Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders: (1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6); (2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and (3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. (b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may: (1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor; (2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement); (3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement; (5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1); (6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and (7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred. (d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b): (1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise; (2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and (3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents. (e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement. (f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral. (g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Indenture (Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.), Omnibus Amendment to Transaction Documents (Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien no Subordinated Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholdersor Subordinated Claimholder will:
(1i) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 120 days has elapsed since the later of: of (ix) the date on which such the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any the Second Lien Document Credit Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any the Second Lien Obligations; Obligations and (iiy) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations declaration of such an Event of Default and demand for payment (the “"Second Lien Standstill Period”"); provided, further, provided further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the any Second Lien Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the any First Lien Claimholders Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral Collateral, or diligently attempting in good faith to vacate any stay prohibiting such Enforcement Action (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien each Subordinated Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2ii) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any First Lien Controlling Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any First Lien Controlling Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Controlling Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by otherwise; and
(iii) subject to the First rights of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any First Lien Controlling Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i), the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent and the First Lien Controlling Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien each Subordinated Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(vi))) and, and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien any Subordinated Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders any Controlling Claimholder may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Controlling Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien any Subordinated Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction. For the avoidance of doubt, until the Discharge of Controlling Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Third Lien Claimholder shall not commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that the Third Lien Claimholder shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(vi)) and, subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Collateral.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien any Subordinated Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder may:
(1i) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Subordinated Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2ii) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Controlling Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien the Controlling Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders any Controlling Claimholder to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3iii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien any Subordinated Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4iv) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Subordinated Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5v) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Second Lien Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i);; and
(6vi) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Controlling Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “"credit bid” " in respect of any Second Lien Subordinated Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the respective Subordinated Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (3.1(a)(i), to the extent the Second Lien such Subordinated Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are Agent is permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and Section 3.1(a)(i), Section 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien each Subordinated Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Subordinated Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Controlling Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c3.1(a)(i) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1i) each Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe respective Subordinated Claimholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders no Subordinated Claimholder will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Controlling Credit Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2ii) each Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe respective Subordinated Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or that any such Second Lien Claimholders Subordinated Claimholder may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Controlling Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Controlling Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Controlling Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Controlling Claimholder is adverse to the interest interests of any Second Lien Claimholderthe Subordinated Claimholders; and
(3iii) each Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Subordinated Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the exercise of rights and remedies of the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Controlling Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsCollateral.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders each Subordinated Claimholder may exercise rights and remedies as an unsecured creditors creditor against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien respective Subordinated Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien respective Subordinated Credit Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding Bankruptcy Law with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Subordinated Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Controlling Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Subordinated Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Subordinated Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Subordinated Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing Subject to Sections 3.1(a)(i) and (c) and Section 6.3(b), nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Controlling Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Controlling Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any in connection with an Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement, Intercreditor Agreement (Ocean Rig UDW Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Upon the Discharge occurrence and during the continuance of First Lien Obligations has occurredany Triggering Event, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent shall, upon a request from any Representative specifying the particular action(s) being requested by such Representative, and subject to the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not other provisions of this Agreement, commence or maintainto take, or seek direct the appropriate trustee or agent to commence or maintaintake, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; those requested actions provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent this Agreement or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies Security Documents relating to the Collateral under pursuit of remedies which the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject deems appropriate in its reasonable judgment to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to realize the forbearance by value and benefits of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Shared Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until The holders of a majority in principal amount of the Discharge then-outstanding Total Obligations may direct the time, method and place of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not conducting any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or proceeding for any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect remedy available to the Collateral without any consultation with Agent under this Agreement or the consent of Security Documents, on the Second Lien condition that indemnification for the Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by Agent’s fees and expenses, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the First Lien Collateral Agent, shall have been provided. The Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary may refuse to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining follow any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation direction that conflicts with the Second Lien law or this Agreement or that may involve personal liability for the Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdictionAgent.
(c) Notwithstanding The Representatives agree that upon the foregoingoccurrence of a Triggering Event, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and all payments made to any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation Representative on account of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured be shared by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations Notes Representative and the Collateral; provided that no filing Debentures Representative (for the benefit of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5their respective holders) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred4.2.
(d) Subject Each Representative agrees: (i) to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) deliver to each other Representative and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien the Collateral Agent, for itself as applicable, at the same time it makes delivery to GWG Life and/or GWG Holdings, a copy of any (A) notice declaring the occurrence of an event of default under its respective loan documents, (B) notice of intent to accelerate or notice of acceleration of its portion of the Total Obligations, and on behalf of (ii) to deliver to each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights at the same time it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise makes delivery to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in Person, a copy of any notice of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless commencement of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf judicial proceeding and a copy of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder notice with respect to the Collateral as set forth in exercise of remedies with respect to any portion of the Total Obligations. Any failure by a party hereto to furnish a copy under this Agreement clause (c) shall not limit or affect the rights and the First Lien Loan Documentsobligations hereunder.
(e) Except as specifically set forth Nothing in this AgreementSection 4.1 shall impair the right of any Representative to exercise its rights of set-off, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company offset or netting, if any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding except, with respect to any Grantor); provided that in item of Shared Collateral or the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(dproceeds therefrom), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or with no obligation to any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien CollateralRepresentative.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (GWG Holdings, Inc.), Intercreditor Agreement (GWG Holdings, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral (including the Collateralexercise of any right of setoff or any right under any lockbox agreement, deposit or securities account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided provided, however, that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document Loan Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such an Event of Default and demand for payment acceleration (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of any of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral or shall be diligently attempting to vacate any stay or prohibition against such exercise (prompt notice of the initial commencement of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided Agent), provided, that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second the First Lien Collateral Agent shall incur no liability for, and the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent hereunder or Second in respect of the Collateral shall be unaffected by, the failure of the First Lien Claimholder may take Collateral Agent to give any action expressly permitted by Section 6)such notice;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in Section 3.1(a)(13.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; provided, that, in each the case so long as any proceeds received by of (1), (2) and (3) above, the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary Liens granted to achieve a Discharge of First secure the Second Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that Claimholders shall, subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2, attach to any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action resulting from actions taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” Claimholder in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds accordance with this Agreement after application of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement proceeds to the extent necessary to prevent meet the running requirements of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredObligations.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Second Lien Credit and Guaranty Agreement (X Rite Inc), First Lien Credit and Guaranty Agreement (X Rite Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurredhave not been paid in full, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower, the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other Grantorthan Excluded Subsidiaries), each Second Lien (i) the Junior Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
Junior Obligations Secured Parties (by their acceptance of the benefits of the Junior Documents) will not (1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Senior Obligations Collateral securing the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action Junior Obligations, (2) institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action proceeding with respect to such Senior Obligations Collateral securing the Collateral ifJunior Obligations (including, notwithstanding the expiration without limitation, any action of the Standstill Periodforeclosure, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent contest or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agentsprotest) or (ii3) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Obligations Secured Party or the exercise of any right under any Senior Obligations Collateral Document or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Senior Collateral Agent or any Senior Obligations Secured Party is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies remedies, in each case relating to the Senior Obligations Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise; or, except as provided herein, object to any Enforcement Action initiated by release of any or supported by all of the First Lien Senior Obligations Collateral Agent for any purpose, or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Obligations Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Senior Obligations Collateral; provided, in each case so long however, that nothing herein shall be construed to impair the right of the Junior Obligations Secured Parties to exercise their rights and remedies as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess unsecured creditors pursuant to Section 5.4 of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 this Agreement; and applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien rights of the Junior Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Junior Obligations Secured Parties under the proviso to clause (i) above, the Senior Collateral Agent and the Senior Obligations Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Senior Obligation Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Junior Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that Junior Obligations Secured Party, and the Junior Collateral Agent shall take any proceeds received action reasonably requested by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent in excess order to effectuate any such enforcement, exercise, release or disposition; provided, however, that (x) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against any Loan Party, the Junior Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of those necessary interest with respect to achieve the Junior Obligations Collateral, (y) the Junior Collateral Agent and the Junior Obligations Secured Parties may take any action not adverse to the Senior Obligations Secured Parties in order to preserve or protect their rights in the Senior Obligations Collateral and the Junior Collateral Agent may act in coordination with, and not in a Discharge manner adverse to, the Senior Collateral Agent and the Senior Obligations Secured Parties in exercising any remedies initiated by the Senior Collateral Agent or Senior Obligations Secured Parties with respect to the Senior Obligations Collateral, and (z) at any time that a Junior Obligations Event of First Lien Default has occurred and as long as such Junior Obligations are distributed Event of Default is continuing, the Required ABL Lenders or the Required Term Loan Lenders, as applicable, may instruct the applicable Junior Administrative Agent to declare Junior Obligations under the applicable Junior Credit Agreement to be forthwith due and payable in accordance with Section 4.1 6.01 of the applicable Junior Credit Agreement, whereupon the Junior Obligations shall become and applicable lawbe forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or further notice of any kind. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Obligations Collateral, the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent and each Senior Obligations Secured Party (by its acceptance of the First Lien Claimholders benefits of the Senior Documents) may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion discretion, subject to acting in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation a commercially reasonable manner in accordance with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder UCC and regardless the terms of whether any such exercise is adverse to this Agreement and the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderother Senior Documents. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of such Senior Obligations Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdictionDebtor Relief Laws.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien The Junior Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
each Junior Obligations Secured Party (1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation by its acceptance of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status benefits of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforceJunior Documents) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided agrees that nothing herein it shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreementnot, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim Junior Obligations, take or vote, receive from or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party, directly or indirectly, in cash or other applicable Second Lien Claimholderproperty or by setoff, agrees that it will not take counterclaim or receive in any other manner (whether pursuant to any enforcement, collection, execution, levy, foreclosure action or other proceeding or otherwise) any Senior Obligations Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorSenior Obligations Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien all Senior Obligations has occurred, except have been paid in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof full in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)3.2 hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurredhave been paid in full, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)herein, the sole right of the Second Lien Junior Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders Junior Obligations Secured Parties with respect to the Senior Obligations Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Senior Obligations Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Junior Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after payment in full of the Discharge Senior Obligations; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to impair the right of First Lien the Junior Obligations has occurred.
