SECURITY
AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of
September 17, 2009, among (a) KAMAN CORPORATION , a
Connecticut corporation (the “ Company ”), (b)
KAMAN AEROSPACE GROUP, INC. , a Connecticut corporation,
KAMATICS CORPORATION , a Connecticut corporation, KAMAN
PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC. , a Florida corporation, KAMAN
AEROSPACE CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation, KAMAN
AEROSTRUCTURES GROUP — WICHITA, INC. , a Delaware
corporation, KAMAN AEROSTRUCTURES — WICHITA, INC. , a
Delaware corporation, KAMAN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES
CORPORATION , a Connecticut corporation, KAMAN X
CORPORATION , a Connecticut corporation, and K-MAX
CORPORATION , a Connecticut corporation (each a “
Guarantor ”, and collectively, the “
Guarantors ”), (c) each other party as shall from
time to time become a party hereto (each such other party, the
Company and the Guarantors being hereinafter referred to from time
to time, individually, as a “ Grantor ” and,
collectively, as the “ Grantors ”) and (d)
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. (“ Bank of America
”), as collateral agent (hereinafter, in such capacity, the
“ Collateral Agent ”) for the Senior Secured
Parties under, and as defined in, the Intercreditor Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, extended,
supplemented, modified and otherwise in effect from time to time,
the “ Intercreditor Agreement ”), by and among
the Revolving Loan Administrator, the Term Loan Administrator and
the Collateral Agent and acknowledged by the Loan Parties (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) signatory
thereto.
WHEREAS ,
(a) the Company, the Collateral Agent, the lenders party
thereto from time to time (the “ Revolving Loan
Lenders ”), Bank of America and The Bank of Nova Scotia,
each as a Co-Administrative Agent for the Revolving Loan Lenders,
Bank of America, as Administrator for the Revolving Loan Lenders
(the “ Revolving Loan Administrator ”) and as
Collateral Agent, RBS Citizens, National Association, as
Syndication Agent, and certain other parties thereto from time to
time, have entered into that certain Revolving Credit Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, extended,
supplemented, modified and otherwise in effect from time to time,
the “ Revolving Credit Agreement ”),
(b) the Guarantors have entered into a Domestic Subsidiary
Guarantee pursuant to which they have Guaranteed the Obligations
(as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), (c) the
Company, the Collateral Agent, the lenders party thereto from time
to time (the “ Term Loan Lenders ”), Bank of
America and The Bank of Nova Scotia, each as a Co-Administrative
Agent for the Term Loan Lenders, Bank of America, as Administrator
for the Term Loan Lenders (the “ Term Loan
Administrator ”), and certain other parties thereto from
time to time, have entered into that certain Amended and Restated
Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as
amended, restated, extended, supplemented, modified and otherwise
in effect from time to time, the “ Term Loan Credit
Agreement ” and together with the Revolving Credit
Agreement, the “ Credit Agreements ”), and
(d) the Guarantors have entered into a Domestic Subsidiary
Guarantee pursuant to which they have Guaranteed the Obligations
(as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement);
WHEREAS ,
it is (i) a condition precedent to the Revolving Loan Lenders
making any loans or otherwise extending credit to the Borrowers
under, and as defined in, the Revolving Credit Agreement and
(ii) a requirement under the Term Loan Credit Agreement that
the Grantors execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, for the
benefit of the Senior Secured Parties, a security agreement in
substantially the form hereof; and
WHEREAS ,
each Grantor wishes to grant a security interest in favor of the
Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties, as
herein provided;
NOW,
THEREFORE , in consideration of the promises contained herein
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
1.
Definitions . All capitalized terms used herein without
definitions shall have the respective meanings provided therefor in
the Intercreditor Agreement. The term “State”, as used
herein, means the State of New York. All terms defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code of the State and used herein shall have the
same definitions herein as specified therein. However, if a term is
defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the
State differently than in another Article of the Uniform Commercial
Code of the State, the term has the meaning specified in Article 9.
The term “electronic document” applies in the event
that the 2003 revisions to Article 7, with amendments to
Article 9, of the Uniform Commercial Code, in substantially
the form approved by the American Law Institute and the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, are now or
hereafter adopted and become effective in the State or in any other
relevant jurisdiction.
