statements
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ARTICLE VII SUBORDINATION OF
INDEBTEDNESS
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7.1 Subordination of All Subsidiary Grantor
Claims
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7.3 Payments Held in Trust
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ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS
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8.1 Amendments in Writing
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8.3 No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative
Remedies
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8.4 Enforcement Expenses;
Indemnification
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8.5 Successors and Assigns
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8.12 Submission To Jurisdiction;
Waivers
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8.14 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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Table of
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Notice
Addresses
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Form of
Assumption Agreement for Additional Grantors
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Form of Deposit
Account Control Agreement
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Form of
Securities Account Control Agreement
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Certain
Collateral Matters
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THIS SECURITY
AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of
October 25, 2007, is made by ICELAND ACQUISITION SUBSIDIARY,
INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”),
HAPC, INC., a Delaware corporation (“ Holdings
”), and each other Person that may become an additional
Grantor hereunder as provided in Section 8.15 hereof
(any such Person, a “ Subsidiary Grantor ”; the
Subsidiary Grantors, the Borrower and Holdings are collectively
referred to herein as the “ Grantors ”), in
favor of I-FLOW CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, as secured
party (together with its successors and assigns, the “
Secured Party ”) .
WHEREAS, pursuant
to the Credit and Guaranty Agreement dated as of October 25,
2007 (as such Credit and Guaranty Agreement may be amended, amended
and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time,
the “ Credit Agreement ”) among the Borrower,
Holdings, the Secured Party and the other parties thereto, the
Secured Party has agreed to make Loan to the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the
Borrower and the other Grantors are engaged in related businesses,
and each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect
benefit from the making of the Loan to the Borrower under the
Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, it is a
condition precedent to the obligations of the Secured Party to make
the Loan under the Credit Agreement that the Borrower and each
other Grantor shall have executed and delivered this Agreement to
the Secured Party;
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth
herein, to induce the Lender to enter into the Credit Agreement and
make the Loan thereunder and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1.1 Credit
Agreement Defined Terms; New York UCC Definitions . All
capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit
Agreement. The following terms are used herein as defined in the
New York UCC: Accounts, Certificated Security, Chattel Paper,
Commercial Tort Claims, Deposit Account, Documents, Equipment, Farm
Products, Goods, Instruments, Inventory, Letter of Credit Rights,
Securities Account, Securities Intermediary and Supporting
Obligations.
1.2 Other
Defined Terms . For purposes of this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the respective meanings given to them
below.
“ Account
Collateral ” each Grantor’s right, title and
interest, whether now existing or hereafter acquired or arising,
in, to and under, each Deposit Account and Securities Account
(including any successor accounts to any such accounts) and all
amounts, investments and any other property (including, but not
limited to, Checks, securities, financial assets, investment
property, security entitlements and instruments) at any time
deposited in or credited to any such account and all security
entitlements with respect thereto, including all income or gain
earned thereon and any Proceeds thereof.
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Agreement ” means this Security Agreement, as the same
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“ Books
and Records ” means all books, records and other written,
electronic or other documentation in whatever form maintained now
or hereafter by or for the Borrower in connection with, and
relating to, the ownership of, or evidencing or containing
information relating to, the Collateral.
“
Checks ” means checks and other instruments and other
payment instructions deposited into any Deposit Account or
Securities Account.
“
Collateral ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1 .
“
Collateral Account ” means any collateral account
established by the Secured Party as provided in
Section 5.1 or 5.4 .
“
Computer Hardware and Software ” means all rights
(including rights as licensee and lessee) with respect to
(i) computer and other electronic data processing hardware,
including all integrated computer systems, central processing
units, memory units, display terminals, printers, computer
elements, card readers, tape drives, hard and soft disc drives,
cables, electrical supply hardware, generators, power equalizers,
accessories, peripheral devices and other related computer
hardware; (ii) all software and all software programs designed
for use on the computers and electronic data processing hardware
described in clause (i) above, including all operating system
software, utilities and application programs in any form (service
code and object code in magnetic tape, disc or hard copy format or
any other listings whatsoever); (iii) any firmware associated
with any of the foregoing; (iv) any documentation for
hardware, software and firmware described in clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii) above, including flow charts, logic
diagrams, manuals, specifications, training materials, charts and
pseudo codes; and all rights with respect thereto, including any
and all licenses, options, warrants, service contracts, program
services, test rights, maintenance rights, support rights,
improvement rights, renewal rights and indemnifications, and any
substitutions, replacements, additions or model conversions of any
of the foregoing.
