SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “
Agreement ”), dated as of January 15, 2009, by
and among (a) each of the Persons listed on Schedule I
hereto (each such Person, individually, a “ Borrower
” and, collectively, the “ Borrowers ”),
(b) each of the Persons listed on Schedule II
hereto (each such Person, individually, a “ Guarantor
” and, collectively, the “ Guarantors ”)
(the Borrowers and the Guarantors are hereinafter referred to,
individually, as a “ Grantor ” and, collectively
with any other Person now or hereafter party hereto, as the “
Grantors ”), and (c) WELLS FARGO RETAIL FINANCE,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as collateral agent (in
such capacity, the “ Collateral Agent ”) for its
own benefit and the benefit of the other Credit Parties (as defined
in the Credit Agreement referred to below), in consideration of the
mutual covenants contained herein and benefits to be derived
herefrom.
WHEREAS, reference is made to that certain
Credit Agreement, dated as of January 15, 2009 (as amended,
modified, supplemented or restated and in effect from time to time,
the “ Credit Agreement ”), by and among
(i) the Grantors, (ii) the Lenders from time to time
party thereto (individually, a “ Lender ” and,
collectively, the “ Lenders ”), and
(iii) Wells Fargo Retail Finance, LLC, as Administrative
Agent, Collateral Agent and Swing Line Lender, pursuant to which
the Lenders have agreed to make Loans to the Borrowers upon the
terms and subject to the conditions specified in the Credit
Agreement;
WHEREAS, reference is also made to that certain
Guaranty, dated as of January 15, 2009 (as amended, modified,
supplemented or restated and in effect from time to time, the
“ Guaranty ”), executed by the Guarantors in
favor of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the
other Credit Parties, pursuant to which each Guarantor guarantees
the payment and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations (as
defined in the Guaranty); and
WHEREAS, the obligations of the Lenders to make
Loans are conditioned upon, among other things, the execution and
delivery by the Grantors of an agreement in the form hereof to
secure the Secured Obligations (as defined herein).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual
conditions and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and for good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged, the Grantors and the Collateral Agent, on
its own behalf and on behalf of the other Credit Parties (and each
of their respective successors or assigns), hereby agree as
follows:
SECTION 1.01 Generally . All references
herein to the UCC shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided
, however , that if a term is defined in Article 9 of
the UCC differently than in another Article thereof, the term shall
have the meaning set forth in Article 9; provided
further that, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law,
perfection, or the effect of perfection or non-perfection, of the
Security Interest in any Collateral or the availability of any
remedy hereunder is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in a jurisdiction other than New York, “UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other
jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such
perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection or
availability of such remedy, as the case may be.
SECTION 1.02 Definition of Certain Terms Used
Herein . Unless the context otherwise requires, all capitalized
terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth
in the Credit Agreement. In addition, as used herein, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
“
Accessions ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“
Account Debtor ” shall have the meaning given that
term in the UCC.
“ Blue Sky Laws ” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01(c) of this
Agreement.
“ Borrower ” and “
Borrowers ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
terms in the preamble of this Agreement.
“
Chattel Paper ” shall have the meaning given that term
in the UCC.
“ Collateral ” shall mean all
personal property of each Grantor, including, without limitation,
all: (a) Accounts, (b) Chattel Paper, (c) Commercial
Tort Claims (including, but not limited to, those Commercial Tort
Claims listed on Schedule 3.07 hereto),
(d) Deposit Accounts, (e) Documents, (f) Equipment,
(g) Fixtures, (h) General Intangibles (including Payment
Intangibles), (i) Goods, (j) Instruments,
(k) Inventory, (l) Investment Property, (m)
Letter-of-Credit Rights, (n) Software, (o) Supporting
Obligations, (p) money, policies and certificates of
insurance, deposits, cash, cash equivalents, or other property,
(q) all books, records, and information relating to any of the
foregoing ((a) through (p)) and/or to the operation of any
Grantor’s business, and all rights of access to such books,
records, and information, and all property in which such books,
records, and information are stored, recorded and maintained, (r)
all insurance proceeds, refunds, and premium rebates, including,
without limitation, proceeds of fire and credit insurance, whether
any of such proceeds, refunds, and premium rebates arise out of any
of the foregoing ((a) through (q)) or otherwise, (s) all
Liens, guaranties, rights, remedies, and privileges pertaining to
any of the foregoing ((a) through (r)), including the right of
stoppage in transit, and (t) any of the foregoing, whether now
owned or now due, or in which any Grantor has an interest, or
hereafter acquired, arising, or to become due, or in which any
Grantor obtains an interest, and all products, Proceeds,
substitutions, and Accessions of or to any of the foregoing;
provided , however , that the Collateral shall not
include, and the Security Interest shall not attach to, any
Excluded Assets.
