Accounts and Related Contracts. Each Grantor shall: (a) keep its chief place of business and chief executive office and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Accounts and Related Contracts, and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Accounts, at the location therefor specified on Schedule 5.5 or, upon 30 days' written notice to Secured Party following any change in location, at such other location in a jurisdiction where all action that Secured Party may request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby, or to enable Secured Party to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder, with respect to such Accounts and Related Contracts shall have been taken. Promptly upon the reasonable request of Secured Party, such Grantor shall deliver to Secured Party complete and correct copies of each Related Contract; (b) maintain (i) complete records of all Accounts, including records of all payments received, credits granted and merchandise returned, and (ii) all documentation relating thereto in accordance with prudent business practices; (c) except as otherwise provided in this subsection (c), continue to collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor under the Accounts and Related Con tracts, and in connection with such collections, such Grantor shall take such action as such Grantor or Secured Party may deem necessary or advisable to enforce collection of amounts due or to become due under the Accounts and Related Contracts; provided, Secured Party shall have the right at any time, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default and upon written notice to such Grantor of its intention to do so, to notify the account debtors or obligors under any Accounts and Related Contracts of the assignment of such Accounts and Related Contracts to Secured Party and to direct such account debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor thereunder directly to Secured Party, to notify each Person maintaining a lockbox or similar arrangement to which account debtors or obligors under any Accounts and Related Contracts have been directed to make payment to remit all amounts representing collections on checks and other payment items from time to time sent to or deposited in such lockbox or other arrangement directly to Secured Party and, upon such notification and at the expense of such Grantor, to enforce collection of any such Accounts and Related Contracts and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as such Grantor might have done. After receipt by any Grantor of the notice from Secured Party referred to in the proviso to the preced- ing sentence, (i) any payments of Accounts and Related Contracts, received by such Grantor shall be forthwith (and in any event within two Business Days) deposited by such Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Secured Party if required, in an account (the "Collateral Account") maintained under the sole dominion and control of the Secured Party, subject to withdrawal by the Secured Party for the account of the Secured Parties as provided in Section 7.5, (ii) until so turned over in accordance with the preceding subsection (i), all amounts and proceeds (including checks and other instruments) received by such Grantor in respect of the Accounts and the Related Contracts shall be received in trust for the benefit of Secured Party hereunder and shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and (iii) such Grantor shall not adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Account and Related Contracts, or release wholly or partly any account debtor or obligor thereof, or allow any credit or discount thereon.
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Samples: Credit and Guaranty Agreement (Allegiance Telecom Inc), Credit and Guaranty Agreement (Allegiance Telecom Inc)
Accounts and Related Contracts. Each Grantor shall:
(a) keep its chief place of business and chief executive office and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Accounts and Related Contracts, and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Accounts, at the location therefor specified on Schedule 5.5 6.5 or, upon 30 days' written notice to Secured Party Collateral Agent following any change in location, at such other location in a jurisdiction where all action that Secured Party Collateral Agent may request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby, or to enable Secured Party Collateral Agent to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder, with respect to such Accounts and Related Contracts shall have been taken. Promptly upon the reasonable request of Secured PartyCollateral Agent, such Grantor shall deliver to Secured Party Collateral Agent complete and correct copies of each Related Contract;
(b) maintain (i) complete and accurate records of all Accounts, including records of all payments received, credits granted and merchandise returned, and (ii) all documentation relating thereto in accordance with prudent business practices;
(c) except as otherwise provided in this subsection (c), continue to collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor under the Accounts and Related Con tractsContracts, and in connection with such collections, such Grantor shall take such action (unless the Grantor has determined in the exercise of its commercially reasonable judgment that it shall not do so) as such Grantor or Secured Party Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to enforce collection of amounts due or to become due under the Accounts and Related ContractsAccounts; provided, Secured Party Collateral Agent shall have the right at any time, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default and upon written notice to such Grantor of its intention to do so, to notify the account debtors or obligors under any Accounts and Related Contracts of the assignment of such Accounts and Related Contracts to Secured Party Collateral Agent and to direct such account debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor thereunder directly to Secured PartyCollateral Agent, to notify each Person maintaining a lockbox or similar arrangement to which account debtors or obligors under any Accounts and Related Contracts have been directed to make payment to remit all amounts representing collections on checks and other payment items from time to time sent to or deposited in such lockbox or other arrangement directly to Secured Party Collateral Agent and, upon such notification and at the expense of such Grantor, to enforce collection of any such Accounts and Related Contracts and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as such Grantor might have done. After receipt by any Grantor of the notice from Secured Party Collateral Agent referred to in the proviso to the preced- ing preceding sentence, (i) any payments of Accounts and Related ContractsAccounts, received by such Grantor shall be forthwith (and in any event within two Business Days) deposited by such Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Secured Party Collateral Agent if required, in an account (the "a Collateral Account") Account maintained under the sole dominion and control of the Secured Party, Collateral Agent (the "Collateral Account") subject ------------------ to withdrawal by the Secured Party Collateral Agent for the account of the Secured Parties only as provided in Section 7.511.3, (ii) until so turned over in accordance with the preceding subsection (i), all amounts and proceeds (including checks and other instruments) received by such Grantor in respect of the Accounts and the Related Contracts shall be received in trust for the benefit of Secured Party Collateral Agent hereunder and shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and (iii) such Grantor shall not adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Account and Related ContractsAccount, or release wholly or partly any account debtor or obligor thereof, or allow any credit or discount thereon.
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Samples: Pledge and Security Agreement (Northpoint Communications Group Inc)
Accounts and Related Contracts. Each Grantor shall:
(a) keep its chief place of business and chief executive office and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Accounts and Related Contracts, and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Accounts, at the location therefor specified on Schedule 5.5 or, upon 30 days' written notice to Secured Party following any change in location, at such other location in a jurisdiction where all action that Secured Party may request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby, or to enable Secured Party to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder, with respect to such Accounts and Related Contracts shall have been taken. Promptly upon the reasonable request of Secured Party, such Grantor shall deliver to Secured Party complete and correct copies of each Related Contract;
(b) maintain (i) complete records of all Accounts, including records of all payments received, credits granted and merchandise returned, and (ii) all documentation relating thereto in accordance with prudent business practices;
(c) except as otherwise provided in this subsection (c), continue to collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor under the Accounts and Related Con tractsContracts, and in connection with such collections, such Grantor shall take such action as such Grantor or Secured Party may reasonably deem necessary or advisable to enforce collection of amounts due or to become due under the Accounts and Related ContractsAccounts; provided, Secured Party shall have the right at any time, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default and upon written notice to such Grantor of its intention to do so, to notify the account debtors or obligors under any Accounts and Related Contracts of the assignment of such Accounts and Related Contracts to Secured Party and to direct such account debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor thereunder directly to Secured Party, to notify each Person maintaining a lockbox or similar arrangement to which account debtors or obligors under any Accounts and Related Contracts have been directed to make payment to remit all amounts representing collections on checks and other payment items from time to time sent to or deposited in such lockbox or other arrangement directly to Secured Party and, upon such notification and at the expense of such Grantor, to enforce collection of any such Accounts and Related Contracts and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as such Grantor might have done. After receipt by any Grantor of the notice from Secured Party referred to in the proviso to the preced- ing preceding sentence, (i) any payments of Accounts and Related ContractsAccounts, received by such Grantor shall be forthwith (and in any event within two Business Days) deposited by such Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Secured Party if required, in an account (the "a Collateral Account") Account maintained under the sole dominion and control of the Secured Party, subject to withdrawal by the Secured Party for the account of the Secured Parties only as provided in Section 7.510.3, (ii) until so turned over in accordance with the preceding subsection (i), all amounts and proceeds (including checks and other instruments) received by such Grantor in respect of the Accounts and the Related Contracts shall be received in trust for the benefit of Secured Party hereunder and shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and (iii) such Grantor shall not adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Account and Related ContractsAccount, or release wholly or partly any account debtor or obligor thereof, or allow any credit or discount thereon.
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Samples: Pledge and Security Agreement (Convergent Communications Inc /Co)