Exhibit 10.42
SUBORDINATION
AGREEMENT
SUBORDINATION
AGREEMENT , dated as of
March 31, 2006, by and among Lightbridge, Inc., a Delaware
corporation and the successor by merger to Corsair Communications,
Inc. (a “ Subordinated Lender ”; collectively,
together with any other holders from time to time of the
Subordinated Obligations, the “ Subordinated Lenders
”), Wireless Billing Systems, a California corporation
(together with its successors and assigns, the “
Borrower ”), Primal Solutions, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“ Primal ”) and the
“Investors” named in that certain Purchase Agreement by
and among the Borrower and the Investors (the “ Purchase
Agreement ”) (together with their respective successors
and assigns, collectively, the “ Senior Lender
”).
The parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
1.
Definitions . (a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms
defined in the Purchase Agreement or the Senior Notes and used
herein shall have the respective meanings given to them in the
Purchase Agreement or the Senior Notes.
(b)
The following terms shall have the following meanings:
“ Agreement ”:
this Subordination Agreement, as the same may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“ Blockage Notice
”: a written notice from the Senior Lender to the
Subordinated Lenders that (a) a Non-Payment Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or (b) an Event of Default would occur
if a scheduled interest or principal payment were made under the
Subordinated Notes in accordance with the terms thereof.
“ Blockage Period
”: any period commencing on the date a Blockage Notice is
given and ending on the earlier to occur of: (a) the date
when (1) the Event of Default that was the basis for such notice
has been cured or waived or (2) the conditions shall have ceased to
exist which would cause an Event of Default to occur if a scheduled
payment were made under the Subordinated Notes in accordance with
the terms thereof; and (b) 90 days after the date such Blockage
Notice is given.
“ Collateral ”:
the collective reference to any and all property from time to time
subject to security interests to secure payment or performance of
the Senior Obligations or the Subordinated Obligations.
“ Default ”: any
Event of Default as defined in the Senior Note, or any event or
condition that with notice of lapse of time, or otherwise results
in the acceleration of, or entitles a Senior Lender to accelerate,
any Senior Obligation.
“ Insolvency
Event” : (a) The Borrower or Primal commencing any case,
proceeding or other action (1) under any existing or future law of
any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship or relief of debtors,
seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or
seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation,
dissolution,
composition or other relief with
respect to it or its debts, or (2) seeking appointment of a
receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official
for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or the
Borrower or Primal making a general assignment for the benefit of
its creditors; or (b) there being commenced against the Borrower or
Primal any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to
in clause (a) above which (1) results in the entry of an order for
relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (2) remains
undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days; or
(c) there being commenced against the Borrower or Primal any case,
proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of
attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or
any substantial part of its assets which results in the entry of an
order for any such relief which shall not have been vacated,
discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from
the entry thereof; or (d) the Borrower or Primal taking any action
in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or
acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (a), (b) or
(c) above; or (e) the Borrower or Primal generally not paying, or
being unable to pay, or admitting in writing its inability to pay,
its debts as they become due.
“ Non-Payment Event of
Default ”: any event (other than a Payment Event of
Default) the occurrence of which entitles the Senior Lender to
accelerate the maturity of any of the Senior
Obligations.
“ Payment Event of
Default ”: any default in the payment of the Senior
Obligations (whether upon maturity, mandatory prepayment,
acceleration or otherwise) beyond any applicable grace period with
respect thereto.
“ Senior Loan Agreement
”: the Purchase Agreement, as the same may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, including, without
limitation, amendments, modifications, supplements and restatements
thereof giving effect to increases, renewals, extensions,
refundings, deferrals, restructurings, replacements or refinancings
of, or additions to, the arrangements provided in such agreement
(whether provided by the original Senior Lender or a successor
Senior Lender or other Lenders).
“ Senior Loans ”:
the loans made by the Senior Lender to the Borrower pursuant to the
Senior Loan Agreement.
“ Senior Loan Documents
”: the collective reference to the Senior Loan Agreement, the
Senior Notes, the Senior Security Documents and all other documents
that from time to time evidence the Senior Obligations or secure
payment or performance thereof.
“ Senior Notes ”:
the promissory notes of the Borrower outstanding from time to time
under the Senior Loan Agreement.
