SECURITY AGREEMENT
THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement ”) is made
as of June__, 2009 by and among Flint Telecom Group Inc., a Nevada
corporation (the “ Company ”), and the
subscribers identified on the signature pages hereto and their
respective endorsees, transferees and assigns (each a “
Secured Party ” and, collectively, the “
Secured Parties ”).
WHEREAS , pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, dated
of even date herewith, the Company issued to the Secured Parties a
certain 10% Subordinated Secured Promissory Note (the
“Note”).
NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the agreements herein
contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1.
Certain
Definitions . As used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section
1. Terms used but not otherwise defined in this
Agreement that are defined in Article 9 of the UCC (such as
“general intangibles” and “proceeds”) shall
have the respective meanings given such terms in Article 9 of the
UCC. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Subscription
Agreement.
a.
“ Collateral ”
means the collateral in which the Secured Parties are granted a
security interest by this Agreement and which shall include the
following, whether presently owned or existing or hereafter
acquired or coming into existence, and all additions and accessions
thereto and all substitutions and replacements thereof, and all
proceeds, products and accounts thereof, including, without
limitation, all proceeds from the sale or transfer of the
Collateral and of insurance covering the same and of any tort
claims in connection therewith:
i.
All goods, including, without
limitation, all machinery, equipment, computers, motor vehicles,
trucks, tanks, boats, ships, appliances, furniture, special and
general tools, fixtures, test and quality control devices and other
equipment of every kind and nature and wherever situated, together
with all documents of title and documents representing the same,
all additions and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all
parts therefor, and all substitutes for any of the foregoing and
all other items, owned by the Company and used in connection with
the Company’s businesses and all improvements thereto;
and
ii.
All inventory of the Company;
and
iii.
All of the Company’s contract
rights and general intangibles, including, without limitation, all
partnership interests, stock or other securities, licenses,
distribution and other agreements, computer software development
rights, employee non-compete, non-disclosure and assignment of
rights agreements, leases, franchises, customer lists, quality
control procedures, grants and rights, goodwill, deposit accounts,
and income tax refunds; and
iv.
All receivables of the Company
including, without limitation, all insurance proceeds, and rights
to refunds or indemnification whatsoever owing, together with all
instruments, all documents of title representing any of the
foregoing, all rights in any merchandising, goods, equipment, motor
vehicles and trucks which any of the same may represent, and all
right, title, security and guaranties with respect to each
receivable, including any right of stoppage in transit;
and
v.
All of the Company’s
Intellectual Property; and
vi.
All of Company’s equity
interest in its Subsidiaries (as defined in the Subordinated
Secured Note) and certificates evidencing such equity interest, and
any shares of stock (including, without limitation, a distribution
in connection with any reclassification, increase or reduction of
capital or in connection with any reorganization), or any option or
right to acquire shares of stock, in substitution of, or in
exchange for, any of such equity interest, or any stock dividend or
split with respect to such equity interest, and any distributions,
whether dividend or liquidating or otherwise, of any cash or
property with respect to such equity interest; and
vii.
All of the Company’s
documents, instruments and chattel paper, files, records, books of
account, business papers, computer programs and the products and
proceeds of all of the foregoing Collateral set forth in paragraphs
(i) through (vi), inclusive, above.
b.
“ Copyrights ”
shall mean all of the following in which the Company now holds or
hereafter acquires any interest (i) all copyrights, whether
registered or unregistered, held pursuant to the laws of the United
States, any State thereof or any other country; (ii) registrations,
applications and recordings in the United States Copyright Office
or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State
thereof or any other country; (iii) any continuations, renewals or
extensions thereof; (iv) any registrations to be issued in any
pending applications; (v) prior versions of works covered by
copyright and all works based upon, derived from or incorporating
such works; (vi) income, royalties, damages, claims and payments
now and hereafter due and/or payable with respect to copyrights,
including, without limitation, damages, claims and recoveries for
past, present or future infringement; (vii) rights to sue for past,
present and future infringements of any copyright; (viii) any
rights in any material which is copyrightable or which is protected
by common law, United States copyright laws or similar laws, or any
law of any State, and (ix) any other rights corresponding to any of
the foregoing rights throughout the world.
c.
“ Copyright License
” shall mean any agreement, written or oral, in which the
Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest, granting any
right in or to any Copyright or Copyright registration (whether the
Company is the licensee or the licensor thereunder) including,
without limitation, licenses pursuant to which the Company has
obtained the exclusive right to use a copyright owned by a third
party.
d.
“ Intellectual Property
” shall mean, collectively, the Software Intellectual
Property, Copyrights, Copyright Licenses, Patents, Patent Licenses,
Trademarks, Trademark Licenses and Trade Secrets.
e.
