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Name, Location,
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Form of
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Form of
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2
SECURITY
AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated
June 5, 2009, made by CRICKET COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the “ Company ”), LEAP
WIRELESS INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation (“
Holdings ”), the other Persons listed on the
signature pages hereof and the Additional Grantors (as defined in
Section 21) (the Company, Holdings, the Persons so listed and
the Additional Grantors each being a “ Grantor
”, and collectively, the “ Grantors
”), to WILMINGTON TRUST FSB, as collateral trustee (in such
capacity, together with any successor collateral trustee appointed
pursuant to the Collateral Trust Agreement (as hereinafter
defined), the “ Collateral Trustee ”) for
the Parity Lien Representatives and the holders of Parity Lien
Obligations (each as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement and
collectively, together with the Collateral Trustee, the “
Secured Parties ”). Capitalized terms used but
not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in
the Collateral Trust Agreement described below or otherwise in
accordance with Preliminary Statement Paragraph 7
below.
(1) The
Company and the other Grantors have entered into an indenture dated
as of the date hereof (the “ 7.75% Indenture
”) with Wilmington Trust FSB, as trustee (the “
7.75% Notes Trustee ”) for the holders of the
Company’s 7.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2016 (including any
additional notes that may be issued under the 7.75% Indenture from
time to time and any exchange notes issued in respect of such notes
and additional notes, the " 7.75% Notes ”). The
Grantors (other than the Company) have guaranteed the obligations
of the Company in respect of the 7.75% Notes pursuant to a note
guarantee set forth in the 7.75% Indenture.
(2) The
Company and the other Grantors may enter into other Parity Lien
Documents in respect of additional Parity Lien Obligations to be
incurred in the future.
(3) In
order to induce the 7.75% Notes Trustee to enter into the 7.75%
Indenture and the Parity Lien Representatives and the other holders
of the Parity Lien Obligations to enter into the other Parity Lien
Documents, the Grantors have agreed to grant, pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement, a continuing security interest in and to the
Collateral to the Collateral Trustee for the ratable benefit of the
Secured Parties to secure the Parity Lien Obligations.
(4) It
is a condition precedent to the entry into the Parity Lien
Documents by the Parity Lien Representatives and the other holders
of Parity Lien Obligations that the Grantors shall have granted to
the Collateral Trustee the security interest in the Collateral
granted under this Agreement.
(5) The
Collateral Trustee has agreed, pursuant to the terms of the
Collateral Trust Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and
among the Company, the other Grantors, the Collateral Trustee, the
7.75% Notes Trustee and the other parties party thereto (the
“ Collateral Trust Agreement ”) to accept
the grant of a security interest under this Agreement as security
for the Parity Lien Obligations (referred to herein as “
Secured Obligations ”).
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(6) Each
Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from
the transactions contemplated by the 7.75% Indenture and the other
Parity Lien Documents.
(7) Terms
defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement and not otherwise defined
in this Agreement are used in this Agreement as defined in the
Collateral Trust Agreement. Further, unless otherwise defined in
this Agreement or in the Collateral Trust Agreement, terms defined
in Article 8 or 9 of the UCC (as defined below) are used in this
Agreement as such terms are defined in such Article 8 or 9.
“ UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code
as in effect, from time to time, in the State of New York;
provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or
non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any
Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect
in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “
UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of
the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of
perfection or non-perfection or priority.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and in order to induce
the parties thereto to enter into the Parity Lien Documents from
time to time, each Grantor hereby agrees with the Collateral
Trustee for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties as
follows:
Section 1.
