Creation, Perfection and Priority of Liens The execution and delivery of the Collateral Documents by Loan Parties and Sponsors, together with (i) the actions taken on or prior to the date hereof pursuant to subsections 4.1, 4.2, 6.8 and 6.9 and (ii) the delivery to Administrative Agent of any Pledged Collateral not delivered to Administrative Agent at the time of execution and delivery of the applicable Collateral Document (all of which Pledged Collateral has been so delivered) are effective to create in favor of Administrative Agent for the benefit of Lenders, as security for the respective Secured Obligations (as defined in the applicable Collateral Document in respect of any Collateral), a valid and perfected First Priority Lien on all of the Collateral, and all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and maintain the perfection and First Priority status of such Liens have been duly made or taken and remain in full force and effect, other than the filing of any UCC financing statements or Mortgages delivered to Administrative Agent for filing or recording, as applicable (but not yet filed or recorded) and the periodic filing of UCC continuation statements in respect of UCC financing statements filed by or on behalf of Administrative Agent.
Rights in Collateral; Priority of Liens Borrower and each other Loan Party own the property granted by it as Collateral under the Collateral Documents, free and clear of any and all Liens in favor of third parties. Upon the proper filing of UCC financing statements, and the taking of the other actions required by the Required Lenders, the Liens granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents will constitute valid and enforceable first, prior and perfected Liens on the Collateral in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of Agent and Lenders.
Relative Priorities Notwithstanding the date, time, method, manner or order of grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens securing the Second Priority Obligations granted on the Collateral or of any Liens securing the First Priority Obligations granted on the Collateral and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC, or any other applicable law or the Second Priority Loan Documents or any defect or deficiencies in, or failure to perfect, the Liens securing the First Priority Obligations or the Second Priority Obligations or any other circumstance whatsoever, the Second Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Priority Creditors, hereby agrees that:
(a) so long as the Discharge of First Priority Obligations has not occurred, any Lien on the Collateral securing any First Priority Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the First Priority Agent or any First Priority Creditors or any agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the Collateral securing any Second Priority Obligations; and
(b) so long as the Discharge of First Priority Obligations has not occurred, any Lien on the Collateral securing any Second Priority Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the Second Priority Agent, any Second Priority Creditors, any agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all Liens on the Collateral securing any First Priority Obligations. All Liens on the Collateral securing any First Priority Obligations shall be and remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Collateral securing any Second Priority Obligations for all purposes, whether or not such Liens securing any First Priority Obligations are subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of the Borrowers, any other Grantor or any other Person.
Priority of Liens (a) Notwithstanding (i) the date, time, method, manner, or order of grant, attachment, or perfection of any Liens granted to the ABL Collateral Agent or the ABL Secured Parties in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral or of any Liens granted to any New First Lien Collateral Agent or any New First Lien Secured Parties in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral, and regardless of how any such Lien was acquired (whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise), (ii) the order or time of filing or recordation of any document or instrument for perfecting the Liens in favor of the ABL Collateral Agent or any New First Lien Collateral Agent (or the ABL Secured Parties or any of the New First Lien Secured Parties) on any Common Collateral, (iii) any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable law, or of any of the ABL Documents or any of the New First Lien Documents, or (iv) whether the ABL Collateral Agent or any New First Lien Collateral Agent, in each case, either directly or through agents, holds possession of, or has control over, all or any part of the Common Collateral, the ABL Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the ABL Secured Parties, and the New First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the New First Lien Secured Parties, hereby agree that:
(1) any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the New First Lien Collateral Agent or the New First Lien Secured Parties that secures all or any portion of the New First Lien Obligations shall in all respects be junior and subordinate to all Liens granted to the ABL Collateral Agent and the ABL Secured Parties on the Common Collateral; and
(2) any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the ABL Collateral Agent or any ABL Secured Party that secures all or any portion of the ABL Obligations shall in all respects be senior and prior to all Liens granted to the New First Lien Collateral Agent or the New First Lien Secured Parties on the Common Collateral. The New First Lien Collateral Agent, for and on behalf of itself and each New First Lien Secured Party, expressly agrees that any Lien purported to be granted on any Common Collateral as security for the ABL Obligations shall be deemed to be and shall be deemed to remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any New First Lien Obligations for all purposes regardless of whether the Lien purported to be granted is found to be improperly granted, improperly perfected, preferential, a fraudulent conveyance or legally or otherwise deficient in any manner.
