Exhibit 10.38
EXECUTION VERSION
SECURITY AGREEMENT
Dated July 2, 2009
From
The Grantors referred to
herein
as Grantors
to
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
as Agent
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Section 1. Grant of Security
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Section 2. Security for
Obligations
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Section 3. Grantors Remain
Liable
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Section 4. Delivery and Control of
Security Collateral
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Section 5. Maintaining the Account
Collateral
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Section 6. Investing of Amounts in the
Cash Collateral Account
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Section 7. [Reserved]
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Section 8. Representations and
Warranties
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Section 9. Further Assurances
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Section 10. As to Equipment and
Inventory
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Section 11. Insurance
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Section 12. Post-Closing Changes;
Collections on Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related
Contracts
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Section 13. As to Intellectual Property
Collateral
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Section 14. Voting Rights; Dividends;
Etc.
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Section 15. As to the Assigned
Agreements
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Section 16. As to Letter-of-Credit
Rights
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Section 17. Commercial Tort
Claims
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Section 18. Transfers and Other
Liens
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Section 19. Agent Appointed
Attorney-in-Fact
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Section 20. Agent May Perform
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Section 21. The Agent’s
Duties
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Section 22. Remedies
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Section 23. Indemnity and
Expenses
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Section 24. Amendments; Waivers;
Additional Grantors; Etc.
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Section 25. Notices, Etc.
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Section 26. Continuing Security Interest;
Assignments under the Loan Agreement
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Section 27. Release;
Termination
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Section 28. Execution in
Counterparts
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Section 29. Governing Law
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Section 30. Loan Agreement
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Section 31. Intercreditor
Agreement
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Schedules
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Schedule
I
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Investment
Property
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Schedule
II
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Pledged Deposit
Accounts
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Schedule
III
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Assigned
Agreements
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Schedule
IV
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Intellectual
Property
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Schedule
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Commercial Tort
Claims
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Schedule
VI
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Chief Executive
Office, Type of Organization, Jurisdiction of Organization and
Organizational Identification Number
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Schedule
VII
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Changes in
Name, Etc.
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Schedule
VIII
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Locations of
Equipment and Inventory
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Schedule
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Letters of
Credit
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Schedule
X
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Terms Defined
in Intercreditor Agreement
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Exhibits
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Exhibit
A
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Form of Second
Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement
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Exhibit
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Form of Second
Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement
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Exhibit
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Form of
Security Agreement Supplement
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SECURITY AGREEMENT
SECURITY AGREEMENT dated
July 2, 2009 made by SOLO CUP COMPANY, a Delaware corporation
(the “ Company ”), SOLO CUP OPERATING
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“ SCOC
,” and together with the Company, the “
Borrowers ”), and the other Persons listed on
the signature pages hereof (the Borrowers and the Persons so listed
being, collectively, the “ Grantors ”),
to Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent (in such
capacity, together with any successor administrative agent
appointed pursuant to Section 12 of the Loan Agreement (as
hereinafter defined), the “ Agent ”) for
the Secured Parties (as defined in the Loan Agreement).
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS.
(1) The Grantors have entered into a
Loan Agreement dated as of July 2, 2009 (said Agreement, as it
may hereafter be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, being the “ Loan
Agreement ”) with certain other Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Borrowers, the Agent, the other agents named
therein and the Lenders (each as defined therein).
(2) Terms defined in the Loan
Agreement and not otherwise defined in this Agreement are used in
this Agreement as defined in the Loan Agreement; and terms set
forth on Schedule X are used in this Agreement as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement (as defined in the Loan Agreement).
Further, unless otherwise defined in this Agreement or in the Loan
Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement, terms defined in Article
8 or 9 of the UCC (as defined below) and/or in the Federal Book
Entry Regulations (as defined below) are used in this Agreement as
such terms are defined in such Article 8 or 9 and/or in the Federal
Book Entry Regulations. “ 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 the 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.
“ Federal Book-Entry Regulations ” means
(A) the federal regulations contained in Subpart B
(“Treasury/Reserve Automated Debt Entry System
(TRADES)”) governing book-entry securities consisting of U.S.
Treasury notes, bills and bonds and Subpart D (“Additional
Provisions”) of 31 C.F.R. Part 357, 31 C.F.R. § 357.10
through § 357.15 and § 357.40 through § 357.45,
including related defined terms in 31 C.F.R. § 357.2); and
(B) to the extent substantially identical to the federal
regulations referred to in clause (A) above, the federal
regulations governing other book-entry securities.
