Administration of Accounts and Credit Card Receivables. (a) The Administrative Agent retains the right after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default to notify the Account Debtors, Credit Card Processors and Credit Card Issuers that the Accounts and Credit Card Receivables have been assigned to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, and to collect the Accounts and Credit Card Receivables directly in its own name and to charge the collection costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, to the Borrowers. The Administrative Agent has no duty to protect, insure, collect or realize upon the Accounts and Credit Card Receivables or preserve rights in them. Each Borrower Party irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the Administrative Agent as such Borrower Party’s true and lawful attorney and agent-in-fact to endorse such Borrower Party’s name on any checks, notes, drafts or other payments relating to, the Accounts and Credit Card Receivables which come into the Administrative Agent’s possession or under the Administrative Agent’s control as a result of its taking any of the foregoing actions. Additionally, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, shall have the right to collect and settle or adjust all disputes and claims directly with the Account Debtor, Credit Card Processors and Credit Card Issuers and to compromise the amount or extend the time for payment of the Accounts and Credit Card Receivables upon such terms and conditions as the Administrative Agent may deem advisable, and to charge the deficiencies, reasonable costs and expenses thereof, including attorney’s fees, to the Borrowers. (b) If an Account or a Credit Card Receivable includes a charge for any tax payable to any governmental taxing authority, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders is authorized, in its sole discretion, to pay the amount thereof to the proper taxing authority for the account of the applicable Borrower Party and to make a Base Rate Advance to the Borrowers to pay therefor. The Borrower Parties shall notify the Administrative Agent if any Account or Credit Card Receivable includes any tax due to any governmental taxing authority and, in the absence of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall have the right to retain the full proceeds of the Account or Credit Card Receivable and shall not be liable for any taxes to any governmental taxing authority that may be due by any Borrower Party by reason of the sale and delivery creating the Account or Credit Card Receivable. (c) Whether or not a Default has occurred, any of the Administrative Agent’s officers, employees or agents shall have the right after prior notice to the Administrative Borrower (provided no prior notice shall be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing), at any time or times hereafter, in the name of the Lenders, or any designee of the Lenders or the Borrower Parties, to verify the validity, amount or other matter relating to any Accounts or Credit Card Receivables by mail, telephone, telegraph or otherwise. The Borrower Parties shall cooperate fully with the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in an effort to facilitate and promptly conclude any such verification process.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Chicos Fas Inc), Credit Agreement (Chicos Fas Inc), Credit Agreement (Chicos Fas Inc)