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“ Collateral Agent ” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble of this
Agreement.
“ Collateral Agent’s Rights and
Remedies ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 8.08(a).
“
Commercial Tort Claim ” shall have the meaning given
that term in the UCC.
“
Commodity Account ” shall have the meaning given that
term in the UCC.
“
Commodity Intermediary ” shall have the meaning given
that term in the UCC.
“
Control ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“ Credit Agreement ” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement
of this Agreement.
“ Deposit Account ” shall
have the meaning given that term in the UCC and shall also include
all demand, time, savings, passbook, or similar accounts maintained
with a bank or other financial institution.
“
Documents ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“
Electronic Chattel Paper ” shall have the meaning
given that term in the UCC.
“ Equipment ” shall mean
“equipment”, as defined in the UCC, and shall also mean
all furniture, store fixtures, motor vehicles, rolling stock,
machinery, office equipment, plant equipment, tools, dies, molds,
and other goods, property, and assets which are used and/or were
purchased for use in the operation or furtherance of a
Grantor’s business, and any and all Accessions or additions
thereto, and substitutions therefor.
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“ Excluded Assets ” shall
mean (a) rights or property acquired under a lease, contract,
property rights agreement, permit or license, the grant of a
security interest in which shall constitute or result in
(i) the abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability of any
right, title or interest of any Grantor therein or (ii) a
breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or a default under,
any such lease, contract, property rights agreement, permit or
license or a violation of Law (other than to the extent that any
restriction on such assignment would be rendered ineffective
pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC
(or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant
jurisdiction or any other applicable Law or principles of equity),
provided that the Proceeds therefrom shall not
constitute “Excluded Assets” to the extent that the
assignment of such Proceeds is not prohibited, (b) any
insurance or condemnation proceeds covering any Real Estate leased
by any Grantor, or any fixtures attached or appurtenant thereto, to
the extent that the same are required by the terms of the
applicable lease to be maintained for the benefit of, and paid over
to, the landlord of such Real Estate, (c) any Excluded Equity
Interests, (d) property that is subject to a purchase money
lien or capital lease that is permitted under the Credit Agreement,
provided that the agreement pursuant to which such Lien or capital
lease is created requires the consent of any Person other than a
Grantor as a condition to the creation of any other Lien on such
property, to the extent that, and solely during the period in
which, such consent has not been obtained, (e) United States
“intent to use” Trademark applications to the extent
that, and solely during the period in which, a statement of use has
not been filed, (f) payroll and withholding tax accounts, and
(g) Equity Interests of Parent that are placed into an equity
incentive plan of Parent, which is permitted under the Credit
Agreement.
“ Excluded Equity Interests ”
means (a) any Equity Interest or group of Equity Interests
issued by any CFC representing more than 65% of the total voting
power of all outstanding “stock entitled to vote”
within the meaning of Treasury Regulations sections 1.956-2(c)(2),
(b) any Equity Interest issued by a Subsidiary of a CFC, and
(c) any Equity Interest issued by Industrial Center Management
Association, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability
company.
“
Financial Asset ” shall have the meaning given that
term in the UCC.
“
Financing Statement ” shall have the meaning given
that term in the UCC.
“
Fixtures ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“ General Intangibles ” shall
have the meaning given that term in the UCC, and shall also
include, without limitation, all: Payment Intangibles; rights to
payment for credit extended; deposits; amounts due to any Grantor;
credit memoranda in favor of any Grantor; warranty claims; tax
refunds and abatements; insurance refunds and premium rebates; all
means and vehicles of investment or hedging, including, without
limitation, options, warrants, and futures contracts; records;
customer lists; telephone numbers; goodwill; causes of action;
judgments; rights to collect payments under any settlement or other
agreement; literary rights; rights to performance; royalties;
license and/or franchise fees; rights of admission; licenses;
franchises; license agreements, including all rights of any Grantor
to enforce same; permits, certificates of convenience and
necessity, and similar rights granted by any governmental
authority; developmental ideas and concepts; proprietary processes;
blueprints, drawings, designs, diagrams, plans, reports, and
charts; catalogs; technical data; tapes, disks, semi-conductors
chips and printouts; IP Collateral (as defined in the Intellectual
Property Security Agreement); proposals; cost estimates, and
reproductions on paper, or otherwise, of any and all concepts or
ideas, and any matter related to, or connected with, the design,
development, manufacture, sale, marketing, leasing, or use of any
or all property produced, sold, or leased, by or credit extended or
services performed, by any Grantor, whether intended for an
individual customer or the general business of any Grantor, or used
or useful in connection with research by any Grantor.