Secured Parties to receive payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts in respect of the Junior Obligations as provided for in the applicable Credit Agreement and the Notes referred to in such applicable Credit Agreement, and to enforce the making of such payments by bringing suit at law (dbut not, except as provided in Section 3.1(a)(i) Subject above, to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(cexercise any rights in respect of the Liens of the Junior Collateral Agent on the Senior Obligations Collateral) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf with respect to any unpaid amounts of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien payments. Each of the Junior Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders the Junior Obligations Secured Parties (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Junior Documents): (i) further agrees that the Junior Collateral Agent and the other Junior Obligations Secured Parties will not take any action that would hinder be reasonably likely to (w) hinder, delay, limit, impede or prohibit any exercise of remedies under by the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderSenior Collateral Agent to the extent related to satisfying the Senior Obligations, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Senior Obligations Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, (2x) each Second limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Senior Lien or Collateral AgentDocument securing or purporting to secure the Senior Obligations, for itself (y) subordinate the priority of the Senior Liens to the Junior Liens or (z) grant the Junior Liens securing the Junior Obligations equal ranking to the Senior Liens securing the Senior Obligations and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have (other than as specified herein) as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other applicable law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Obligations Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Senior Obligations or enforce the Senior Liens securing the First Lien Obligations now or hereafter granted in any of Senior Obligations Collateral to secure the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementSenior Obligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Obligations Secured Parties is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsJunior Obligations Secured Parties.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Express Parent LLC), Asset Based Loan Credit Agreement (Express Parent LLC)
Exercise of Remedies. Restrictions on Collateral Trustee, and Secured Debt Representatives and Secured Debt Claimholders.
(a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, the Collateral Trustee and each Second Lien Collateral Agent Secured Debt Representative and the Second Lien ClaimholdersSecured Debt Claimholder:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Revolving Credit Collateral (including the Collateralexercise of any right of setoff or any right under any Account Agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Collateral Agent, any Secured Debt Representative or any Secured Debt Claimholder is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided provided, however, that each Second Lien the Collateral Agent Trustee may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second a Priority Lien Collateral Agent declared Representative first declares the existence of any Event of a Priority Lien Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded demands the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Priority Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent received notice from such Second Lien the Collateral Agent Trustee of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment a Priority Lien Default, (the “Priority Lien Standstill Period”); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Collateral Trustee, any Second Lien Collateral Agent Secured Debt Representative or any Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Priority Lien Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the such Revolving Credit Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Trustee);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral Revolving Credit Collateral, whether under the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(l) above and except as may be permitted in Section 3.1(a)(13.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement; provided, however, that, in the case of (1), (2) and (3) above, the Liens granted to secure the Priority Lien Obligations shall attach to any proceeds resulting from actions taken by the Revolving Credit Agent or any other exercise Revolving Credit Claimholder in accordance with this Agreement after application of any rights or remedies relating such proceeds to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those extent necessary to achieve meet the requirements of a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawRevolving Credit Obligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent and the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt) and, except that Second Lien in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions of Revolving Credit Collateral Agents shall have by the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, respective Grantors after a Revolving Credit Default) make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee, any Secured Debt Representative or any other Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholder; provided provided, however, that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First securing the Priority Lien Obligations are distributed shall remain on the proceeds (other than those properly applied to the Revolving Credit Obligations) of such Collateral released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent and the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of the Revolving Credit Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee, any Secured Debt Representative and any other Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholder (unless, as among the Secured Debt Claimholders, the Collateral Trust Agreement provides to the contrary) may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Secured Debt Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien ObligationsRevolving Credit Collateral, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral the Revolving Credit Agent or the First Lien Claimholders any Revolving Credit Claimholder to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on any of the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Revolving Credit Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Secured Debt Obligations and the Shared Collateral or Separate Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(56) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to any of the Revolving Credit Collateral after the termination of the Priority Lien Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.l(a)(l);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take make a cash bid on all or any action not otherwise portion of the Revolving Credit Collateral in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation foreclosure proceeding or similar restriction on claimsaction. Each Second Lien The Collateral AgentTrustee and each Secured Debt Representative, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and/or its respective Secured Debt Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Revolving Credit Collateral or any proceeds of such Revolving Credit Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any such Revolving Credit Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except creditor in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 violation of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b), 6.3(c)(l) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders any Secured Debt Representative or Secured Debt Claimholder with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral is to hold a Lien (if any) on the such Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral respective Secured Debt Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b6.3(c)(1):
(1) Collateral Trustee and each Second Lien Collateral AgentSecured Debt Representative, for itself and and/or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderits respective Secured Debt Claimholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders it will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents or that is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Revolving Credit Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) Collateral Trustee and each Second Lien Collateral AgentSecured Debt Representative, for itself and and/or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderits respective Secured Debt Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or the Collateral Trustee, such Second Lien Claimholders Secured Debt Representative and the respective Secured Debt Claimholders, as applicable, may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Revolving Credit Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Loan Documents or undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Revolving Credit Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Secured Debt Claimholders;
(3) The Collateral Trustee and each Second Lien Collateral Agent Secured Debt Representative hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Secured Debt Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders with respect to the enforcement of the Liens on the Revolving Credit Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents.
(e) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d) and 3.5, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee, the Secured Debt Representatives and the other Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations Secured Debt Obligations, and the Collateral Trustee may exercise rights and remedies with respect to the Shared Collateral and the Separate Collateral, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Secured Debt Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided provided, however, that in the event that the Collateral Trustee, any Second Lien Secured Debt Representative or Secured Debt Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Revolving Credit Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Secured Debt Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Secured Debt Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee, any Secured Debt Representative or any other Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations its Secured Debt Obligations, so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee, such Secured Debt Representative or any other Second Lien Secured Debt Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor in respect of the Revolving Credit Collateral (including set-off and recoupmentoff) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders may have with respect to against the First Lien CollateralGrantors under the Revolving Credit Loan Documents.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (NewPage Energy Services LLC), Intercreditor Agreement (NewPage Holding CORP)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company U.S. Borrower or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral (including the Collateralexercise of any right of setoff or any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided provided, however, that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared declares the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document Loan Documents and demanded demands the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received receives notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such an Event of Default and demand for payment Default, (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in Section 3.1(a)(13.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; provided, that, in each the case so long as of(l), (2) and (3) above, the Liens granted to secure the Second Lien Obligations of the Second Lien Claimholders shall attach to any proceeds received resulting from actions taken by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder in excess accordance with this Agreement after application of those such proceeds to the extent necessary to achieve meet the requirements of a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawObligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company U.S. Borrower or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided provided, that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First securing the Second Lien Obligations are distributed shall remain on the proceeds of such Collateral released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company U.S. Borrower or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;and
(56) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1 (a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except creditor in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 violation of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1 (a), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company U.S. Borrower or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupmentoff) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: First Lien Credit and Guaranty Agreement (Arizona Chemical Ltd.), Second Lien Credit and Guaranty Agreement (Arizona Chemical Ltd.)
Exercise of Remedies. Set Off and Tracing of and Priorities in Proceeds. Collateral Trustee and each Secured Debt Representative, for itself and/or on behalf of the Secured Debt Claimholders, each acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent any such Person exercises its rights of setoff against any Grantors’ Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts or other assets, the amount of such setoff shall be deemed to be the Revolving Credit Collateral to be held and distributed pursuant to Section 4.3; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply to any setoff by any such Person against any Shared Collateral to the extent applied to payment of Secured Debt. Collateral Trustee and each Secured Debt Representative, for itself and/or on behalf of the Secured Debt Claimholders agree that prior to an issuance of an Enforcement Notice all funds deposited under Account Agreements and then applied to the Revolving Credit Obligations shall be treated as Revolving Credit Collateral and, unless the Revolving Credit Agent (a) Until or, following the Discharge of First Revolving Credit Obligations, the relevant Priority Lien Obligations Representative or the Collateral Trustee) has occurredactual knowledge to the contrary, any claim that payments made to Revolving Credit Agent (or, following the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations, the Priority Lien Claimholders) through the bank accounts that are subject to Account Agreements are proceeds of or otherwise constitute Shared Collateral, are waived. Revolving Credit Agent, Revolving Claimholders, the Collateral Trustee, the Secured Debt Representatives and the Secured Debt Claimholders, each agrees that, prior to an issuance of an Enforcement Notice, any proceeds of Collateral, whether or not deposited under Account Agreements, which are used by any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Grantor to acquire other property which is Collateral shall not (as among the Company or any other GrantorRevolving Credit Agent, each Second Lien the Collateral Agent Trustee, the Secured Debt Representatives and the Second Lien various Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and be treated as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral for purposes of determining the relative priorities in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredwhich was so acquired.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (NewPage Holding CORP), Intercreditor Agreement (NewPage Energy Services LLC)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors, each Second Lien of the Junior Collateral Agent Agents, for itself and the Second Lien on behalf of its Related Claimholders, hereby agrees that it and its Related Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateralany Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding); provided that each Second Lien the Directing Junior Collateral Agent may (as between the Term Loan Collateral Agents, subject to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement) commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Directing Senior Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have received notice from such Second Lien the Directing Junior Collateral Agent with respect to the acceleration by the relevant Junior Claimholders of such declarations the maturity of such Event all then outstanding Junior Obligations (and requesting that Enforcement Action be taken with respect to the Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien) so long as the applicable “event of Default and demand for payment default” shall not have been cured or waived (or the applicable acceleration rescinded) (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien the Junior Collateral Agent Agents or any Second other Junior Claimholders exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien Claimholder take or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action with respect to the such Collateral or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies, if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, either (iA) the First Lien Directing Senior Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders any other Senior Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing (or shall have sought or requested and be diligently pursuing relief from or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and the pursuit of) an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the such Collateral (prompt notice with any determination of which such exercise Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be given to made by the Second Lien Directing Senior Collateral AgentsAgent or such Senior Claimholders in their reasonable judgment) or (iiB) any Grantor shall be subject to of the Obligors is then a debtor in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Proceeding;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien other Senior Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien other Senior Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral in which a Senior Claimholder has a Senior Lien under the First Lien Loan Senior Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the other Senior Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateralany Collateral in which a Senior Claimholder has a Senior Lien, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent with respect to such Collateral in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 4.1; and
(4) will not take or receive any Collateral in which a Senior Claimholder has a Senior Lien, or any proceeds of or payment with respect to any such Collateral, in connection with any Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any right or remedy with respect to any such Collateral or any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in its capacity as a creditor or in connection with any insurance policy award or any award in a condemnation or similar proceeding (or deed in lieu of condemnation) with respect to any such Collateral, in each case unless and applicable lawuntil the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, except, (x) as between the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Notes Collateral Agent, as expressly permitted by the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (y) in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) to the extent such Junior Collateral Agent and its Related Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.1. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b), the sole right of each Junior Collateral Agent and the other Junior Claimholders with respect to any Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien (other than inspection, monitoring, reporting and similar rights provided for in the Junior Financing Documents) is to hold a Lien on such Collateral pursuant to the Junior Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained in this Agreement shall prohibit (i) the exercise of rights by the ABL Credit Agreement Collateral Agent during a Dominion Period (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement), including the notification of depository institutions or any other person to deliver proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral to the ABL Credit Agreement Collateral Agent, (ii) the reduction of advance rates or sub-limits by the ABL Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or (iii) the imposition of any Reserve (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement) by the ABL Credit Agreement Collateral Agent.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorObligor, subject to Section Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b), the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien other Senior Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise any rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral in which a Senior Claimholder has a Senior Lien (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid bid” their debt, except that Second Lien the Junior Collateral Agents shall have the “credit bid bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, dispositionrelease or Disposition of, or restrictions with respect to, such Collateral in connection with any such Enforcement Action or other exercise of rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral such Collateral, in each case without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien any Junior Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Junior Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien any Senior Collateral Agent on account of such Collateral in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law4.1. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateralany Collateral in which a Senior Claimholder has a Senior Lien, the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien other Senior Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Documents and exercise rights and remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien any Junior Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien other Junior Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Junior Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them the Senior Claimholders to sell or otherwise dispose Dispose of Collateral in which a Senior Claimholder has a Senior Lien upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or dispositionother Disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC or other applicable law and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien each Junior Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Junior Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim, proof of claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Junior Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien to the First Lien extent (A) not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on such Collateral securing the Senior Obligations, or the rights of any Senior Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object or the other Senior Claimholders to or contestexercise rights and remedies in respect thereof, or and (B) not otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement (Agreement, including the automatic release of Liens provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)in Section 5.1;
(3) file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Junior Claimholders, including any claims or Liens secured by the CollateralCollateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien, if any, in each case in accordance to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions with respect to the Junior Obligations and the Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that (A) no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien any Junior Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Junior Claimholder in respect of such Collateral may be inconsistent with the provisions terms of this AgreementAgreement and (B) neither any Junior Collateral Agent nor any other Junior Claimholder shall propose, vote to accept, or otherwise support a plan of reorganization that is inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement with respect to treatment of such Collateral;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral (after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);; and
(6) bid for or purchase any Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Senior Claimholder, or any sale of any such Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that any such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Junior Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations; and.