(b) The ABL Collateral Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the ABL Secured Parties, acknowledges and agrees that, concurrently herewith, the New First Lien Collateral Agent, for the benefit of itself and the New First Lien Secured Parties, has been granted Liens upon all of the Common Collateral in which the ABL Collateral Agent has been granted Liens and the ABL Collateral Agent hereby consents thereto. The subordination of Liens by the New First Lien Collateral Agent in favor of the ABL Collateral Agent as set forth herein shall not be deemed to subordinate the respective Liens of the New First Lien Collateral Agent or the New First Lien Secured Parties to Liens securing any other Obligations other than the ABL Obligations (subject to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional General Intercreditor Agreement).
Perfection and Priority of Liens Receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(i) searches of Uniform Commercial Code filings in the jurisdiction of formation of each Loan Party or where a filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing statements on file in such jurisdictions and evidence that no Liens exist other than Permitted Liens;
(ii) UCC financing statements for each appropriate jurisdiction as is necessary, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral;
(iii) all certificates evidencing any certificated Equity Interests pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Pledge Agreements, together with duly executed in blank and undated stock powers (or equivalent documents in any applicable jurisdiction) and other customary deliverables in connection with security over Equity Interests attached thereto;
(iv) evidence (in a form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) that no restrictions on the transfer of any shares which are charged pursuant to the Pledge Agreements exist in the Organization Documents of the issuer of such shares save as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent;
(v) searches of ownership of, and Liens on, the Intellectual Property of each Loan Party in the appropriate governmental offices;
(vi) duly executed notices of grant of security interest in the form required by the Security Agreement as are necessary, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Intellectual Property of the Loan Parties;
(vii) subject to Section 7.21, in the case of any personal property Collateral located at a premises leased by a Loan Party, such Collateral Access Agreements as may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent;
(viii) such Deposit Account Control Agreements as shall be necessary to cause the Loan Parties to be in compliance with Section 7.16; and
(ix) a duly executed promissory note with respect to the obligations under the Intercompany Irish Credit Facility, together with a duly executed in blank allonge.
Priority and Liens (a) Subject to the Approval Order and the Security and Pledge Agreement, the Borrower and each of the Guarantors hereby covenants, represents and warrants that, upon entry of the Approval Order, the Obligations and the other Secured Obligations (including the obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors in respect of any hedging obligations permitted hereunder and Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.03(viii), in each case owing to JPMCB, any other Lender or any of their respective banking Affiliates) and subject, in each of clauses (i) through (iv) below, to the Carve-Out:
(i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times constitute allowed claims in the Cases having priority over any and all administrative expenses, diminution claims (including the Replacement Liens and Junior Adequate Protection Liens) and all other claims against the Borrower and the Guarantors, now existing or hereafter arising, of any kind whatsoever, including all administrative expenses of the kind specified in Sections 503(b) or 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code; provided, however, that such claims granted under the Approval Order in respect of Obligations under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Loan shall be senior in priority to such claims granted under the Approval Order in respect of Obligations under the Tranche C Loan;
(ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected first priority senior security interest in and Lien on all tangible and intangible property of the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ respective estates in the Cases that is not subject to valid, perfected, non-avoidable and enforceable Liens in existence on the Closing Date, including all present and future accounts receivable, inventory, general intangibles, chattel paper, real property, leaseholds, fixtures, machinery and equipment, deposit accounts, patents, copyrights, trademarks, tradenames, rights under license agreements and other intellectual property, capital stock of any Subsidiaries of the Borrower and Guarantors and on all cash and investments maintained in the Letter of Credit Account (but excluding (x) the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ rights in respect of avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code and (y) joint venture interests with respect to which a valid prohibition on pledging such interests or granting Liens thereon exists, it being understood that, notwithstanding such exclusion of such interests, the proceeds of such interests shall be subject to such liens under Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and available to satisfy the Obligations and the other Secured Obligations);
(iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected security interests in and Liens upon all tangible and intangible property of the Borrower and the Guarantors (other than property described in clauses (ii) and (iv), as to which the liens and security interests in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will be as described in such clauses) that is subject to valid, perfected and non-avoidable liens in existence on the Closing Date, which security interests and liens in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are junior to such valid, perfected and unavoidable liens;
(iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected first priority senior priming security interest in and senior priming Lien on all of the tangible and intangible property of the Borrower and the Guarantors that is subject to existing Liens that pursuant to the terms of the Existing DIP Order are subject and subordinate to the Existing DIP Liens, which existing liens, rights and interests (the “Primed Liens”) shall be primed by and made subject and subordinate to the liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, which senior priming liens in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall also prime any liens granted under the Approval Order or thereafter to provide adequate protection in respect of the Primed Liens; provided, however, that such security interests and liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be subject and subordinate to (x) the Carve-Out, (y) any valid, perfected and unavoidable interests of other parties arising out of liens existing on the Closing Date, if any, on such property that pursuant to the terms of the Existing DIP Order are senior in priority to the Existing DIP Liens and (z) statutory liens or security interests arising after the Closing Date and permitted under this Agreement that by operation of law would have priority over a previously perfected security interest; provided, further, that any valid, perfected and non-voidable liens or security interests that remain in existence after the Closing Date and that were senior to or pari passu with the liens securing obligations under the Existing Pre-Petition Agreement prior to the Closing Date shall maintain such priority or pari passu position relative to the liens securing the Tranche C Loan; provided, however, that (w) all liens granted under the Approval Order to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to secure Obligations under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Loan shall be senior in priority to all liens granted under the Approval Order to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to secure Obligations under the Tranche C Loan; (x) the Borrower and the Guarantors shall not be required to pledge to the Administrative Agent in excess of 65% of the voting capital stock of its direct Foreign Subsidiaries or any of the capital stock or interests of its indirect Foreign Subsidiaries (if, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, adverse tax consequences would result to the Borrower); (y) no portion of the Carve-Out may be utilized to fund prosecution or assertion of any claims against the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Issuing Lenders and (z) following the Termination Date, amounts in the Letter of Credit Account shall not be subject to the Carve-Out. The Lenders agree that so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower and the Guarantors shall be permitted to pay compensation and reimbursement of expenses allowed and payable under Sections 330 and 331 of title 11 of the United States Code, as the same may be due and payable, and the same shall not reduce the Carve-Out.