2.1. Grant
of Security Interest . Each Grantor hereby grants to the
Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties, to
secure the payment and performance in full of all of the Senior
Obligations, a security interest in and pledges and assigns to the
Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties,
the following properties, assets and rights of such Grantor,
wherever located, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or
arising, and all proceeds and products thereof (all of the same
being hereinafter called the “ Collateral ”):
all personal and fixture property of every kind and nature
including all goods (including inventory, equipment and any
accessions thereto), instruments (including promissory notes),
documents (including, if applicable, electronic documents),
accounts (including health-care-insurance receivables), chattel
paper (whether tangible or electronic), letter-of-credit rights
(whether or not the letter of credit is evidenced by a writing),
commercial tort claims, securities and all other investment
property (subject to Sections 2.2 and 5.1 ),
money, cash or cash equivalents, supporting obligations, any other
contract rights or rights to the payment of money, insurance
claims, all general intangibles (including all payment intangibles,
software and intellectual property), and any books, records or
information relating to the foregoing and any proceeds of the
foregoing. The Collateral Agent acknowledges that the attachment of
its security interest in any commercial tort claim of any Grantor
as original collateral is subject to such Grantor’s
compliance with Section 4.8 .
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2.2.
Non-Transferable Collateral . (a) The grant of the
security interest contained in Section 2.1 shall not
extend to, and the term “Collateral” shall not include
(a) any personal property of any Grantor constituting
“Equipment for Sale” (the “ Excluded
Inventory ”) as defined in that certain Settlement Deed
dated March 19, 2008, by and among The Commonwealth of
Australia as represented by the Department of Defense, Kaman
Aerospace International Corporation, Kaman Aerospace Corporation,
and Kaman Corporation (as amended prior to the date hereof, the
“ Settlement Agreement ”), to the extent that
the Settlement Agreement prohibits the granting of a security
interest in any Excluded Inventory, (b) any directly held
investment property, or any general intangibles, now or hereafter
held or owned by the Grantors, to the extent, in each case, that
(i) a security interest may not be granted by the Grantors in
such directly held investment property or general intangibles as a
matter of law, or under the terms of the governing document
applicable thereto, without the consent of one or more applicable
parties thereto and (ii) such consent has not been obtained,
or (c) more than 66% of the Equity Interests (as defined in
each Credit Agreement) of any first-tier Foreign Subsidiary (as
defined in each Credit Agreement), and, to the extent not yet paid
to such Grantor, the corresponding proportion of dividends,
distributions, interest and other payments with respect
thereto.
(b) The grant of
the security interest contained in Section 2.1 shall
extend to, and the term “Collateral” shall include,
(i) any and all proceeds of the Excluded Inventory, which any
Grantor is entitled to retain under the terms of the Settlement
Agreement, and such directly held investment property or general
intangibles to the extent that such proceeds are not themselves
directly held investment property or general intangibles subject to
Section 2.2(a) and (ii) upon any such applicable
party or parties’ consent with respect to any otherwise
excluded Excluded Inventory, directly held investment property or
general intangibles being obtained, thereafter such Excluded
Inventory, directly held investment property or general
intangibles.
(c) The provisions
of Section 2.2(a) shall not apply to (i) directly
held investment property or general intangibles to the extent that
the restriction on the Grantor granting a security interest therein
is not effective under applicable law or (ii) payment
intangibles.
3.
Authorization to File Financing Statements . Each
Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any
time and from time to time to file in any filing office in any
Uniform Commercial Code jurisdiction any initial financing
statements and amendments thereto that (a) indicate the
Collateral (i) as all assets of such Grantor or words of
similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset
comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State or such
other jurisdiction, or (ii) as being of an equal or lesser
scope or with greater detail, and (b) provide any other
information required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform
Commercial Code of the State or such other jurisdiction for the
sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any financing statement
or amendment, including (x) whether such Grantor is an
organization, the type of organization and any organizational
identification number issued to such Grantor and, (y) in the
case of a financing statement filed as
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a fixture
filing or indicating Collateral as as-extracted collateral or
timber to be cut, a sufficient description of real property to
which the Collateral relates. Each Grantor agrees to furnish any
such information to the Collateral Agent promptly upon the
Collateral Agent’s request. Each Grantor also ratifies its
authorization for the Collateral Agent to have filed in any Uniform
Commercial Code jurisdiction any like initial financing statements
or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof, with all
costs and expenses to be at the Grantors’ expense.