(7d) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement Subject to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b) each Junior Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):Related Claimholders:
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent it and Second Lien its Related Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of rights or remedies under the First Lien Loan Senior Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderhereunder with respect to any Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer collection or other disposition Disposition of the any such Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien securing any Senior Obligations or any Senior Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the Senior Obligations to the Junior Obligations with respect to such Collateral or grant the Liens on such Collateral securing the Junior Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the Senior Obligations;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien its Related Claimholders may have as a junior lien Lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent Agents or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Senior Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Senior Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Senior Obligations granted with respect to the Collateral in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreementwhich a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien any Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderJunior Claimholders with respect to such Collateral; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Junior Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Junior Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien any Senior Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Senior Claimholders with respect to the Collateral in which a Junior Claimholder has a Junior Lien as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien The Junior Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Junior Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor Obligors that has have guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Junior Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Junior Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding Debtor Relief Law with respect to any Grantor)Obligor, prior to the termination of the Standstill Period; provided that (i) any such exercise shall not be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement (including Sections 2.2 and 6) and (ii) in the event that any Second Lien Junior Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Junior Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Senior Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Junior Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing . Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien any Junior Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Junior Claimholder of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, principal fees and other amounts owed in respect of due under the Second Lien Obligations Junior Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien a Junior Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Junior Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention respect of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as Collateral in which a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Junior Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateralhas a Junior Lien.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: First Lien Credit Agreement (Option Care Health, Inc.), Indenture (Option Care Health, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Subject to the provisions of the second sentence of Section 2.2(a) hereof, so long as the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and : (i) neither the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Trustee nor the Subordinated Creditor will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or otherwise exercise bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Subordinated Creditor is a party) or all institute or commence, or join with any Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other Senior Creditor or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other Senior Creditor of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the other Senior Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to Collateral; and (ii) the CollateralSenior Agent shall have the exclusive right, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Required Senior Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the Senior Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunderSubordinated Creditor, all as though the Subordinated Obligations did not exist; provided, however, that (A) in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
, the Trustee may (2x) subject to the provisions of Section 2.2(b) hereof, file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Subordinated Obligations and (y) subject to the provisions of Section 2.2(c) hereof, vote such claim, (B) the Trustee, at the written direction of the Subordinated Creditor, may take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the First Lien Senior Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral the Senior Agent or the First Lien Claimholders other Senior Creditors to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein and, with respect to its Liens on Specified Collateral, shall prevent take any such action if instructed to do so by the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this AgreementSenior Agent);
, (3C) the Subordinated Creditor shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien ClaimholdersSubordinated Creditor, including any claims claim secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
Agreement and (4D) vote on the Subordinated Creditor may file any plan pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of reorganizationthe Grantors arising under either any Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, arrangementin each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and (E) subject to the provisions of Section 2.2(c) hereof, compromise or liquidation, the Trustee and the Subordinated Creditor may file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Subordinated Obligations and the Common Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related .
(b) Subject to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5Section 2.2(a) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination hereof, each of the Standstill Period to Trustee and the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, Subordinated Creditor agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Subordinated Creditor with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Subordinated Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien the Senior Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Debt Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(cEach of the Trustee and the Subordinated Creditor (i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders neither the Trustee nor the Subordinated Creditor will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderSenior Credit Documents, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the Senior Obligations to the Subordinated Obligations or grant the Liens on Common Collateral securing the Subordinated Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the Senior Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Senior Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Senior Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Trustee or the Subordinated Creditor.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent The Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Subordinated Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Subordinated Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditors with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement (Global Crossing LTD), Recapitalization Agreement (Global Crossing LTD)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company CSC or any other Grantorof its subsidiaries, each (i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including by way of setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, or contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Creditor, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Common Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment by way of setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), refrain from enforcing or exercising remedies, and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Noteholder, all as if the Lien of the Second Lien ClaimholderCollateral Agent for the benefit of the Noteholders on the Common Collateral under the Noteholder Collateral Documents did not exist; provided that (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Guarantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Noteholder may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, (B) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Noteholder may take any action not adverse to the Liens on the Common Collateral securing the Lender Claims in excess order to establish, preserve, perfect or protect its rights in the Common Collateral, (C) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Noteholder shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of those necessary the Guarantor arising under either the Bankruptcy Code or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement and (D) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Noteholder shall be entitled to achieve a Discharge file any proof of First claim and other filings and make any arguments and motions in order to preserve or protect its Lien Obligations are distributed on the Common Collateral that are, in accordance each case, not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, with Section 4.1 respect to the Indenture and applicable lawthe Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the or any other First Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they it may determine in the exercise of their its sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Creditors to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor party under the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the foregoingNoteholders, agrees that neither the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of Agent nor the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) Noteholders will take any action not adverse that would hinder or cause to the priority status delay any exercise of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated undertaken by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” Creditor under the Loan Documents as secured parties in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCommon Collateral, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in on any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andLender Collateral.