Grant of Security . Each Grantor hereby grants to the
Collateral Trustee, for its benefit and for, and in trust for, the
ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a lien on and a security
interest in, such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and
to the following, in each case, as to each type of property
described below, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such
Grantor, wherever located, and whether now or hereafter existing or
arising (but in all cases excluding any Excluded Asset (as defined
below)) (collectively, the “ Collateral
”):
(a) all equipment
in all of its forms, including, without limitation, all machinery,
tools, motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, furniture and fixtures,
and all parts thereof and all accessions thereto and all software
related thereto, including, without limitation, software that is
embedded in and is part of the equipment (any and all such
property, other than any Excluded Asset, being the “
Pledged Equipment ”);
(b) all inventory
in all of its forms, including, without limitation, (i) all
raw materials, work in process, finished goods and materials used
or consumed in the manufacture, production, preparation or shipping
thereof, (ii) goods in which such Grantor has an interest in
mass or a joint or other interest or right of any kind (including,
without limitation, goods in which such Grantor has an interest or
right as consignee) and (iii) goods that are returned to or
repossessed or stopped in transit by such Grantor, and all
accessions thereto and products thereof and documents therefor, and
all software related thereto, including, without limitation,
software that is embedded in and is part of the inventory (any and
all such property, other than any Excluded Asset, being the “
Pledged Inventory ”);
(c) all accounts
(including, without limitation, health-care-insurance receivables),
chattel paper (including, without limitation, tangible chattel
paper and electronic chattel paper), instruments (including,
without limitation, promissory notes), deposit accounts,
letter-of-credit rights, general intangibles (including,
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without
limitation, payment intangibles), licenses (including FCC Licenses)
and other obligations of any kind, whether or not arising out of or
in connection with the sale or lease of goods or the rendering of
services and whether or not earned by performance, and all rights
now or hereafter existing in and to all supporting obligations and
in and to all security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases,
letters of credit and other contracts securing or otherwise
relating to the foregoing property (any and all of such accounts,
chattel paper, instruments, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit
rights, general intangibles and other obligations, to the extent
not referred to in clause (d), (e) or (f) below or
constituting Excluded Assets, being the “
Receivables ”, and any and all such supporting
obligations, security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters
of credit and other contracts, other than any Excluded Assets,
being the “ Related Contracts
”);
(d) the following
(collectively, other than any Excluded Asset, the “
Security Collateral ”):
(i) all Capital
Stock, including the Capital Stock described in Part I of
Schedule II hereto (the “ Initial Pledged
Equity ”) (such Capital Stock, including the Initial
Pledged Equity, other than any Excluded Asset, being the “
Pledged Equity ”), and the certificates, if
any, representing such Capital Stock, and all dividends,
distributions, return of capital, cash, instruments and other
property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such
Capital Stock and all subscription warrants, rights or options
issued thereon or with respect thereto;;
(ii) all
indebtedness from time to time owed to such Grantor (such
indebtedness, other than any Excluded Assets, being the “
Pledged Debt ”) and the instruments, if any,
evidencing such indebtedness, and all interest, cash, instruments
and other property from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
of such indebtedness;
(iii) the
Securities Accounts, all Security Entitlements with respect to all
Financial Assets from time to time credited to the Securities
Accounts, and all Financial Assets, and all dividends,
distributions, return of capital, interest, cash, instruments and
other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such
Security Entitlements or such Financial Assets and all subscription
warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect
thereto;
(iv) all other
investment property (including, without limitation, all (A)
securities, whether certificated or uncertificated,
(B) security entitlements, (C) securities accounts,
(D) commodity contracts and (E) commodity accounts) in
which such Grantor has now, or acquires from time to time
hereafter, any right, title or interest in any manner, and the
certificates or instruments, if any, representing or evidencing
such investment property, and all dividends, distributions, return
of capital, interest, distributions, value, cash, instruments and
other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in
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respect of or
in exchange for any or all of such investment property and all
subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with
respect thereto;
(e) all
agreements, permits, consents, orders and franchises relating to
the license, development, use or disclosure of any of the types of
property described in Section 1(g)(i)-(vi) to which such
Grantor, now or hereafter, is a party or a beneficiary (other than
any Excluded Assets, the “ IP Agreements
”) and each swap, cap or collar agreement, option agreement,
forward contract, foreign exchange contracts or similar arrangement
providing for protection to which such Grantor is now or may
hereafter become a party, in each case as such agreements may be
amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time (collectively, and together with the IP
Agreements, other than any Excluded Assets, the “
Assigned Agreements ”), including, without
limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive moneys
due and to become due under or pursuant to the Assigned Agreements,
(ii) all rights of such Grantor to receive proceeds of any
insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty with respect to the
Assigned Agreements, (iii) claims of such Grantor for damages
arising out of or for breach of or default under the Assigned
Agreements and (iv) the right of such Grantor to terminate the
