THIRD PRIORITY PLEDGE AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY
RESIDENTIAL CAPITAL, LLC,
and certain of its Affiliates from time to time parties hereto,
as Grantors
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Third Priority Collateral Agent
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Definitions
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Grant of
Security Interest by the Company, the Guarantors and Model
Home
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Grant of
Security Interest by Equity Pledgors
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Grant of
Security Interest by FABS Grantors
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Grant of
Security Interest by Additional Account Parties
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Third Priority
Nature of Liens
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Representations
and Warranties
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Grantor Remains
Liable; Nature of Security Interest; Subrogation, etc.
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Collections,
etc.
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Release
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Agreements of
the Grantors
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Agreement as to
Investment Property; Voting
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Defaults and
Events of Default; Remedies
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Limitation on
Duty in Respect of Collateral
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Special
Provisions Relating to the Third Priority Collateral
Agent
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General
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THIRD PRIORITY PLEDGE AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY
THIS THIRD
PRIORITY PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY (this
“ Agreement ”), dated as of June 6, 2008,
is among Residential Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (the “ Company ”), GMAC Mortgage, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“ GMAC Mortgage
”), Residential Funding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (“ RFC ”), HomeComings
Financial, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
Homecomings ”), GMAC-RFC Holding Company, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“ RFC Holdings
”), and GMAC Residential Holding Company, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“ Residential ” and
each of GMAC Mortgage, RFC, Homecomings, RFC Holdings and
Residential is herein a “ Guarantor ” and
collectively, the “ Guarantors ”); GMAC Model
Home Finance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
Model Home ”); Developers of Hidden Springs, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“ Developers
”) and DOA Holding Properties, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (“ DOA ”) and each of
Developers and DOA is herein an “ Equity Pledgor
” and collectively, the “ Equity Pledgors
”); RFC Asset Holdings II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ RAHI ”), and Passive Asset
Transactions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
PATI ”; and each of RAHI and PATI is herein a “
FABS Grantor ” and collectively, the “ FABS
Grantors ”); Residential Mortgage Real Estate Holdings,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Residential
Mortgage ”), Residential Funding Real Estate Holdings,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Residential
Funding ”), Homecomings Financial Real Estate Holdings,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Homecomings
Financial ”), and Equity Investment I, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“ Equity I ” and each
of Residential Mortgage, Residential Funding, Homecomings Financial
and Equity I is herein an “ Additional Account Party
” and collectively, the “ Additional Account
Parties ”); and each other Person that agrees to become a
“Grantor” by executing and delivering a Joinder
Agreement, pursuant to Section 16 (the Company, each
Guarantor, Model Home, each Equity Pledgor, each FABS Grantor, each
Additional Account Party and each such other Person is herein a
“ Grantor ” and collectively, the “
Grantors ”); U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee under the Indenture (the “ Trustee ”)
and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as third priority collateral agent
(together with its successor(s) thereto in such capacity, the
“ Third Priority Collateral Agent ”) for the
Notes Parties.
WHEREAS, the
Company is issuing its 9.625% Junior Secured Guaranteed Notes Due
2015 (the “ Notes ”) pursuant to an Indenture,
dated as of the date hereof, among the Company, the Guarantors and
the Trustee (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time, the “ Indenture
”);
WHEREAS, the
Guarantors have pursuant to Article X of the Indenture, among
other things, unconditionally guaranteed the obligations of the
Company under the Indenture and the Notes (each such guarantee so
made by a Guarantor herein its “ Guaranty
”);
WHEREAS, following
the date hereof, the Company and its Subsidiaries may incur Pari
Passu Third Lien Indebtedness (as defined in the Indenture) which
are secured equally and ratably with the Notes in accordance with
Section 18 of this Agreement;
WHEREAS, each
Grantor has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant
to Section 8.01 of the Indenture, each Grantor has executed
and delivered this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, it is in
the best interests of each Grantor to execute this Agreement
inasmuch as each Grantor will derive substantial direct and
indirect benefits from the issuance of the Notes and any Pari Passu
Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE,
for and in consideration of the foregoing premises and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
1.
Definitions . When used herein and unless the context
otherwise requires, (a) capitalized terms which are not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the
Indenture; (b) the terms Account, Account Debtor, Certificated
Security, Chattel Paper, Commercial Tort Claim, Commodity Account,
Commodity Contract, Deposit Account, Document, Electronic Chattel
Paper, Equipment, Financial Assets, Fixture, General Intangibles,
Goods, Health Care Insurance Receivables, Instrument, Inventory,
Investment Property, Letter of Credit, Letter-of-Credit Rights,
Money, Payment Intangible, Proceeds, Securities Account, Security,
Security Entitlement, Supporting Obligations and Uncertificated
Security have the respective meanings assigned thereto in
Article 8 or Article 9 of the UCC (as defined below); and
(c) the following terms have the following meanings (such
definitions to be applicable to both the singular and plural forms
of such terms):
Assets has
the meaning given to such term in the Senior Secured Credit
Facility as in effect on the Issue Date.
Assigned
Documents means the Note Issuance Facility Deed, the Deed of
Charge, the UK Note and any other Transaction Document (as defined
in the Master Definitions Schedule dated as of June 4, 2008
relating to the Warehouse Facility of English Sellers) which the
Company is a party.
Bailment
Collateral has the meaning given such term in the Intercreditor
Agreement.
Bilateral
Facility means the facilities listed in Schedule 7.01(t)
to the Senior Secured Credit Facility on the Issue Date.
Carrying
Value has the meaning given such term in the Senior Secured
Credit Facility as in effect on the Issue Date.
Collateral
means, with respect to any Grantor, all property and rights of such
Grantor in which a security interest is granted pursuant to
Sections 2 , 3 , 4 and 5
.
Collateral
Control Agent has the meaning given such term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Computer
Hardware and Software means, with respect to any Grantor, all
of such Grantor’s rights (including rights as licensee and
lessee) with respect to: (a) computer and other electronic
data processing hardware, including all integrated computer
systems, central processing units, memory units, display terminals,
printers, features, computer elements, card readers, tape drives,
hard and soft disk drives, cables, electrical supply hardware,
generators, power equalizers, accessories, peripheral devices and
other related computer hardware; (b) all software programs
designed for use on the computers and electronic data processing
hardware described in clause (a) above, including,
without limitation, all operating system software, utilities and
application programs in whatsoever form (source code and object
code in magnetic tape, disk or hard copy format or any other
listings whatsoever); (c) any firmware associated with any of
the foregoing;
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and
(d) any documentation for hardware, software and firmware
described in clauses (a) , (b) and (c) above,
including, without limitation, flow charts, logic diagrams,
manuals, specifications, training materials, charts and pseudo
codes.
Deed of
Charge means the deed of charge and assignment made on or about
June 4, 2008 between, among others, the UK SPE, the Company
and the English Security Trustee.
Default
means a “Default” as defined in the Indenture or under
any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement.
Discharge of
First Priority Claims has the meaning given to such term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
Discharge of
Second Priority Claims has the meaning given to such term in
the Intercreditor Agreement.
Distributions means all dividends of stock, membership
interests or other ownership interests, liquidating dividends,
shares of stock resulting from (or in connection with the exercise
of) stock splits, reclassifications, warrants, options, non-cash
dividends, mergers, consolidations, and all other distributions
(whether similar or dissimilar to the foregoing) on or with respect
to any Pledged Share, Pledged Interest or other shares of capital
stock, member interest or other ownership interests or security
entitlements constituting Collateral, but shall not include
Dividends.
Dividends
means cash dividends and cash distributions with respect to any
Pledged Share or any Pledged Interest made in the ordinary course
of business and not as a liquidating dividend.
Dutch
Assets means the Dutch Membership Interests and Dutch VFLN
Receivables.
Dutch
Membership Interests means 65% of any and all rights, claims (
vorderingsrechten ) and interests of each of Residential
Funding Company, LLC and GMAC-RFC Holding Company, LLC in their
capacity as member ( lid ) of GMAC RFC International
Holdings Coöperatief U.A. under or in connection with their
membership ( lidmaatschap ).