(3c) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Creditors with respect to the Common Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Indenture (Coinmach Service Corp), Intercreditor Agreement (Coinmach Service Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1i) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any “Event of Default (and as defined in) Default” under any Second Lien Document Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; Obligations and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such an “Event of Default and demand for payment Default” (the “Standstill Period”) (provided that the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have given the First Lien Collateral Agent at least 15 days written notice prior to such Enforcement Action, which notice may be given during the pendency of the applicable Standstill Period); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies (or shall have sought or requested relief or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and pursuit thereof) in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2ii) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3iii) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(i) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein;
(iv) will not take or cause to be taken any action, the purpose or effect of which is to make any Lien in respect of any Second Lien Obligation pari passu with or senior to, or give any Second Lien Claimholder any preference or priority relative to, the Liens with respect to the First Lien Obligations or the First Lien Claimholders; and
(v) will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit, Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any First Lien Claimholder or First Lien Collateral Agent seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, injunction or otherwise, with respect to, and no First Lien Claimholder or First Lien Collateral Agent shall be liable to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder for, any action taken or omitted to be taken by such First Lien Claimholder or First Lien Collateral Agent with respect to any Collateral or pursuant to the First Lien Loan Documents.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent shall have the “credit bid bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(vi)), and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1i) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2ii) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3iii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4iv) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5v) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i);; and
(6vi) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1i) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3iii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in To the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal principal, premium, fees and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs shall impair or otherwise adversely affects affect any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Indenture (KCG Holdings, Inc.), Intercreditor Agreement (KCG Holdings, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors, each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents, for itself and the on behalf of its Related Second Lien Claimholders, hereby agrees that it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateralany Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding); provided that each the Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) Directing First Lien Collateral Agent shall have received notice from the date on which such Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent declared with respect to the existence acceleration by the relevant Second Lien Claimholders of any Event the maturity of Default all then outstanding Second Lien Obligations (and requesting that Enforcement Action be taken with respect to the Collateral) so long as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment applicable “event of all default” shall not have been cured or waived (or the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the applicable acceleration rescinded)(the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, provided further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder take Claimholders exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the any Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies, if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, either (iA) the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or the any other First Lien Claimholders Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing (or shall have sought or requested and be diligently pursuing relief from or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and the pursuit of) an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice with any determination of such exercise which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be given to made by the Second Directing First Lien Collateral AgentsAgent or such First Lien Claimholders in their reasonable judgment) or (iiB) any Grantor shall be subject to of the Obligors is then a debtor in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Proceeding;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder4.1; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;and
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral Collateral, or any proceeds of Collateral or payment with respect to any Collateral, in connection with the any Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorcreditor or in connection with any insurance policy award or any award in a condemnation or similar proceeding (or deed in lieu of condemnation) with respect to any Collateral, in each case unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the such Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and its Related Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.1. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the each Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral (other than inspection, monitoring, reporting and similar rights provided for in the Second Lien Financing Documents) is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any First Lien Obligor, subject to Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b), the First Lien Collateral Agents and the other First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights and remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the “credit bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and make determinations regarding the release, Disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, in each case without any consultation with or the consent of any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by any First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agents and the other First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Documents and exercise rights and remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise Dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or other Disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC or other applicable law and of a secured creditor under Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) file a claim, proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Second Lien Obligors;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral to the extent (A) not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the other First Lien Claimholders to exercise rights and remedies in respect thereof, and (B) not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the automatic release of Liens provided in Section 5.1;
(3) file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims or Liens secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1); and
(6) bid for or purchase any Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of any Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable its Related Second Lien Claimholder, Claimholders:
(1) agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of rights or remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer collection or other disposition Disposition of the any Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien securing any First Lien Obligations or any First Lien Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such its Related Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien Lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(ea) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor Obligors that has have guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any GrantorObligor, prior to the termination of the Standstill Period); provided that (i) any such exercise shall not be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6) and (ii) in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing . Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, principal fees and other amounts owed in respect of due under the Second Lien Obligations Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any a Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention respect of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: First Lien Credit Agreement (Cotiviti Holdings, Inc.), First Lien Credit Agreement (Cotiviti Holdings, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral. Until the Discharge Payment in Full of First Lien Obligations ABL Priority Debt has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Company Term Loan Claimholders will not exercise or seek to exercise any rights, powers, or remedies with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral (including taking any Enforcement Action with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral); provided, that (i) if a Term Loan Default has occurred and is continuing, Term Loan Agent may take Enforcement Actions with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral after the expiration of the applicable Standstill Period (it being understood that if at any time after the delivery of a Standstill Notice that commences a Standstill Period, no Term Loan Default is continuing, Term Loan Agent may not take Enforcement Actions with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral until the expiration of a new Standstill Period commenced by a new Standstill Notice relative to the occurrence of a new Term Loan Default that had not occurred as of the date of the delivery of the earlier Standstill Notice), and (ii) in no event shall Term Loan Agent or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise Term Loan Claimholder exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or the First Lien Claimholders any other ABL Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an prior to the expiration of the Standstill Period (or thereafter but prior to the commencement of any Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case by Term Loan Agent with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to ABL Priority Collateral) and be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that diligently pursuing in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain good faith an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without all or any consultation with or the consent material portion of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien ABL Priority Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Quest Resource Holding Corp), Intercreditor Agreement (Quest Resource Holding Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien the Subordinated Collateral Agent Trustee and the Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral (including the Collateral; provided that each Second exercise of any right of setoff or any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Subordinated Collateral Trustee or any Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action Claimholder is a party) or otherwise exercise institute any action or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary Liens granted to achieve a Discharge of First secure the Subordinated Lien Obligations are distributed of the Subordinated Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt) and, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by that, the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First securing the Subordinated Lien Obligations are distributed shall remain on the proceeds of such Collateral released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agents Trustee and any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;; and
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote. The Subordinated Collateral Trustee, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien the Subordinated Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second the Subordinated Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such Second Lien the Subordinated Collateral Agent Trustee and Second the Subordinated Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien the Subordinated Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second the Subordinated Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Subordinated Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second the Subordinated Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each Second Lien the Subordinated Collateral Agent Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Subordinated Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agents Trustee and the other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Subordinated Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Subordinated Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien the Subordinated Collateral Agent Trustee or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: First and Subordinated Lien Intercreditor Agreement (CVR Energy Inc), Credit and Guaranty Agreement (CVR Energy Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorCompany, each Second the Junior Lien Representatives, the Junior Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the Second Junior Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Collateral Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second any one or more of the Junior Lien Representative and the Junior Lien Collateral Agent may may, in accordance with any relevant Junior Lien Security Document, but is not required to, commence an a Collateral Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: of (i) the date on which such Second a Junior Lien Collateral Agent Representative declared the existence of any Event of Default under (and as defined in) under any Second Junior Lien Document Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Junior Lien ObligationsObligations thereunder; and (ii) the date on which the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representatives received notice from such Second Junior Lien Collateral Agent Representative of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Junior Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or the First any applicable Senior Lien Claimholders Claimholder(s) shall have commenced and be diligently is pursuing an a Collateral Enforcement Action or other exercise of its or their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt written notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Junior Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Representative);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to (i) any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Senior Lien Claimholder or (ii) any other exercise by the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Senior Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Senior Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Collateral Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Senior Lien Claimholder) ); and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), clause (a)(1) above will not object to the forbearance by the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Senior Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First any Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 5.1 hereof and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorCompany, subject to Section 3.1(a)(14.1(a)(1), the First Senior Lien Representatives, the Senior Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Senior Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to (i) commence and maintain an a Collateral Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Junior Lien Collateral Agents Representatives shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(64.1(c)(6)), and (ii) subject to Section 5.15.3, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second any Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Junior Lien Claimholder; provided that that, in each case, any proceeds received by the First any Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 5.1 hereof and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Collateral Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Senior Lien Representatives, Senior Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Senior Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Senior Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second any Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second other Junior Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Junior Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws Law of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second any Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agents Agent, in accordance with any relevant Junior Lien Security Document, and any other Second Junior Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Junior Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorCompany;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Senior Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or the First Senior Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Junior Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Junior Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second any Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Junior Lien Claimholder Claimholder, may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(14.1(a)(1);; and
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Junior Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Junior Lien Representative and each Junior Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Junior Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure that is expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(14.1(a)(1) (to pursue after the expiration of the Standstill Period to the extent the Second such Junior Lien Representative or such Junior Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Junior Lien Claimholders represented by it are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 5.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 4.1(a), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c4.1(c), the sole right of the Second Junior Lien Representatives, the Junior Lien Collateral Agents and the Second other Junior Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Junior Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c4.1(a) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Junior Lien Representative and each Junior Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Junior Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, agrees that such Second Junior Lien Representative or such Junior Lien Collateral Agent and Second such Junior Lien Claimholders represented by it will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Senior Lien Loan Documents or that is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Junior Lien Representative and each Junior Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Junior Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, hereby waives any and all rights it such Junior Lien Representative or such Second Junior Lien Collateral Agent and such Junior Lien Claimholders represented by it may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Senior Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Senior Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Senior Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Junior Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Junior Lien Representative and each Junior Lien Collateral Agent Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Lien Claimholder represented by it, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second any Junior Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Senior Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, Article II of the Second Initial Junior Lien Indenture and the Note Subordination Agreement, the Junior Lien Representatives, the Junior Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Junior Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Junior Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Junior Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantorthe Company); provided that in the event that any Second Junior Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Junior Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Senior Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Junior Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a4.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), and without limiting Article II of the Initial Junior Lien Indenture or the Note Subordination Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second any Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Junior Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Junior Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Junior Lien Representative, any Junior Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Junior Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Junior Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First any Senior Lien Representative, any Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Senior Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Indenture Agreement (Centrus Energy Corp), Indenture Agreement (United States Enrichment Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent Representatives and the Second Lien ClaimholdersSecured Parties:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintainmaintain (or join any other Person in commencing or maintaining), any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect (including setoff, recoupment, and the right to the credit bid debt, if any) against Collateral; provided that each the Designated Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: of (i) the date on which such a Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative declared the existence of any “Event of Default Default” under (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien ObligationsObligations thereunder; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent Representatives received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to such 150 days Standstill Period shall be tolled at any time when the contrary, in no event shall any Second First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any Second the applicable First Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, Secured Parties (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be are diligently pursuing in good faith an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to against all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject are stayed from exercising remedies with respect to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)the Collateral;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to (or support any other Person contesting, protesting or objecting) any foreclosure or enforcement proceeding or action brought by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party or any other exercise by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party of any rights and remedies relating to against the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any First Lien Claimholder) Secured Party); and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), clause (a)(1) above will not object to the forbearance by any First Lien Representative or the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to against the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law4.1.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent Representatives and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6))Action, and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to of the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the any Second Lien Collateral Agents Representative or any other Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party; provided that any proceeds received by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawhereof. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the CollateralAction, the First Lien Collateral Agent Representatives and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, thereunder all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder Representative or any other Second Lien Secured Party and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the any Second Lien Collateral Agents Representative and any other Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not in breach of any term of this Agreement and not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of of, or treatment of, the claims of the Second Lien ClaimholdersSecured Parties, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case not in accordance with the terms breach of any term of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, not in accordance with the terms breach of any term of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no such vote, filing of any claim claim, other filings or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan arguments shall be in breach of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions term of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to against the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First Lien ClaimholderSecured Party, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and.
