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Title: THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 5/27/2009
Industry: Real Estate Operations     Sector: Services

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT, Parties: deutsche bank trust company americas , grubb & ellis company
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Exhibit 10.62

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT

Dated May 18, 2009

From

The Grantors referred to herein

as Grantors

to

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

as Administrative Agent

 


 

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 1.

 

Grant of Security

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 2.

 

Security for Obligations

 

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 3.

 

Grantors Remain Liable

 

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 4.

 

Delivery and Control of Security Collateral

 

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 5.

 

Maintaining the Account Collateral

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 6.

 

Investing of Amounts in the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 7.

 

Release of Amounts

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 8.

 

Maintaining Electronic Chattel Paper, Transferable Records and Letter-of-Credit Rights and Giving Notice of Commercial Tort Claims

 

 

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 9.

 

Representations and Warranties

 

 

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 10.

 

Further Assurances

 

 

14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 11.

 

As to Equipment and Inventory

 

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 12.

 

Insurance

 

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 13.

 

Post-Closing Changes; Bailees; Collections on Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts

 

 

17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 14.

 

As to Intellectual Property Collateral

 

 

18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 15.

 

Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc.

 

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 16.

 

As to the Assigned Agreements

 

 

21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 17.

 

Payments Under the Assigned Agreements

 

 

21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 18.

 

As to Letter-of-Credit Rights

 

 

22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 19.

 

Transfers and Other Liens; Additional Shares

 

 

22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 20.

 

Administrative Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact

 

 

22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 21.

 

Administrative Agent May Perform

 

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 22.

 

The Administrative Agent’s Duties

 

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 23.

 

Remedies

 

 

23

 

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Section

 

 

 

Page

 

Section 24.

 

Indemnity and Expenses

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 25.

 

Amendments; Waivers; Additional Grantors; Etc.

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 26.

 

Notices, Etc.

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 27.

 

Continuing Security Interest; Assignments under the Credit Agreement

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 28.

 

Release; Termination

 

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 29.

 

Execution in Counterparts

 

 

27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 30.

 

The Mortgages

 

 

27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 31.

 

Governing Law

 

 

27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedules I

 

-

 

Location, Chief Executive Office, Place Where Agreements Are Maintained, Type Of
Organization, Jurisdiction Of Organization And Organizational Identification Number

Schedule II

 

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Pledged Equity and Pledged Debt

Schedule III

 

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Assigned Agreements

Schedule IV

 

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Locations of Equipment and Inventory

Schedule V

 

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Changes in Name, Location, Etc.

Schedule VI

 

-

 

Patents, Trademarks and Trade Names, Copyrights and IP Agreements

Schedule VII

 

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Account Collateral

Schedule VIII

 

-

 

Intentionally Omitted

Schedule IX

 

-

 

Commercial Tort Claims

Schedule X

 

-

 

Letters of Credit

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit A

 

-

 

Form of Security Agreement Supplement

Exhibit B

 

-

 

Form of Account Control Agreement

Exhibit C

 

-

 

Form of Consent and Agreement

Exhibit D

 

-

 

Form of Securities Account Control Agreement

Exhibit E

 

-

 

Form of Commodity Account Control Agreement

Exhibit F

 

-

 

Form of Intellectual Property Security Agreement

Exhibit G

 

-

 

Form of Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement

Exhibit H

 

-

 

Form of Consent to Assignment of Letter of Credit Rights

Exhibit I

 

-

 

Form of Account Control Ratification

Exhibit J

 

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Form of ACH Account Control Agreement

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THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT

          THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT dated May 18, 2009 made by GRUBB & ELLIS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”), the other Persons listed on the signature pages hereof and the Additional Grantors (as defined in Section 25) (the Borrower, the Persons so listed and the Additional Grantors being, collectively, the “ Grantors ”), to DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as administrative agent (in such capacity, together with any successor administrative agent appointed pursuant to Article VII of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the “ Administrative Agent ”) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement).

           PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS.

          (1) The Borrower has entered into a Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 18, 2009 (said Agreement, as it may hereafter be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, being the “ Credit Agreement ”) with the Lender Parties and the Administrative Agent (each as defined therein).

          (2) Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Grantors are entering into this Agreement in order to grant to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties a security interest in the Collateral (as hereinafter defined).