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Contracts ” means all contracts, agreements,
instruments and credit agreements in any form (including, without
limitation, any interest rate protection agreements, Hedge
Agreements, licensing agreements and any partnership agreements,
joint venture agreements and limited liability company agreements),
and portions thereof, to which any Grantor is a party or under
which any Grantor or any property of any Grantor is subject, as the
same may from time to time be amended, supplemented, waived or
otherwise modified, including, without limitation, (i) all
rights of any Grantor to receive moneys due and to become due to it
thereunder or in connection therewith, (ii) all rights of any
Grantor to damages arising thereunder, (iii) all rights of any
Grantor to perform and to exercise all remedies thereunder,
(iv) any and all rights to receive and compel performance
under any or all Contracts and (v) any and all other rights,
interests and claims now existing or in the future arising in
connection with any or all Contracts.
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Copyright Licenses ” means any written agreement
naming any Grantor as licensor or licensee, granting any right
under any Copyright, including, without limitation, the grant of
rights to manufacture, distribute, exploit and sell materials
derived from any Copyright.
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Copyrights ” means (i) all copyrights arising
under the laws of the United States, any other country or any
political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered
and whether published or unpublished, all registrations and
recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith,
including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings and
applications in the United States Copyright Office, and
(ii) the right to obtain all renewals thereof.
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“ Credit
Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the recitals
hereto.
“ Deposit
Account Control Agreement ” means a Deposit Account
Control Agreement, in substantially the form set forth on Annex
II attached hereto or otherwise reasonably acceptable to the
Secured Party, by and among a Grantor, the Secured Party and a
depositary institution.
“ Domain
Names ” means all Internet domain names and associated
URL addresses in or to which any Grantor now or hereafter has any
right, title or interest.
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Filings ” means the filing or recording of
(i) the financing statements in the filing offices listed in
Annex IV, and (ii) any filings after the date hereof in any
other jurisdiction as may be necessary under any requirement of
law.
“ General
Intangibles ” means all “general intangibles”
as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(42) of the Uniform
Commercial Code in effect in the State of New York on the date
hereof and, in any event, including, without limitation, with
respect to any Grantor, all contracts, agreements, instruments and
Credit Agreements in any form, and portions thereof, to which such
Grantor is a party or under which such Grantor has any right, title
or interest or to which such Grantor or any property of such
Grantor is subject, as the same may from time to time be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified, including, without limitation,
(i) all rights of such Grantor to receive moneys due and to
become due to it thereunder or in connection therewith, (ii) all
rights of such Grantor to damages arising thereunder and
(iii) all rights of such Grantor to perform and to exercise
all remedies thereunder.
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Intellectual Property ” means the collective reference
to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual
property, whether arising under United States, multinational or
foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, the
Copyrights, the Copyright Licenses, the Domain Names, the Patents,
the Patent Licenses, the Trade Secrets, the Trade Secret Licenses,
the Trademarks and the Trademark Licenses and all rights to sue at
law or equity or otherwise recover for any and all past, present
and future infringements, misappropriations, dilutions or other
impairments thereof and all income, royalties, damages and other
payments now and hereafter due and/or payable with respect thereto
(including, without limitation, payments under all licenses entered
into in connection therewith, and damages and payments for past,
present or future infringements, misappropriations, dilutions or
other impairments thereof).
“
Intercompany Note ” means any promissory note
evidencing loans made by any Grantor to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries.