(7) take join (but not exercise any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement control with respect to) any judicial foreclosure proceeding, other judicial lien enforcement proceeding or motion to lift the automatic stay with respect to the Collateral initiated by the First Lien Representative or any other First Lien Secured Party to the extent that any such action would not restrain, hinder, limit, delay or otherwise interfere (in each case, as reasonably determined by the Designated First Lien Representative) with the exercise of remedies by the Designated First Lien Representative or such other First Lien Secured Party (it being understood that neither the Designated Second Lien Representative nor any other Second Lien Secured Party shall be entitled to receive any proceeds thereof unless otherwise permitted herein);
(8) take any action, and file any pleading or document, in each case, that is necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation limitations with respect to any claim or similar restriction on claimscause of action related to the Second Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations;
(9) exercise all rights to obtain information concerning the Grantor, the Collateral or the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations; or
(10) take any action, and exercise any and all rights provided for under this Agreement. Each Second Lien Collateral AgentRepresentative, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties represented by it, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to against any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the such Second Lien Collateral Agents Representative and Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties represented by it are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Representatives and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to Secured Parties against the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c(b), (c) and Section 6.3(b):6:
(1) each Second Lien Collateral AgentRepresentative, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties represented by it, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative and such Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties represented by it will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents against the Collateral or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral AgentRepresentative, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties represented by it, hereby waives any and all rights it such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties represented by it may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC, any Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable law) to object to the manner in which the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementAgreement and applicable law, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Secured Parties represented by it, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth would be in breach of the express terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Representatives and the other Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may exercise any and all rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Second Lien Credit Agreement (Focus Financial Partners Inc.), Second Lien Credit Agreement (Focus Financial Partners Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second (i) the Junior Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Lender will not commence or maintain, (x) exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second any Shared Collateral in respect of any Junior Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action Obligations, or otherwise exercise institute any action or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”foreclosure); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (iy) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or other action brought with respect to the Shared Collateral, the exercise of any right by the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any First Senior Lien Claimholder Secured Party (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the Senior Lien Obligations under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Senior Lien Representative or any Senior Lien Secured Party either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Shared Collateral under the First Senior Lien Loan Documents Debt Documents, or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, Shared Collateral in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess respect of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent Representative and the First Senior Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Junior Lien Lender; provided, however, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against any Grantor, the Junior Lien Lender may file a claim, proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Junior Lien Obligations, (B) the Junior Lien Lender may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Shared Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by securing the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations are distributed or the rights of the Senior Lien Representative or the other Senior Lien Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Shared Collateral, (C) the Junior Lien Lender may make a claim for adequate protection, solely to the extent expressly provided in Section 6.03, and the Junior Lien Lender may file any responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims or Liens of the Junior Lien Lender or the avoidance of any Junior Priority Lien to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, (D) the Junior Lien Lender may vote on any plan of reorganization or plan of liquidation (or other plans of similar effect under any Bankruptcy Law) proposed in or in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding solely in accordance with Section 4.1 6.10(b), and applicable law(E) the Junior Lien Lender may take any action in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve, protect and enforce its rights under the Junior Lien Debt Documents including the Junior Lien Collateral Documents to the extent relating to assets that do not constitute Shared Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Lien Collateral, the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative and the First other Senior Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Senior Lien Loan Debt Documents and exercise remedies thereunderin accordance with the terms thereof, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Shared Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, disposition and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable law of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause So long as the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations; and
(7Obligations has not occurred, except as expressly provided in the proviso of Section 3.01(a) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement but subject to Article IV, the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Junior Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, Lender agrees that it will not take or receive any Shared Collateral or any proceeds Proceeds of Shared Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Shared Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge respect of First Junior Lien Obligations has occurred, except or in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this the proviso of Section 3.1(c3.01(a), the sole right of the Second Junior Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders Lender with respect to the Shared Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral in respect of Junior Lien Obligations pursuant to the Second Junior Lien Collateral Debt Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to be next to receive a share of the proceeds Proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a)Until the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations, 3.1(cthe Junior Lien Lender (i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second the Junior Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders Lender will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under undertaken by the First Senior Lien Loan Documents Representative or is otherwise prohibited hereunderany Senior Lien Secured Party with respect to the Shared Collateral, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Shared Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First the Senior Lien Claimholder seeks Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the First Senior Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in on any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementShared Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder Secured Party is adverse to the interest interests of any Second the Junior Lien Claimholder; andLender.
(3d) each Second The Junior Lien Collateral Agent Lender hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second any Junior Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Debt Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other First the Senior Lien Claimholder Secured Parties with respect to the Senior Lien Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Senior Lien Loan Debt Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementUntil the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations, the Second Senior Lien Representative shall have the exclusive right to exercise any right or remedy with respect to the Shared Collateral Agents and shall have the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights exclusive right to determine and remedies as unsecured creditors against direct the Company time, method and place for exercising such right or remedy or conducting any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations proceeding with respect thereto, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Second Senior Lien Documents and applicable law Debt Documents. Following the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations but subject to Section 6.04, the Junior Lien Lender (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case any Person authorized by it) shall have the exclusive right to (x) exercise any right or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor remedy with respect to the Second Lien ObligationsShared Collateral and (y) to direct the time, such judgment Lien shall be subject method and place of exercising or conducting any proceeding for the exercise of any right or remedy available to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Junior Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have Lender with respect to the First Shared Collateral, or of exercising or directing the exercise of any trust or power conferred on the Junior Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lender, or for the taking of any other action authorized by the Junior Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderDocuments.
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Samples: Eighth Supplemental Indenture (Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and (i) neither the Second Lien Claimholders:
Trustee nor any Noteholder will (1x) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien any Common Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action in respect of any Noteholder Claims, institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”foreclosure); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (iy) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to the Common Collateral by the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender in respect of the Senior Lender Claims, the exercise of any right by the Intercreditor Agent or any Senior Lender (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the Senior Lender Claims under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement, or other Comparable Noteholder Collateral Document, to which the Trustee or any Noteholder either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise in respect of Senior Lender Claims, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the CollateralCommon Collateral in respect of Senior Lender Claims and (ii) except as otherwise provided herein, the Intercreditor Agent and the Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including setoff and the right to credit bid their debt) and make determinations regarding the release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Trustee or any Noteholder; provided, however, that (A) in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims and (B) the Trustee may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the Senior Lender Claims, or the rights of the Intercreditor Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Common Collateral subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights limitations set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law6.3. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action Senior Lender Claims has not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to occurred, the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Common Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge respect of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Noteholder Claims. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral in respect of Noteholder Claims pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a), 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders neither the Trustee nor any Noteholder will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Intercreditor Agent or the Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders any Noteholder may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementSenior Lender Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders is adverse to the interest interests of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Noteholders.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent The Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Noteholder Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Lenders with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Securus Technologies, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Claimholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Second-Lien Claimholder take is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Enforcement Action Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; and (ii) the First-Lien Agent shall have the exclusive right, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Second-Lien Claimholder, all as though the Second-Lien Obligations did not exist; provided that provided, that, (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second-Lien Obligations, (B) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First-Lien Agent or the other First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in excess respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Shared Collateral in a manner not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of those this Agreement, and (C) the Second-Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to achieve any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Claimholders, including any claim secured by the Shared Collateral, if any, in each case in a Discharge manner not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthis Agreement. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Second-Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right rights of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is are limited to the right to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral pursuant to the Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and therein, to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second-Lien Notes Documents and applicable law, and to exercise only such other rights as are expressly permitted herein.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Claimholders, and each other applicable Second Second-Lien ClaimholderClaimholder (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Notes Documents), (i) agrees that such Second the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and Second the other Second-Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or First-Lien Security Document or subordinate the priority of the First-Lien Obligations to the Second-Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second-Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First-Lien Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Second-Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First First-Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First First-Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the Second-Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders.
(3d) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Second-Lien Notes Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First First-Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Claimholders, and each Second-Lien Claimholder (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Notes Documents) agrees that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Second-Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against will not, without the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms prior written consent of the Second Required First-Lien Documents and applicable law Creditors (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case the First-Lien Agent at their direction or proceeding under with their consent), issue any Insolvency payment blockage or Liquidation Proceeding similar notice with respect to any Grantor); provided obligations that are subordinated in the event that right of payment to any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second First-Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreementbefore the Discharge of First-Lien Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company one or more of ARC or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1i) None of the Term Representatives nor any of the other Term Secured Parties (x) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral (including the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement or account control agreement (but excluding such lockbox or deposit account that does not receive proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral), landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement in respect of ABL Priority Collateral to which the Term Representatives or any other Term Secured Party is a party) or institute or commence or join with any Person (other than ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties) in commencing any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution); provided provided, however, that each Second Lien Collateral Agent the Designated Term Representative may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 one hundred eighty (180) days has elapsed since the later of: (i) from the date on of delivery of a notice in writing to ABL Agent of the Designated Term Representative’s intention to exercise its right to take such actions which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any notice shall also state that an Event of Default (is continuing under the Term Documents and Term Obligations have been accelerated as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations a result of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Term Standstill Period”); provided, further, that however, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall neither the Designated Term Representative nor any Second Lien Collateral Agent other Term Secured Party will exercise any rights or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action remedies with respect to the any ABL Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Term Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or the First Lien Claimholders other ABL Secured Parties shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of any of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the ABL Priority Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral AgentsDesignated Term Representative) and are pursuing in good faith the exercise thereof or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any are stayed from pursuing such exercise, including as a result of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding Proceeding, (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2y) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other ABL Secured Party with respect to, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other ABL Secured Party of any rights and remedies relating to to, the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien Loan ABL Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
otherwise, and (3z) subject to their its rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (i)(x) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the other ABL Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case of clauses (x), (y) and (z) above, so long as the respective interests of the Term Secured Parties attach to the Proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3.1; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 3.2(a) shall be construed to authorize any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Term Representative or any other Grantor, subject Term Secured Party to Section 3.1(a)(1), sell any ABL Priority Collateral free of the First Lien Collateral of ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured Party; and
(ii) ABL Agent on behalf of itself and the First Lien Claimholders other ABL Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, dispositionDisposition of, or restrictions with respect to to, the ABL Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of any of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Designated Term Representative or any other Second Term Secured Party; provided, that:
(A) the Term Representatives may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the ABL Obligations, or the rights of ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by on the First Lien ABL Priority Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with applicable law and in a manner not in contravention of the terms of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, any of the provisions of Section 4.1 3.5);
(B) the Term Secured Parties shall be entitled to file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims or Liens of the Term Secured Parties, including any claims secured by the ABL Priority Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with applicable law and in a manner not in contravention of the terms of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, any of the provisions of Section 3.5);
(C) the Term Secured Parties shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either the Bankruptcy Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case in accordance with applicable law and not in contravention of the terms of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, any of the provisions of Section 3.5);
(D) the Term Secured Parties shall be entitled to vote on any plan of reorganization and file any proof of claim in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise and other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in a manner not in contravention of the terms of this Agreement; and
(E) the Designated Term Representative or any other Term Secured Party may exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral after the termination of the Term Standstill Period to the extent permitted by clause (i)(x) above. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent and the First Lien Claimholders other ABL Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan ABL Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of ABL Priority Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or dispositionDisposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingEach Term Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each itself and the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderTerm Secured Parties that it represents, agrees that it will not take or receive any ABL Priority Collateral or any proceeds Proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by the first proviso in clause (i)(x), or in the proviso in clause (ii), of Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement3.2(a). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this the first proviso in clause (i)(x), or in the proviso in clause (ii), of Section 3.1(c3.2(a), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Term Representatives and the Second Lien Claimholders other Term Secured Parties with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Term Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds Proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien the ABL Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms hereof, the ABL Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(athe first proviso in clause (i)(x) of Section 3.2(a), 3.1(cthe proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.2(a) and Section 6.3(b3.4(a):
(1i) each Second Lien Collateral AgentTerm Representative, for itself and on behalf of each the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderTerm Secured Parties that it represents, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent Term Representative and Second Lien Claimholders the other Term Secured Parties that it represents will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan ABL Documents with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition Disposition of the ABL Priority Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;, and
(2ii) each Second Lien Collateral AgentTerm Representative, for itself and on behalf of each the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderTerm Secured Parties that it represents, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the other Term Secured Parties may have as a junior lien creditor with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks ABL Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the First Lien ABL Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementABL Priority Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder ABL Secured Parties is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Term Secured Parties in the ABL Priority Collateral.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent Each Term Representative hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Term Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder ABL Secured Parties with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan ABL Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Arc Document Solutions, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Subject to Section 3.1(c) of this Agreement and Section 6.3(d) of the CPLV Lease, unless and until the earlier of (x) the Discharge of First Lien Tenant Financing Obligations has occurred or (y) the CPLV Lease Exercise Conditions have occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorTenant, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien ClaimholdersLandlord:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (other than a Permitted CPLV Lease Reserve Account Collateral Application or as specifically set forth in the Trademark Security Agreement and Sections 3(k), 6 and 7 of the Landlord Financing SNDA) with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise any exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein by Landlord prior to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor CPLV Lease Termination Conditions shall be subject to the limitations in the CPLV Lease and Landlord may not complete any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)foreclosure prior to the satisfaction of the CPLV Lease Termination Conditions;
(2) except as set forth in Section 2.4 or 3.1(e), will not contest, protest or protest, object to or take any other action that would hinder any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or any First Lien other Tenant Financing Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or any First Lien other Tenant Financing Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the CPLV Lease Collateral under the First Lien Loan Tenant Financing Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or any First Lien Tenant Financing Claimholder) ), provided that such Enforcement Action, foreclosure proceeding, action or other exercise of rights and remedies is in accordance with the provisions of the CPLV Lease and this Agreement; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance bid for or purchase CPLV Lease Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such CPLV Lease Collateral initiated by the First Lien any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action other Tenant Financing Claimholder, or any other exercise sale of any rights CPLV Lease Collateral during an Insolvency or remedies relating to the CollateralLiquidation Proceeding, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve connection with a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawTenant Financing Permitted Action.