          (3) Each Grantor is the owner of the shares of stock or other Equity Interests (the “ Initial Pledged Equity ”) set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on and as otherwise described in Part I of Schedule II hereto and issued by the Persons named therein and of the indebtedness (the “ Initial Pledged Debt ”) set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on and as otherwise described in Part II of Schedule II hereto and issued by the obligors named therein.

          (4) The Borrower has security entitlements (the “ Pledged Security Entitlements ”) with respect to all the financial assets (the “ Pledged Financial Assets ”) credited from time to time to the Borrower’s accounts (the “ Securities Accounts ”), as described in Part III of Schedule VII hereto.

          (5) The Borrower has opened the Automated Clearing House deposit accounts (the “ ACH Deposit Accounts ”), as described in Part I of Schedule VII hereto, and the other deposit accounts (the “ Other Deposit Accounts ” and, together with the ACH Deposit Accounts, the “ Deposit Accounts ”), as described in Part II of Schedule VII hereto.

          (6) A Letter of Credit collateral deposit account has been opened with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole control and dominion of the Administrative Agent (the “ L/C Collateral Account ”).

          (7) It is a condition precedent to the making of Advances and the issuance of Letters of Credit by the Lender Parties under the Credit Agreement and the entry into Secured Hedge Agreements by the Hedge Banks from time to time that the Grantors shall have granted the assignment and security interest and made the pledge and assignment contemplated by this Agreement.

          (8) Each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.

          (9) Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and not otherwise defined in this Agreement are used in this Agreement as defined in the Credit Agreement. Further, unless otherwise

 


 

defined in this Agreement or in the Credit 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 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 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. The term “ 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 bills, notes and bonds and Subpart D (“ Additional Provisions ”) of 31 C.F.R. Part 357, 31 C.F.R. § 357.2, § 357.10 through § 357.15 and § 357.40 through § 357.45 and (b) to the extent substantially identical to the federal regulations referred to in clause (a) above (as in effect from time to time), the federal regulations governing other book-entry securities.

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and in order to induce the Lender Parties to make Advances and issue Letters of Credit under the Credit Agreement and to induce the Hedge Banks to enter into Secured Hedge Agreements from time to time, each Grantor hereby agrees with the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties as follows:

          Section 1. Grant of Security . Each Grantor hereby grants to the Administrative 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, 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 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, and all software related thereto, including, without limitation, software that is embedded in and is part of the inventory (any and all such property being the “ Inventory ”);

     (c) all accounts, 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 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, being the “ Receivables ”,

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and any and all such supporting obligations, security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters of credit and other contracts being the “ Related Contracts ”); provided however that the security interest granted under this Section 1(c) shall not attach to any of the Receivables or Related Contracts that by their terms, prohibit or require the consent of any Person (other than the Grantor) as a condition to the creation by such Grantor of a lien thereon, but only, in all cases, to the extent, and for so long as, such prohibition is not terminated or rendered unenforceable or otherwise deemed ineffective by the UCC or any other applicable law;

(d) the following (the “ Security Collateral ”):

     (i) the Initial Pledged Equity and the certificates, if any, representing the Initial Pledged Equity, 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 the Initial Pledged Equity and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;

     (ii) 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;

     (iii) all additional shares of stock and other Equity Interests from time to time acquired by such Grantor in any manner (such shares and other Equity Interests, together with the Initial Pledged Equity, being the “ Pledged Equity ”), and the certificates, if any, representing such additional shares or other Equity Interests, 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 shares or other Equity Interests and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;

     (iv) all additional indebtedness 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 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;

     (v) the Securities Accounts, all Pledged Security Entitlements with respect to all Pledged Financial Assets from time to time credited to the Securities Accounts, and all Pledged 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 Pledged Security Entitlements or such Pledged Financial Assets and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto; and

     (vi) 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

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distributed in 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) each of the Material Contracts to which such Grantor is now or may hereafter become a party, the IP Agreements (as hereinafter defined), and each Hedge Agreement 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, 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 (all such Collateral being the “ Agreement Collateral ”); provided, however, that this Section 1(e) shall not apply to any Material Contract pursuant to the terms of which it would be a breach or default for Grantor to grant the security interest contemplated by this Section 1(e) or would require the consent of any Person (other than the Grantor) as a condition to the creation by the Grantor of a lien thereunder.