“ Senior Obligations
”: the collective reference to the unpaid principal of and
interest on the Senior Notes and all other obligations and
liabilities of the Borrower to the Senior Lender of whatever kind
or nature (including, without limitation, interest accruing at the
then applicable rate provided in the Senior Notes after the
maturity of the Senior Loans and interest accruing at the then
applicable rate provided in the Senior Notes after the filing of
any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency,
reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower,
whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is
allowed in such
proceeding), whether direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now
existing or hereafter incurred, whether or not arising under, out
of, or in connection with, the Senior Loan Agreement, the Senior
Notes, this Agreement, the other Senior Loan Documents or any other
document made, delivered or given by Borrower, in each case whether
on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees,
indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without
limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to the Senior
Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower).
“ Senior Security
Documents ”: the collective reference to all documents
and instruments, now existing or hereafter arising, which create or
purport to create a security interest in property to secure payment
or performance of the Senior Obligations.
“ Subordinated Loan
Documents ”: the collective reference to the Subordinated
Notes, the Subordinated Security Documents and any other documents
or instruments that from time to time evidence the Subordinated
Obligations or secure or support payment or performance
thereof.
“ Subordinated Loans
”: the loans made by the Subordinated Lenders pursuant to the
Subordinated Notes.
“ Subordinated Notes
”: the Borrower’s 2006 Amended and Restated Secured
Promissory Note, dated March 31, 2006, in the original principal
amount of $982,243.40.
“ Subordinated
Obligations ”: the collective reference to the unpaid
principal and interest on the Subordinated Notes and all other
obligations and liabilities of the Borrower to the Subordinated
Lenders (including, without limitation, interest accruing at the
then applicable rate provided in the Subordinated Notes after the
maturity of the Subordinated Loans and interest accruing at the
then applicable rate provided in the Subordinated Notes after the
filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any
insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the
Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition
interest is allowed in such proceeding), whether direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now
existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or
in connection with, the Subordinated Notes, this Agreement, or any
other Subordinated Loan Document, in each case whether or not on
account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees,
indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without
limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to the
Subordinated Lenders that are required to be paid by the
Borrower).
“ Subordinated Security
Documents ”: the collective reference to (a) the
documents listed on Schedule 1 , as the same may be amended,
modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time with the prior
written consent of the Senior Lender and (b) any other documents
executed by the Borrower with the prior written consent of the
Senior Lender that from time to time secure payment or performance
of the Subordinated Obligations.
(c)
The words “hereof,” “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement, and section and
paragraph references are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
(d)
The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such
terms.
2.
Subordination . (a) The Borrower, Primal, and each of
the Subordinated Lenders agrees, for itself and each future holder
of the Subordinated Obligations, that the Subordinated Obligations
are expressly “subordinate and junior in right of
payment” (as that phrase is defined in paragraph 2(b)) to all
Senior Obligations.
(b)
“ Subordinate and junior in right of payment ”
means that (1) no part of the Subordinated Obligations shall have
any claim to the assets of the Borrower on a parity with or prior
to the claim of the Senior Obligations; and (2) unless and until
the Senior Obligations have been paid in full, without the express
prior written consent of the Senior Lender (A) no Subordinated
Lender will take or receive from the Borrower, and the Borrower
will not make, give or permit, directly or indirectly, by set-off,
redemption, purchase or in any other manner, any payment of (of
whatever kind or nature, whether in cash, property, securities or
otherwise) or security for the whole or any part of the
Subordinated Obligations, including, without limitation, any letter
of credit or similar credit support facility to support payment of
the Subordinated Obligations; provided, however ,
that at any time, except during a Blockage Period or when a Payment
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower may
make, and the Subordinated Lenders may receive, regularly scheduled
payments on account of principal of and interest on the
Subordinated Notes in accordance with the terms thereof determined
on a pre-default non- accelerated basis, and (B) no Subordinated
Lender will accelerate for any reason the scheduled maturities of
any amount owing under the Subordinated Notes unless or until
Senior Lender accelerates amounts owing under the Senior
Obligations.
(c)
Upon the termination of any Blockage Period or if any Payment Event
of Default has been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist,
as confirmed in writing by Senior Lender, the Subordinated
Lenders’ right to receive payments as provided in clause
2(b)(2)(A) shall be reinstated, and the Borrower may resume making
such payments to the Subordinated Lenders (including any payments
that were deferred as a result thereof).