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Investment Property ” means the collective reference
to (a) all “investment property” as such term is
defined in Section 9-102(a)(49) of the New York UCC and
(b) whether or not constituting “investment
property” as so defined, all Pledged Notes and all Pledged
Equity Interests.
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Issuers ” means the collective reference to each
issuer of any Investment Property.
“ New
York UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time
to time in effect in the State of New York.
“ Patent
License ” means any agreements, whether written or oral,
providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to
manufacture, have manufactured, use or sell or import any invention
covered in whole or in part by a Patent.
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Patents ” means (i) all letters patent of the
United States, any other country or any political subdivision
thereof, all reissues and extensions thereof and all goodwill
associated therewith, (ii) all applications for letters patent
of the United States or any other country and all provisionals,
divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, and
(iii) all rights to obtain any reissues or extensions of the
foregoing.
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Permitted Liens ” means Liens permitted under
Section 8.3 of the Credit Agreement.
“ Pledged
Equity Interests ” means all Equity Interests of
InfuSystem, Inc., a California corporation, together with any other
shares, stock certificates, options, interests or rights of any
nature whatsoever in respect of the Equity Interests of any Person
that may be issued or granted to, or held by, any Grantor while
this Agreement is in effect.
“ Pledged
Notes ” means all Intercompany Notes at any time issued
to any Grantor and all other promissory notes issued to or held by
any Grantor (other than promissory notes issued in connection with
extensions of trade credit by any Grantor in the ordinary course of
business).
“ Pledged
Securities ” means the Pledged Notes and the Pledged
Equity Interests.
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Proceeds ” means all “proceeds” as such
term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(64) of the New York UCC
and, in any event, shall include, without limitation, all dividends
or other income from the Investment Property, collections thereon
or distributions or payments with respect thereto.
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Receivable ” means any right to payment for goods sold
or leased or for services rendered, whether or not such right is
evidenced by an Instrument or Chattel Paper and whether or not it
has been earned by performance (including, without limitation, any
Account).
“ Release
Date ” means (a) with respect to the Borrower, the
Termination Date, and (b) with respect to any Subsidiary Grantor or
other Grantor (other than the Borrower), the earlier to occur of
(i) the date upon which all Obligations and all other Secured
Obligations shall have been paid in full in cash and all Term Loan
Commitments shall have been permanently terminated and (ii) the
date upon which all the capital stock or substantially all the
assets of such Subsidiary Grantor shall have been sold or otherwise
disposed of in accordance with the terms of the Credit
Agreement.
“ Secured
Obligations ” means all Obligations and all other
obligations and liabilities of every nature of the Borrower,
Holdings and the Subsidiary Grantors or any other Obligor
(including, without limitation, the obligations under the Guaranty)
now or hereafter existing under or arising out of or in connection
with the Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents, in each case
together with all extensions or renewals thereof, whether for
principal, interest (including, without limitation, interest that,
but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to the
Borrower or any other Grantor, would accrue at the applicable rate
provided for in the Credit Agreement on such obligations, whether
or not a claim for post-filing or post-completion interest is
allowed against the Borrower or such Grantor in the related
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding), fees, expenses,
indemnities or otherwise, whether voluntary or involuntary, direct
or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated,
whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from
time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created
or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or
liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such
payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from the
Secured Party as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise,
and all obligations of every nature of the Grantors now or
hereafter existing under this Agreement.
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Securities Account Control Agreement ” means a
Securities Account Control Agreement, in substantially the form set
forth on Annex III attached hereto or otherwise reasonably
acceptable to the Secured Party, by and among a Grantor, the
Secured Party and a Securities Intermediary.
“
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
“
Subsidiary Grantor Claims ” means indebtedness owing
to a Grantor by another Grantor.
“ Trade
Secret Licenses ” means any agreement, whether written or
oral, providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to
use any Trade Secret.
“ Trade
Secrets ” means all trade secrets, including, without
limitation, know how, processes, formulae, compositions, designs,
and confidential business and technical information, and all rights
of any kind whatsoever accruing thereunder or pertaining
thereto.