Assigned Agreements, to perform thereunder and to compel
performance and otherwise exercise all remedies
thereunder;
(f) the following
(collectively, other than any Excluded Assets, the “
Account Collateral ”):
(i) all Deposit
Accounts and all funds and financial assets from time to time
credited thereto (including, without limitation, all Cash
Equivalents), all interest, dividends, distributions, cash,
instruments and other property from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such funds and financial assets, and all
certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time
representing or evidencing any Deposit Account;
(ii) all
promissory notes, certificates of deposit, Deposit Accounts, checks
and other instruments from time to time delivered to or otherwise
possessed by the Collateral Trustee for or on behalf of such
Grantor, including, without limitation, those delivered or
possessed in substitution for or in addition to any or all of the
then existing Account Collateral; and
(iii) all
interest, dividends, distributions, cash, instruments and other
property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the then
existing Account Collateral; and
(g) the following
(collectively, other than any Excluded Assets, other than any IP
Agreements and other than any of the types of property described in
this clause (g) to which a Grantor has a license to use
pursuant to an IP Agreement, the “ Intellectual
Property Collateral ”):
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(i) all patents,
patent applications, utility models and statutory invention
registrations, and all inventions claimed therein (other than any
Excluded Assets and not including any IP Agreements or the types of
property described in this clause (g)(i) to which a Grantor has a
license to use pursuant to an IP Agreement, “
Patents ”);
(ii) all
trademarks, service marks, domain names, trade dress, logos,
designs, slogans, trade names, business names, corporate names and
other source identifiers, whether registered or unregistered,
together, in each case, with the goodwill symbolized thereby (other
than any Excluded Assets and not including any IP Agreements or the
types of property described in this clause (g)(ii) to which a
Grantor has a license to use pursuant to an IP Agreement, “
Trademarks ”);
(iii) all
copyrights, including, without limitation, copyrights in Computer
Software (as hereinafter defined), internet web sites and the
content thereof, whether registered or unregistered (other than any
Excluded Assets and not including any IP Agreements or the types of
property described in this clause (g)(iii) to which a Grantor has a
license to use pursuant to an IP Agreement, “
Copyrights ”);
(iv) all computer
software, programs and databases (including, without limitation,
source code, object code and all related applications and data
files), firmware and documentation and materials relating thereto,
together with any and all maintenance rights, service rights,
programming rights, hosting rights, test rights, improvement
rights, renewal rights and indemnification rights and any
substitutions, replacements, improvements, error corrections,
updates and new versions of any of the foregoing (other than any
Excluded Assets and not including any IP Agreements or the types of
property described in this clause (g)(iv) to which a Grantor has a
license to use pursuant to an IP Agreement, “ Computer
Software ”);
(v) all
confidential and proprietary information, including, without
limitation, know-how, trade secrets, manufacturing and production
processes and techniques, inventions, research and development
information, databases and data, including, without limitation,
technical data, financial, marketing and business data, pricing and
cost information, business and marketing plans and customer and
supplier lists and information (collectively, other than any
Excluded Assets and not including any IP Agreements or the types of
property described in this clause (g)(v) to which a Grantor has a
license to use pursuant to an IP Agreement, “ Trade
Secrets ”);
(vi) and all other
intellectual, industrial and intangible property of any type of
such Grantor, including, without limitation, industrial designs and
mask works;
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(vii) all
registrations and applications for registration for any of the
foregoing, together with all reissues, divisions, continuations,
continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals and reexaminations
thereof;
(viii) all
tangible embodiments of the foregoing, all rights in the foregoing
provided by international treaties or conventions, all rights
corresponding thereto throughout the world and all other rights of
any kind whatsoever of such Grantor accruing thereunder or
pertaining thereto; and
(ix) any and all
claims for damages and injunctive relief for past, present and
future infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse
or breach with respect to any of the foregoing, with the right, but
not the obligation, to sue for and collect, or otherwise recover,
such damages;
(h) all Material
Commercial Tort Claims described in Schedule VI
hereto;
(i) all books and
records (including, without limitation, customer lists, credit
files, printouts and other computer output materials and records)
of such Grantor pertaining to any of the Collateral; and
(j) all proceeds
of, collateral for, income, royalties and other payments now or
hereafter due and payable with respect to, and supporting
obligations relating to, any and all of the Collateral (including,
without limitation, proceeds, collateral and supporting obligations
that constitute property of the types described in clauses (a)
through (i) of this Section 1 and this clause (j)) and,
to the extent not otherwise included, all (A) payments under
insurance (whether or not the Collateral Trustee is the loss payee
thereof), or any indemnity, warranty or guaranty, payable by reason
of loss or damage to or otherwise with respect to any of the
foregoing Collateral, (B) tort claims, including, without
limitation, all commercial tort claims and
(C) cash;
provided , however , that notwithstanding anything
to the contrary set forth above, in no event shall the security
interest granted under this Agreement attach to, and in no event
shall the Collateral include, (a) any of the Excluded FCC
License Assets, the right to receive Proceeds derived from the
sale, assignment, transfer or transfer of control of Excluded FCC
License Assets, or the Proceeds of any Excluded FCC License Assets,
(b) any contract, contract right, permit, authorization,
franchise, lease, license (including any FCC License), General