     (f) the following (collectively, the “ Account Collateral ”):

     (i) any collateral deposit account opened by the Borrower with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (or such other financial institution as the Administrative Agent may direct), in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole control and dominion of the Administrative Agent and subject to the terms of this Agreement (the “ Collateral Account ”), the L/C Collateral Account and the 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 the Collateral Account, the L/C Collateral Account and the Deposit Accounts;

     (ii) all promissory notes, certificates of deposit, deposit accounts, checks and other instruments from time to time delivered to or otherwise possessed by the Administrative Agent 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;

     (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, 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, corporate names and other source identifiers,

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whether registered or unregistered (provided that no security interest shall be granted in United States intent-to-use trademark applications 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 such intent-to-use trademark applications under applicable federal law), together, in each case, with the goodwill symbolized thereby (“ 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 (“ 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 (“ 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 VI hereto (as such Schedule VI may be supplemented from time to time by supplements to this Agreement, each such supplement being substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto (an “ IP Security Agreement Supplement ”) executed by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent from time to time), together with all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals and reexaminations thereof;

     (vii) 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;

     (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 VI hereto (“ IP Agreements ”); 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;

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     (h) all commercial tort claims described in Schedule IX hereto (collectively 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 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 Administrative 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, (B) tort claims, including, without limitation, all commercial tort claims and (C) cash.

          Section 2. Security for Obligations . This Agreement secures, in the case of each Grantor, the payment of all Obligations of each Loan Party now or hereafter existing under the Loan Documents, 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 ”).

          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 Administrative 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 certificates or instruments representing or evidencing Security Collateral shall be delivered to and held by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto 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 satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent 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 Administrative Agent or any of its nominees any or all of the Security Collateral, subject only to the revocable rights specified in Section 15(a). For the better perfection of the Administrative Agent’s rights in and to the Security Collateral, each Grantor shall forthwith, upon the pledge hereunder of any Security Collateral in which it has any right, title or interest, cause such Security Collateral to be registered in the name of the Administrative Agent or such of its nominees as the Administrative Agent shall direct, subject only to the revocable rights specified in Section 15(a). In addition, the Administrative Agent 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. Also, the Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time to convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited to the Securities Accounts to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly by the Administrative Agent, and to convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly by the

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Administrative Agent to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited to the Securities Accounts.

          (b) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that constitutes an uncertificated security, such Grantor will cause the issuer thereof either (i) to register the Administrative Agent as the registered owner of such security or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such security originated by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 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 Administrative Agent, such Grantor will notify each such issuer of Pledged Equity that such Pledged Equity is subject to the security interest granted hereunder.

          (c) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that constitutes a security entitlement in which the Administrative Agent is not the entitlement holder, such Grantor will cause the securities intermediary with respect to such security entitlement either (i) to identify in its records the Administrative Agent 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 Administrative Agent 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 Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (such agreement being a “ Securities Account Control Agreement ”).

          (d) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that constitutes a commodity contract, such Grantor shall cause the commodity intermediary with respect to such commodity contract to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such commodity intermediary will apply any value distributed on account of such commodity contract as directed by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (such agreement being a “ Commodity Account Control Agreement ”, and all such authenticated records, together with all Securities Account Control Agreements being, collectively, “ Security Control Agreements ”).

          (e) No Grantor will change or add any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary that maintains any securities account or commodity account in which any of the Collateral is credited or carried, or change or add any such securities account or commodity account, in each case without first complying with the above provisions of this Section 4 in order to perfect the security interest granted hereunder in such Collateral.

          (f) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor will notify each such issuer of Pledged Debt that such Pledged Debt is subject to the security interest granted hereunder.

          (g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Grantor shall not be required to comply with Section 1 and this Section 4 with respect to Initial Pledged Equity that is identified as “Pledged Joint Venture Investments” and “Pledged REIT Investments” so long as such Grantor promptly uses commercially reasonable efforts to seek all consents and other required approvals for the pledge of such Initial Pledged Equity and fail to obtain same. Upon receipt of such required approvals, such Grantor shall comply with Section 1 and this Section 4 with respect to such Initial

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Pledged Equity. If any Grantor fails to obtain any required approval within forty-five days from the date hereof, such Grantor shall provide a report to the Administrative Agent on the date that is forty-five days from the date hereof showing in reasonable detail the efforts undertaken by such Grantor to seek such approval.

          (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Grantor shall have the right to (i) modify the terms of and forgive the indebtedness of, the Initial Pledged Debt identified as “Promissory notes issued from time to time by various TIC and Master Lease Programs” and (ii) modify the terms of, including, but not limited to, extending the maturity date of, the Initial Pledged Debt issued by Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc., in each case in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice without the consent of any Lender Party.