“ Obligations ”
means all of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement,
the Subscription Agreement and the Note, in each case, whether now
or hereafter existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated,
whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from
time to time decreased or extinguished and later decreased, created
or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or
liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such
payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from the
Secured Parties as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise
as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted,
extended or modified from time to time.
f.
“ Patents ” shall
mean all of the following in which the Company now
holds or
hereafter acquires any interest: (i) all patents of the United
States or any other country, all registrations and recordings
thereof and all applications for patents of the United States or
any other country, including, without limitation, registrations,
recordings and applications in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United
States, any State thereof or any other country; (ii) all reissues,
divisions, continuations, renewals, continuations in part or
extensions thereof; (iii) all patents to issue in any such
applications; (iv) income, royalties, damages, claims and payments
now and hereafter due and/or payable with respect to patents,
including, without limitation, damages, claims and recoveries for
past, present or future infringement; and (v) rights to sue for
past, present and future infringements of any patent.
g.
“ Patent License
” shall mean any agreement, whether written or oral, in which
the Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest, granting
any right with respect to any Patent (whether the Company is the
licensee or the licensor thereunder).
h.
“ Software Intellectual
Property ” shall mean (i) all software programs
(including, without limitation, all source code, object code and
all related applications and data files), whether now owned,
upgraded, enhanced, licensed or leased or hereafter acquired by the
Company; (ii) all computers and electronic data processing hardware
and firmware associated therewith; (iii) all documentation
(including, without limitation, flow charts, logic diagrams,
manuals, guides and specifications) with respect to such software,
hardware and firmware described in the preceding subclauses (i) and
(ii); and (iv) all rights with respect to all of the foregoing,
including, without limitation, any and all upgrades, modifications,
copyrights, licenses, options, warranties, service contracts,
program services, test rights, maintenance rights, support rights,
improvement rights, renewal rights and indemnifications and
substitutions, replacements, additions, or model conversions of any
of the foregoing.
i.
“ Trademarks ”
shall mean any of the following in which the Company now holds or
hereafter acquires any interest: (i) any trademarks, tradenames,
corporate names, company names, business names, trade styles,
service marks, logos, other source or business identifiers, prints
and labels on which any of the foregoing have appeared or appear,
designs and general intangibles of like nature, now existing or
hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings
thereof and any applications in connection therewith, including,
without limitation, registrations, recordings and applications in
the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar
office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any
other country (collectively, the “ Marks ”);
(ii) any reissues, extensions or renewals thereof, (iii) the
goodwill of the business symbolized by or associated with the
Marks, (iv) income, royalties, damages, claims and payments now and
hereafter due and/or payable with respect to the Marks, including,
without limitation, damages, claims and recoveries for past,
present or future infringement and (v) rights to sue for past,
present and future infringements of the Marks.
j.
“ Trademark License
” shall mean any agreement, written or oral, in which the
Company now holds or hereafter acquires any interest, granting any
right in and to any Trademark or Trademark registration (whether
the Company is the licensee or the licensor thereunder).
k.
“ Trade Secrets ”
shall mean common law and statutory trade secrets and all other
confidential or proprietary or useful information and all know-how
obtained by or used in or contemplated at any time for use in the
business of the Company (all of the foregoing being collectively
called a “ Trade Secret ”), whether or not such
Trade Secret has been reduced to a writing or other tangible form,
including, without limitation, all documents and things embodying,
incorporating or referring in
any way
to such Trade Secret, all Trade Secret Licenses, and including,
without limitation, the right to sue for and to enjoin and to
collect damages for the actual or threatened misappropriation of
any Trade Secret and for the breach or enforcement of any such
Trade Secret license.
l.
“ UCC ” means the
Uniform Commercial Code, as the same may, from time to time, be in
effect in the State of New York; provided , however ,
in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or
all of the attachment, perfection or priority of the Secured
Parties’ 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, the term “ UCC ”
shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other
jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such
attachment, perfection of priority and for purposes of definitions
related to such provisions.
2.
Grant of Security
Interest . As a further inducement for the
Secured Parties to enter into the Subordinated Secured Promissory
Note and to secure the complete and timely payment, performance and
discharge in full, as the case may be, of all of the Obligations,
the Company hereby, unconditionally and irrevocably, pledges,
grants and hypothecates to the Secured Parties, a continuing
subordinated security interest in, a continuing third lien upon, a
right to possession and disposition of, and a right of set-off
against, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by law, all
of the Company’s right, title and interest of whatsoever kind
and nature in and to the Collateral (the “ Security
Interest ”).
3.
Representations, Warranties,
Covenants and Agreements of the Company . Except as set forth on Schedule
A attached hereto, the Company represents and warrants to, and
covenants and agrees with, the Secured Parties as
follows:
a.
The Company has the requisite
corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and
otherwise carry out its obligations thereunder. The
execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this
Agreement and the filings contemplated therein have been duly
authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and
no further action is required by the Company. This
Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the
enforcement of creditor’s rights generally.
b.