Dutch Security
Documents means Dutch VFLN Agreement and the Dutch
Note.
Dutch VFLN
Agreement means that certain variable funding loan note
agreement dated June 4, 2008 and entered into by and between,
among others, the Company, GX CE Funding B.V. and Stichting
Security Trustee GX CE Funding.
Dutch VFLN
Note means any note issued by GX CE Funding B.V. to the Company
under or pursuant to the Dutch VFLN Agreement.
Dutch VFLN
Receivables means any and all rights and claims (
vorderingsrechten ) (including but not limited to a right of
recourse ( regres ) or subrogation ( subrogatie )),
whether present or future, whether actual or contingent, of the
Company under or in connection with (i) the Dutch VFLN
Agreement entered into by and between, among others, the Company,
GX CE Funding B.V. and Stichting Security Trustee GX CE Funding,
(ii) each Dutch VFLN Note and (iii) the Dutch VFLN Trust
Deed.
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Dutch VFLN
Trust Deed means that certain trust deed dated June 4,
2008 entered into by and between, among others, GX CE Funding and
Stichting Security Trustee GX CE Funding in relation to the Dutch
VFLN Agreement.
English Loan
Sale and Purchase Agreement means the loan sale and purchase
agreement dated June 4, 2008 between the SPE, the English
Sellers and the English Security Trustee.
English
Security Documents means the English Loan Sale and Purchase
Agreement, the Note Issuance Facility Deed, the English Shares
Charge, the UK Third Priority Deed of Assignment and each and every
other document, agreement and deed entered into by the Company
and/or the English Security Trustee in connection with the purchase
of certain residential mortgage loans and development loans, the
issuance of the UK Note and creation of security in respect of the
UK Note in favor of the English Security Trustee, in each case, by
the UK SPE.
English
Security Trustee means Deutsche Trustee Company Limited (in its
capacity as security trustee in respect of the UK Note).
English
Sellers means GMAC-RFC Limited and GMAC-RFC Property Finance
Limited.
English Shares
Charge means the Third Priority Shares Charge dated
June 6, 2008 and entered into by RFC and the Third Priority
Collateral Agent.
ERISA has
the meaning given to such term in the Senior Secured Credit
Facility as in effect on the Issue Date.
Event of
Default means an “Event of Default” as defined in
the Indenture or under any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
Agreement.
Excluded
Assets means, with respect to any Grantor and to the extent
such Property does not constitute Primary Collateral, the following
Property: (a) Goods securing purchase money indebtedness or
capital lease obligations existing as of the Issue Date to the
extent such purchase money indebtedness or capital lease
obligations prohibit the granting of a security interest on such
assets; (b) voting capital stock of controlled foreign
corporations (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) in excess of
sixty-five percent (65%) of the voting rights of such corporations
including without limitation GMAC-RFC Australia Pty Limited and
GMAC RFC International Holdings Coöperatief U.A. (or any other
controlled foreign corporation identified in writing by a Grantor
to the Third Priority Collateral Agent); (c) any asset,
including any account, note, contract, lease, financing
arrangement, general intangible, equity investment, interests in
joint ventures or other agreement to the extent that the grant of a
security interest therein would violate applicable Requirements of
Law, result in the invalidation thereof or provide any party
thereto with a right of termination or default with respect thereto
or with respect to any Bilateral Facility to which such asset is
subject as of the Issue Date (in each case, after giving effect to
applicable provisions of the UCC and other applicable Requirements
of Law and principles of equity); (d) any trademark
applications filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
on the basis of such Grantor’s “intent-to-use”
such trademark, unless and until acceptable evidence of use of the
trademark had been filed with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office pursuant to Section 1(c) or 1(d) of the Lanham Act
(15 U.S.C. 1051, et seq.) to the extent that granting a lien in
such trademark application prior to such filing would adversely
affect the enforceability of validity of such trademark
application, (e) proceeds and products of any and all of the
foregoing excluded assets described in clause (a) through
(d) above only to the extent such proceeds and
products
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would
constitute property or assets of the type described in clause
(a) through (d) above; and (f) the Exempt Cash
Reserve Account and any proceeds and products thereof.
Exempt Cash
Reserve Account has the meaning given to such term in the
Senior Secured Credit Facility as in effect on the Issue
Date.
Financial
Asset-Backed Security means a collateralized mortgage
obligation, a collateralized bond obligation, a collateralized loan
obligation or any other security the payments on which depend
primarily on the cash flow from a specified pool of financial
assets.
First Priority
Collateral Agent has the meaning given to such term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
General
Intangibles means, with respect to any Grantor, all of such
Grantor’s “general intangibles” as defined in the
UCC and, in any event, includes (without limitation) all of such
Grantor’s licenses, franchises, tax refund claims, guarantee
claims, security interests and rights to
indemnification.
Governmental
Authority means any nation or government, any state or other
political subdivision thereof, any municipality and any entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or
administrative functions of or pertaining to government. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to the
United States, a “Governmental Authority” shall include
any United States federal, state, county, municipal or other local
governmental, judicial or regulatory authority, agency, arbitration
board, body, commission, instrumentality, court or
quasi-governmental authority or tribunal.
Incremental
Advance means an advance made by a Grantor (i) with
respect to a construction loan facility or a construction project
to complete, or maintain the value of, the related construction
project or (ii) under a mezzanine or working capital loan
facility under which such Grantor of such Incremental Advance has a
legally binding commitment to make such advance.
Initial
Collateral means assets of the Company and the Grantors that
are listed on, or of a type described on, Schedule VI
hereto and that exist on the Issue Date.
Intellectual
Property means all past, present and future: trade secrets and
other proprietary information; rights in customer lists;
trademarks, service marks, business names, trade names, domain
names, designs, logos, and/or other source and/or business
identifiers and the goodwill of the business relating thereto and
all registrations or applications for registrations which have
heretofore been or may hereafter be issued thereon throughout the
world (including without limitation the trade name
“DITECH”); copyrights (including, without limitation,
copyrights for computer programs) and copyright registrations or
applications for registrations which have heretofore been or may
hereafter be issued throughout the world; inventions (whether or
not patentable); patent applications and patents; industrial
designs, industrial design applications and registered industrial
designs; rights in license agreements related to any of the
Intellectual Property and income therefrom; the right to sue for
all past, present and future infringements of any of the foregoing;
all common law and other rights throughout the world in and to all
of the foregoing; and the right to obtain all reissues, extensions
or renewals of the foregoing.
Internal
Revenue Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
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Mexican
Security Documents means the Stock Pledge Agreement to be
executed by RFC for the benefit of the Collateral Control Agent
whereby RFC pledges (i) shares, each with a par value of $1.00
(one Peso 00/100) legal currency of Mexico, representing the
corporate capital stock of GMAC RFC Auritec, S.A.,
(ii) shares, each with a par value of $1,000.00 (one thousand
Pesos 00/100), representing a portion of the corporate capital
stock of GMAC Hipotecaria, S.A. de C.V., S.F.O.L., and
(iii) shares, each with a par value of $1,000.00 (one thousand
Pesos 00/100), representing a portion of the corporate capital
stock of GMAC Financiera, S.A. de C.V., S.F.O.L. and any and all
notices, certificates, agreements and other documents to be
executed and delivered by RFC pursuant to the foregoing or
otherwise in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Stock Pledge Agreement.
Mortgage
Loan has the meaning given to such term in the Senior Secured
Credit Facility as in effect on the Issue Date.
Non-Tangible
Collateral means, with respect to any Grantor, collectively,
such portion of such Grantor’s Collateral that constitutes
Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Documents, General
Intangibles, Payment Intangibles, Investment Property,
Letter-of-Credit Rights, Letters of Credit and Supporting
Obligations.
Note Issuance
Facility Deed means the note issuance facility deed made on or
about June 4, 2008 between, among others, Residential Capital,
LLC and the UK SPE.
Notes
Documents means the Indenture, the Notes, the Security
Documents and all notices, certificates, financing statements,
agreements and other documents to be executed and delivered by the
Company or any other Grantor pursuant to the foregoing or otherwise
in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Indenture.