(b) Until Subject to Section 2.4, Section 3.1 and Section 6 of this Agreement, the Trademark Security Agreement and Sections 3(k), 6 and 7 of the Landlord Financing SNDA, until the Discharge of First Lien Tenant Financing Obligations has occurred, so long as the CPLV Lease Exercise Conditions have not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)Tenant, the First Lien Tenant Financing Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien other Tenant Financing Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment but excluding any Permitted CPLV Lease Reserve Account Collateral Application) and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, disposition or restrictions with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien ClaimholderLandlord; provided that (A) with respect to any proceeds received by CPLV Lease Collateral and any Related Property, such Enforcement Action is a Tenant Financing Permitted Action and provided any acquirer of such CPLV Lease Collateral and such Related Property expressly agrees in writing for the First Lien benefit of Landlord that such CPLV Lease Collateral and such Related Property that is transferred will be made available to the new tenant of the Leased Premises and will be utilized on the Tenant’s Leasehold Estate in connection with a New Lease or any transfer of Tenant’s Leasehold Estate to a Replacement Tenant under Section 17.1(e) and 22 of the CPLV Lease (but subject in each case to Section 6 of the CPLV Lease) and (B) notwithstanding any such Enforcement Action or other exercise of any such right or remedy, the CPLV Lease Collateral shall remain subject to the continuing first priority lien of Landlord (which has been collaterally assigned to Landlord Financing Lender) and the Tenant Collateral Agent or its designee or assignee so acquiring the CPLV Lease Collateral (whether in excess connection with any credit bid, Enforcement Action or otherwise) shall expressly acknowledge in writing that it is acquiring the CPLV Lease Collateral subject to the first priority Lien of those necessary Landlord (which has been collaterally assigned to achieve a Discharge Landlord Financing Lender). It is the express intention of First Lien Obligations are distributed all the parties hereto that the CPLV Lease Collateral remain subject to the CPLV Lease (or any New Lease entered into in accordance with Section 4.1 17.1(f) of the CPLV Lease), the Trademark Security Agreement and applicable lawSections 3(k), 6 and 7 of the Landlord Financing SNDA, including after the exercise of any rights and remedies by any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent and/or any other Tenant Financing Claimholder. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral, the First Lien Tenant Financing Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien other Tenant Financing Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Tenant Financing Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse Landlord, subject in all respects to the interest provisions of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdictionthis Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder Discharge of Tenant Financing Obligations or the occurrence of the CPLV Lease Termination Conditions, Landlord may:
(1) voteSubject to Section 6 hereof, take any and all actions and enforce any rights available to a secured creditor with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that so long as any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or any Tenant Financing Claimholder is pursuing a Tenant Financing Permitted Action, Landlord shall not take any action intended to frustrate such action and provided further than Landlord may not complete any foreclosure prior to the satisfaction of the CPLV Lease Termination Conditions;
(2) file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an CPLV Lease Obligations in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorProceeding;
(23) take any action in order to create or perfect or, so long as not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or the First Lien other Tenant Financing Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfecthereunder, preserve or protect (but not enforce) protect, its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)CPLV Lease Collateral;
(34) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims or Liens of the Second Lien ClaimholdersLandlord, including any claims secured by the CPLV Lease Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of a manner that is not prohibited by, or inconsistent with, this Agreement;
(45) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that aremotions, in each case, in accordance with the terms of a manner that is not prohibited by, or inconsistent with, this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien CPLV Lease Obligations and the CPLV Lease Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder Landlord may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(56) subject to the limitations in the CPLV Lease, commence an Enforcement Action with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral; provided that Landlord shall not (i) complete any such Enforcement Action which results, or allow any such Enforcement Action to result, in a sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of CPLV Lease Collateral, in each case, prior to the occurrence of the CPLV Lease Termination Conditions or (ii) commence any such Enforcement Action prior to the occurrence of CPLV Lease Termination Conditions that would, or allow any such Enforcement Action to progress to a point at which it would be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, it being acknowledged that any Enforcement Action by Landlord (whether such Enforcement Action is commenced before or after the occurrence of the CPLV Lease Exercise Conditions) undertaken on or after the occurrence of the CPLV Lease Termination Conditions shall be permitted in accordance with Section 3.2;
(7) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral after the termination occurrence of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1)CPLV Lease Termination Conditions;
(6) bid for 8) exercise any and all its rights and remedies in its capacity as “landlord” under the CPLV Lease other than to institute Enforcement Actions that are expressly prohibited, restricted or purchase Collateral at any public, private otherwise limited by this Agreement or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien ObligationsCPLV Lease; and
(79) take any action not otherwise pursuant to and in violation accordance with Section 6.3(d) of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsCPLV Lease. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, Landlord agrees that it will not take or receive any CPLV Lease Collateral or any proceeds of CPLV Lease Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any CPLV Lease Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent that the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)CPLV Lease Termination Conditions have occurred. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has CPLV Lease Termination Conditions have occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and or this Section 3.1(c)) or any other provision of this Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders Landlord with respect to the CPLV Lease Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien CPLV Lease Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredtherein.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents Except as specifically prohibited by or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether limited by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders Landlord may exercise rights and remedies in its capacity as unsecured creditors landlord under the CPLV Lease against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations Tenant in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien CPLV Lease Documents and applicable law (it being understood and agreed that this agreement is intended to allocate rights, benefits and obligations as between Landlord and Tenant Financing Claimholders and that as between Landlord and Tenant nothing in this Agreement is intended to give either any greater rights and remedies against the other than initiating as set forth in the CPLV Lease or joining to permit either to exercise such rights and remedies at a time or in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding a manner inconsistent with respect to any Grantorthe CPLV Lease); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder Landlord becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of CPLV Lease Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to landlord under the Second Lien ObligationsCPLV Lease, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Tenant Financing Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien CPLV Lease Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(fe) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder Landlord of the required payments of interest, principal Rent and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien CPLV Lease Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Landlord of rights or remedies as a secured creditor against the CPLV Lease Collateral (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them Landlord or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder Landlord of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing Except as provided herein in respect of Related Property, nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien that any Tenant Financing Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Tenant Financing Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Tenant Financing Separate Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) 3.1 Exercise of Remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral. Until the Discharge Payment in Full of First Lien Obligations ABL Debt has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Company Term Loan Claimholders will not:
(a) exercise or seek to exercise (and instead shall be deemed to have hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally waived except as hereinafter provided) any rights, powers, or remedies with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral (including taking any Enforcement Action with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral); provided, that (i) if a Term Loan Default has occurred and is continuing, Term Loan Agent may take Enforcement Actions with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral after the expiration of the applicable Standstill Period (it being understood that if at any time after the delivery of a Standstill Notice that commences a Standstill Period, no Term Loan Default is continuing, Term Loan Agent may not take Enforcement Actions with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral until the expiration of a new Standstill Period commenced by a new Standstill Notice relative to the occurrence of a new Term Loan Default that had not occurred as of the date of the delivery of the earlier Standstill Notice), (ii) in no event shall Term Loan Agent or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise Term Loan Claimholder exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or the First Lien Claimholders any other ABL Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an prior to the expiration of the Standstill Period (or thereafter but prior to the commencement of any Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case by Term Loan Agent with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral ABL Priority Collateral) and be diligently pursuing in good faith an Enforcement Action with respect to all or any material portion of the ABL Priority Collateral, and (prompt iii) prior to taking any such Enforcement Action with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, Term Loan Agent shall give ABL Agent not more than 20 Business Days and not less than 5 Business Days prior written notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral intention of Term Loan Agent or any First Lien other Term Loan Claimholder or any other to exercise by such rights and remedies, including specifying the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating that it intends to exercise, which notice may be sent prior to the Collateral under end of the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.Standstill Period; or
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether commence or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance join with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this AgreementABL Agent) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing, or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreementfiling a petition for, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to against any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.,
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Unifi Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the Second Lien ClaimholdersClaimholders hereby agree that they:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence exercise any rights or maintainremedies (including setoff or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral(including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding); provided that each the Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) Directing First Lien Collateral Agent shall have received notice from the date on which such Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent declared with respect to any of the existence of any Event of Default following (and requesting that enforcement action be taken with respect to the Collateral) and so long as defined inthe respective payment default shall not have been cured or waived (and the respective acceleration shall not have been rescinded): (i) under any a payment default exists with respect to the Second Lien Document and demanded Obligations following the repayment final maturity of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and Obligations or (ii) after the date on which acceleration by the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such relevant Second Lien Collateral Agent Claimholders of such declarations the maturity of such Event of Default and demand for payment all then outstanding Second Lien Obligations (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, provided further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any Enforcement Action or any action or proceeding with relation to such rights or remedies, if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect (unless stayed from taking or pursuing such actions pursuant to all Debtor Relief Law) or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to Obligor is then a debtor in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Proceeding;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any Enforcement Action or any other foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any Enforcement Action or any other foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law4.1.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: First Lien Credit Agreement (Isos Acquisition Corp.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each :
(i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1A) from the date hereof until the occurrence of the Second Lien Enforcement Date, will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including any right of set-off or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take is a party) or institute or commence (or join with any Enforcement Action other Person in commencing) any enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding (including, without limitation, any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First any Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to held by it under the Second Lien Collateral Agents) Documents or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any other Second Lien Collateral Agent Credit Document or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);otherwise; and
(2B) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Claimholder, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by otherwise, provided that the First respective interests of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds thereof, subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2 and Section 4; and
(C) subject to the rights of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholderunder clause (i)(A) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.; and
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)5.1 and Section 6, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that provided, that
(A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents against Company or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoingother Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, Agent may file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;,
(2B) the Second Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither Collateral,