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“
Goods ” shall have the meaning given that term in the
UCC.
“ Grantor ” and “
Grantors ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
terms in the preamble of this Agreement.
“ Guarantor ” and “
Guarantors ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
terms in the preamble of this Agreement.
“ Guaranty ” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this
Agreement.
“ Indemnitee ” shall have the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.06(b) of this
Agreement.
“
Instruments ” shall have the meaning given that term
in the UCC.
“ Inventory ” shall have the
meaning given that term in the UCC, and shall also include, without
limitation, all: (a) Goods which (i) are leased by a
Person as lessor, (ii) are held by a Person for sale or lease
or to be furnished under a contract of service, (iii) are
furnished by a Person under a contract of service, or
(iv) consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials
used or consumed in a business; (b) Goods of said description
in transit; (c) Goods of said description which are returned,
repossessed or rejected; and (d) packaging, advertising, and
shipping materials related to any of the foregoing.
“
Investment Property ” shall have the meaning given
that term in the UCC.
“ Joinder Agreement ” shall
mean an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit A
hereto.
“ Lender ” and “
Lenders ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
terms in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
“ Letter-of-Credit Right ”
shall have the meaning given that term in the UCC and shall also
mean any right to payment or performance under a letter of credit,
whether or not the beneficiary has demanded, or is at the time
entitled to demand, payment or performance.
“
Letters of Credit ” shall have the meaning given that
term in the UCC.
“ Payment Intangible ” shall
have the meaning given that term in the UCC and shall also mean any
General Intangible under which the Account Debtor’s primary
obligation is a monetary obligation.
“
Proceeds ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“ Secured Obligations ” shall
mean, collectively, the Obligations (as defined in the Credit
Agreement) and the Guaranteed Obligations (as defined in the
Guaranty).
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“ Securities Act ” shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01(c) of this
Agreement.
“
Securities Account ” shall have the meaning given that
term in the UCC.
“
Securities Intermediary ” shall have the meaning given
that term in the UCC.
“
Security ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“
Security Entitlement ” shall have the meaning given
that term in the UCC.
“ Security Interest ” shall
have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.01 of this
Agreement.
“
Software ” shall have the meaning given that term in
the UCC.
“ Supporting Obligation ”
shall have the meaning given that term in the UCC and shall also
refer to a Letter-of-Credit Right or secondary obligation that
supports the payment or performance of an Account, Chattel Paper, a
Document, a General Intangible, an Instrument, or Investment
Property.
SECTION 1.03 Rules of Interpretation .
The rules of interpretation specified in Sections 1.02 through
1.05 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this
Agreement.
SECTION 2.01 Security Interest . As
security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in
full of the Secured Obligations, each Grantor hereby grants to the
Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for its own
benefit and the benefit of the other Credit Parties, a security
interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest
in, to and under the Collateral (the “ Security
Interest ”). Without limiting the foregoing, each Grantor
hereby designates the Collateral Agent as such Grantor’s true
and lawful attorney, exercisable by the Collateral Agent whether or
not an Event of Default exists, with full power of substitution, at
the Collateral Agent’s option, to file one or more Financing
Statements, continuation statements, or to sign other documents for
the purpose of perfecting, confirming or continuing the Security
Interest granted by each Grantor, without the signature of any
Grantor (each Grantor hereby appointing the Collateral Agent as
such Person’s attorney to sign such Person’s name to
any such instrument or document, whether or not an Event of Default
exists), and naming any Grantor or the Grantors, as debtors, and
the Collateral Agent, as secured party. Any such financing
statement may indicate the Collateral as “all assets of the
Grantor”, “all personal property of the debtor”
or words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular
asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of
Article 9 of the UCC.
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SECTION 2.02 No Assumption of Liability .