Notes
Parties means the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the
Collateral Control Agent, the Trustee and the Holders
Obligations means any principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements, damages, guarantees and other
liabilities payable under the Notes (other than any Additional
Notes except to the extent constituting Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness), the Indenture, this Agreement, any other Notes
Document and any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement, in
each case, whether now or hereafter existing, renewed or
restructured, whether or not from time to time decreased or
extinguished and later increased, created or incurred, whether or
not arising on or after the commencement of a case under Title 11,
U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for relief of debtors
(including post-petition interest) and whether or not allowed or
allowable as a claim in any such case; provided that no
obligations in respect of any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
Agreement (other than Additional Notes) shall constitute
“Obligations” unless the Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agent for the holders of such Indebtedness has
executed a Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Joinder
Agreement.
Pari Passu
Third Lien Indebtedness Agent means the Person appointed or
designated to act as trustee, agent or representative for the
holders of Indebtedness under any Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agreement pursuant to the terms of such
agreement.
Pari Passu
Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement means the indenture, credit
agreement or other agreement under which any Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness (other than Additional Notes) are incurred and any
notes or other instruments representing such Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness.
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Pari Passu
Third Lien Indebtedness Joinder Agreement means an agreement
substantially in the form of Attachment V hereto.
Pledged
Interest Issuer means each Person identified in
Item B of Attachment I hereto as the Pledged
Interest Issuer.
Pledged
Interests means all member interests, general or limited
partnership interests or other ownership interests of any Pledged
Interest Issuer described in Item B of Attachment I
hereto, whether now existing or hereafter arising (other than
Excluded Assets); all other member interests, general or limited
partnership interests or other ownership interests issued by any
Pledgor’s Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Assets) that is
hereafter from time to time pledged as Collateral under this
Agreement by a Pledgor; all registrations, certificates, articles
or agreements governing or representing any such interests; all
options and other rights, contractual or otherwise, at any time
existing with respect to such interests; all distributions, cash,
instruments and other property now or hereafter received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such interests; and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
Pledged Note
Issuer means each Person identified in Item D of
Attachment I hereto as the issuer of the Pledged Note
identified opposite the name of such Person.
Pledged Note
Lien means any and all liens or security interests securing the
obligation of a Pledged Note Issuer evidenced by the applicable
Pledged Note, and all collateral subject to such liens and security
interests.
Pledged
Notes means all of the promissory notes described in
Item D of Attachment I hereto, and all other
promissory notes of any Pledged Note Issuer, issued by a Pledged
Note Issuer, as such promissory notes, in accordance with
Section 12(j) , are amended, restated, modified or
supplemented from time to time; any promissory note of any Pledged
Note Issuer taken in extension or renewal thereof or substitution
therefor; all instruments or agreements governing or representing
all or any of such notes; all rights, contractual or otherwise, at
any time existing with respect to such notes; all distributions,
cash, instruments and other property now or hereafter received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such notes; and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
Pledged
Property means all Pledged Interests, all Pledged Notes, all
Pledged Shares, all other securities, all assignments of any
amounts due or to become due, all other instruments which are now
being delivered by any Pledgor to the Third Priority Collateral
Agent, the First Priority Collateral Agent, the Second Priority
Collateral Agent or the Collateral Control Agent or may from time
to time hereafter be delivered by any Pledgor to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent or the Collateral Control Agent for the purpose of
pledge under this Agreement or any other Notes Document or Pari
Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement, and all proceeds of any of
the foregoing.
Pledged Share
Issuer means each Person identified in Item A of
Attachment I hereto as the issuer of the Pledged Shares
identified opposite the name of such Person.
Pledged
Shares means all shares of capital stock of any Pledged Share
Issuer, whether now existing or hereafter arising (other than
Excluded Assets) and all other shares of capital stock of any
direct Subsidiary of a Pledgor that is hereafter from time to time
pledged as Collateral under this Agreement by a Pledgor; all
registrations, certificates, articles, or agreements governing or
representing any such interest; all options and other rights,
contractual or otherwise, at any
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time existing
with respect to all or any of such shares; all distributions, cash,
instruments and other property now or hereafter received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such shares; and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
Pledgor
means the Company, Model Home, any Guarantor or any Equity
Pledgor.
Primary
Collateral means Initial Collateral, REO Property acquired as
the result of foreclosure on Primary Collateral, Reinvestment
Collateral, any assets acquired as a result of exercising remedies
under any Initial Collateral or Reinvestment Collateral, and all
proceeds of the foregoing.
Property
means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real,
personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including, without
limitation, cash, securities, accounts and contract
rights.
Reinvestment
Collateral means additional Collateral or Supporting Assets
provided pursuant to Section 4.10(b)(3) of the
Indenture.
REO
Property means real estate owned property (i.e., a mortgaged
property acquired through foreclosure or deed in lieu of
foreclosure).
Required
Secured Parties means the holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount, voting as a single class, of (i) the Notes
and (ii) any Indebtedness under Pari Passu Third Lien
Agreements, in each case, excluding any holder of such Indebtedness
whose vote is required to be disregarded under the Indenture or the
applicable Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement.
Requirements
of Law means, with respect to any Person or any of its
property, the certificate of incorporation or articles of
association and by-laws, certificate of limited partnership,
limited partnership agreement or other organizational or governing
documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation,
or determination of any arbitrator or Governmental Authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its
property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject,
whether federal, state or local (including, without limitation,
usury laws, the Federal Truth in Lending Act and retail installment
sales acts).
Sales Proceeds
Accounts has the meaning given to such term in the Senior
Secured Credit Facility as in effect on the Issue Date.
Second
Priority Collateral Agent means Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in its
capacity as collateral agent under the security agreement for the
Senior Secured Notes.
Secured
Parties means the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee,
the Holders, each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent and any
holders of Obligations under any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
Agreement.
Servicing
Contract means any agreement, whether titled a “servicing
agreement,” a “pooling and servicing agreement,”
a “sale and servicing agreement,” or otherwise,
pursuant to which any Grantor is obligated to perform collection,
enforcement or foreclosure services with respect to, or to maintain
and remit any funds collected from, persons obligated on any
mortgage loan or pool of mortgage loans.
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Servicing
P&I Advance has the meaning given to such term in the
Senior Secured Credit Facility as in effect on the Issue
Date.
Servicing
T&I Advance has the meaning given to such term in the
Senior Secured Credit Facility as in effect on the Issue
Date.
UCC means
the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the
State of New York; provided that, as used in
Section 11 hereof, “UCC” shall mean the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in any
applicable jurisdiction.
UK Note
means the notes issued to the Company from time to time by the UK
SPE pursuant to the Note Issuance Facility Deed (there being only
one note outstanding at any time).
UK Note
Related Security means all Liens created in favor of the
English Security Trustee by the UK SPE in connection with the
issuance of the UK Note.
UK Pledged
Shares means the UK Pledged Shares in each UK Pledged Shares
Company which are held by Residential Funding Company, LLC and
represented by the certificates listed in Item C of
Attachment I hereto and which represent 65% of the UK
Pledged Shares held by Residential Funding Company, LLC in the
relevant UK Pledged Shares Company together with all other shares
and other assets, including any moneys and other Derivative Rights
(as defined in the English Security Documents) from time to time
charged to the Third Priority Collateral Agent.
UK Pledged
Shares Companies means:
(a) GMAC-RFC
Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales
(registered number 03471082) whose registered office is at Eastern
Gate, Brants Bridge, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 9BZ (“ GMAC
Holdings ”);
(b) GMAC-RFC
Europe Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales
(registered number 03987700) whose registered office is at Eastern
Gate, Brants Bridge, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 9BZ; (“
GMAC Europe ”); and
(c) RFC
Investments Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales
(registered number 03488658) whose registered address is at Eastern
Gate, Brants Bridge, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 9BZ (“ RFC
Investments ”),
and UK Pledged
Shares Company means any of them.