Intangible, Chattel Paper, Document, Instrument, Account or
agreement to which the Company or any other Grantor is a party or
in which the Company or any other Grantor has any right, title or
interest if and for so long as (but only for so long as) the grant
of such security interest (I) gives any other party thereto
(if any) the right to terminate its obligations thereunder,
(II) constitutes or results in the abandonment, invalidation
or unenforceability of any right, title or interest of the Company
or any other Grantor therein, (III) is prohibited by
applicable law or (IV) constitutes or results in a breach or
termination pursuant to the terms thererof, or a default thereunder
(other than to the extent that any such terms referred to in any of
clauses (I), (II) and (IV) are rendered ineffective by
the terms of any of Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of
the UCC or any similar statute or successor provision or
provisions), (c) any interest in real property (including fee
and leasehold interests), (d) to the extent that and for so
long as adverse tax consequences for any Grantor
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organized under
the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States of America
would otherwise result from a pledge of all the Capital Stock of
any Controlled Foreign Corporation, any of the outstanding Capital
Stock of a Controlled Foreign Corporation in excess of 65% of the
voting power of all classes of Capital Stock of such Controlled
Foreign Corporation entitled to vote; (e) any motor vehicles,
vessels and aircraft, or other property subject to a certificate of
title, (f) any intent-to-use trademark or service mark application
to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any,
in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the
validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark or
service mark application under applicable federal law,
(g) cash or Cash Equivalents securing reimbursement
obligations under letters of credit permitted to be secured under
the 7.75% Indenture, (h) any deposit account for taxes,
payroll, employee benefits or similar items, any zero balance
accounts and any other account or financial asset in which such
security interest would be unlawful or in violation of any Plan or
employee benefit agreement; (i) the Capital Stock of
Orrengrove Investments Limited and Leap Wireless Mexico S.A. de
C.V., (j) any commercial tort claim other than a Material
Commercial Tort Claim, (k) any equipment (including software
incorporated therein) subject to a purchase money or capitalized
lease Lien that is permitted to be incurred to the extent that the
contract governing such Lien prohibits the creation of other Liens,
(l) after-acquired property or assets designated as an
“Excluded Asset” pursuant to
Section 4.10(a)(iii)(B) of the 7.75% Indenture and
(m) assets subject to Liens permitted under clauses
(3) and (4) of the definition of “Permitted
Liens,” as defined in the 7.75% Indenture, in each case to
the extent that the agreements governing the Indebtedness secured
by such Liens would prohibit the granting of a Lien on such assets
to secure the 7.75% Notes or the guarantees thereof under the 7.75%
Indenture (the items described in the foregoing clauses
(a) through (m), collectively, the “ Excluded
Assets ”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Collateral shall include (and Excluded Assets shall be deemed not
to include) (x) the right to receive all proceeds derived from the
sale, assignment, transfer or transfer of control of Excluded
Assets (unless such right independently constitutes Excluded
Assets), (y) proceeds of Excluded Assets (unless such proceeds
independently constitute Excluded Assets) and (z) FCC Licenses
(other than Excluded FCC Licenses) to which the FCC has consented
to the grant of a security interest under the Security
Documents.
For purposes of
this Agreement:
(a) the
term “ Controlled Foreign Corporation ”
means “controlled foreign corporation” within the
meaning of Section 957 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time;
(b) the
term “ Communications Laws ” means the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules, regulations,
published orders and published and promulgated policy statements of
the FCC, all as may be amended from time to time;
(c) the
term “ Excluded FCC License Assets ”
means (i) the C Block FCC License held by Cricket Licensee
(Reauction), LLC for the Basic Trading Area of Blytheville, AR
(BTA049) with the FCC Call Sign WPVP253, (ii) the C Block FCC
License held by Cricket Licensee I, LLC for the Basic Trading Area
of Evansville, IN (BTA135) with the FCC Call Sign WQHG457,
(iii) the C Block FCC License held by Cricket Licensee I, LLC
for the Basic Trading Area of Richmond, IN (BTA373) with the FCC
Call Sign WPOK655, (iv) the portions
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of the C Block
FCC License held by Cricket Licensee I, LLC for the Basic Trading
Area of Knoxville, TN (BTA232) with the FCC Call Sign KNLF466
covering McMinn County, TN, Monroe County, TN and Loudon County,
TN, (v) the portions of the E Block FCC License held by Cricket
Licensee (Reauction), LLC for the Central Regional Economic Area
(REA005) with the FCC Call Sign WQGD769 covering the Basic Economic
Area of Amarillo, TX-MN (BEA138), the Basic Economic Area of Hobbs,
NM-TX (BEA136), the Basic Economic Area of Lubbock, TX (BEA137),
the Basic Economic Area of Odessa-Midland, TX (BEA135), the Basic
Economic Area of San Angelo, TX (BEA129), the Cellular Market Area
of Wichita Falls, TX (CMA233), the Cellular Market Area of Lawton,
OK (CMA260) and the Cellular Market Area of Oklahoma 8 —
Jackson (CMA603), and (vi) the portions of the C Block FCC
License held by Cricket Licensee (Reauction), LLC for the Basic
Economic Area of Oklahoma City, OK (BEA125) with the FCC Call Sign
WQGD762 covering Cellular Market Area of Lawton, OK (CMA260),
Cotton County, OK, Stephens County, OK and Jefferson County, OK; in
each case, together with all fixtures, equipment and other property
associated therewith;
(d) the
term “ FCC ” means the Federal
Communications Commission (or any federal agency that may succeed
to its jurisdiction);
(e) the
term “ FCC License ” means any broadband
personal communications service license, advanced wireless services
license or other license, permit or authorization for the provision
of wireless telecommunications services or operation of wireless
telecommunications systems issued by the FCC from time to time by
the FCC; and
(f) the
term “ Pledged Account ” shall mean any
Securities Account or Deposit Account that constitutes Collateral
hereunder.