(3) Each Grantor is the owner of the
promissory notes set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on
and as otherwise described in Part I of Schedule I hereto and
issued by the obligors named therein (the “ Initial
Pledged Debt ”).
(4) Each Grantor is the owner of the
deposit accounts set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on
Schedule II hereto (the “ Pledged Deposit
Accounts ”).
(5) SCOC is the owner of Account
No. 8666216501 (the “ Cash Collateral
Account ”), maintained with Bank of America, N.A. and
subject to the terms of this Agreement.
(6) Each Grantor is the owner of the
securities accounts set forth in Part II of Schedule I (the “
Securities Accounts ”).
(7) It is a condition precedent to
the making of Loans by the Lenders and the issuance of Letters of
Credit by the Issuing Banks under the Loan Agreement and the
providing of Bank Products by the Lenders or their Affiliates from
time to time that the Grantors shall have granted the security
interest contemplated by this Agreement. Each Grantor will derive
substantial direct and indirect benefit from the transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents and the Bank
Products.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and in order to induce the Lenders to make Loans and
the Issuing Banks to issue Letters of Credit under the Loan
Agreement and to induce certain Lenders and their Affiliates to
provide Bank Products from time to time, each Grantor hereby agrees
with the Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties as
follows:
Section 1. Grant of Security
. Each Grantor hereby grants to the Agent, for the ratable benefit
of the Secured Parties, 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 (collectively, the “
Collateral ”):
(a) all equipment in all of its
forms, including, without limitation, all machinery, tools,
furniture and fixtures, and all parts thereof and all accessions
thereto, including, without limitation, computer programs and
supporting information that constitute equipment within the meaning
of the UCC (any and all such property being the “
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, including, without
limitation, computer programs and supporting information that
constitute inventory within the meaning of the UCC (any and all
such property being the “ 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, without limitation, payment
intangibles) and all other right to payment of monetary 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
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to all supporting obligations and in
and to all security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters
of credit and other contracts securing or otherwise supporting
payment of any of 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, being the “ Receivables
,” and any and all such supporting obligations, security
agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters of credit and other
contracts being the “ Related Contracts
”);
(d) the following (collectively, the
“ Security Collateral ”):
(i) the Initial Pledged Debt and the
instruments, if any, evidencing the Initial Pledged Debt, 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 the Initial Pledged Debt;
(ii) all additional monetary
obligations from time to time owed to such Grantor (such
indebtedness, together with the Initial Pledged Debt, being the
“ Pledged Debt ”) and the instruments, if
any, evidencing such monetary obligations, 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 monetary obligations;
(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 financial
assets and all warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with
respect thereto; and
(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, 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 investment property and all warrants, rights
or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;
(e) each of the agreements listed on
Schedule III hereto as such agreements may be amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time
(collectively, 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
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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 (all such Collateral being the “ Agreement
Collateral ”);
(f) the following (collectively, the
“ Account Collateral ”):
(i) the Pledged Deposit Accounts,
the Cash Collateral Account and all funds and financial assets from
time to time credited thereto (including, without limitation, all
Cash Equivalents), and all certificates and instruments, if any,
from time to time representing or evidencing the Pledged Deposit
Accounts or the Cash Collateral Account;
(ii) all promissory notes,
certificates of deposit, checks and other instruments from time to
time delivered to or otherwise possessed by the Agent or the
Noteholder Collateral Trustee for or on behalf of such Grantor 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, the
“ Intellectual Property Collateral
”):
(i) all patents, patent
applications, utility models and statutory invention registrations,
together with all inventions claimed or disclosed therein and all
improvements thereto (“ Patents
”);
(ii) all trademarks, service marks,
domain names, trade dress, logos, designs, slogans, trade names,
business names, fictitious business names, corporate names,
certification marks, collective marks and other source identifiers,
whether registered or unregistered (provided that no security
interest shall be granted in any United States intent-to-use
trademark application for registration of a trademark filed
pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §
1051, prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use”
pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Lanham Act or an
“Amendment to Allege Use” pursuant to Section 1(c)
of the Lanham Act with respect thereto, solely to the extent that
and solely during the period in which the grant of a security
interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of any
registration that issues from such intent-to-use trademark
applications under applicable federal law), together, in each case,
with the goodwill symbolized thereby (“
Trademarks ”);
(iii) all copyrights (whether or not
the underlying works of authorship have been published), including,
without limitation, copyrights in Computer Software (as hereinafter
defined), internet web sites and the content thereof, whether
registered or unregistered (“ Copyrights
”);