The Security Interest is granted as security only and shall not
subject the Collateral Agent or any other Credit Party to, or in
any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Grantor
with respect to or arising out of the Collateral.
Representations and
Warranties
Each Grantor represents and warrants to the
Collateral Agent and the other Credit Parties that:
SECTION 3.01 Title and Authority . Each
Grantor has good and valid rights in, and title to, the Collateral
with respect to which it has purported to grant a Security Interest
hereunder and has full power and authority to grant to the
Collateral Agent the Security Interest in such Collateral pursuant
hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without the consent or
approval of any other Person, other than any consent or approval
which has been obtained.
SECTION 3.02 Filings . Upon the filing of
UCC Financing Statements or other appropriate filings, recordings
or registrations naming each Grantor as “debtor” and
the Collateral Agent as “secured party” and containing
a description of the Collateral in each governmental, municipal or
other office as is necessary to publish notice of and protect the
validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security
interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (for its own benefit and
the benefit of the other Credit Parties) in respect of all
Collateral in which the Security Interest may be perfected by
filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any
political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions,
the Security Interest granted to the Collateral Agent (for its own
benefit and the benefit of the other Credit Parties) hereunder
shall constitute a legal, valid and perfected security interest in
the Collateral, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling,
recording, rerecording, registration or re-registration is
necessary in any such jurisdiction, except as provided under
applicable Law with respect to the filing of continuation
statements or analogous filings or as a result of any change in a
Grantor’s name or jurisdiction of incorporation or formation
or under any other circumstances under which, pursuant to the UCC
or other applicable recording or registration system, filings,
registrations or recordings previously made have become misleading
or ineffective in whole or in part.
SECTION 3.03 Validity and Priority of
Security Interest . The Security Interest constitutes
(a) a legal and valid security interest in all of the
Collateral securing the payment and performance of the Secured
Obligations, and (b) subject to the making of the filings
described in Section 3.02 above, a perfected security interest
in all of the Collateral (to the extent perfection in the
Collateral can be accomplished by such filing) and (c) subject
to the obtaining of Control, a perfected security interest in all
of the Collateral (to the extent perfection in the Collateral can
be accomplished by Control). The Security Interest is and shall be
prior to any other Lien on any of the Collateral, subject only to
Permitted Encumbrances having priority by operation of applicable
Law.
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SECTION 3.04 Absence of Other Liens . The
Collateral is owned by the Grantors free and clear of any Lien,
except for (i) Permitted Encumbrances or (ii) Liens for
which termination statements or releases (or payoff letters
providing for the delivery or filing of termination statements or
releases) have been delivered to the Collateral Agent. Except, in
each case, for Permitted Encumbrances, no Grantor has
(a) filed or consented to the filing of (i) any Financing
Statement or analogous document under the UCC or any other
applicable Law covering any Collateral, (ii) any assignment in
which any Grantor assigns any Collateral or any security agreement
or similar instrument covering any Collateral with the United
States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright
Office or (iii) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns
any Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument
covering any Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or
other office, or (b) entered into any agreement in which any
Grantor grants Control over any Collateral, which Financing
Statement, control agreement or analogous document, assignment,
security agreement or similar instrument is still in
effect.
SECTION 3.05 Bailees, Warehousemen, Etc .
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.05 hereto and except
for Inventory in transit to a location of such Grantor, no
Inventory of any Grantor is in the care or custody of any third
party or stored or entrusted with a bailee or other third party,
and none shall hereafter be placed under such care, custody,
storage or entrustment unless a Collateral Access Agreement is
delivered to the Collateral Agent by such third party or
bailee.
SECTION 3.06 Consignments . As of the
Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 3.06
hereto, no Grantor has possession of any property on consignment.
After the Closing Date, no Grantor shall have possession of any
property on consignment without the prior written consent of the
Collateral Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld,
but which shall be subject to such conditions as the Collateral
Agent may reasonably require).
SECTION 3.07 Commercial Tort Claims . As
of the Closing Date, none of the Collateral consists of a
Commercial Tort Claim, except as set forth on
Schedule 3.07 hereto.
SECTION 3.08 Instruments and Chattel
Paper . As of the Closing Date, no amounts payable under or in
connection with any of the Collateral are evidenced by any
Instrument or Chattel Paper, other than such Instruments and
Chattel Paper listed in Schedule 3.08 hereto. Each
Instrument and each item of Chattel Paper listed in
Schedule 3.08 hereto has been properly endorsed,
assigned and delivered to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by
instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in
blank.