The Company represents and warrants
that it has no place of business or offices where its respective
books of account and records are kept (other than temporarily at
the offices of its attorneys or accountants) or places where the
Collateral is stored or located;
c.
Except for the first security
interest granted to Thermo Credit LLC and a second security
interest to China Voice Holding Corp., the Company is the sole
owner of the Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted
by the Company in the ordinary course of business), free and clear
of any liens, security interests, encumbrances, rights or claims,
and is fully authorized to grant the Security Interest in and to
pledge the Collateral. There is not on file in any
governmental or regulatory authority, agency or recording office an
effective financing statement, security agreement, license or
transfer or any notice of any of the foregoing (other than those
that have been filed in favor of Thermo Credit LLC or the Secured
Parties pursuant to this Agreement) covering or affecting any of
the Collateral. So long as this Agreement shall be in
effect, without the prior consent of the Secured Parties, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Company shall not
execute and shall not knowingly permit to be on file in any such
office or agency any such financing statement or other document or
instrument (except to the extent filed or recorded in favor of
Thermo Credit LLC or the Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement).
d.
No part of the Collateral or rights
in connection therewith has been judged, by any governmental body
with proper jurisdiction, to be invalid or
unenforceable. No written claim has been received
alleging the Company’s use of any Collateral violates the
rights of any third party. There has been no adverse decision to
the Company’s claim of ownership rights in or exclusive
rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to the
Company’s right to keep and maintain such Collateral in full
force and effect, and there is no proceeding involving said rights
pending or threatened before any court, judicial body,
administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other
governmental authority.
e.
The Company shall at all times
maintain its books of account and records relating to the
Collateral at its principal place of business and its Collateral at
the locations set forth on Schedule A attached
hereto.
f.
This Agreement creates in favor of
the Secured Parties a valid security interest in the Collateral
securing the payment and performance of the Obligations and, upon
making the filings described in the immediately following sentence,
a perfected third priority security interest in such Collateral
and, to the extent that it can be perfected through such filings,
the Intellectual Property. Except for the filing of
financing statements on Form-1 under the UCC with the jurisdictions
indicated on Schedule A , attached hereto, no authorization
or approval of or filing with or notice to any governmental
authority or regulatory body is required either (i) for the grant
by the Company of, or the effectiveness of, the Security Interest
granted hereby or for the execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement by the Company or (ii) for the perfection of, or
exercise by the Secured Parties of, their rights and remedies
hereunder.
g.
Prior to or promptly after the
closing of the Subordinated Secured Note, the Secured Parties shall
file or cause to be filed one or more executed UCC financing
statements on Form-1 with respect to the Security Interest with the
appropriate jurisdictions. Furthermore, upon request of
the Secured Parties, the Company shall execute and deliver any and
all agreements, instruments, documents, and papers as the Secured
Parties may reasonably request to evidence the Secured
Parties’ security interest in the Intellectual Property and
the goodwill and general intangibles of the Company relating
thereto or represented thereby.
h.
The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement does not conflict with or cause a
material breach or default, or an event that with or without the
passage of time or notice, shall constitute a material breach or
default, under any agreement to which the Company is a party or by
which the Company is bound. No consent (including,
without limitation, from stockholders or creditors of the Company)
is required for the Company to enter into and perform its
obligations hereunder.
i.
The Company shall at all times
safeguard, protect and maintain the Collateral for the account of
the Secured Parties until this Agreement and the Security Interest
hereunder shall terminate pursuant to Section 12. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the Company shall pay all
governmental fees and taxes necessary to maintain the Collateral
and the Security Interest hereunder, and the Company shall obtain
and furnish to the Secured Parties from time to time, upon demand,
such releases and/or subordinations of claims and liens which may
be required to maintain the priority of the Security Interest
hereunder.
j.
The Company will not transfer,
pledge, hypothecate, encumber, license, sell or otherwise dispose
of any of the Collateral without the prior written consent of the
Secured Parties.
k.
The Company shall, within ten (10)
days of obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Secured Parties
promptly, in sufficient detail, of the occurrence of any event
which would have a material adverse effect on the value of the
Collateral or on the Secured Parties’ security interest
therein.
l.
The Company shall promptly execute
and deliver to the Secured Parties such further deeds, mortgages,
assignments, security agreements, financing statements or other
instruments, documents, certificates and assurances and take such
further action as the Secured Parties may from time to time request
and may in its sole discretion deem necessary to perfect, protect
or enforce the Security Interest.
m.
The Company shall permit the Secured
Parties and its representatives and agents to inspect the
Collateral at any time and to make copies of records pertaining to
the Collateral as may be requested by the Secured Parties from time
to time.
n.
The Company will take all steps
reasonably necessary to diligently pursue and seek to preserve,
enforce and collect any rights, claims, causes of acti
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