4.
Other Actions . Further to insure the attachment,
perfection and first priority of, and the ability of the Collateral
Agent to enforce, the Collateral Agent’s security interest in
the Collateral, each Grantor agrees, in each case at such
Grantor’s expense, to take the following actions with respect
to the following Collateral and without limitation on such
Grantor’s other obligations contained in this
Agreement:
4.1.
Promissory Notes and Tangible Chattel Paper . If any
Grantor shall, now or at any time hereafter, hold or acquire any
promissory notes or tangible chattel paper (a) individually having
a face value in excess of $1,000,000 (each, a “ Material
Note ”) or (b) collectively, including the sum of
(i) the promissory notes and tangible chattel paper of all
Grantors (collectively, the “ Excess Notes ”)
together with (ii) the electronic chattel paper, electronic
documents and other “transferrable records,” as that
term is defined in Section 201 of the federal Electronic
Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or in
Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in
effect in any relevant jurisdiction, of all Grantors (collectively,
the “ Excess Electronic Chattel Paper ” and,
together with the Excess Notes, the “ Excess Notes/Chattel
Paper ”), having a face value in excess of $5,000,000 in
the aggregate, such Grantor shall forthwith (A) endorse,
assign and deliver to the Collateral Agent each such Material Note
and, (B) to the extent the Excess Notes/Chattel Paper have a
face value in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate,
(1) endorse, assign and deliver to the Collateral Agent such
Excess Notes having the highest face value (collectively with the
Material Notes, the “ Pledged Debt ”) pursuant
to this Section or (2) take such action as the Collateral
Agent may reasonably request to vest in the Collateral Agent
control of such Excess Electronic Chattel Paper having the highest
face value pursuant to Section 4.6, such that the aggregate
face value of the remaining Excess Notes that are not endorsed,
assigned and delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this
Section and the remaining Excess Electronic Chattel Paper that are
not in control of the Collateral Agent pursuant to
Section 4.6, shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate,
and, in each case of a required endorsement, assignment and
delivery, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment
duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to
time specify.
4.2.
Deposit Accounts . For each deposit account that any
Grantor, now or at any time hereafter, opens or maintains, such
Grantor shall, at the Collateral Agent’s reasonable request
and option, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either
(a) cause the depositary bank to agree to comply without
further consent of such Grantor, at any time with instructions from
the Collateral Agent to such depositary bank directing the
disposition of funds from time to time credited to such deposit
account, or (b) arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the
customer of the depositary bank with respect to the deposit
account, with
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such Grantor
being permitted, only with the consent of the Collateral Agent, to
exercise rights to withdraw funds from such deposit account. The
Collateral Agent agrees with each Grantor that the Collateral Agent
shall not give any such instructions pursuant to clause
(a) above or withhold any withdrawal rights from any Grantor
pursuant to clause (b) above, unless an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would occur if effect were given to
any withdrawal not otherwise permitted by the Loan Documents (as
defined in each Credit Agreement). The provisions of this paragraph
shall not apply to any deposit accounts specially and exclusively
used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit
payments to or for the benefit of any Grantor’s
employees.
4.3.