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(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 (“ 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, “ Trade Secrets ”), and
all other intellectual, industrial and intangible property of any
type, including, without limitation, industrial designs and mask
works;
(vi) all registrations and
applications for registration for any of the foregoing, including,
without limitation, those registrations and applications for
registration set forth in Schedule IV hereto, together with all
reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part,
extensions, renewals and reexaminations thereof;
(vii) 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;
(viii) all agreements, permits,
consents, orders and franchises relating to the license,
development, use or disclosure of any of the foregoing to which
such Grantor, now or hereafter, is a party or a beneficiary,
including, without limitation, the agreements set forth in Schedule
IV hereto (“ IP Agreements ”);
(ix) all tangible embodiments of any
of the foregoing, and
(x) 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) the commercial tort claims
described in Schedule V hereto (together with any commercial tort
claims as to which the Grantors have complied with the requirements
of Section 17, the “ Commercial Tort Claims
Collateral ”);
(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 foregoing Collateral or any of the
Collateral referred to in clause (j) below; and
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(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 foregoing 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, to the
extent not otherwise included, all (A) payments under
insurance (whether or not the Agent 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, and (B) cash;
provided that Collateral shall not include the following
(collectively, the “ Excluded Assets
”):
(1) all interests in real property
other than fee interests and other interests appurtenant
thereto;
(2) fee interests in real property
if the greater of the cost or the book value of such fee interest
is less than $1,000,000;
(3) any property or asset to the
extent that the grant of a Lien under the Security Documents (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) in such property or asset
is prohibited by applicable law or requires any consent of any
governmental authority not obtained pursuant to applicable law;
provided that such property or asset will be an Excluded
Asset only to the extent and for so long as the consequences
specified above will result and will cease to be an Excluded Asset
and will become subject to the Lien granted under the Security
Documents (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement), immediately
and automatically, at such time as such consequences will no longer
result;
(4) any lease, license, contract,
property right or agreement to which any Grantor is a party or any
of its rights or interests thereunder only to the extent and only
for so long as the grant of a Lien under the Security Documents (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) will constitute or result
in a breach, termination or default under or requires any consent
not obtained under any such lease, license, contract, agreement or
property right (other than to the extent that any such term 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 (including the
Bankruptcy Code) or principles of equity); provided that
such lease, license, contract, property right or agreement will be
an Excluded Asset only to the extent and for so long as the
consequences specified above will result and will cease to be an
Excluded Asset and will become subject to the Lien granted under
the Security Documents (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement),
immediately and automatically, at such time as such consequences
will no longer result;
(5) any motor vehicles, vessels and
aircraft, or other property subject to a certificate of title
statute of any jurisdiction;
(6) cash or Cash Equivalents (or
deposits or securities accounts that solely contain such cash or
cash equivalents) (i) securing reimbursement obligations under
letters of credit or surety bonds (other than, in the case of ABL
Collateral, reimbursement obligations in respect of letters of
credit securing or constituting ABL Debt Obligations),
(ii) solely consisting of earnest money
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deposits made or received in connection with any
disposition of property or assets or in connection with any
investment or (iii) securing Hedging Obligations (as defined
in the Intercreditor Agreement), in each case to the extent
permitted under all Secured Documents (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement);
(7) assets or property subject to
purchase money liens or capital leases permitted to be incurred
under all Secured Documents (as defined in the Intercreditor
Agreement), to the extent a Lien on such assets or property is not
permitted, under the terms of the documents governing such purchase
money liens, purchase money indebtedness or capital leases, to be
created to secure any Secured Debt Obligations (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement);
(8) all “securities” of
any of the Issuers’ “affiliates” (as the terms
“securities” and “affiliates” are used in
Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended);
(9) Equity Interests in any joint
venture with a third party that is not an Affiliate of such
Grantor, to the extent a pledge of such Equity Interests is
prohibited by the documents governing such joint
venture;
(10) the real property located at
1951 Highway 304, Belen, New Mexico, the real property located at
177 Florence Street, Leominster, Massachusetts, and the real
property located at 1900 S. Clark Road, Havre de Grace, Maryland,
in each case, including all fixtures and improvements located
thereon; and
(11) the real property located at
3333 East 87th Street, Chicago, Illinois (formerly known as the USX
South Works site), including all fixtures and improvements located
thereon;
provided further
that notwithstanding the foregoing
proviso, the Collateral does include all deposit and securities
accounts identified on Schedules I and II hereto and all
instruments identified on Schedule I hereto. For the avoidance of
doubt, the security interest created in this Section 1 is
subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, including without
limitation Section 2.01 thereof.