          Section 5. Maintaining the Account Collateral . So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding, any Secured Hedge Agreement shall be in effect or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment:

     (a) Each Grantor will maintain all Account Collateral only with the Administrative Agent or with banks (the “ Pledged Account Banks ”) that have agreed, in a record authenticated by the Grantor, the Administrative Agent and the Pledged Account Banks, to (i) comply with instructions originated by the Administrative Agent directing the disposition of funds in the Account Collateral without the further consent of the Grantor and (ii) waive or subordinate in favor of the Administrative Agent all claims of the Pledged Account Banks (including, without limitation, claims by way of a security interest, lien or right of setoff or right of recoupment) to the Account Collateral, which authenticated record shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto for ACH Deposit Accounts or Exhibit B hereto for Other Deposit Accounts, or shall otherwise be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (the “ 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 Deposit Account and (ii) deposit in a Deposit Account or pay to the Administrative Agent for deposit in a Deposit Account, at the end of each Business Day, all proceeds of Collateral and all other cash of such Grantor.

     (c) Each Grantor agrees that it will not add any bank that maintains a deposit account for such Grantor or open any new deposit account with any then existing Pledged Account Bank unless (i) the Administrative Agent shall have received at least 10 days’ prior written notice of such additional bank or such new deposit account and (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received, in the case of a bank or Pledged Account Bank that is not the Administrative Agent, an Account Control Agreement authenticated by such new bank and such Grantor, or a supplement to an existing Account Control Agreement with such then existing Pledged Account Bank, covering such new deposit account (and, upon the receipt by the Administrative Agent of such Account Control Agreement or supplement, Schedule VII hereto shall be automatically amended to include such Deposit Account). Each Grantor agrees that it will not terminate any bank as a Pledged Account Bank or terminate any Account Collateral.

     (d) Upon any termination by a Grantor of any Deposit Account by such Grantor, or any Pledged Account Bank with respect thereto, such Grantor will immediately (i) transfer all funds and property held in such terminated Deposit Account to another Deposit Account listed in Part II of Schedule VII and (ii) notify all Obligors that were making payments to such Deposit

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Account to make all future payments to another Deposit Account listed in Part II of Schedule VII hereto so that the Administrative Agent shall have a continuously perfected security interest in such Account Collateral, funds and property. Each Grantor agrees to terminate any or all Account Collateral and Account Control Agreements upon request by the Administrative Agent.

     (e) The Borrower may draw checks on, and otherwise withdraw amounts only from, the Deposit Accounts and in such amounts as may be required in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, to pay or prepay Debt outstanding under the Loan Documents).

     (f) The Administrative Agent shall have sole right to direct the disposition of funds with respect to the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account; and it shall be a term and condition of each of the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, notwithstanding any term or condition to the contrary in any other agreement relating to the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be, that no amount (including, without limitation, interest on Cash Equivalents credited thereto) will be paid or released to or for the account of, or withdrawn by or for the account of, the Borrower or any other Person from the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be.

     (g) The Administrative Agent may, (i) at any time and without notice to, or consent from, the Grantor, transfer, or direct the transfer of, funds from the Account Collateral to satisfy the Grantor’s obligations under the Loan Documents if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) at any time after the Collateral Account has been opened and without notice to, or consent from, the Grantor, transfer, or direct the transfer of, funds from the Deposit Accounts to the Collateral Account.

          Section 6. Investing of Amounts in the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account . The Administrative Agent will, subject to the provisions of Sections 5, 7 and 23, at any time after the Collateral Account or L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be, has been opened, from time to time (a) invest, or direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to invest, amounts received with respect to the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account in such Cash Equivalents credited to (A) the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, respectively, as the Borrower may select and the Administrative Agent may approve or (B) in the case of Cash Equivalents consisting of Securities Collateral, a securities account in which the Administrative Agent is the securities intermediary or a securities account subject to a Securities Account Control Agreement, 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 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 relevant Collateral Account or L/C Collateral Account. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall have the right 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 determinations, or for other Cash Equivalents, credited to the Collateral Account or the L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be.