(C) the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Second Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including without limitation any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;,
(4D) vote on in any plan of reorganizationInsolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any proof pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that arethe Grantors arising under either Bankruptcy Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case, case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement,
(E) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of Claimholders shall be entitled to vote on any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by extent consistent with the provisions hereof, and
(F) the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after upon the termination occurrence and during the effective continuation of the Standstill Period Second Lien Enforcement Date. In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral, the First Lien Collateral at any publicAgent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, private or judicial foreclosure upon all in such Collateral initiated order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other and the First Lien Claimholder, Claimholders to sell or any sale otherwise dispose of Collateral during an Insolvency upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless secured creditor under the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable statute jurisdiction and of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(b) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral, and that any Collateral in its capacity as a creditoror proceeds taken or received by it will be paid over to the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.2, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c3.1(a)(ii), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredtherein.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each 6.4, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such (i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay or impede any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner or order in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andCollateral.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each The Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedClaimholder agrees that it shall not, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency , take or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by receive from or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each the Borrower, directly or indirectly, in cash or other applicable Second Lien Claimholderproperty or by setoff, agrees that it will not take counterclaim or receive in any other manner (whether pursuant to any enforcement, collection, execution, levy, foreclosure action or other proceeding or otherwise) any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of all First Lien Obligations has occurred, except have been paid in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof full in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)3.2 hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredhave been paid in full, except as expressly provided herein or in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)the Laurus Security Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents MDS Security Agreement and the MDS Notes for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after payment in full of the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject Obligations; provided however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each impair the right of the Second Lien Collateral AgentClaimholders to receive payments of principal, for itself interest, fees and on behalf other amounts in respect of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderObligations as provided for in the MDS Security Agreement and the MDS Notes, agrees that and to enforce the making of such payments by bringing suit at law with respect to any unpaid amounts of such payments. Each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders (i) further agrees that the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit, impede or prohibit any exercise of remedies under by the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCollateral Agent to the extent related to satisfying the First Lien Obligations, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition Disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each , or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Collateral Document securing or purporting to secure the First Lien Obligations or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations with respect to the Common Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Claimholder, Obligations with respect to the Common Collateral equal in ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations and (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have (other than as specified herein) as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other Law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing now or hereafter granted in any Common Collateral to secure the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien Claimholder; and
Claimholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else contained herein, (3i) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenantthe other Second Lien Claimholders may sxx upon any claim they may have with respect to the Non-Common Collateral (whether pursuant to an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise) or take any action with respect to the Non-Common Collateral (including, agreement without limitation, a Disposition of the Non-Common Collateral), the Borrower or restriction contained any of its Subsidiaries or enforce their Lien in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents Non-Common Collateral, without consent, notice or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of consultation with the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(eii) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against sxx upon any claim they may have with respect to the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens Common Collateral (whether pursuant to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to or otherwise) or take any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor action with respect to the Second Common Collateral (including, without limitation, a Disposition of the Common Collateral), the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or enforce their Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d)Common Collateral, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents without consent, notice or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies consultation with the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of if the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing or any Enforcement Action; provided that failure other First Lien Claimholders has not taken any of the actions specified in this clause (ii) with respect to deliver the Common Collateral within 120 days after any First Lien Claimholder has knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default under the Laurus Security Agreement and such notice Event of Default shall not impair have been cured and/or waived within the validity 120-day period following the date on which such First Lien Claimholder has knowledge of the occurrence of such Enforcement Action Event of Default; it being understood and agreed that for purposes of this Section 3.1, the First Lien Claimholders will be deemed to have knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default if any Second Lien Claimholder notifies a First Lien Claimholder of such occurrence. Any proceeds of Common Collateral recovered pursuant to the actions of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or give rise the other Second Lien Claimholders pursuant to liability hereunderthe foregoing clause (ii) shall be applied in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 4.1.
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (DSL Net Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Representatives, the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Representative, Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)6 hereof;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and);
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; and
(4) no Second Lien Representative, Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder shall file any notice or other document under the federal Assignment of Claims Act 31 USC 3737, 41 USC 15 that requires payment to any Second Lien Representative, Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the any First Lien Representative or First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed applied in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Representatives, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the sole and exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents Claimholders shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the any First Lien Representative or First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed applied in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Representatives, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholder, may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to to, and are applied to, cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company and any action other Grantor in accordance with applicable law (so long as such rights and remedies do not violate and are not otherwise in violation inconsistent with any provision of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsAgreement). Each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Claimholders represented by it are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Agreement and applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Representatives, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), ) and 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, agrees that such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agent and such Second Lien Claimholders represented by it will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, hereby waives any and all rights it such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agent and such Second Lien Claimholders represented by it may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Second Lien Claimholder represented by it, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable any Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Debt Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsAgreement.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementThe Second Lien Representatives, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Debt Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder in respect of the express terms of this AgreementCollateral. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Summit Midstream Partners, LP)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent (acting at the direction of a majority in interest of the Subordinated Lien Claimholders) may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later earlier of: (i) following the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence occurrence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Subordinated Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) Loan Document, the date on which the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent received was given notice from such Second thereof in accordance with Section 8.9 and (ii) following the occurrence of the acceleration of the Subordinated Lien Obligations, the date on which the Super Senior Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment was given notice thereof in accordance with Section 8.9 (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral ifso long as, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or the First Lien Super Senior Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral or the Company or any other Grantor is then, and then only for so long as it remains, a debtor under or with respect to (or otherwise subject to) any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (with prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest protest, hinder, delay, or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Super Senior Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Super Senior Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Super Senior Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Lender shall have the Discharge right to enforce, from time to time, in any order and at Lender’s sole discretion, any rights, powers and remedies which Lender may have under the Loan Documents or otherwise, including judicial foreclosure, the exercise of First Lien Obligations has occurredrights of power of sale, the taking of a deed or assignment in lieu of foreclosure, the appointment of a receiver to collect rents, issues and profits, the exercise of remedies against personal property, or the enforcement of any assignment of leases, rentals, or other properties or rights, whether real or not personal, tangible or intangible; and the Guarantor shall be liable to Lender hereunder for any Insolvency deficiency resulting from the exercise by Lender of any such right or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or remedy even though any rights that the Guarantor may have against the Company Borrowers or others may be destroyed or diminished by exercise of any such right or remedy. No failure on the part of Lender to exercise, and no delay in 1094129v2 exercising, any right hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The rights, powers and remedies of Lender provided herein and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any other rights, powers or remedies provided by law or in equity. The rights of Lender hereunder are not conditional or contingent on any attempt by Lender to exercise any of its rights under any other Loan Document against any Obligor or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawPerson.
(b) Until the Discharge If any Event of First Lien Obligations has occurredDefault shall occur and be continuing, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent Lender may protect and enforce Lender’s rights under this Guaranty and the First Lien Claimholders shall have other the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action Loan Documents by any appropriate proceedings, including proceedings for specific performance of any covenant or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment agreement contained in any Loan Document and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising following rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions remedies:
(i) All of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor party under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any UCC, as amended, or other applicable jurisdictionLaw.
(cii) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe right, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced fullest extent permissible by or against law, to: (a) enter upon the Company premises of Guarantor, or any other Grantor;
(2) take place or places where the Collateral is located and kept, without any action not adverse obligation to pay rent to Guarantor, through self-help and without judicial process, without first obtaining a final judgment or giving Guarantor notice and opportunity for a hearing on the validity of Lender’s claim, and remove the Collateral therefrom to the priority status premises of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien ObligationsLender or any agent of Lender, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereoffor such time as Lender may desire, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect effectively collect and liquidate the Collateral; and/or (but not enforceb) its Lien on require Guarantor to assemble the Collateral and neither make it available to Lender at a place to be designated by Lender, in Lender's reasonable discretion.
(iii) The right to sell or otherwise dispose of any or all Collateral in its then condition at public or private sale or sales, in lots or in bulk, for cash or on credit, all as Lender, in its discretion, may deem advisable; provided that such sales may be adjourned from time to time with or without notice. The requirement of reasonable notice to Guarantor of the First Lien time and place of any public sale of the Collateral Agent nor or of the time after which any First Lien Claimholder will object to private sale either by Lender or contestat its option, a broker, or otherwise support any other person in contesting intended disposition thereof is to be made, shall be met if such notice is mailed, postage prepaid, to Guarantor at the address of Guarantor designated herein at least ten (10) Business Days before the date of any public sale or objecting to, at least ten (10) Business Days before the time after which any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent private sale or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);other disposition is to be made unless applicable law requires otherwise.