UK Third
Priority Deed of Assignment means that certain Third Priority
Deed of Assignment dated June 6, 2008 and entered into by and
between the Company as Chargor and the Third Priority Collateral
Agent.
UK SPE
means Viaduct (No. 7) Limited.
2. Grant
of Security Interest by the Company, the Guarantors and Model Home
and Certain Other Grantors . As security for the prompt payment
in full in cash and performance of all Obligations, the Company and
each of the Guarantors and Model Home and each other Grantor (other
than a Grantor that is an Equity Pledgor, an FABS Grantor or an
Additional Account Pledgor) hereby pledges to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby
grants a continuing secu-
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rity interest
to the Third Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Parties in, all of the Company’s, such
Guarantor’s, Model Home’s or any such other
Grantor’s right, title and interest, in, to, and under,
whether now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and wherever
located and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all of the
following:
(a) all Assets
including, without limitation, all Financial Asset-Backed
Securities, Servicing P&I Advances, Servicing T&I Advances,
Mortgage Loans and Incremental Advances of a type specified in, or
otherwise described in Schedule VI to this Agreement,
and all other Property described in Schedule VI to this
Agreement;
(b) Accounts,
including Health Care Insurance Receivables;
(c) Chattel Paper,
including Electronic Chattel Paper;
(d) Commercial
Tort Claims described on Schedule V hereto, as such
schedule may be supplemented from time to time by any applicable
Grantor in accordance with this Agreement;
(e) Computer
Hardware and Software and all rights with respect thereto,
including, without limitation, any and all rights in licenses,
options, warranties, service contracts, program services, test
rights, maintenance rights, support rights, improvement rights,
renewal rights and indemnifications, and any substitutions,
replacements, additions or model conversions of any of the
foregoing;
(h) Financial
Assets, including, without limitation, (A) all Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts in which any Financial Assets are
carried or credited, and all Investment Property (including all
Security Entitlements), Instruments, Money, and other property on
deposit therein or credited thereto, and all permitted investments
acquired with funds on deposit in or carried in or credited to such
Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts, (B) all agreements,
contracts, documents and instruments evidencing, arising from,
relating to or other otherwise delivered pursuant to or in
connection with Financial Assets, (C) all cash and funds
delivered to a Grantor (or its bailee or agent) in respect of such
Financial Assets and any collateral securing the same, and
(D) to the extent not included in the foregoing, all Accounts,
Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Documents, General Intangibles,
Payment Intangibles, Instruments, Investment Property,
Letter-of-Credit Rights, Letters of Credit, Supporting Obligations,
and Money, consisting of, arising from, or relating to or delivered
pursuant to, any of the foregoing;
(i) General
Intangibles (including, without limitation, all Payment Intangibles
and all rights, titles and interests in the English Security
Documents, the Dutch Security Documents and the Mexican Security
Documents);
(j) Goods
(including, without limitation, all its Equipment, Fixtures and
Inventory), together with all embedded software, accessions,
additions, attachments, improvements, substitutions and
replacements thereto and therefor;
(l) Intellectual
Property;
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(m) (i)
(A) all issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each
Pledged Share Issuer identified in Item A of
Attachment I hereto, (B) all other Pledged Shares
issued from time to time, (C) all Pledged Notes of each
Pledged Note Issuer identified in Item D of
Attachment I hereto (including, without limitation, the UK
Note and the Dutch VFLN Note), (D) all other Pledged Notes
issued from time to time, (E) all Pledged Note Liens,
(F) all issued and outstanding member interests, general or
limited partnership interests or other ownership interests of each
Pledged Interest Issuer identified in Item B of
Attachment I hereto, (G) all other Pledged Interests
issued from time to time, (H) all other Pledged Property,
whether now or hereafter delivered to the Third Priority Collateral
Agent, the Collateral Control Agent, the First Priority Collateral
Agent or the Second Priority Collateral Agent in connection with
this Agreement, and (I) all Dividends, Distributions,
interest, and other payments and rights with respect to any Pledged
Property; (ii) all Sales Proceeds Accounts and all funds,
properties and assets (including financial assets) deposited
therein or carried in or credited thereto; and (iii) to the
extent not included in the foregoing clause (m)(i) , all
other Investment Property (including, without limitation, Commodity
Accounts, Commodity Contracts, Securities (whether Certificated
Securities or Uncertificated Securities), Security Entitlements and
Securities Accounts);
(n)
Letter-of-Credit Rights and Letters of Credit;
(o) Money (of
every jurisdiction whatsoever);
(q) UK Pledged
Shares and UK Note;
(r) Supporting
Obligations;
(t) Investment
Property; and
(u) to the extent
not included in the foregoing, all other personal assets and
property of any kind or description;
together with
all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other
property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or
evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to, any of the
foregoing, all claims and/or insurance proceeds arising out of the
loss, nonconformity or any interference with the use of, or any
defect or infringement of rights in, or damage to, any of the
foregoing, and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues,
profits and returns of and from, and all distributions on and
rights arising out of, any of the foregoing; provided that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, the “Collateral”
described in this Section 2 shall not include Excluded
Assets.
The Company agrees
with the Third Priority Collateral Agent and undertakes to pledge
or, as the case may be, to pledge in advance the Dutch VFLN
Receivables and each of RFC and RFC Holdings agrees with the Third
Priority Collateral Agent and undertakes to pledge or, as the case
may be, to pledge in advance the respective Dutch Membership
Interests.
3. Grant
of Security Interest by Equity Pledgors . As security for the
prompt payment in full in cash and performance of all Obligations,
each of the Equity Pledgors hereby pledges to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants
a continuing security interest to the Third Priority Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in, all of each such
Equity Pledgor’s
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right, title
and interest, in, to, and under, whether now or hereafter existing,
owned or acquired and wherever located and howsoever created,
arising or evidenced, all of the following:
(a) all Pledged
Shares of each Pledged Share Issuer identified in
Item A of Attachment I hereto;
(b) all other
Pledged Shares issued by any Pledged Share Issuer and pledged
hereunder by any Equity Pledgor from time to time;
(c) all promissory
notes, if any, of each Pledged Note Issuer identified in Item
D of Attachment I hereto;
(d) all other
Pledged Notes, if any, issued by any Pledged Note Issuer from time
to time;
(e) all Pledged
Note Liens, if any;
(f) all Pledged
Interests of each Pledged Interest Issuer identified in
Item B of Attachment I hereto;
(g) all other
Pledged Interests issued by any Pledged Interest Issuer and pledged
hereunder by any Equity Pledgor from time to time;
(h) all Dividends,
Distributions, interest, and other payments and rights with respect
to any Pledged Shares or Pledged Interests;
(i) all Deposit
Accounts and all Property deposited or carried therein or credited
thereto; and
(j) all Securities
Accounts and all Property (including all Investment Property and
Financial Assets) deposited or carried therein or credited thereto,
and all permitted investments acquired with funds on deposit in or
carried in or credited to such Securities Accounts;
together with
all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other
property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or
evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to, any of the
foregoing, all claims and/or insurance proceeds arising out of the
loss, nonconformity or any interference with the use of, or any
defect or infringement of rights in, or damage to, any of the
foregoing, and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues,
profits and returns of and from, and all distributions on and
rights arising out of, any of the foregoing; provided that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, the “Collateral”
described in this Section 3 shall not include Excluded
Assets.