          Section 7. Release of Amounts . So long as no Default under Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent will pay and release, or direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to pay and release, to the Borrower or at its order or, at the request of the Borrower, to the Administrative Agent to be applied to the Obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents, in the case of the L/C Collateral Account, such amount, if any, as is then on deposit in the L/C Collateral Account to the extent permitted to be released under the terms of the Credit Agreement and, in the case of the Collateral Account, the amount, if any, by which the aggregate principal amount of the Cash Equivalents credited to the Collateral

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Account exceeds all amounts then due and payable under the Loan Documents together with all accrued and unpaid interest and fees under the Credit Agreement.

          Section 8. Maintaining Electronic Chattel Paper, Transferable Records and Letter-of-Credit Rights and Giving Notice of Commercial Tort Claims . So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding, any Secured Hedge Agreement shall be in effect or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment:

     (a) Each Grantor will maintain all (i) electronic chattel paper so that the Administrative Agent has control of the electronic chattel paper in the manner specified in Section 9-105 of the UCC and (ii) all transferable records so that the Administrative Agent 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 (“ UETA ”);

     (b) Each Grantor will maintain all letter-of-credit rights assigned to the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, all letter-of-credit rights associated with each letter of credit that is designated on Schedule X as constituting Collateral (each, a “ Collateral L/C ”), if any, so that the Administrative Agent has control of the letter-of-credit rights in the manner specified in Section 9-107 of the UCC; and

     (c) Each Grantor will immediately give notice to the Administrative Agent of any commercial tort claim that may arise in the future and will immediately execute or otherwise authenticate a supplement to this Agreement, and otherwise take all necessary action, to subject such commercial tort claim to the first priority security interest created under this Agreement.

          Section 9. Representations and Warranties . Each Grantor represents and warrants 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, domain names and marks listed on Schedule VI hereto. Such Grantor is located (within the meaning of Section 9-307 of the UCC) and has its chief executive office and the office in which it maintains the original copies of each Assigned Agreement and Related Contract to which such Grantor is a party and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Receivables of such Grantor, in the state or jurisdiction set forth in Schedule I hereto. The information set forth in Schedule I hereto with respect to such Grantor is true and accurate in all respects. Such Grantor has not previously changed its name, location, chief executive office, place where it maintains its agreements, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization or organizational identification number from those set forth in Schedule I hereto except as disclosed in Schedule V hereto.

     (b) All of the Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor are located at the places specified therefor in Schedule IV hereto, as such Schedule IV may be amended from time to time pursuant to Section 11(a). Within the 3 years preceding the execution of this Agreement, such Grantor has not previously changed the location of its Equipment and Inventory except as set forth in Schedule V hereto. All Security Collateral consisting of certificated securities and instruments have been delivered to the Administrative Agent. Original copies of each Assigned Agreement and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Receivables have been delivered to the Administrative Agent, in each case to the extent that delivery thereof to the Administrative Agent is required under the Credit Agreement. None of the Receivables or Agreement Collateral

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is evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument that has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent.

     (c) 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 security interest created under this Agreement or permitted under the Credit Agreement. 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 such as may have been filed in favor of the Administrative Agent relating to the Loan Documents or as otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement.

     (d) Such Grantor has exclusive possession and control of the Equipment and Inventory other than Inventory stored at any leased premises or warehouse for which a landlord’s or warehouseman’s agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, is in effect and which leased premises or warehouse is so indicated by an asterisk on Schedule IV hereto, as such Schedule IV may be amended from time to time pursuant to Section 11(a). 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 (i) issued any warehouse receipt or other receipt in the nature of a warehouse receipt in respect of any Equipment or Inventory, (ii) issued any document for any of such Grantor’s Equipment or Inventory, (iii) received notification of any secured party’s interest (other than the security interest granted hereunder) in such Grantor’s Equipment or Inventory or (iv) any Lien, claim or charge (based on contract, statute or otherwise) on such Equipment and Inventory.

     (e) The Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor hereunder has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable. With respect to the Pledged Equity that is an uncertificated security, such Grantor has caused the issuer thereof either (i) to register the Administrative Agent as the registered owner of such security or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such security originated by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor. If such Grantor is an issuer of Pledged Equity, such Grantor confirms that it has received notice of such security interest. The Pledged Debt pledged by such Grantor hereunder 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 notes have been delivered to the Administrative Agent) and is not in default.

     (f) The Initial Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor constitutes the percentage of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the issuers thereof indicated on Schedule II hereto. The Initial Pledged Debt constitutes all of the outstanding indebtedness owed to such Grantor by the issuers thereof and is outstand


 
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