(b) Subject to the priorities set forth in subsection (a) above and to the Carve-Out, as to all real property the title to which is held by the Borrower or any of the Guarantors, or the possession of which is held by the Borrower or any of the Guarantors pursuant to leasehold interests and which secured the Existing Pre-Petition Indebtedness prior to the refinancing thereof on the Closing Date, the Borrower and each Guarantor hereby assigns and conveys as security, grants a security interest in, hypothecates, mortgages, pledges and sets over unto the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in all of such owned real property and in all such leasehold interests, together in each case with all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in and to all buildings, improvements, and fixtures related thereto, any lease or sublease thereof, all general intangibles relating thereto and all proceeds thereof. The Borrower and each Guarantor acknowledges that, pursuant to the Approval Order, the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders in all of such real property and leasehold instruments shall be perfected without the recordation of any instruments of mortgage or assignment. The Borrower and each Guarantor further agrees that, upon the request of the Administrative Agent following the occurrence of an Event of Default (regardless of whether such Event of Default is continuing), the Borrower and such Guarantor shall enter into separate fee or leasehold mortgages in recordable form with respect to such properties on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Lien Perfection; Further Assurances Each Borrower shall execute such instruments, assignments or documents as are necessary to perfect Agent’s Lien upon any of the Collateral and shall take such other action as may be required to perfect or to continue the perfection of Agent’s Lien upon the Collateral. Unless prohibited by applicable law, each Borrower hereby authorizes Agent to execute and file any such financing statement, including, without limitation, financing statements that indicate the Collateral (i) as all assets of such Borrower or words of similar effect, or (ii) as being of an equal or lesser scope, or with greater or lesser detail, than as set forth in Section 5.1, on such Borrower’s behalf. Each Borrower also hereby ratifies its authorization for Agent to have filed in any jurisdiction any like financing statements or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof. The parties agree that a carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement shall be sufficient as a financing statement and may be filed in any appropriate office in lieu thereof. At Agent’s request, each Borrower shall also promptly execute or cause to be executed and shall deliver to Agent any and all documents, instruments and agreements reasonably deemed necessary by Agent to give effect to or carry out the terms of the Loan Documents.
NON-EXCLUSIVITY; SURVIVAL OF RIGHTS; INSURANCE; SUBROGATION; PRIORITY OF OBLIGATIONS (a) The rights of Indemnitee as provided by this Agreement shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which Indemnitee may at any time be entitled under applicable law, the Articles, any agreement, a vote of shareholders or a resolution of directors, or otherwise. No amendment, alteration or repeal of this Agreement or of any provision hereof shall limit or restrict any right of Indemnitee under this Agreement in respect of any Proceeding (regardless of when such Proceeding is first threatened, commenced or completed) or claim, issue or matter therein arising out of, or related to, any action taken or omitted by such Indemnitee in his or her Corporate Status prior to such amendment, alteration or repeal. To the extent that a change in applicable law, whether by statute or judicial decision, permits greater indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration rights or advancement of Expenses than would be afforded currently under the Articles or this Agreement, then this Agreement (without any further action by the parties hereto) shall automatically be deemed to be amended to require that the Company indemnifies the Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by law. No right or remedy herein conferred is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every other right and remedy shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other right or remedy.