Section 2. Security for
Obligations . The security interest in the Collateral created
hereunder secures, in the case of each Grantor, the payment of all
Obligations of such Grantor now or hereafter existing under the
Loan Documents and the Bank Products, whether direct or indirect,
absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, reimbursement
obligations, interest, fees, premiums, penalties, indemnifications,
contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (all such
Obligations being the “ Secured Obligations
”). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
security interest in the Collateral created hereunder secures, as
to each Grantor, the payment of all amounts that constitute part of
the Secured Obligations and would be owed by such Grantor to any
Secured Party under the Loan Documents or the Bank Products but for
the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding
involving an Obligor.
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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 Agent 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 Loan
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 Security Collateral . (a) All instruments representing
or evidencing Pledged Debt (except to the extent the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of Pledged Debt owing to such Grantor
does not exceed $200,000) with respect to any Grantor shall be
delivered to and held by or on behalf of the Agent pursuant hereto
(unless the Noteholder Collateral Trustee is granted a prior
security interest in such instruments and the same are required to
be delivered (and are so delivered) to the Noteholder Collateral
Trustee for the benefit of the Priority Lien Secured Parties
pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement) and shall be in suitable
form for transfer by delivery, or shall be accompanied by duly
executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, all in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.
(b) With respect to any Securities
Account and any Security Collateral that constitutes a security
entitlement (except for any Securities Account that is an Excluded
Account (as defined below)), the relevant Grantor will cause the
securities intermediary with respect to such Securities Account and
security entitlement either (i) to identify in its records the
Agent as the entitlement holder thereof, unless the Noteholder
Collateral Trustee is granted a prior security interest in such
security entitlement and such Grantor is required to cause (and has
so caused) such securities intermediary to identify in its records
the Noteholder Collateral Trustee as the entitlement holder thereof
for the benefit of the Priority Lien Secured Parties pursuant to
the Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) to agree with such
Grantor and the Agent that such securities intermediary will comply
with entitlement orders originated by the Agent without further
consent of such Grantor, such agreement to be in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Agent (and if the Noteholder
Collateral Trustee is required to be granted (and has been granted)
a prior security interest in such Securities Account and security
entitlement for the benefit of the Priority Lien Secured Parties
pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, with provisions
instructing such securities intermediary that entitlement orders
originated by the Noteholder Collateral Trustee controls pursuant
to the Intercreditor Agreement) (a “ Securities Account
Control Agreement ”).
(c) Subject to the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Agent shall have the right, at any time after the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default,
(i) in its discretion and without notice to any Grantor, to
transfer to or to register in the name of the Agent or any of its
nominees any or all of the Security Collateral, subject only to the
revocable rights specified in Section 14(a) and (ii) to
convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited
to the Securities Account to Security Collateral consisting of
financial assets held directly by the Agent, and to convert
Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly by
the Agent to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets
credited to the Securities Account.
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(d) Upon the request of the Agent
following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, each Grantor will notify each issuer of Security
Collateral granted by it hereunder that such Security Collateral is
subject to the security interest granted hereunder.
Section 5. Maintaining the
Account Collateral . Until Full Payment of the Obligations (the
“ Discharge ”):
(a) Each Grantor will maintain
deposit accounts (other than an account exclusively used for
payroll, payroll taxes, employee benefits or other similar
fiduciary obligations, any trust account, any zero-balance
disbursement account (i.e., any account used only for disbursement
purposes in which a balance of zero is maintained by automatically
transferring funds from another account in an amount only large
enough to cover checks presented), any account used to settle
foreign exchange trades, accounts having an aggregate balance of
not more than $250,000 or the account number 8666823891 maintained
with Bank of America, N.A. so long as the ending daily balance of
such account does not exceed $500,000 (collectively, the “
Excluded Accounts ”)) only with a bank (a
“ Pledged Account Bank ”) that has agreed
with such Grantor and the Agent to comply with instructions
originated by the Agent directing the disposition of funds in such
deposit account without the further consent of such Grantor, such
agreement to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Agent and each of the Collateral Agents (in the case of the
Collateral Proceeds Account, with provisions instructing such bank
that pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, instructions
originated by the Noteholder Collateral Trustee controls) (a
“ Deposit Account Control Agreement
”).