4. Grant
of Security Interest by FABS Grantors . As security for the
prompt payment in full in cash and performance of all Obligations,
each of the FABS Grantors hereby pledges to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants
a continuing security interest to the Third Priority Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in all of each such
FABS Grantor’s right, title and interest, in, to, and under,
whether now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and wherever
located and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all of the
following:
(a) all Financial
Assets, including without limitation all Financial Asset-Backed
Securities;
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(b) all Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts in which any Financial Assets are
carried or credited, and all Investment Property (including all
Security Entitlements), Instruments, Money, and other Property on
deposit or carried therein or credited thereto, and all permitted
investments acquired with funds on deposit in or carried in or
credited thereto, and in any event the Securities Accounts
identified opposite such FABS Grantor’s name on
Exhibit A to Schedule VI hereto;
(c) all
agreements, contracts, documents and instruments evidencing,
arising from, relating to or other otherwise delivered pursuant to
or in connection with Financial Assets;
(d) all cash and
funds delivered to each FABS Grantor (or its bailee or agent) in
respect of such Financial Assets and any collateral securing the
same; and
(e) to the extent
not included in the foregoing, all Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit
Accounts, Documents, General Intangibles, Payment Intangibles,
Instruments, Investment Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights, Letters
of Credit, Supporting Obligations, and Money, consisting of,
arising from, or relating to or delivered pursuant to, any of the
foregoing;
together with
all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other
property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or
evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to any of the
foregoing, all claims and/or insurance proceeds arising out of the
loss, nonconformity or any interference with the use of, or any
defect or infringement of rights in, or damage to, any of the
foregoing, and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues,
profits and returns of and from, and all distributions on and
rights arising out of, any of the foregoing; provided that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, the “Collateral”
described in this Section 4 shall not include Excluded
Assets.
5. Grant
of Security Interest by Additional Account Parties . As
security for the prompt payment in full in cash and performance of
all Obligations, each of the Additional Account Parties hereby
pledges to the Third Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of
the Secured Parties, and hereby grants a continuing security
interest to the Third Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of
the Secured Parties in, all of each such Additional Account
Party’s right, title and interest, in, to, and under, whether
now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired and wherever located
and howsoever created, arising or evidenced, all of the
following:
(a) all Deposit
Accounts identified opposite such Additional Account Party’s
name on Schedule X hereto and in any Property deposited
or carried therein or credited thereto; and
(b) all Proceeds,
products, offspring, rents, issues, profits and returns of and
from, and all distributions on and rights arising out of, any of
the foregoing;
provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the
“Collateral” described in this Section 5
shall not include Excluded Assets.
6. Third
Priority Nature of Liens . Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, the lien and security interest granted to the Third
Priority Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the
exercise of any right or remedy by the Third Priority Collateral
Agent hereunder are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control. Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, prior to the Discharge of First
Priority Claims and the Discharge of Second Priority Claims,
(i) the requirements of this Agreement to endorse, sign or
deliver or give “control” as to, Collateral or proceeds
thereof, to the Third Priority Collateral Agent or the
Collateral
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Control Agent
shall be deemed satisfied by endorsement, assignment or delivery of
or the giving of “control” to, such Collateral or
proceeds to the First Priority Collateral Agent, Second Priority
Collateral Agent or Collateral Control Agent (in each case, as
bailee for the Third Priority Collateral Agent) and (ii) any
endorsement, assignment or delivery to the First Priority
Collateral Agent, Second Priority Collateral Agent or Collateral
Control Agent (in each case, as bailee for the Third Priority
Collateral Agent) shall be deemed an endorsement, assignment or
delivery to the Third Priority Collateral Agent for all purposes
hereunder.
7.
Representations and Warranties .
(a) Each
Grantor represents and warrants that:
(i) no financing
statement (other than any which may have been filed on behalf of
the Third Priority Collateral Agent or in connection with Permitted
Liens) covering any of the Collateral is on file in any public
office;
(ii) (1) such
Grantor is and will be the lawful owner of all Collateral, free of
all Liens and claims whatsoever, other than the security interest
hereunder and Permitted Liens, with full power and authority to
execute and deliver this Agreement and perform such Grantor’s
obligations hereunder, and to subject the Collateral to the
security interest hereunder and (2) none of the Collateral of
such Grantor that constitutes Primary Collateral is subject to any
Liens securing Indebtedness for borrowed money other than Permitted
Liens securing Permitted First Lien Indebtedness and the Junior
Secured Notes on the Issue Date;
(iii) all
information with respect to the Collateral and Account Debtors set
forth in any schedule, certificate or other writing at any time
heretofore or hereafter furnished by such Grantor to the Third
Priority Collateral Agent or any Secured Party is and will be true
and correct in all material respects as of the date specified
therein (or, if no date is so specified, as of the date
furnished);
(iv) such
Grantor’s true legal name as registered in the jurisdiction
in which such Grantor is organized or incorporated, jurisdiction of
organization or incorporation, federal employer identification
number, organizational identification number, if any, as designated
by the state of its organization, formation or incorporation, chief
executive office and principal place of business are as set forth
on Schedule I hereto (and such Grantor has not
maintained its chief executive office and principal place of
business at any other location at any time after January 1,
2003 except as otherwise disclosed in writing to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agent);
(v) each other
location where such Grantor maintains a place of business is set
forth on Schedule II hereto or as otherwise disclosed
in writing to the Third Priority Collateral Agent and , the Trustee
and each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent;
(vi) except as
disclosed on Schedule III hereto, such Grantor is not
now known and during the five years preceding the date hereof has
not previously been known by any trade name;
(vii) except as
disclosed on Schedule III hereto, during the five years
preceding the date hereof such Grantor has not been known by any
legal name different from the one set forth on the signature page
of this Agreement nor has such Grantor been the subject of any
merger or other corporate reorganization;
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(viii)
Schedule IV hereto contains a complete listing of all
of such Grantor’s material Intellectual Property which is
subject to a registration;
(ix)
Schedule V hereto contains a complete listing of all of
such Grantor’s Commercial Tort Claims in excess of
$10,000,000 in value;
(x)
Schedule VII hereto identifies all direct Subsidiaries
of the Company, Guarantors and each Equity Pledgor;
(xi)
Schedule IX hereto lists all Bailment Collateral such
Grantor is required to deliver to the Third Priority Collateral
Agent, the Collateral Control Agent, the First Priority Collateral
Agent or the Second Priority Collateral Agent as of the Issue Date,
such Schedule IX to be updated at any time additional Bailment
Collateral may be so delivered;
(xii) such Grantor
is a corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company
as specified in Schedule I hereto and is duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the state of its incorporation, formation or
organization;
(xiii) the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, the grant of the security
interest, proxy and other rights granted herein and the performance
by such Grantor of its obligations hereunder are within such
Grantor’s corporate, partnership or limited liability company
powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership or limited liability company action, have received all
necessary governmental approvals (if any shall be required), and do
not and will not contravene or conflict with any provision of law
or of the charter or by-laws or other organizational documents of
such Grantor or any judgment, order or decree, which is binding
upon such Grantor and will not cause a breach, default or event of
default under any agreement, indenture, instrument or other
document to which such Grantor is a party;
(xiv) this
Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Grantor,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except that the
enforceability of this Agreement may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter
in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally and by
general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is
sought in a proceeding in equity or at law);
(xv) such Grantor
has not performed any act which might prevent the Third Priority
Collateral Agent from enforcing any of the terms of this Agreement
or which could limit the Third Priority Collateral Agent in any
such enforcement;
(xvi) no
Collateral is in the possession of any Person (other than such
Grantor or a custodian, securities intermediary or account bank
appointed by such Grantor) asserting any claim thereto or security
interest therein (other than Permitted Liens), except that the
Third Priority Collateral Agent or Collateral Control Agent or
their designee or agents may have possession of Collateral as
contemplated pursuant to the Notes Documents;
(xvii) this
Agreement creates a valid security interest in the Collateral,
securing the payment of the Obligations, and all filings and other
actions necessary to perfect and protect such security interest
have been duly taken and such security interest shall be a third
priority security interest as to all Collateral (except for
Permitted Liens).
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(xviii) in the
case of any Pledged Shares constituting Collateral, all of such
Pledged Shares are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid,
and non-assessable, and constitute all of the issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock of each Pledged Share Issuer
owned by the Pledgor set forth across from the name of such Pledged
Share Issuer on Attachment I hereto, except as otherwise set
forth thereon;
(xix) in the case
of each Pledged Note and the Pledged Note Liens, all of such
Pledged Notes and Pledged Note Liens, if any, have been duly
authorized, executed, endorsed, issued and delivered, and are the
legal, valid and binding obligation of the issuers thereof, and are
not in default;
(xx) in the case
of any Pledged Interests constituting Collateral, such Pledged
Interests constitute one hundred percent (100%) of the
Pledgor’s interest in the Pledged Interest Issuer (other than
Excluded Assets) and the percentage of the total membership,
partnership or other equity interests in the Pledged Interest
Issuer indicated on Attachment I , except as otherwise set
forth thereon. The Pledged Interests indicated on Attachment
I are duly registered in the permanent ownership records of the
respective Pledged Interests Issuer, and such registration is
maintained in the principal office of such issuer. Such
registration continues valid and genuine and has not been altered.