“
Trademark License ” means any agreement, whether
written or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of
any right to use any Trademark, including.
“
Trademarks ” means (i) all trademarks, trade
names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious
business names, trade styles, service marks, domain names, logos
and other source or business identifiers, and all goodwill
associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or
acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all
applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of
the United States, any State thereof or any other country or any
political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common-law
rights related thereto, and (ii) the right to obtain all
renewals thereof.
1.3 Rules
of Interpretation . The provisions of this Agreement shall
be construed and interpreted in accordance with the rules of
construction set forth in Sections 1.2 and 1.3
of the Credit Agreement. As used herein, and any certificate or
other document made or delivered pursuant hereto:
(a) the words
“hereof”, “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement, and clause, subsection,
Section, Schedule, Annex, Exhibit and analogous references are to
this Agreement unless otherwise specified;
(b) the
expressions “payment in full”, “paid in
full” and any other similar terms or phrases when used herein
with respect to the Secured Obligations shall mean the payment in
full, in immediately available funds, of all the Secured
Obligations; and
(c) where the
context requires, terms relating to the Collateral or any part
thereof, when used in relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such
Grantor’s Collateral or the relevant part thereof.
2.1 Grant
of Security Interest . Each Grantor hereby pledges, assigns
and transfers to the Secured Party, and hereby grants to the
Secured Party a security interest in, all of the following property
now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in
which such Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire
any right, title or interest (collectively, the “
Collateral ”):
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(b) all
Account Collateral;
(c) all Books
and Records;
(e) all
Commercial Tort Claims;
(f) all
Computer Hardware and Software;
(j) all
General Intangibles;
(m) all
Intellectual Property;
(o) all
Investment Property;
(p) all
Letter of Credit Rights;
(q) all plant
fixtures, business fixtures and other fixtures and storage and
office facilities, and all accessions thereto and products
thereof;
(r) all other
personal property to the extent not otherwise described above;
and
(s) 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.
Each item of
Collateral listed in this Section 2.1 that is defined
in Articles 8 or 9 of the New York UCC and that is not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the New York
UCC, it being the intention of the Grantors that the description of
the Collateral set forth above be construed to include the broadest
possible range of assets.
2.2
Security for Secured Obligations . This Agreement
secures, and the Collateral assigned by each Grantor is collateral
security for, the prompt payment or performance in full when due,
whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration,
acceleration, demand or otherwise (including without limitation the
payment of amounts that would become due but for the operation of
the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code), of
all Secured Obligations of such Grantor.
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2.3
Transfer of Collateral . All certificates and
instruments representing or evidencing the Pledged Securities shall
be delivered to and held pursuant hereto by the Secured Party or a
Person designated by the Secured Party and shall be in suitable
form for transfer by delivery, or shall be accompanied by duly
executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, and
accompanied by any required transfer tax stamps to effect the
pledge of the Pledged Securities to the Secured Party.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, at the Secured
Party’s discretion, all such Pledged Securities must be
delivered or transferred in such manner as to permit the Secured
Party to be a “protected purchaser” to the extent of
its security interest as provided in Section 8-303 of the New
York UCC (if the Secured Party otherwise qualifies as a protected
purchaser). During the continuance of an Event of Default, the
Secured Party shall have the right, at any time in its discretion
and without notice, to transfer to or to register in the name of
the Secured Party or any of its nominees any or all of the Pledged
Securities. In addition, during the continuance of an Event of
Default, the Secured Party shall have the right at any time to
exchange certificates or instruments representing or evidencing
Pledged Securities for certificates or instruments of smaller or
larger denominations.