Section 2.
Security for Obligations . This Agreement secures, in the
case of each Grantor, the payment of all Secured Obligations of
such Grantor and the payment of all amounts that constitute part of
the Secured Obligations and would be owed by such Grantor to any
Secured Party but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not
allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or
similar proceeding involving any Grantor.
Section 3.
Grantors Remain Liable . Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, (a) each Grantor shall remain liable under
the contracts and agreements included in such Grantor’s
Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its
duties and obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this
Agreement had not been executed, (b) the exercise by the
Collateral Trustee of any of the rights hereunder shall not release
any Grantor from any of its duties or obligations under the
contracts and agreements included in the Collateral and (c) no
Secured Party shall have any obligation or liability under the
contracts and agreements included in the Collateral by reason of
this Agreement or any other Party Lien Document, nor shall any
Secured Party be obligated to perform any of the obligations or
duties of any Grantor thereunder or to take any action to collect
or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.
Section 4.
Delivery and Control of Collateral . (a) With respect
to any Collateral owned by a Grantor on the date hereof that is
subject to the requirements of this Section 4, and subject to
Section 6, to the extent such Grantor has not taken (or caused
to be
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taken) the
following actions on or prior to the date hereof with respect to
such Collateral, as applicable, such Grantor shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to take (or cause to be taken) such actions as
promptly as reasonably practicable but in any event shall take such
action no later than 180 days after the date hereof. Until a
Discharge of Parity Lien Obligations has occurred, in the event
that any Grantor acquires rights in Collateral after the date
hereof that is subject to the requirements of this Section 4,
subject to Section 6, such Grantor shall take (or cause to be
taken) the actions required under this Section 4 with respect
to such Collateral, as applicable, within 60 days of such
acquisition.
(b) With
respect to any (i) Certificated Security or
(ii) Instrument having a face amount equal to or higher than
$2,500,000 (or such lesser amount if the aggregate face amount of
instruments excluded from this clause (ii) would exceed
$15,000,000) evidencing Pledged Debt, in each case that constitutes
Collateral, such Grantor shall deliver such Certificated Security
or Instrument, as the case may be, to the Collateral Trustee, duly
endorsed or accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or
assignment in blank, all in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Collateral Trustee. Upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of any event or condition (and following the
giving of any required notice and the passage of all applicable
time) which, under the terms of any Parity Lien Document, causes or
permits the holders of any Parity Lien Obligations to cause such
Parity Lien Obligations to become immediately due and payable (a
“ Parity Lien Event of Default ”), the
Collateral Trustee shall have the right, at any time in its
discretion and without notice to any Grantor, to transfer to or to
register in the name of the Collateral Trustee or any of its
nominees any or all of the Security Collateral, subject only to the
revocable rights specified in Section 13(a). In addition, upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of a Parity Lien Event of
Default, the Collateral Trustee shall have the right at any time to
exchange certificates or instruments representing or evidencing
Security Collateral for certificates or instruments of smaller or
larger denominations. Upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of a Parity Lien Event of Default, the Collateral
Trustee shall also have the right at any time to convert Security
Collateral consisting of Financial Assets credited to Securities
Accounts to Security Collateral consisting of Financial Assets held
directly by the Collateral Trustee, and to convert Security
Collateral consisting of Financial Assets held directly by the
Collateral Trustee to Security Collateral consisting of Financial
Assets credited to the Securities Accounts. Upon delivery of a
written request by the Collateral Trustee to any Grantor upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of a Parity Lien Event of
Default, such Grantor will notify each issuer of Pledged Debt that
such Pledged Debt is subject to the security interest granted
hereunder.