Investment Property . Subject to Section 2.2
, if any Grantor shall, now or at any time hereafter, hold or
acquire any certificated securities of any Subsidiary, such Grantor
shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the
Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or
assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from
time to time specify. If any securities now or hereafter acquired
by any Grantor are (a) (i) uncertificated or
(ii) certificated and issued by a Person other than a
Subsidiary, (b) issued to such Grantor or its nominee directly
by the issuer thereof, and (c) (i) individually have a
principal amount or value in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate
(each a “ Material Security ”) or
(ii) collectively, with such securities of all Grantors, have
a principal amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, such
Grantor shall immediately notify the Collateral Agent thereof and,
at the Collateral Agent’s request and option, pursuant to an
agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to
comply, without further consent of such Grantor or such nominee, at
any time with instructions from the Collateral Agent as to each
Material Security and, to the extent such securities of all
Grantors have a principal amount or value in excess of $5,000,000
in the aggregate, such securities having the highest principal
amounts (collectively, the “ Excess Securities ”
and, together with the Material Securities, the “ Pledged
Securities ”) such that the aggregate principal amount or
value of the remaining securities shall not exceed $5,000,000 or
(B) arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the registered
owner of the Pledged Securities. If any securities, whether
certificated or uncertificated, or other investment property now or
hereafter acquired by any Grantor are held by such Grantor or its
nominee through a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary
and constitute Pledged Securities, such Grantor shall immediately
notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at the Collateral
Agent’s request and option, pursuant to an agreement in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
either (1) cause such securities intermediary or (as the case may
be) commodity intermediary to agree to comply, in each case without
further consent of such Grantor or such nominee, at any time with
entitlement orders or other instructions from the Collateral Agent
to such securities intermediary as to such Pledged Securities, or
(as the case may be) to apply any value distributed on account of
any commodity contract as directed by the Collateral Agent to such
commodity intermediary, or (2) in the case of Pledged
Securities held through a securities intermediary, arrange for the
Collateral Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to
such Pledged Securities, with such Grantor being permitted, only
with the consent of the Collateral Agent, to exercise rights to
withdraw or otherwise deal with such investment property. The
Collateral Agent agrees with each
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Grantor that
the Collateral Agent shall not give any such entitlement orders or
instructions or directions to any such issuer, securities
intermediary or commodity intermediary pursuant to clauses
(A) or (1) above, and shall not withhold its consent to
the exercise of any withdrawal or dealing rights by such Grantor
pursuant to clauses (B) or (2) above, unless an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur after giving
effect to any such investment and withdrawal rights not otherwise
permitted by the Loan Documents (as defined in each Credit
Agreement). The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any
financial assets credited to a securities account for which the
Collateral Agent is the securities intermediary.
4.4.
Collateral in the Possession of a Bailee . If any
Collateral of any Grantor constituting at least 5% of the total
book value of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries is,
now or at any time hereafter, in the possession of a bailee at a
particular location, such Grantor shall promptly notify the
Collateral Agent thereof and shall promptly obtain an
acknowledgement from the bailee with respect to such location, in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
that the bailee holds such Collateral for the benefit of the
Collateral Agent and such bailee’s agreement to comply,
without further consent of such Grantor, at any time with
instructions of the Collateral Agent, as to such Collateral. The
Collateral Agent agrees with each Grantor that the Collateral Agent
shall not give any such instructions unless an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would occur after taking into account
any action by such Grantor with respect to the bailee.
4.5.
Landlord Waivers . If any Collateral of any Grantor
constituting at least 5% of the total book value of the assets of
the Company and its Subsidiaries is, now or at any time hereafter,
located at a leased property, such Grantor shall promptly notify
the Collateral Agent thereof and shall promptly obtain a landlord
waiver in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent with respect to such location.
4.6.
Electronic Chattel Paper, Electronic Documents and Transferable
Records . If any Grantor, now or at any time hereafter,
holds or acquires an interest in any electronic chattel paper, any
electronic document or any “transferable record,” (a)
individually having a face value in excess of $1,000,000 (each a
“ Material Electronic Paper ”) or
(b) collectively, including the sum of all Excess
Notes/Chattel Paper, having a face value in excess of $5,000,000 in
the aggregate, such Grantor shall (i) promptly notify the
Collateral Agent thereof and, at the request and option of the
Collateral Agent, shall take such action as the Collateral Agent
may reasonably request to vest in the Collateral Agent control of
such Material Electronic Paper, under Section 9-105 of the
Uniform Commercial Code of the State or any other relevant
jurisdiction, Section 7-106 of the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State or any other relevant jurisdiction, Section 201 of
the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce
Act or Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act,
as so in effect in such jurisdiction, as applicable, and,
(ii) to the extent the Excess Notes/Chattel Paper have a face
value in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (A) endorse,
assign and deliver to the Collateral Agent such Excess Notes having
the highest face value pursuant to Section 4.1 or
(B) take such action as the Collateral Agent may reasonably
request to vest in the Collateral
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Agent control
of such Excess Electronic Chattel Paper having the highest face
value pursuant to this Section, such that the aggregate face value
of the remaining Excess Notes that are not endorsed, assigned and
delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.1 and the
remaining Excess Electronic Chattel Paper that are not in control
of the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Section, shall not exceed
$5,000,000 in the aggregate. The Collateral Agent agrees with each
Grantor that the Collateral Agent will arrange, pursuant to
procedures satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and so long as such
procedures will not result in the Collateral Agent’s loss of
control, for such Grantor to make alterations to the electronic
chattel paper, electronic document or transferable record permitted
under UCC Section 9-105, UCC Section 7-106, or, as the
case may be, Section 201 of the federal Electronic Signatures
in Global and National Commerce Act or Section 16 of the
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act for a party in control to make
without loss of control, unless an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing or would occur after taking into account any
action by such Grantor with respect to such electronic chattel
paper, electronic document or transferable record. The provisions
of this Section 4.6 relating to electronic documents
and “control” under UCC Section 7-106 apply in the
event that the 2003 revisions to Article 7, with amendments to
Article 9, of the Uniform Commercial Code, in substantially
the form approved by the American Law Institute and the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, are now or
hereafter adopted and become effective in the State or in any other
relevant jurisdiction.