(b) Each Grantor will
(i) immediately instruct each Person obligated at any time to
make any payment to such Grantor for any reason (an “
Obligor ”) to make such payment to a Pledged
Deposit Account or the Cash Collateral Account and
(ii) deposit in a Pledged Deposit Account or the Cash
Collateral Account, at the end of each Business Day, all proceeds
of Collateral and all other cash of such Grantor; provided
that only proceeds of the Noteholder First Lien Collateral shall be
deposited in the Collateral Proceeds Account and each Grantor shall
so instruct each such Person, shall so deposit proceeds of any
Collateral and other cash and shall take all other actions
necessary to give effect to the intent of this proviso.
(c) Subject to the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Agent may, at any time and without notice to, or
consent from, the Grantor, transfer, or direct the transfer of,
funds from the Pledged Deposit Accounts or the Cash Collateral
Account to satisfy the Grantor’s Obligations if an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Section 6. Investing of Amounts
in the Cash Collateral Account . The Agent will, subject to the
provisions of Sections 5 and 22, from time to time (a) invest,
or direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to invest, amounts
received with respect to the Cash Collateral Account in such Cash
Equivalents credited to the Cash Collateral Account as the Borrower
Agent may select and the Agent and each of the Collateral Agents
may approve, and (b) invest interest paid on the Cash
Equivalents referred to in clause (a) above, and reinvest
other proceeds of any such Cash Equivalents that may mature or be
sold, in each case in such Cash Equivalents
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credited in the same manner. Interest and
proceeds that are not invested or reinvested in Cash Equivalents as
provided above shall be deposited and held in the Cash Collateral
Account. In addition, the Agent shall have the right (as the Agent
and each Collateral Agent may approve) at any time to exchange, or
direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to exchange, such Cash
Equivalents for similar Cash Equivalents of smaller or larger
denominations, or for other Cash Equivalents, credited to the Cash
Collateral Account.
Section 7. Cash Dominion
Period . During a Cash Dominion Period, the Agent may send to
each bank or securities intermediary party to any Deposit Account
Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement a notice
terminating the rights of such Grantor to originate any entitlement
orders or instructions directing disposition of funds. In addition,
the Agent agrees (i) to send such notices described above only
if a Cash Dominion Period is in effect and (ii) to send
notices to such banks and securities intermediaries revoking such
notices described above if such Cash Dominion Period has
terminated.
Section 8. Representations and
Warranties . Each Grantor represents and warrants as
follows:
(a) As of the date hereof, such
Grantor’s exact legal name, chief executive office, type of
organization, jurisdiction of organization and organizational
identification number is set forth in Schedule VI hereto. Within
the five years preceding the date hereof, such Grantor has not
changed its name, chief executive office, type of organization,
jurisdiction of organization or organizational identification
number from those set forth in Schedule VI hereto except as set
forth in Schedule VII hereto.
(b) Such Grantor owns or has rights
in the Collateral granted by it hereunder free and clear of any
Lien except for the security interest created under this Agreement
or the Liens permitted under the Loan Agreement (including, without
limitation, the Liens held by the Noteholder Collateral Trustee).
No effective financing statement or other instrument similar in
effect covering all or any part of such Collateral or listing such
Grantor as debtor is on file in any recording office, except such
as may have been filed in favor of the Agent relating to the Loan
Documents or with respect to Liens otherwise permitted under the
Loan Agreement (including, without limitation, the Liens held by
the Noteholder Collateral Trustee).
(c) All of the Equipment and
Inventory (other than Inventory in transit, mobile Equipment and
Equipment out for service or repair) of such Grantor are located at
the places specified therefor in Schedule VIII hereto or at another
location as to which such Grantor has complied with the
requirements of Section 10(a). Such Grantor has exclusive
possession and control of its Equipment and Inventory, other than
(i) Equipment or Inventory stored at any leased premises or
warehouse for which such Grantor has made commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain a Lien Waiver from the landlord or warehouseman,
as applicable, and (ii) Inventory in transit, mobile Equipment
and Equipment out for service or repair.