All Pledged Interests have been duly authorized and validly issued,
are fully paid and non-assessable, and were not issued in violation
of the preemptive rights, if any, of any Person or of any agreement
by which any Pledgor is bound. All documentary, stamp or other
taxes or fees owing in connection with the registration, issuance,
transfer or pledge of Collateral have been paid. No restrictions or
conditions exist with respect to the registration, transfer, voting
or pledge of any Pledged Interests (other than usual or customary
securities laws or ERISA restrictions). All requisite formalities
for the granting of a security interest in the Pledged Interests
required pursuant to the organizational documents of the Pledgors
or the Pledged Interest Issuer have been complied with on or prior
to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. Each Pledgor
represents that, as of the date hereof, none of the Pledged
Interests is dealt with or traded on any securities exchange or in
any securities market; and
(xxi) the
information set forth on Schedule XI hereto is true and
correct in all material respects.
(b) RFC
represents and warrants, with respect to the UK Pledged Shares,
that:
(i) it is the sole
legal and beneficial owner of the UK Pledged Shares free from all
Liens other than Permitted Liens;
(ii) the UK
Pledged Shares are fully paid;
(iii) there are no
moneys or liabilities outstanding or payable in respect of the UK
Pledged Shares or any of them;
(iv) it is
lawfully entitled to create the security over the UK Pledged Shares
constituted by this Agreement in favor of the Third Priority
Collateral Agent;
(v) together the
UK Pledged Shares constitute 65% of the issued share capital of
each UK Pledge Shares Company; and
(vi) the UK
Pledged Shares are fully transferable to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent (or any other Person as the Third Priority
Collateral Agent shall direct) without restriction
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and in
particular in respect of any preemption rights or restrictions in
the articles of association of any UK Pledged Shares Company all
appropriate waivers have been obtained in respect of them from all
other shareholders of that UK Pledged Shares Company, which are
unconditional, irrevocable and legally binding and
enforceable.
8.
Grantor Remains Liable; Nature of Security Interest;
Subrogation, etc .
(a) Anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) each Grantor shall
remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in the
Collateral to the extent set forth therein, and will perform all of
its duties and obligations under such contracts and agreements to
the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed,
(ii) the exercise by the Third Priority Collateral Agent of
any of its rights hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any
of its duties or obligations under any such contracts or agreements
included in the Collateral, and (iii) neither the Third Priority
Collateral Agent nor any other Secured Party shall have any
obligation or liability under any contracts or agreements included
in the Collateral by reason of this Agreement, nor shall the Third
Priority Collateral Agent nor any other 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.
(b) This
Agreement shall in all respects be a continuing, absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable grant of security interest, and shall
remain in full force and effect as set forth in
Section 16 . All rights of the Secured Parties and the
security interests granted to the Third Priority Collateral Agent
(for its benefit and the benefit of each other Secured Party)
hereunder, and all obligations of the Grantors hereunder, shall, in
each case, be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective
of (i) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of any
Notes Document or Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement,
(ii) the failure of any Secured Party (A) to assert any
claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any
Grantor or any other Person under the provisions of any Notes
Document, Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement or
otherwise, or (B) to exercise any right or remedy against any
other guarantor of, or collateral securing, any Obligations,
(iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of,
or in any other term of, all or any part of the Obligations, or any
other extension, compromise or renewal of any Obligations,
(iv) any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination of
any Obligations (except until all Obligations have been paid in
full in cash) for any reason, including any claim of waiver,
release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be
subject to (and each Grantor hereby waives any right to or claim
of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination
whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness,
irregularity, compromise, unenforceability of, or any other event
or occurrence affecting, any Obligations or otherwise, (v) any
amendment to, rescission, waiver, or other modification of, or any
consent to or departure from, any of the terms of any Notes
Document or Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement,
(vi) any addition, exchange or release of any Collateral of
the Obligations, or any surrender or non-perfection of any
Collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition
to, or consent to or departure from, any other guaranty held by any
Secured Party securing any of the Obligations, or (vii) any
other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense
available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any Grantor,
any surety or any guarantor.
(c) Until one
year and one day after all Obligations have been paid in full in
cash, each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives any claim or other
rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company or
any other Grantor that arise from the existence, payment,
performance or enforcement of such Grantor’s obligations
under this Agreement, any other Notes Document or Pari Passu Third
Lien Indebtedness Agreement, including any right of subrogation,
reimbursement, exoneration or indemnification, any right to
participate in any claim or remedy of any Secured Party against the
Company or any other Grantor or any Collateral which any Secured
Party now has or hereafter acquires, whether or not such claim,
remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or
common law, including the right
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to take or
receive from the Company or any Grantor, directly or indirectly, in
cash or other property or by set-off or in any manner, payment or
security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount
shall be paid to any Grantor in violation of the preceding sentence
and the Obligations shall not have been indefeasibly paid in full
in cash, then such amount shall be deemed to have been paid to such
Grantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for, the Third
Priority Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties), and
shall forthwith be paid to the Third Priority Collateral Agent to
be credited and applied upon the Obligations, whether matured or
unmatured. Each Grantor acknowledges that it will receive direct
and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated
by the Indenture and each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
Agreement and that the waiver set forth in this
Section 8(c) is knowingly made in contemplation of such
benefits.
(d) Except as
otherwise provided in the Indenture or any Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agreement, if any Secured Party may, under applicable
Requirements of Law, proceed to realize its benefits under this
Agreement, the other Notes Documents or any Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agreement giving any Secured Party a lien upon any
Collateral, either by judicial foreclosure or by non-judicial sale
or enforcement, such Secured Party may, at its sole option,
determine which of its remedies or rights it may pursue without
affecting any of its rights and remedies under this Agreement. If,
in the exercise of any of its rights and remedies, any Secured
Party shall forfeit any of its rights or remedies, including its
right to enter a deficiency judgment against any Grantor or any
other Person, whether because of any applicable Requirements of Law
pertaining to “election of remedies” or the like, each
Grantor hereby consents to such action by such Secured Party and
waives any claim based upon such action, even if such action by
such Secured Party shall result in a full or partial loss of any
rights of subrogation that such Grantor might otherwise have had
but for such action by such Secured Party.
9.
Collections, etc . Until such time during the existence of
an Event of Default as the Third Priority Collateral Agent shall
notify such Grantor of the revocation of such power and authority,
each Grantor (a) will, at its own expense, endeavor to
collect, as and when due, all amounts due under any of the
Non-Tangible Collateral, including the taking of such action with
respect to such collection as the Third Priority Collateral Agent
may reasonably request or, in the absence of such request, as such
Grantor may deem advisable; and (b) may grant, in the ordinary
course of business, to any party obligated on any of the
Non-Tangible Collateral, any rebate, refund or allowance to which
such party may be lawfully entitled, and may accept, in connection
therewith, the return of Goods, the sale or lease of which shall
have given rise to such Non-Tangible Collateral. The Third Priority
Collateral Agent, however, may, at any time that an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, whether before or after any
revocation of such power and authority or the maturity of any of
the Obligations, notify any party obligated on any of the
Non-Tangible Collateral to make payment or otherwise render
performance to or for the benefit of the Third Priority Collateral
Agent and enforce, by suit or otherwise, the obligations of any
such party obligated on any Non-Tangible Collateral. In connection
therewith, the Third Priority Collateral Agent may surrender,
release or exchange all or any part thereof, or compromise or
extend or renew for any period (whether or not longer than the
original period) any indebtedness thereunder or evidenced thereby.