(c) With
respect to any Uncertificated Security that constitutes Collateral
(other than any Uncertificated Securities credited to a Securities
Account), the applicable Grantor shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to cause the issuer thereof either (i) to register the
Collateral Trustee as the registered owner of such security on the
books and records of the issuer or (ii) to agree in an
authenticated record with such Grantor and the Collateral Trustee
that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such
security originated by the Collateral Trustee without further
consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Trustee.
With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has
any right, title or interest and that is not an Uncertificated
Security, upon the request of the Collateral Trustee upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of a Parity Lien Event of
Default, such Grantor will notify each such
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issuer of
Pledged Equity that such Pledged Equity is subject to the security
interest granted hereunder.
(d) With
respect to any Security Entitlement that constitutes Collateral
hereunder and in which the Collateral Trustee is not the
entitlement holder, cause the securities intermediary with respect
to such Security Entitlement either (i) to identify in its
records the Collateral Trustee as the entitlement holder of such
Security Entitlement against such securities intermediary or (ii)
to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the
Collateral Trustee that such securities intermediary will comply
with Entitlement Orders (that is, notifications communicated to
such securities intermediary directing transfer or redemption of
the financial asset to which such Grantor has a Security
Entitlement) originated by the Collateral Trustee without further
consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Trustee
(such agreement being a “ Securities Account Control
Agreement ”);
(e) With
respect to any Deposit Account that constitutes Collateral
hereunder (other than Deposit Accounts maintained with the
Collateral Trustee), the applicable Grantor shall cause the
depository institution maintaining such Account to enter into an
agreement pursuant to which such institution shall agree to comply
with the Collateral Trustee’s instructions with respect to
the disposition of funds in the Deposit Account without further
consent by such Grantor, such agreement to be in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Trustee (such agreement
being a “ Deposit Account Control Agreement
”; all Securities Account Control Agreements and Deposit
Account Control Agreements referred to collectively herein as
“ Account Control Agreements
”).
(f) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Section 4(d) or
elsewhere in this Agreement, the requirement that the Grantors
cause depository institutions maintaining Deposit Accounts and
Securities Accounts that constitute Collateral to enter into a
Account Control Agreement shall not apply to Deposit Accounts and
Securities Accounts the individual balance of which does not exceed
$2,500,000 and does not exceed when aggregated with the balances of
all other Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts for which no
corresponding Account Control Agreement is in effect
$15,000,000.
(g) Upon
any termination of any Pledged Account subject to an Account
Control Agreement, the applicable Grantor will promptly transfer
all funds and property held in such terminated account to another
Pledged Account (subject to an Account Control Agreement to the
extent an Account Control Agreement would otherwise be required
with respect to such Pledged Account pursuant to this Section
4).
(h) After
the occurrence and during the continuance of a Parity Lien Event of
Default, the Collateral Trustee shall have sole right in accordance
with the Collateral Trust Agreement to direct the disposition of
funds, and the exercise by the Collateral Trustee of its right to
exclusive control over the Pledged Accounts; provided that the
Collateral Trustee agrees that it shall not issue any Entitlement
Orders pursuant to any Securities Account Control Agreement, give
any instructions under any Deposit Account Control Agreement or
give any instructions with respect to any Uncertificated Security
unless and until a Parity Lien Event of Default has occurred and is
then continuing.
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(i) The
Collateral Trustee may, at any time after the occurrence and during
the continuance of a Parity Lien Event of Default, and without
notice to, or consent from, any Grantor, apply funds from the
Account Collateral to satisfy the Grantor’s obligations under
the Parity Lien Documents in accordance with the Collateral Trust
Agreement.
(j) The
Collateral Trustee hereby agrees to use commercially reasonable
efforts, with respect to (i) any after acquired Deposit
Account that constitutes Collateral hereunder and (ii) any
after acquired Security Entitlement that constitutes Collateral
hereunder, to enter into Account Control Agreements with respect to
such Collateral.
(k) After
the occurrence and during the continuance of a Parity Lien Event of
Default, promptly upon the request of the Collateral Trustee, each
Grantor will (x) deliver all tangible chattel paper to the
Collateral Trustee and (y) maintain (A) all electronic
chattel paper so that the Collateral Trustee has control of the
electronic chattel paper in the manner specified in
Section 9-105 of the UCC and (B) all transferable records
so that the Collateral Trustee has control of the transferable
records in the manner specified in Section 16 of the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in the jurisdiction
governing such transferable record.