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(d) As of the date hereof, none of
the Receivables or Agreement Collateral is evidenced by a
promissory note or other instrument that has not been delivered to
the Agent (except to the extent the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of such promissory notes and instruments owing to such
Grantor does not exceed $200,000 and except for any such promissory
note or other instrument that is required to be delivered and has
been so delivered to the Noteholder Collateral Trustee pursuant to
the Intercreditor Agreement).
(e) The Pledged Debt pledged by such
Grantor hereunder which is issued by a Subsidiary of such Grantor
has been duly authorized, authenticated or issued and delivered, is
the legal, valid and binding obligation of the issuers thereof, is
evidenced by one or more promissory notes (which promissory notes
if required to be delivered to the Agent under Section 4(a)
have been delivered to the Agent (except for such promissory notes
that are required to be delivered and have been so delivered to the
Noteholder Collateral Trustee pursuant to the Intercreditor
Agreement)) and is not in default.
(f) As of the date hereof, the
Initial Pledged Debt constitutes all of the outstanding debt for
borrowed money owed to such Grantor by the issuers thereof and is
outstanding in the principal amount indicated on Schedule I
hereto.
(g) As of the date hereof, such
Grantor has no investment property, other than Excluded Assets and
the investment property listed on Schedule I hereto.
(h) As of the date hereof except as
set forth on Schedule III hereto, such Grantor is not a party to
any Material Contract extending more than one year after the date
hereof under which the total committed consideration payable to
such Grantor exceeds $10,000,000 in any Fiscal Year. The Assigned
Agreements to which such Grantor is a party, true and complete
copies of which have been furnished to or made available to the
Agent or its counsel on a confidential basis, have been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by such Grantor and, to the
knowledge of such Grantor, all other parties thereto, have not been
amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
as of the date hereof, are in full force and effect and are binding
upon and enforceable against such Grantor and, to the knowledge of
such Grantor, all other parties thereto in accordance with their
terms. There exists no default by such Grantor under any Assigned
Agreement to which such Grantor is a party, other than any default
that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(i) Such Grantor has no deposit
accounts, other than the Excluded Accounts, the Pledged Deposit
Accounts listed on Schedule II hereto and additional Pledged
Deposit Accounts as to which such Grantor has complied with the
applicable requirements of Section 5.
(j) Such Grantor is not a
beneficiary or assignee under any letter of credit, other than the
letters of credit described in Schedule IX hereto and additional
letters of credit as to which such Grantor has complied with the
requirements of Section 16.
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(k) This Agreement creates in favor
of the Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a valid
security interest in the Collateral granted by such Grantor,
securing the payment of the Secured Obligations. The security
interest in the Collateral created under this Agreement and subject
to the UCC (the “ UCC Collateral ”)
constitutes, subject only to the filing of appropriate financing
statements pursuant to the UCC, the recordation of the Intellectual
Property Security Agreement with the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office and the U.S. Copyright Office and the execution of
appropriate control agreements, a perfected security interest in
the UCC Collateral granted by such Grantor to the extent that a
security interest in such UCC Collateral may be perfected by the
filing of a financing statement, the recordation of a security
agreement with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S.
Copyright Office (except to the extent that the recordation of any
such security agreement is not required pursuant to this Agreement
or the other Loan Documents) or by the execution of a control
agreement (except to the extent that the execution of any such
control agreement is not required pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents), subject only to Permitted
Liens. Such security interest is, in the case of a security
interest in the ABL First Lien Collateral, first priority and, in
the case of a security interest in the Noteholder First Lien
Collateral, second priority in accordance with the Intercreditor
Agreement, in each case subject only to Permitted Liens.
(l) As of the date hereof, no
authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or
filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any
other third party is required for (i) the grant by such
Grantor of the security interest granted hereunder or for the
execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by such
Grantor, (ii) the perfection or maintenance of the security
interest created under this Agreement (including the priorities of
such security interest described in clause (k) above), except
for (x) the filing of financing and continuation statements
under the UCC, which financing statements have been delivered or
made available to the Agent in proper form for filing, (y) the
recordation of the Intellectual Property Security Agreements
referred to in Section 13(f) with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office, which ag