Upon request of the Third Priority Collateral Agent following the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, each
Grantor will, at its own expense, notify any party obligated on any
of the Non-Tangible Collateral to make payment to the Third
Priority Collateral Agent of any amounts due or to become due
thereunder.
10.
Release . Collateral shall from time to time be released
from the security interest created by this Agreement pursuant to
and in accordance with the provisions of both the Indenture and
each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement. Upon any such
release, the Trustee and the applicable Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agent will, at the Grantors’ joint and several
expense, cause the Third Priority Collateral Agent to deliver to
the relevant Grantor, without any representations, warranties or
recourse of any kind whatsoever, such released Collateral held by
the Third Priority Collateral Agent or
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Collateral
Control Agent hereunder, and execute and deliver to such Grantor
such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence
such release. With respect to any such release, the Third Priority
Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agent shall be entitled to rely conclusively upon an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel delivered in
connection with such release, which Officer’s Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel shall be in the form of Attachments
III and IV , respectively.
11.
Agreements of the Grantors .
(i) will execute
such financing statements (or any equivalent filings in the United
Kingdom and the Netherlands) and other documents (and pay the cost
of filing or recording the same in all public offices reasonably
determined to be appropriate by the Third Priority Collateral Agent
or the Trustee or any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent) and
do such other acts and things (including, without limitation,
delivery to the Third Priority Collateral Agent or the Collateral
Control Agent of any Instruments and Certificated Securities which
constitute Collateral), all as the Third Priority Collateral Agent
or the Trustee or any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent may
from time to time reasonably request, to establish and maintain a
valid perfected security interest in the Collateral (free of all
other liens, claims and rights of third parties whatsoever, other
than Permitted Liens) to secure the payment of the Obligations (and
each Grantor authorizes the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the
Trustee and each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent to file,
without limitation, any financing statement (or any equivalent
filings in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) that
(i) indicates the Collateral (x) as “all
property” or “all assets” of such Grantor or
words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset
in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the
UCC of the jurisdiction wherein such financing statement is filed,
or (y) as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater
detail, and (ii) contains any other information required by
Section 5 of Article 9 of the UCC of the jurisdiction
wherein such financing statement is filed regarding the sufficiency
or filing office acceptance of any financing statement (or any
equivalent filings in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands),
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 (or any equivalent filings in the United Kingdom and the
Netherlands) filed as 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;
provided that, in any event, each Grantor shall take any
such action, and any action listed in clauses (x) and
(xi) below, for the benefit of the Third Priority Collateral
Agent to the extent and at the time it is taking the same action
for the benefit of the First Priority Collateral Agent or Second
Priority Collateral Agent;
(ii) will keep all
its records regarding Collateral at, and will not maintain any
place of business at any location other than, its address(es) shown
on Schedules I and II hereto or at such other
addresses of which such Grantor shall have given the Third Priority
Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agent not less than 30 days’ prior written
notice;
(iii) will not
change its state of organization or incorporation and will not
change its name, identity or corporate structure or its
organizational identification number for the state of its
incorporation, formation or organization, in each case such that
any financing statement filed to perfect the Third Priority
Collateral Agent’s interests under this Agreement would
become seriously misleading, unless such Grantor shall have given
the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each Pari
Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent not less than
30 days’ prior notice of
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such change (
provided that this Section 11(a)(iii) shall not
be deemed to authorize any change or transaction prohibited under
the Indenture or any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agreement)
and shall have taken or will timely take all action necessary to
maintain continued perfection and priority of the security interest
created hereunder following such change;
(iv) to the extent
practicable, will keep its records concerning the Collateral in
such a manner as will enable the Third Priority Collateral Agent or
its designees to determine at any time the status of the
Collateral;
(v) to the extent
practicable, will furnish the Third Priority Collateral Agent such
information as is available to such Grantor concerning such
Grantor, the Collateral and the Account Debtors as the Third
Priority Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably
request;
(vi) will permit
the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee, each Pari Passu
Third Lien Indebtedness Agent and their designees, from time to
time, on reasonable notice and at reasonable times and intervals
during normal business hours (or at any time without notice if a
Default has occurred and is continuing) to inspect, audit and make
copies of and extracts from all records and all other papers in the
possession of such Grantor pertaining to the Collateral and the
Account Debtors, and will, upon request of the Third Priority
Collateral Agent during the existence of a Default and to the
extent practicable, deliver to the Third Priority Collateral Agent
all of such records and papers;
(vii) will not
sell, lease or assign any Collateral except as permitted by both
the Notes Documents and each then extant Pari Passu Third Lien
Indebtedness Agreement or create or permit to exist any Lien on any
Collateral other than Permitted Liens;
(viii) will at all
times keep all of its Inventory and other Goods insured under
policies maintained with reputable, financially sound insurance
companies against loss, damage, theft and other risks to such
extent as is customarily maintained by companies similarly
situated, following the Discharge of First Priority Claims and
Discharge of Second Priority Claims, and cause all such policies to
provide that loss thereunder shall be payable to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent as its interest may appear (it being understood
that (A) so long as no Default shall be continuing, the Third
Priority Collateral Agent shall deliver any proceeds of such
insurance which may be received by it to such Grantor and
(B) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a
Default shall be continuing, the Required Secured Parties may
direct (in writing) the Third Priority Collateral Agent to apply
any proceeds of such insurance which may be received by it toward
payment of the Obligations, whether or not due, in such order of
application as the Required Secured Parties may determine) and such
policies or certificates thereof shall, if the Third Priority
Collateral Agent so requests, be deposited with or furnished to the
Third Priority Collateral Agent;
(ix) will keep all
of the Collateral granted by such Grantor, Deposit Accounts and
Investment Property in the United States or at such other locations
outside of the United States as may be specified in writing to the
Trustee and each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
Agent;
(x) will promptly
notify the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each
Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent in writing upon incurring
or otherwise obtaining a Commercial Tort Claim which is claiming
damages in excess of $10,000,000 (or any lesser amount specified in
writing by the Trustee and each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
Agent or the Third Priority Collateral Agent, if a Default has
occurred and is continuing) after the date hereof against any third
party, and concurrently therewith deliver to the Trustee, in form
and sub-
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stance
satisfactory to the Trustee, a supplement to Schedule V
sufficiently identifying such Commercial Tort Claim for purposes of
Section 9-108 of the UCC;
(xi) will promptly
notify the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee and each
Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent in writing upon becoming
the beneficiary under any letter of credit in excess of $10,000,000
(or any lesser amount specified in writing by the Required Secured
Parties or the Third Priority Collateral Agent, if a Default has
occurred and is continuing) and, at the request of the Third
Priority Collateral Agent following the Discharge of First Priority
Claims and Discharge of Second Priority Claims, pursuant to an
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent, either (A) arrange for the issuer and any
confirmer or other nominated person of such letter of credit to
consent to an assignment to the Third Priority Collateral Agent of
such letter of credit or (B) arrange for the Third Priority
Collateral Agent to become the transferee beneficiary of such
letter of credit;
(xii) will
promptly notify the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee
and each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent in writing if
such Grantor holds or acquires an interest in any Electronic
Chattel Paper and, at the request of the Third Priority Collateral
Agent take such action as the Third Priority Collateral Agent or
the Trustee or any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent may
reasonably request to vest control, under Section 9-105 of the
UCC, of such Electronic Chattel Paper in the Third Priority
Collateral Agent or the Collateral Control Agent;
(xiii) if any
Grantor (i) obtains any rights to any additional Intellectual
Property constituting Collateral which is registered with the
United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent &
Trademark Office or (ii) becomes entitled to the benefit of
any additional Intellectual Property constituting Collateral or any
renewal or extension thereof, including any reissue, division,
continuation, or continuation-in-part of any Intellectual Property
constituting Collateral which is registered with the United States
Copyright Office or the United States Patent & Trademark
Office, or any improvement on any Intellectual Property
constituting Collateral which is registered with the United States
Copyright Office or the United States Patent & Trademark
Office, such Grantor will notify the Third Priority Collateral
Agent in writing and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause a
short form security agreement in favor of the Third Priority
Collateral Agent to be filed in the United States Copyright Office
or the Unites States Patent & Trademark Office, as the case may
be, with respect to such Intellectual Property; provided
that this covenant shall not apply to “off-the-shelf”
license rights of any Grantor in any Intellectual Property or any
other license rights that are not material to such
Grantor;
(xiv) acknowledges
and agrees that it is not authorized to file any financing
statement in favor of the Third Priority Collateral Agent without
the prior written consent of the Third Priority Collateral Agent
and that it will not do so without the prior written consent of the
Third Priority Collateral Agent, subject to such Grantor’s
rights under Section 9-509(d)(2) of the UCC;
(xv) agrees that,
in the event any Grantor takes any action to grant or perfect a
Lien in favor of the First Priority Collateral Agent in any assets
(other than the delivery of possessory Collateral or the grant of
“control” over any Collateral to the Collateral Control
Agent but including actions to perfect security interests under the
laws of foreign jurisdictions), such Grantor shall also take such
action to grant or perfect a Lien in favor of the Third Priority
Collateral Agent to secure the Obligations;
(xvi) will
facilitate the realization of the Collateral and the exercise of
all powers, authorities and discretions vested by this Agreement in
the Third Priority Collateral Agent; and
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(xvii) shall in
particular promptly execute all transfers, conveyances, assignments
and assurances which the Third Priority Collateral Agent may
reasonably request in order to preserve or protect its interest in
the Collateral.