(l) Despite
the grant of a security interest in its Receivables consisting of
Letter-of-Credit Rights to the Collateral Trustee, no Grantor shall
be required to cause, or attempt to cause, any issuer of any letter
of credit to consent to any such assignment of the proceeds of any
letter of credit in accordance with Section 9-107 of the
UCC.
Section 5.
Material Commercial Tort Claims . Within 30 days after
the end of each fiscal quarter of Holdings, each Grantor shall give
written notice to the Collateral Trustee identifying any Material
Commercial Tort Claims it may then have that not otherwise
described on Schedule VI, and such Grantor will execute or
otherwise authenticate a supplement to this Agreement, and
otherwise take all necessary action, to subject such Material
Commercial Tort Claim to the security interest created under this
Agreement (such supplement to constitute a supplement to
Schedule VI for purposes of this Agreement).
Section 6.
Intercreditor Agreement . Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement or any other or any other
Parity Lien Document, in the event and Permitted Priority Debt
Obligations are incurred, the lien and security interest granted to
the Collateral Trustee pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise
of any right or remedy by the Collateral Trustee hereunder will be
subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In the
event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement and this Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement shall govern and control. Notwithstanding anything herein
to the contrary, prior to the Discharge of Priority Lien
Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement), the
requirements of this Agreement to deliver Collateral to the
Collateral Trustee or register the Collateral Trustee as the
registered owner of any Collateral shall be deemed satisfied by
delivery of such Collateral to, or the registration of such
Collateral in the name of, the Permitted Priority Lien
Representative.
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Section 7.
Representations and Warranties . Each Grantor represents and
warrants as of the date hereof and on the date of incurrence of any
new Series of Parity Lien Debt as follows:
(a) Such
Grantor’s exact legal name, as defined in
Section 9-503(a) of the UCC, is correctly set forth in
Schedule I hereto. Such Grantor has only the trade names and
registered trademarks listed on Schedule IV hereto. Such
Grantor is located (within the meaning of Section 9-307 of the
UCC) and has its chief executive office in the state or
jurisdiction set forth in Schedule I hereto. Such Grantor
keeps all Material Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor at the
locations specified in Schedule I.
The information
set forth in Schedule I hereto with respect to such Grantor is
true and accurate in all respects. Such Grantor has not changed its
name, location, chief executive office, type of organization,
jurisdiction of organization or organizational identification
number from those set forth in Schedule I hereto in the past
five (5) years except as disclosed in Schedule III
hereto.
(b) Such
Grantor is the legal and beneficial owner of the Collateral of such
Grantor free and clear of any Lien, claim, option or right of
others, except for the Lien created under this Agreement and any
Liens that are not prohibited under any Parity Lien Document. To
such Grantor’s knowledge, no effective financing statement or
other instrument similar in effect covering all or any part of such
Collateral or listing such Grantor or any trade name of such
Grantor as debtor is on file in any recording office, except
(i) financing statements for which duly authorized proper
termination statements have been delivered to the Collateral
Trustee for filing, (ii) such as may have been filed in favor
of the Collateral Trustee relating to the Parity Lien Documents or
as otherwise permitted under the Parity Lien Documents and
(iii) such as may have been filed in connection with a Lien,
claim, option or right of others that is not prohibited under a
Parity Lien Document.
(c) Such
Grantor, either individually or together with one or more other
Grantors, has exclusive possession and control of its Equipment and
Inventory other than Inventory stored at any leased premises or
warehouse and except as a third party may have possession or
control of Equipment or Inventory in the ordinary course of such
Grantor’s business. In the case of Equipment and Inventory
located on leased premises or in warehouses, no lessor or
warehouseman of any premises or warehouse upon or in which such
Equipment or Inventory is located has any Lien, claim or charge
(based on contract, statute or otherwise) on such Equipment and
Inventory, other than as permitted under the Parity Lien
Documents.
(d) As
of the date hereof, the Initial Pledged Equity pledged by such
Grantor hereunder has been duly authorized and validly issued and
is fully paid and non-assessable. To such Grantor’s
knowledge, the Pledged Debt described in Part II of
Schedule II, which, among other things, constitutes all
Pledged Debt which as of the date hereof is individually
represented by Instruments having an individual face amount equal
to or higher than $2,500,000 (or such lesser amount if the
aggregate face amount of instruments excluded from this clause
(d) would exceed $15,000,000) (the " Initial Pledged
Debt ”), has been duly authorized, authenticated or
issued and delivered, and is the legal, valid and binding
obligation of the issuers thereof, and is not in
default.