SECTION 3.09 Securities Accounts and
Commodity Accounts . As of the Closing Date, no Grantor has any
Securities Accounts or Commodity Accounts other than those listed
in Schedule 3.09 hereto.
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SECTION 3.10 Electronic Chattel Paper and
Transferable Records . As of the Closing Date, no amount under
or in connection with any of the Collateral is evidenced by any
Electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record”
(as that term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal
Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or in
Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in
effect in any relevant jurisdiction), other than such Electronic
Chattel Paper and transferable records listed in
Schedule 3.10 hereto.
SECTION 3.11 Intellectual Property . This
Agreement is effective to create a valid and continuing Lien on
and, upon filing of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement
with the United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent
and Trademark Office, as applicable, perfected Liens in favor of
the Collateral Agent on each Grantor’s Patents, Trademarks
and Copyrights (as such terms are defined in the Intellectual
Property Security Agreement) and such perfected Liens are
enforceable as such as against any and all creditors of, and
purchasers from, any Grantor. Upon filing of the Intellectual
Property Security Agreement with the United States Copyright Office
or the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as applicable,
and the filing of appropriate Financing Statements, all action
necessary or desirable to perfect the Collateral Agent’s Lien
on each Grantor’s Patents, Trademarks or Copyrights shall
have been duly taken.
SECTION 4.01
Change of Name; Location of Collateral; Records; Place of
Business .
(a) Each Grantor will furnish to the
Collateral Agent at least thirty (30) days prior written
notice (or such shorter period as may be agreed to in writing by
the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion) of any change in:
(i) any Grantor’s name or in any trade name used to
identify it in the conduct of its business or in the ownership of
its properties; (ii) the location of any Grantor’s chief
executive office, its principal place of business, any office in
which it maintains books or records relating to Collateral owned by
it or any office or facility at which Collateral owned by it is
located (including the establishment of any such new office or
facility, but excluding the establishment of any such new Stores);
(iii) any Grantor’s organizational structure or
jurisdiction of incorporation or formation; or (iv) any
Grantor’s Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or
organizational identification number, if any, assigned to it by its
state of organization. Each Grantor agrees not to effect or permit
any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all
filings, publications and registrations have been made under the
UCC or other applicable Law that are required in order for the
Collateral Agent to continue at all times following such change to
have a valid, legal and perfected first priority security interest
in all the Collateral (subject only to Permitted Encumbrances
having priority by operation of applicable Law) for its own benefit
and the benefit of the other Credit Parties.
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(b) Each Grantor agrees (i) to
maintain, at its own cost and expense, records with respect to the
Collateral owned by it which are complete and accurate in all
material respects and which are consistent with its current
practices, but in any event to include accounting records which are
complete in all material respects indicating all payments and
proceeds received with respect to any part of the Collateral, and
(ii) at such time or times as the Collateral Agent may
reasonably request, promptly to prepare and deliver to the
Collateral Agent a duly certified schedule or schedules in form and
detail reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent showing the
identity, amount and location of any and all Collateral.
SECTION 4.02 Protection of Security .
Each Grantor shall, at its own cost and expense, take any and all
actions reasonably necessary to defend title to the Collateral
against all Persons (other than holders of Permitted Encumbrances
having priority by operation of applicable Law) and to defend the
Security Interest of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral and the
priority thereof against any Lien (other than Permitted
Encumbrances having priority by operation of applicable
Law).
SECTION 4.03 Further Assurances . Each
Grantor agrees, at its own expense, to execute, acknowledge,
promptly deliver and cause to be duly filed all such further
documents, Financing Statements, agreements and instruments and
take all such further actions as the Collateral Agent may from time
to time reasonably request to better assure, preserve, protect and
perfect the Security Interest and the rights and remedies created
hereby or the validity or priority of such Security Interest,
including the payment of any fees and taxes required in connection
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the granting of
the Security Interest and the filing of any Financing Statements or
other documents in connection herewith or therewith. Without
limiting the foregoing, each Grantor agrees, at its own expense, to
execute, acknowledge, deliver and cause to be duly filed all such
further documents, Financing Statements, agreements and instruments
and take all such further actions as the Collateral Agent may from
time to time reasonably request to perfect the Collateral
Agent’s Security Interest in all Accounts, Inventory, Deposit
Accounts, Investment Property, and the Proceeds therefrom
(including causing the Collateral Agent to have Control of any such
Collateral to the extent required under the Credit Agreement and to
the extent perfection in such Collateral can be accomplished by
Control).