2.4
Bailees . Any Person (other than the Secured Party) at
any time and from time to time holding all or any portion of the
Collateral shall be deemed to, and shall, hold the Collateral as
pledge holder and bailee and agent for perfection for, and for the
benefit of, the Secured Party. At any time and from time to time
during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Secured Party
may give notice to any such Person holding all or any portion of
the Collateral that such Person is holding the Collateral as the
bailee of and agent for perfection for, and as pledge holder for,
and for the benefit of, the Secured Party, and request such
Person’s written acknowledgment thereof. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, during the continuance of an Event of
Default, each Grantor will join with the Secured Party upon the
Secured Party’s request in notifying any Person who has
possession of any Collateral of the Secured Party’s security
interest therein and requesting an acknowledgment from such Person
that it is holding the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured
Party.
Representations and
Warranties.
To induce the
Secured Party to enter into the Credit Agreement and to make Loans
thereunder, each Grantor hereby represents and warrants to the
Secured Party that:
3.1 Annex
IV and Representations in Other Loan Documents . The
statements and information set forth in Annex IV hereto and the
representations and warranties of such Grantor set forth in the
Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Grantor
is a party, each of which is hereby incorporated herein by
reference, are true and correct, and the Secured Party shall be
entitled to rely on each of them as if they were fully set forth
herein.
3.2 Title;
No Other Liens . Except for Permitted Liens, such Grantor
owns each item of the Collateral free and clear of any and all
Liens or claims of others. No financing statement or other public
notice with respect to all or any part of the Collateral is on file
or of record in any public office, except (i) such as have
been filed in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to this Agreement
and (ii) as are permitted by the Credit Agreement.
3.3
Perfected First Priority Liens . Upon completion of the
Filings (or, in the case of (x) all Deposit Accounts,
Securities Accounts and Collateral Accounts, the obtaining and
maintenance of “control” (as described in the Code),
(y) in the case of Commercial Tort Claims, the taking of the
actions required by Section 4.13 herein and (z) in
the case of Letter-of-Credit Rights, the taking of the actions
required by Section 4.5(c) hereof), the security
interests granted pursuant to this Agreement
(1) will
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constitute
valid perfected security interests in all of the Collateral in
which a security interest may be perfected by Filings, and in all
Collateral constituting Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and
Collateral Accounts, all commercial tort claims and
Letter-of-Credit Rights, as applicable, in favor of the Secured
Party as collateral security for such Grantor’s Secured
Obligations, enforceable in accordance with the terms hereof
against all creditors of such Grantor and any Persons purporting to
purchase any Collateral from such Grantor and (2) are prior to
all other Liens on the Collateral in existence on the date hereof,
and the Collateral will be subject to no Liens other than Permitted
Liens.
3.4
Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office .
On the date hereof, such Grantor’s jurisdiction of
organization, identification number from the jurisdiction of
organization (if any), and the location of such Grantor’s
chief executive office or sole place of business or principal
residence, as the case may be, are specified on Annex
IV.
3.5
Inventory and Equipment . On the date hereof, the
Inventory and the Equipment (other than mobile goods) are kept at
the locations listed on Annex IV.
3.6 Farm
Products . None of the Collateral constitutes, or is the
Proceeds of, Farm Products.
3.7
Investment Property .
(a) The
shares of Pledged Equity Interests pledged by such Grantor
hereunder constitute all the issued and outstanding Equity
Interests of each Issuer owned by such Grantor.
(b) All the
shares of the Pledged Equity Interests have been duly and validly
issued and are fully paid and nonassessable.
(c) Such
Grantor is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good and
marketable title to, the Investment Property pledged by it
hereunder, free of any and all Liens or options in favor of, or
claims of, any other Person, except the Liens created by this
Agreement.
(a) No amount
payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any Receivable
is evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel Paper which has not been
delivered to the Secured Party.
(b) [intentionally
omitted].
(c) The
amounts represented by such Grantor to the Secured Party from time
to time as owing to such Grantor in respect of the Receivables will
at such times be accurate in all material respects.
3.9
Intellectual Property .
(a) There are
no material registrations and/or applications for Intellectual
Property and trade names (whether or not subject to an application
or registration) that are owned by such Grantor in its own name on
the date hereof.
(b) On the
date hereof, all material Intellectual Property owned or used by
such Grantor is valid, subsisting, unexpired and enforceable, has
not been abandoned and does not infringe the intellectual property
rights of any other Person.