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(e) As
of the date hereof, the Initial Pledged Equity pledged by such
Grantor constitutes the approximate percentage of the issued and
outstanding Equity Interests of the issuers thereof indicated on
Schedule II hereto. As of the date hereof, the Initial Pledged
Debt constitutes all of the outstanding principal indebtedness
(excluding accrued interest thereon) owed to such Grantor by the
issuers thereof that would otherwise constitute Initial Pledged
Debt.
(f) All
of the investment property that constitutes Collateral owned by
such Grantor as of as of the date hereof is listed on
Schedule II hereto (provided so long as any securities account
or commodities account is so listed, it shall not be necessary to
list any investment property credited to any such
account).
(g) Such
Grantor has no Deposit Account constituting Collateral for which a
Deposit Account Control Agreement is required pursuant to this
Agreement other than the accounts listed on Schedule V hereto and,
to the extent required at such time pursuant to the terms hereof,
legal, binding and enforceable (subject to the effects of
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other
similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights
generally and general equitable principles (whether considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law)) Deposit Account Control Agreements
(as against the applicable Grantor) are in effect for each such
Deposit Account.
(h) Except
to the extent not required by the terms of the Parity Lien
Documents (including this Agreement), (i) all actions
necessary to obtain control of Collateral as provided in Sections
9-104 and 9-106 of the UCC have been taken and (ii) all UCC
financing statements and United States Patent and Trademark Office
and United States Copyright Office filings required to be filed in
order to perfect the Collateral Trustee’s security interest
in the Collateral of such Grantor have been delivered to the
Administrative Agent in proper form for filing.
(i) This
Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Collateral
Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and
binding security interest in the Collateral. In the case of
(i) Deposit Accounts that constitute Collateral, when written
agreements with the financial institutions with whom such accounts
are maintained are entered into and become effective, pursuant to
which the Collateral Trustee is granted Control over such accounts,
(ii) United States Patents, United States Trademarks and
United States Copyrights, to the extent perfection of the security
interests therein is not subject to Article 9 of the UCC, upon
recordation of the security interests granted hereunder therein in
the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States
Copyright Office that constitute Collateral, and (iii) the
other Collateral described herein (to the extent that liens on such
Collateral can be perfected by the filing of financing statements),
when financing statements in appropriate form are filed in the
appropriate filing offices, this Agreement shall constitute a fully
perfected first priority lien (subject to Permitted Liens
(including Permitted Prior Liens), as such terms are defined in the
7.75% Indenture) on, and security interest in, all right, title and
interest of the Company and the other Grantors, as applicable, in
such Collateral, as security for the Secured
Obligations.
(j) No
authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or
filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body is
required for (i) the grant by such Grantor of the security
interest granted hereunder or for the execution, delivery or
performance of this
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Agreement by
such Grantor, (ii) the perfection or maintenance of the
security interest created hereunder to the extent required herein
(including the first priority nature of such security interest
(subject to Permitted Liens (including Permitted Prior Liens), as
such terms are defined in the 7.75% Indenture)), except for the
filing of financing statements referred to above and all required
continuation statements, the recordation of the grant of security
in the Intellectual Property Collateral as described above, the
actions described in Section 4 with respect to Security
Collateral and Account Collateral, or (iii) the exercise by
the Collateral Trustee of its voting rights provided for in this
Agreement, except as may be required (x) in connection with
the disposition of any portion of the Security Collateral by laws
affecting the offering and sale of securities generally,
(y) by the Communications Laws in the case of any disposition
of Capital Stock representing direct or indirect control of a
person or entity that holds FCC Licenses and (z) in connection with
any exercise of voting rights with respect to Capital Stock of
entities that are not wholly-owned by the Grantors.
(k) As
to itself and its Intellectual Property Collateral and IP
Agreements:
(a) The use of the
Intellectual Property Collateral in connection with the operation
of such Grantor’s business as currently conducted or as
contemplated to be conducted does not conflict with, infringe,
misappropriate, dilute, misuse or otherwise violate the
intellectual property rights of any third party, except as could
not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect upon
(a) the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual
or contingent), condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (b) the
ability of the Grantors, taken as a whole, to perform their
obligations under the Parity Lien Documents; or (c) a material
adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or
enforceability against any Grantor of any Parity Lien Document to
which it is a party (“ Material Adverse Effect
”).
(b) Except as
otherwise described on Schedule IV, such Grantor is the owner
of all right, title and interest in and to the Intellectual
Property Collateral set forth on Schedule IV. Such Grantor is
entitled to use all material Intellectual P
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