Security Interest (a) As security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in full of the Secured Obligations, including the Guarantees, each Grantor hereby assigns and pledges to the Notes Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Notes Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the “Security Interest”) in all right, title or interest in or to any and all of the following assets and properties now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the “Article 9 Collateral”):
(i) all Property;
(ii) all Accounts;
(iii) all Chattel Paper;
(iv) all Commercial Tort Claims listed on Schedule II hereto;
(v) all Deposit Accounts;
(vi) all Documents;
(vii) all Equipment;
(viii) all General Intangibles;
(ix) all Instruments;
(x) all Inventory;
(xi) all Investment Property;
(xii) all books and records pertaining to the Article 9 Collateral; and
(xiii) to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing and all supporting obligations, collateral security and guarantees given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, this Agreement shall not constitute a grant of a security interest in (A) any letter-of-credit rights, (B) any Securitization Assets, (C) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title, (D) any Equity Interests in any Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition financed with Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(g) of the Senior Credit Agreement if such Equity Interests serve as security for such Indebtedness or if the terms of such Indebtedness prohibit the creation of any other lien on such Equity Interests, (E) more than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Material Foreign Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect subsidiary of Holdings, (F) Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Material Foreign Subsidiary, (G) Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of Holdings, (H) Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary that are pledged pursuant to a Foreign Pledge Agreement, (I) Equity Interests of any Person that is not an indirect, wholly owned Subsidiary of Holdings III, (J) (i) if there are outstanding Obligations under the Senior Credit Facilities, any asset with respect to which the Administrative Agent has confirmed in writing to the Issuer its determination that the costs of providing a security interest in such asset or perfection thereof is excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the secured parties under the Senior Credit Agreement or (ii) if there are no outstanding Obligations under the Senior Credit Facilities, any asset with respect to which the board of directors or the senior management of the Issuer has confirmed in writing to the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent its reasonable determination that the costs of providing a security interest in such asset or perfection thereof is excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties, (K) security interests prohibited by law or by agreements containing anti-assignment clauses not overridden by the UCC or other applicable law or (L) any General Intangible, Investment Property or other rights of a Grantor arising under any contract, lease, instrument, license or other document or any assets subject thereto if (but only to the extent that) the grant of a security interest therein would (x) constitute a violation of a valid and enforceable restriction in respect of such General Intangible, Investment Property or other such rights in favor of a third party or under any law, regulation, permit, order or decree of any Governmental Authority, unless and until all required consents shall have been obtained (for the avoidance of doubt, the restrictions described herein shall not include negative pledges or similar undertakings in favor of a lender or other financial counterparty) or (y) expressly give any other party in respect of any such contract, lease, instrument, license or other document, the right to terminate its obligations thereunder, provided, however, that the limitation set forth in clause (L) above shall not affect, limit, restrict or impair the grant by a Grantor of a security interest pursuant to this Agreement in any such Collateral to the extent that an otherwise applicable prohibition or restriction on such grant is rendered ineffective by any applicable law, including the Uniform Commercial Code. Each Grantor shall, if requested to do so by the Trustee, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any such required consent that is reasonably obtainable with respect to Collateral which the Trustee reasonably determines to be material.
(b) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Notes Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties at any time and from time to time to file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements (including fixture filings) with respect to the Article 9 Collateral or any part thereof and amendments thereto that (i) indicate the Collateral as all assets of such Grantor or words of similar effect as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail, and (ii) contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or the analogous legislation of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement or amendment, including
(A) whether such Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Grantor and (B) in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing, a sufficient description of the real property to which such Article 9 Collateral relates. Each Grantor agrees to provide such information to the Notes Collateral Agent promptly upon request.
(c) The Security Interest is granted as security only and shall not subject the Notes Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the Article 9
Security Interests Absolute All rights of the Secured Parties and all obligations of the Debtors hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of: (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the Debentures or any agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing, or any portion hereof or thereof; (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment or performance of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Debentures or any other agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing; (c) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any of the Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other collateral for, or any guarantee, or any other security, for all or any of the Obligations; (d) any action by the Secured Parties to obtain, adjust, settle and cancel in its sole discretion any insurance claims or matters made or arising in connection with the Collateral; or (e) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute any legal or equitable defense available to a Debtor, or a discharge of all or any part of the Security Interests granted hereby. Until the Obligations shall have been paid and performed in full, the rights of the Secured Parties shall continue even if the Obligations are barred for any reason, including, without limitation, the running of the statute of limitations or bankruptcy. Each Debtor expressly waives presentment, protest, notice of protest, demand, notice of nonpayment and demand for performance. In the event that at any time any transfer of any Collateral or any payment received by the Secured Parties hereunder shall be deemed by final order of a court of competent jurisdiction to have been a voidable preference or fraudulent conveyance under the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the United States, or shall be deemed to be otherwise due to any party other than the Secured Parties, then, in any such event, each Debtor’s obligations hereunder shall survive cancellation of this Agreement, and shall not be discharged or satisfied by any prior payment thereof and/or cancellation of this Agreement, but shall remain a valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof. Each Debtor waives all right to require the Secured Parties to proceed against any other person or entity or to apply any Collateral which the Secured Parties may hold at any time, or to marshal assets, or to pursue any other remedy. Each Debtor waives any defense arising by reason of the application of the statute of limitations to any obligation secured hereby.