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(c) On the
date hereof, none of the Intellectual Property owned or used by
such Grantor is the subject of any licensing or franchise agreement
pursuant to which such Grantor is the licensor or
franchisor.
(d) No
holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any Governmental
Authority which would limit, cancel or question the validity of, or
such Grantor’s rights in, any Intellectual Property in any
respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(e) No action
or proceeding is pending, or, to the knowledge of such Grantor,
threatened, on the date hereof (i) seeking to limit, cancel or
question the validity of any Intellectual Property or such
Grantor’s ownership interest therein, or (ii) which, if
adversely determined, would have a material adverse effect on the
value of any Intellectual Property.
3.10
Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts . Each Grantor
is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good title to, the
Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts pledged by it hereunder,
free of any and all Liens or options in favor or, or claims of, any
other Person, except the Security Interest created by this
Agreement, and rights of setoff of any depository bank or
securities intermediary and other Permitted Liens. As of the date
hereof, all Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts held by a
Grantor (other than those maintained with the Secured Party) are
subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement and a Securities
Account Control Agreement, as applicable.
3.11
Benefit to each Subsidiary Grantor . The Borrower is a
member of an affiliated group of companies that includes Holdings
and each Subsidiary Grantor, and the Borrower, Holdings and the
Subsidiary Grantors are engaged in related businesses. Holdings is
the parent company of, and each Subsidiary Grantor is a Subsidiary
of, the Borrower and each such Grantor’s obligations pursuant
to this Agreement reasonably may be expected to benefit it,
directly or indirectly, and it has determined that this Agreement
is necessary and convenient to the conduct, promotion and
attainment of the business of Holdings and such Subsidiary Grantor
and the Borrower.
3.12
Consents . No consent of any party (other than a
Grantor) to any Copyright License, Patent License, Trade Secret
License or Trademark License constituting Collateral or any obligor
in respect of any material Account constituting Collateral or which
owes in the aggregate a material portion of all the Accounts
constituting Collateral is required, or purports to be required, to
be obtained by or on behalf of any Grantor in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement that has not
been obtained. Each Copyright License, Patent License, Trade Secret
License, Trademark License and Account constituting Collateral is
in full force and effect and constitutes a valid and legally
enforceable obligation of the Grantor party thereto and (to the
knowledge of such Grantor) each other party thereto except as
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the
enforcement of creditor’s rights generally and by general
equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings
in equity or at law) and except to the extent the failure of any
such Copyright License, Patent License, Trade Secret License,
Trademark Licenses, Accounts, Contracts and General Intangibles
constituting Collateral to be in full force and effect or valid or
legally enforceable could not be reasonably expected, in the
aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the value of the
Collateral. No consent or authorization of, filing with or other
act by or in respect of any Governmental Authority is required in
connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or
enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Copyright Licenses,
Patent Licenses, Trade Secret Licenses, Trademark Licenses and
Accounts constituting Collateral by any party thereto other than
those which have been duly obtained, made or performed and are in
full force and effect and those the failure of which to make or
obtain could not be reasonably expected, in the aggregate, to have
a material adverse effect on the value of the Collateral. No
Grantor nor (to the knowledge of any Grantor) any other party to
any Copyright License, Patent License, Trade Secret License,
Trademark
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License or
Account, Contract or other General Intangible constituting
Collateral is in default in the performance or observance of any of
the terms thereof, except for such defaults as could not reasonably
be expected, in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on
the value of the Collateral.
Each Grantor
covenants and agrees with the Secured Party that, from and after
the date of this Agreement until the Release Date with respect to
such Grantor:
4.1
Covenants in Credit Agreement . In the case of each
Grantor, such Grantor shall take, or shall refrain from taking, as
the case may be, each action that is necessary to be taken or not
taken, as the case may be, so that no Default or Event of Default
is caused by the failure to take such action or to refrain from
taking such action by such Grantor or any of its
Subsidiaries.