SECTION 4.04 Inspection and Verification
. Each Grantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to,
permit representatives and independent contractors of the
Collateral Agent to visit its properties and inspect the Collateral
and all records related thereto (and to make extracts and copies
from such records), to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts
with its directors, officers and Registered Public Accounting Firm,
and to conduct appraisals, commercial finance examinations and
other evaluations, all in accordance with, and subject to the terms
and conditions of, Section 6.10 of the Credit Agreement. The
Collateral Agent and such Persons as the Collateral Agent may
reasonably designate shall have the right to verify the validity,
amount, quality, quantity, value, condition and status of, or any
other matter relating to, the Collateral, including, in the case of
Accounts or Collateral in the possession of any third Person, by
contacting Account Debtors or the third Person possessing such
Collateral for the purpose of making such a verification. The
Collateral Agent shall have the right, subject to the
confidentiality provisions of Section 10.07 of the Credit
Agreement, to share any information it gains from such inspection
or verification with any Credit Party. The Grantors shall pay the
fees and expenses of the Collateral Agent or such other Persons
with respect to such inspections and verifications to the extent
required by the terms of Section 6.10 of the Credit
Agreement.
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SECTION 4.05 Taxes; Encumbrances . At its
option, the Collateral Agent may discharge past due taxes,
assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other
encumbrances at any time levied or placed on the Collateral (other
than Permitted Encumbrances), and may take any other action which
the Collateral Agent may reasonably deem necessary or desirable to
repair, maintain or preserve any of the Collateral to the extent
any Grantor fails to do so as required by the Credit Agreement or
this Agreement, and each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to
reimburse the Collateral Agent on demand for any payment made or
any expense incurred by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the
foregoing authorization; provided , however , that
the Collateral Agent shall not have any obligation to undertake any
of the foregoing and shall have no liability on account of any
action so undertaken except where a court of competent jurisdiction
determines by final and nonappealable judgment that the Collateral
Agent’s actions constitute gross negligence or willful
misconduct; provided further that the making of any
such payments or the taking of any such action by the Collateral
Agent shall not be deemed to constitute a waiver of any Default or
Event of Default arising from any Grantor’s failure to have
made such payments or taken such action. Nothing in this
Section 4.05 shall be interpreted as excusing any Grantor from
the performance of any covenants or other promises of any Grantor
with respect to taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security
interests or other encumbrances and maintenance as set forth herein
or in the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 4.06 Assignment of Security
Interest . If at any time any Grantor shall take a security
interest in any property of an Account Debtor or any other Person
to secure payment and performance of an Account, such Grantor shall
promptly assign such security interest to the Collateral Agent.
Such assignment need not be filed of public record unless necessary
to continue the perfected status of the security interest against
creditors of, and transferees from, the Account Debtor or other
Person granting the security interest.
SECTION 4.07 Continuing Obligations of the
Grantors . Each Grantor shall remain liable to observe and
perform all the conditions and obligations to be observed and
performed by it under each contract, agreement or instrument
relating to the Collateral, all in accordance with the terms and
conditions thereof, and each Grantor jointly and severally agrees
to indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and the other
Credit Parties from and against any and all liability for such
performance.
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SECTION 4.08 Use and Disposition of
Collateral . None of the Grantors shall make or permit to be
made a collateral assignment, pledge or hypothecation of the
Collateral or shall grant any other Lien in respect of the
Collateral or shall grant Control of any Collateral to any Person,
in each case except for Permitted Encumbrances. Except for
Permitted Dispositions, none of the Grantors shall make or permit
to be made any transfer of the Collateral. Each Grantor shall
remain at all times in possession of the Collateral owned by it,
except with respect to the following: (a) Inventory placed
under the care, custody, storage or entrustment of a bailee or
other third party, provided that , such bailee or
other third party shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent a
Collateral Access Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent; (b) sales of Inventory in the ordinary
course of business; (c) movement of Inventory from one
location of such Grantor to another location of such Grantor and
Inventory in transit to a location of such Grantor;
(d) disposal of Equipment which is obsolete, worn out, or
damaged beyond repair, or no longer used or useful;
(e) Equipment which is out for repair; and (f) other
Permitted Dispositions.
SECTION 4.09 Limitation on Modification of
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