(b) The Articles permit the Company to purchase and maintain insurance or furnish similar protection or make other arrangements including, but not limited to, providing a trust fund, letter of credit, or surety bond (“Indemnification Arrangements”) on behalf of Indemnitee against any liability asserted against him or her or incurred by or on behalf of him or in such capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify him or her against such liability under the provisions of this Agreement and the Articles. The purchase, establishment, and maintenance of any such Indemnification Arrangement shall not in any way limit or affect the rights and obligations of the Company or of Indemnitee under this Agreement except as expressly provided herein, and the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and Indemnitee shall not in any way limit or affect the rights and obligations of the Company or the other party or parties thereto under any such Indemnification Arrangement.
(c) To the extent that the Company maintains an insurance policy or policies providing liability insurance for directors, officers, trustees, partners, managers, managing members, fiduciaries, employees, or agents of the Company or of any other Enterprise which such person serves at the request of the Company, Indemnitee shall be covered by such policy or policies in accordance with its or their terms to the maximum extent of the coverage available for any such director, officer, trustee, partner, managers, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent under such policy or policies. If, at the time the Company receives notice from any source of a Proceeding as to which Indemnitee is a party or a participant (as a witness, deponent or otherwise), the Company has director and officer liability insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of such Proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such Proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies.
(d) In the event of any payment under this Agreement, the Company, to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee, who shall execute all papers required and take all action necessary to secure such rights, including execution of such documents as are necessary to enable the Company to bring suit to enforce such rights. No such payment by the Company shall be deemed to relieve any insurer of its obligations.
(e) The Company’s obligation to indemnify, hold harmless, exonerate or advance Expenses hereunder to Indemnitee who is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, partner, manager, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other Enterprise shall be reduced by any amount Indemnitee has actually received as indemnification, hold harmless or exoneration payments or advancement of expenses from such Enterprise. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, but subject to Section 27, (i) Indemnitee shall have no obligation to reduce, offset, allocate, pursue or apportion any indemnification, hold harmless, exoneration, advancement, contribution or insurance coverage among multiple parties possessing such duties to Indemnitee prior to the Company’s satisfaction and performance of all its obligations under this Agreement, and (ii) the Company shall perform fully its obligations under this Agreement without regard to whether Indemnitee holds, may pursue or has pursued any indemnification, advancement, hold harmless, exoneration, contribution or insurance coverage rights against any person or entity other than the Company.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein, the Company is the primary indemnitor, and any indemnification or advancement obligation of the Sponsor or its affiliates or members or any other Person is secondary.
Title, Perfection and Priority Such Grantor has good and valid rights in or the power to transfer the Collateral and title to the Collateral with respect to which it has purported to grant a security interest hereunder, free and clear of all Liens except for Liens permitted under Section 4.1(e), and has full power and authority to grant to the Collateral Agent the security interest in such Collateral pursuant hereto. When financing statements have been filed in the appropriate offices against such Grantor in the locations listed on Exhibit H, the Collateral Agent will have a fully perfected first priority security interest in that Collateral of the Grantor in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, subject only to Liens permitted under Section 4.1(e).
Lien Priorities Notwithstanding (a) the date, manner or order of filing, recordation, or perfection of the security interests or liens granted in favor of Moriah and the Notes Collateral Agent, (b) any provisions of the UCC, or any applicable law or decision, (c) the provisions of the Moriah Loan Agreements, Noteholder Agreements or any contract between any of the Creditors on one hand, and the Borrower or any affiliate thereof, on the other hand, or (d) whether either Moriah or the Notes Collateral Agent holds possession of all or any part of the Collateral, the following, as between Moriah and the Notes Collateral Agent, shall be the relative priority of the security interests and liens of Moriah and the Notes Collateral Agent in the Collateral:
(a) Moriah shall have a first and prior security interest to the extent set forth herein in all Accounts and Inventory as defined in the Section 9-102 of the UCC. The Notes Collateral Agent shall have a second and subordinate security interest in the foregoing property and interests in such property; provided, that, any amount of the Moriah Claim in excess of the Maximum Moriah Debt at any time outstanding (together with the interest on such excess) shall not be entitled to the benefit of the priority of the security interest of Moriah provided for in this Section 2.1(a).
(b) The Notes Collateral Agent shall have a first and prior security interest in the remainder of the Collateral that is the subject of the Noteholder Agreements and Moriah shall have a second and subordinate security interest in such Notes Collateral whether now owned or hereafter created by any Loan Party. Neither Moriah nor the Notes Collateral Agent shall contest the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of any lien or security interest heretofore granted to the other Party or granted in connection herewith or contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding any failure of a Party to perfect its security interests in any Collateral or any other defect in any security interests or obligations owing to such Party, the priority and rights as between the parties hereto shall be as set forth herein.