Any expenses
incurred in protecting, preserving or maintaining any Collateral
shall be borne jointly and severally by the Grantors. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, the
Third Priority Collateral Agent shall have the right to bring suit
to enforce any or all of the Intellectual Property or licenses
thereunder, in which event the applicable Grantor shall at the
request of the Third Priority Collateral Agent do any and all
lawful acts and execute any and all proper documents reasonably
requested by the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee or
any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent in aid of such
enforcement and such Grantor shall promptly, upon demand, reimburse
and indemnify the Third Priority Collateral Agent, the Trustee and
each Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness Agent for all costs and
expenses incurred by either of them in the exercise of their rights
under this Section 11 . Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Third Priority Collateral Agent shall have no obligation or
liability regarding the Collateral or any proceeds thereof by
reason of, or arising out of, this Agreement.
(b) Each of
RFC and RFC Holding (i) shall execute a written declaration as
referred to in clause 19.12 of the articles of association (
statuten ) of GMAC RFC International Holdings
Coöperatief U.A. pursuant to which it terminates its
membership ( lidmaatschap ) of GMAC RFC International
Holdings Coöperatief U.A., subject to the occurrence of an
Event of Default or the delivery of a notice in accordance with
Section 6.02 of the Indenture or the delivery of a notice of
acceleration with respect to any Pari Passu Third Lien Indebtedness
and (ii) shall not revoke such written declaration or
otherwise take any action that results in such written declaration
being nullified or declared null and void.
(c) The
Company acknowledges and agrees that (a) it shall (1) not
waive any rights under nor amend, novate, repudiate, rescind or
otherwise terminate or permit to be terminated any Assigned
Document without the prior written consent of the Third Priority
Collateral Agent; (2) diligently pursue any remedies available
to it for any breach of, or in respect of any claim in relation to,
any Assigned Document; (3) deposit the UK Note and any UK Note
Related Security issued in relation to a UK Note pursuant to Clause
8.2 (New Note Certificate) of the Note Issuance Facility Deed with
the Third Priority Collateral Agent or Collateral Control Agent;
and (4) procure that the UK SPE complies with its obligations
under Clause 8.2 (New Note Certificate) of the Note Issuance
Facility Deed, including, without limitation, granting a power of
attorney in favor of the Third Priority Collateral Agent or
Collateral Control Agent in a form set out in Schedule 9 to
the Note Issuance Facility Deed; and (b) all payments received
by it in connection with the UK Note, including the proceeds of any
redemption of the UK Note whether as a result of a disposal of any
assets or otherwise, shall be deposited into an account specified
by the Third Priority Collateral Agent pursuant to the written
direction of the Trustee from time to time.
12.
Agreement as to Investment Property; Voting .
(a) All
certificates or Instruments, if any, representing or evidencing any
Primary Collateral, including any Pledged Property, shall be
delivered to and held by or on behalf of (and, in the case of the
Pledged Notes, endorsed to the order of) the Collateral Control
Agent pursuant hereto, shall be in suitable form for transfer by
delivery, and shall be accompanied by all necessary endorsements or
instruments of transfer or assignment, duly executed in blank;
provided that notes evidencing individual residential
mortgage loans included in Primary Collateral need not be so
delivered before September 15, 2008; and provided further that
notes evidencing individual residential mortgage loans that are not
included in Primary Collateral need not be so delivered.
(b) To the
extent any of its Primary Collateral constitutes a
“certificated security” (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(4) of the UCC), each Grantor shall take such
other actions as necessary to grant “con-
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trol” (as
defined in Section 8-106 of the UCC) to the Third Priority
Collateral Agent or Collateral Control Agent over such
Collateral.
(c) Not later
than the earlier of (i) September 15, 2008 and
(ii) the date specified by the Required Secured Parties
following an Event of Default, to the extent any of its Primary
Collateral constitutes an “uncertificated security” (as
defined in Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC) with a Carrying
Value of $10,000,000 or more, each Grantor shall take and cause the
appropriate Person (including any issuer, entitlement holder or
securities intermediary thereof) to take all actions necessary to
grant “control” (as defined in Section 8-106 of
the UCC) to the Collateral Control Agent over such Primary
Collateral including, without limitation, causing delivery of such
Primary Collateral or causing the issuer of such Primary
Collateral, as appropriate, to agree to comply with the
instructions originated by the Collateral Control Agent without
further consent by the registered owner thereof.
(d) Not later
than the earlier of (i) September 15, 2008 and
(ii) the date specified by the Required Secured Parties
following an Event of Default, to the extent any of its Primary
Collateral constitutes a “security entitlement” or a
“securities account” (as such terms are defined in
Sections 8-102(a)(17) and 8-501(a), respectively, of the UCC),
each Grantor shall take and cause the appropriate Person (including
any securities intermediary thereof) to take all actions necessary
to grant “control” (as defined in Section 8-106 of
the UCC) to the Collateral Control Agent over such Primary
Collateral including, without limitation, causing to be delivered
to the Collateral Control Agent an agreement, executed by the
securities intermediary thereof whereby such securities
intermediary agrees (i) that it will comply with entitlement
orders originated by the Collateral Control Agent without further
consent by such Grantor or any other Person with respect to all
such Primary Collateral (it being understood that such agreement
may provide that at all times when such securities intermediary has
not been notified by the Collateral Control Agent to the contrary,
the securities intermediary may comply with entitlement orders of
such Grantor), (ii) to subordinate any security interest it may
have in and to all such Primary Collateral to the security interest
of the Collateral Control Agent therein, and (iii) that it
will not agree with any Person other than the Collateral Control
Agent in any manner that would grant such Person
“control” over any such Primary Collateral without the
Required Secured Parties’ prior written consent.
(e) Each
Pledgor will, from time to time upon the request of the Collateral
Control Agent or the Third Priority Collateral Agent, promptly
deliver to the Collateral Control Agent such stock powers,
instruments, and similar documents, satisfactory in form and
substance, following the Discharge of First Priority Claims and the
Discharge of Second Priority Claims, to the Trustee and the Third
Priority Collateral Agent, with respect to the Collateral as the
Collateral Control Agent or the Third Priority Collateral Agent may
reasonably request and will, from time to time upon the request of
the Collateral Control Agent or the Third Priority Collateral Agent
after the occurrence of any Default, promptly transfer any Pledged
Shares, Pledged Interests or other shares of common stock, member
interests or other ownership interests constituting Collateral into
the name of any nominee, designated by the Trustee following the
Discharge of First Priority Claims and Discharge of Second Priority
Claims.
(f) Subject
to clause (g) below, each Pledgor will, at all times, keep
pledged to the Third Priority Col
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