4.7.
Letter-of-Credit Rights . If any Grantor is, now or at
any time hereafter, a beneficiary under a letter of credit now or
hereafter (a) individually having a maximum amount that may be
drawn in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate (each, a “
Material Letter of Credit ”) or (b) collectively,
with the letters of credit of all Grantors, having a maximum amount
that may be drawn in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, such
Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at
the request and option of the Collateral Agent, such Grantor shall,
pursuant to an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent, either (A) arrange for the issuer and any
confirmer or other nominated person of each such Material Letter of
Credit and, to the extent all such letters of credit of the
Grantors have a maximum amount that may be drawn in excess of
$5,000,000 in the aggregate, such letters of credit having the
highest amounts that may be drawn (collectively, the “
Excess Letters of Credit ” and, together with the
Material Letters of Credit, the “ Pledged Letters of
Credit ”), such that the aggregate maximum amount that
may be drawn on such letters of credit which are not Pledged
Letters of Credit does not exceed $5,000,000, to consent to an
assignment to the Collateral Agent of the proceeds of the Pledged
Letters of Credit or (B) arrange for the Collateral Agent to
become the transferee beneficiary of such Pledged Letters of
Credit, it being understood that, in each case, the proceeds of
such Pledged Letters of Credit shall be delivered to the applicable
Grantor unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
in which event the proceeds of such Pledged Letters of Credit shall
be applied to the Senior Obligations, subject to the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement, as provided in Section 8.03 of each
Credit Agreement.
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4.8.
Commercial Tort Claims . If any Grantor shall, now or at
any time hereafter, hold or acquire a commercial tort claim, such
Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent in a writing
signed by such Grantor of the particulars thereof and grant to the
Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties, in
such writing a security interest therein and in the proceeds
thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to
be in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent. Such
notice shall be deemed to be an amendment to such Grantor’s
Perfection Certificate with respect to such commercial tort
claim.
4.9.
Federal Assignment of Claims Act . In addition to the
account debtors listed on Schedule 8 hereto, to the extent any
other account debtors or other persons obligated on any account
constituting Collateral with an aggregate value in excess of
$15,000,000 during any fiscal year is a governmental authority
covered by the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or like federal,
state or local statute or rule in respect of the applicable
Collateral, the applicable Grantor shall notify the Collateral
Agent and provide the Collateral Agent all necessary approvals and
documentation to evidence compliance and satisfaction with the
requirements of such statute, which evidence shall be in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent.
4.10.
Equipment For Sale . Each Grantor agrees that it will
include on each Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to
Section 6.01 of each Credit Agreement (i) a reasonably
detailed description of any Excluded Inventory sold during the
applicable fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as the case may be,
(ii) the aggregate amount of proceeds arising from such sale
or sales, (iii) the amount of such proceeds to be retained by
such Grantor, and (iv) a certification as to such
Grantor’s actual receipt of such proceeds.
4.11. Other
Actions as to Any and All Collateral . Each Grantor further
agrees upon the request of the Collateral Agent and at the
Collateral Agent’s option, to take any and all other actions
as the Collateral Agent may reasonably determine to be necessary or
useful for the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and
the ability of the Collateral Agent to enforce, the Collateral
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