(d)
The expressions “prior payment in full,” “payment
in full,” “paid in full” and any other similar
terms or phrases when used herein with respect to the Senior
Obligations shall mean the payment in full, in immediately
available funds, of all of the Senior Obligations.
3.
Additional Provisions Concerning Subordination . (a)
The Subordinated Lenders, the Borrower and Primal agree that upon
the occurrence of any Insolvency Event:
(1) all Senior Obligations shall be
paid in full before any payment or distribution of whatever kind or
nature is made with respect to the Subordinated Obligations;
and
(2) any payment or distribution of
assets of the Borrower, whether in cash, property or securities, to
which any Subordinated Lender would be entitled except for the
provisions hereof, shall be paid or delivered by the Borrower, or
any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee,
disbursing agent or other Person making such payment or
distribution, directly to the Senior Lender, to the extent
necessary to pay in full all Senior Obligations, before any payment
or distribution of any kind or nature shall be made to any
Subordinated Lender.
(b)
Upon the occurrence of any “Insolvency
Event”:
(1) each Subordinated Lender
irrevocably authorizes and empowers the Senior Lender (A) to
demand, sue for, collect and receive every payment or distribution
on account of the Subordinated Obligations payable or deliverable
in connection with such event or proceeding and give acquittance
therefor, and (B) to file claims and proofs of claim in any
statutory or non-statutory proceeding and take such other actions,
in its own name as Senior Lender, or in the name of the
Subordinated Lenders or otherwise, as the Senior Lender may deem
necessary or advisable for the enforcement of the provisions of
this Agreement; provided , however , that the
foregoing authorization and empowerment imposes no obligation on
the Senior Lender to take any such action;
(2) each Subordinated Lender shall
take such commercially reasonable action, duly and promptly, as the
Senior Lender may request from time to time (A) to collect the
Subordinated Obligations for the account of the Senior Lender and
(B) to file appropriate proofs of claim in respect of the
Subordinated Obligations; and
(3) each Subordinated Lender shall
execute and deliver such powers of attorney, assignments or proofs
of claim or other instruments as the Senior Lender may request to
enable the Senior Lender to enforce any and all claims in respect
of the Subordinated Obligations and to collect and receive any and
all payments and distributions which may be payable or deliverable
at any time upon or in respect of the Subordinated
Obligations.
(c)
If any payment or distribution, whether consisting of money,
property or securities, shall be collected or received by any
Subordinated Lender in respect of the Subordinated Obligations,
except payments permitted to be made at the time of payment as
provided in paragraph 2(b), such Subordinated Lender forthwith
shall deliver the same to the Senior Lender, in the form received,
duly indorsed to the Senior Lender, if required, to be applied to
the payment or prepayment of the Senior Obligations until the
Senior Obligations are paid in full. Until so delivered, such
payment or distribution shall be held in trust by such Subordinated
Lender as the property of the Senior Lender, segregated from other
funds and property held by such Subordinated Lender.
4.
Rights in Collateral . (a) Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in the Senior Loan Agreement, any Senior
Security Document, any other Senior Loan Document or any
Subordinated Security Document or other Subordinated Loan Document
and irrespective of:
(1) the time, order or method of
attachment or perfection of the security interests created by any
Senior Security Document or any Subordinated Security
Document;
(2) the time or order of filing or
recording of financing statements or other documents filed or
recorded to perfect security interests in any
Collateral;
(3) anything contained in any filing
or agreement to which the Senior Lender or any Subordinated Lender
now or hereafter may be a party; and
(4) the rules for determining
perfection or priority under the Uniform Commercial Code or any
other law governing the relative priorities of secured
creditors,
any security interest in any
Collateral pursuant to any Senior Security Document has and shall
have priority, to the extent of any unpaid Senior Obligations, over
any security interest in such Collateral pursuant to any
Subordinated Security Document.
(b)
So long as the Senior Obligations have not been paid in full and
any Senior Security Document remains in effect, whether or not any
Insolvency Event has occurred, and whether or not demand for
payment of any Subordinated Obligations has been made,
(1) no Subordinated Lender will (A)
exercise or seek to exercise any rights or exercise any remedies
with respect to any Collateral or (B) institute any action or
proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies, including
without limitation, any action of foreclosure or (C) contest,
protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding, postpetition
financing, use of cash collateral or action brought by the Senior
Lender or any other exercise by the Senior Lender of any rights and
remedies under any Senior Loan Documents; and
(2) the Senior Lender shall have
the