4.2
Delivery of Instruments, Certificated Securities and Chattel
Paper . If any amount payable under or in connection with
any of the Collateral shall be or become evidenced by any
Instrument, Certificated Security or Chattel Paper, such
Instrument, Certificated Security or Chattel Paper shall be
promptly delivered to the Secured Party, duly indorsed in a manner
satisfactory to the Secured Party, to be held as Collateral
pursuant to this Agreement.
4.3
Maintenance of Insurance .
(a) Such
Grantor will maintain, with financially sound and reputable
companies, insurance policies (i) insuring the Inventory, the
Equipment and all real property subject to a Mortgage against loss
by fire, explosion, theft and such other casualties as may be
reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party and (ii) insuring
such Grantor and the Secured Party against liability for personal
injury and property damage relating to such Inventory and
Equipment, such policies to be in such form and amounts and having
such coverage as may be reasonably satisfactory to the Secured
Party.
(b) All such
insurance shall (i) provide that no cancellation, material
reduction in amount or material change in coverage thereof shall be
effective until at least 30 days after receipt by the Secured
Party of written notice thereof, (ii) name the Secured Party
as insured party and loss payee as its interests may appear,
(iii) if reasonably requested by the Secured Party, include a
breach of warranty clause and (iv) be reasonably satisfactory
in all other respects to the Secured Party.
(c) The
Borrower shall deliver to the Secured Party a report of a reputable
insurance broker with respect to such insurance substantially
concurrently with each delivery of the Borrower’s annual
financial statements pursuant to Section 7.1(a) of the Credit
Agreement and such supplemental reports with respect thereto as the
Secured Party may from time to time reasonably request.
4.4 Payment
of Obligations . Such Grantor will pay and discharge or
otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become
delinquent, as the case may be, all taxes, assessments and
governmental charges or levies imposed upon the Collateral or in
respect of income or profits therefrom, as well as all claims of
any kind (including, without limitation, claims for labor,
materials and supplies) against or with respect to the Collateral,
except that no such charge need be paid if the amount or validity
thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto
have been provided on the books of such Grantor and such
proceedings could not reasonably be expected to result in the sale,
forfeiture or loss of any significant portion of the Collateral or
any interest therein.
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4.5
Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further
Documentation .
(a) Other
than as permitted by this Agreement or the Credit Agreement, such
Grantor shall maintain the security interest created by this
Agreement as a perfected security interest having at least the
priority described in Section 3.3 and shall defend such
security interest against the claims and demands of all Persons
whomsoever including without limitation, completing the Filings and
filing any financing or continuation or analogous statements or
filings under the Uniform Commercial Code (or other applicable
laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the security
interests created hereby.
(b) Such
Grantor will furnish to the Secured Party from time to time
statements and schedules further identifying and describing the
Collateral of such Grantor and such other reports in connection
therewith as the Secured Party may reasonably request, all in
reasonable detail.
(c) At any
time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Secured
Party, and at the sole expense of such Grantor, such Grantor will
promptly and duly execute and deliver, and have recorded, such
further instruments and documents and take such further actions as
the Secured Party may reasonably request for the purpose of
obtaining or preserving the full benefits of this Agreement and of
the rights and powers herein granted, including, without
limitation, (i) filing any financing or continuation or
analogous statements or filings under the Uniform Commercial Code
(or other Applicable Laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with
respect to the security interests created hereby, (ii) in the
case of Investment Property, Account Collateral, Letter-of-Credit
Rights and any other relevant Collateral, taking any actions
reasonably necessary to enable the Secured Party to obtain
“control” (within the meaning of the applicable Uniform
Commercial Code (or other Applicable Laws)) with respect thereto,
and (iii) in the case of any item of Equipment that is covered
by a certificate of title under a statute of any jurisdiction under
the law of which indication of a security interest on such
certificate is required as a condition of perfection thereof, at
the request of the Secured Party, execute and file with the
registrar of motor vehicles or other appropriate authority in such
jurisdiction an application or other document requesting the
notation or other indication of the security interest created
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