(3iv) file any necessary responsive Lender shall have the right to conduct such sales on Guarantor’s premises or defensive pleadings in opposition elsewhere and shall have the right to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding use Guarantor's premises without charge for such sales for such time or times as Lender may see fit. Lender is hereby granted a license or other pleading made by right to use, without charge, Guarantor’s labels, copyrights, rights of use of any person objecting name, trade secrets, trade names, trademarks and advertising matter, or any property of a similar nature, as it pertains to the Collateral, in advertising for sale and selling any Collateral and Guarantor's rights under all licenses and all franchise agreements shall inure to Lender’s benefit. Guarantor agrees to hold Lender harmless from any liability arising out of Lender's use of Guarantor’s premises, labels, copyrights, rights of use of any name, trade secrets, trade names, trademarks and advertising matter, or any property of a similar nature as it pertains to advertising for sale, marshaling or selling the Collateral.
(v) Lender shall have the right to sell, lease or otherwise seeking the disallowance dispose of the claims Collateral, or any part thereof, for cash, credit or any combination thereof, and Lender may purchase all or part of the Second Lien ClaimholdersCollateral at public or, including if permitted by law, private sale and, in lieu of actual payment of such purchase price, may set off the amount of such price against the Obligations owing by Guarantor to Lender. The proceeds realized from the sale of any claims secured Collateral shall be applied first to reasonable costs and expenses, attorney's fees, expert witness fees incurred by Lender for collection and for acquisition, completion, protection, removal, storage, sale and delivery of the Collateral; second to all payments, other than principal and interest, due under this Guaranty; third to interest due upon any of the Obligations; fourth to the principal balance owing on the Indebtedness; and fifth the remainder, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganizationto Guarantor, arrangement, compromise its successors or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or voteassigns, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder whomsoever may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and lawfully entitled to receive a share of the proceeds thereofsame. If any deficiency shall arise, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredGuarantor shall remain liable to Lender therefor.
(dvi) Subject The right to Sections 3.1(a)appoint or seek appointment of a receiver, 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):custodian or trustee of Guarantor or any of their properties or assets pursuant to court order.
(1vii) each Second Lien Collateral AgentAll other rights and remedies that Lender may have at law or in equity. Additionally, for itself if any Event of Default shall occur and on behalf be continuing, Lender may enforce the payment of each any Obligations due to Lender or enforce any other applicable Second Lien Claimholderlegal or equitable right which Lender may have. All rights, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent remedies and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies powers conferred upon Lender under the First Lien Loan Documents shall be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or powers available under the Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer at Law or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documentsequity.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredhave not been paid in full (as hereinafter defined), whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantorof its Subsidiaries, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1i) will not commence or maintain, no Junior Secured Creditor shall (A) exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral securing the Second Lien Obligations, (B) institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including, without limitation, any action of foreclosure, contest or protest) or (C) object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by any Senior Secured Creditor or the exercise of any right under any Senior Loan Document or similar agreement or arrangement to which any Senior Secured Creditor is a party, or any other exercise by any such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the Senior Loan Documents or otherwise, or, except as provided herein, any release of any or all of the Collateral for any purpose, or object to the forbearance by Senior Secured Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding, or object, oppose or otherwise contest any claim for allowance in any Insolvency Proceeding of First Lien Obligations consisting of post-petition interest, fees and expenses or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent any Junior Secured Creditor may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent received notice from such has been notified in writing by one or more Junior Secured Creditors that the aggregate amount due and payable by the Borrower in respect of Commodity Hedge Agreements constituting Second Lien Collateral Agent Obligations that have been terminated is in excess of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment $100,000,000 (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, provided further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarycontrary herein, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent Junior Secured Creditor exercise any rights or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Senior Secured Creditors shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or Junior Secured Creditors); and (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding the rights of the Junior Secured Creditors under clause (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2i) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)above, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Secured Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the CollateralJunior Secured Creditors, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement Junior Secured Creditors shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to reasonably requested by the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, effectuate any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent enforcement, exercise, release or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateraldisposition; provided however that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to (w) the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder Junior Secured Creditors may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(16(a)(i);
, (6x) bid for in any Insolvency Proceeding commenced by or purchase Collateral at against the Borrower, any publicJunior Secured Creditor may file a claim or statement of interest, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or (y) any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid Junior Secured Creditor may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement adverse to the extent necessary Senior Secured Creditors in order to prevent preserve or protect its rights in the running of Collateral and any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Junior Secured Creditor may act in coordination with and not adverse to the Senior Secured Creditors in exercising any remedies initiated by the Senior Secured Creditors with respect to the Collateral.
(b) Each Junior Secured Creditor agrees that it shall not, with respect to the Second Lien Collateral AgentObligations, for itself and take or receive from or on behalf of each the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, directly or indirectly, in cash or other applicable Second Lien Claimholderproperty or by setoff, agrees that it will not take counterclaim or receive in any other manner (whether pursuant to any enforcement, collection, execution, levy, foreclosure action or other proceeding or otherwise) any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of all First Lien Obligations has occurred, except have been paid in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)full. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredhave been paid in full, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)herein, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders Junior Secured Creditors with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Junior Hedge Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after payment in full of the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject Obligations; provided however that subject to Sections 3.1(a)Section 5 and this Section 6, 3.1(c) nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to impair the right of the Junior Secured Creditors to receive payments of principal, interest, fees and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each other amounts in respect of the Second Lien Collateral AgentObligations as provided for in the Junior Hedge Documents, for itself and to enforce the making of such payments by bringing suit at law (but not, except as provided in Section 6(a)(i) above, to exercise any rights in respect of their Liens on behalf the Collateral) with respect to any unpaid amounts of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, such payments. Each Junior Secured Creditor (i) further agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders it will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit, impede or prohibit any exercise of remedies under by the Senior Agent or any of the Senior Secured Creditors to the extent related to satisfying the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderObligations, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each , or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Senior Loan Document securing or purporting to secure the First Lien Obligations or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Claimholder, Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations and (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have (other than as specified herein) as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other applicable law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks Senior Secured Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing now or hereafter granted in any Collateral to secure the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Secured Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsJunior Secured Creditors.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the each Second Lien Representative, for itself and on behalf of its Related Second Lien Claimholders, hereby agrees that it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff, recoupment and the right to credit bid, if any) with respect to the Collateralany Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding); provided that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Person authorized by it may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 270 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent and each First Lien Representative shall have received notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent with respect to the acceleration by the relevant Second Lien Claimholders of such declarations the maturity of such Event all then outstanding Second Lien Obligations (and requesting that Enforcement Action be taken with respect to the Collateral) so long as the applicable “event of Default and demand for payment default” shall not have been cured or waived (or the applicable acceleration rescinded) (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Second Lien Collateral Agent, any Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative or any other Second Lien Claimholder take Claimholders exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the any Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies, if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, either (iA) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the any other First Lien Claimholders Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing (or shall have sought or requested and be diligently pursuing relief from or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and the pursuit of) an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice with any determination of such exercise which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be given to made by the Second First Lien Collateral AgentsAgent or such First Lien Claimholders in their reasonable judgment) or (iiB) any Grantor shall be subject to of the Obligors is then a debtor in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Proceeding;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by otherwise (and acknowledges and agrees that if the First Lien Collateral Agent or any seeks to appoint an administrator (in its capacity as a holder of a qualifying floating charge) it shall be entitled to do so in accordance with the First Lien Claimholder) andCollateral Documents, the Insolvency Xxx 0000 and English common law and no Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder shall object to or seek to replace such appointee);
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent or other First Lien Claimholders in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder4.1; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;and
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral Collateral, or any proceeds of Collateral or payment with respect to any Collateral, in connection with the any Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any right or remedy with respect to any Collateral or any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in its capacity as a creditor or in connection with any insurance policy award or any award in a condemnation or similar proceeding (including set-off and recoupmentor deed in lieu of condemnation) with respect to any Collateral Collateral, in its capacity as a creditor, each case unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.1. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral (other than inspection, monitoring, reporting and similar rights provided for in the Second Lien Financing Documents) is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any First Lien Obligor, subject to Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights and remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have the “credit bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and make determinations regarding the release, Disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, in each case without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Documents and exercise rights and remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise Dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or other Disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC or other applicable law and of a secured creditor under Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) file a claim, proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Second Lien Obligors by a Person other than a Second Lien Claimholder;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral to the extent (A) not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other First Lien Claimholders to exercise rights and remedies in respect thereof, and (B) not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the automatic release of Liens provided in Section 5.1;
(3) file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims or Liens secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, and make filings and make any arguments and motions with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including Section 6.9(c); provided that no vote, or pleading relating to such vote, to accept or reject a plan of reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, no other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing, and no filing, argument or motion by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may, in each case, be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1); and
(6) bid for or purchase any Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of any Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and each Second Lien Collateral AgentRepresentative, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable its Related Second Lien Claimholder, Claimholders:
(1) agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of rights or remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer collection or other disposition Disposition of the any Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien securing any First Lien Obligations or any First Lien Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such its Related Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien Lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor Obligors that has have guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Initial Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any GrantorObligor, prior to the termination of the Standstill Period or as otherwise prohibited pursuant to the second proviso in Section 3.1(a)(1)); provided that (i) any such exercise shall not be directly or indirectly inconsistent with or prohibited by the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6 and any provision prohibiting or restricting the Second Lien Claimholders from taking various actions or making various objections) and (ii) in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing . Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, principal fees and other amounts owed in respect of due under the Initial Second Lien Obligations Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect subject to the First Lien Collateralturnover pursuant to Section 4.2.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement (Mallinckrodt PLC)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorBorrower, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, take any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each any Lien held by it under any Second Lien Collateral Loan Document or otherwise; provided, however, that the Second Lien Agent may commence an take Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise at any or all such rights or remedies time after the passage of a period of at least 150 30 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the First Lien Agent shall have received written notice from the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared of the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any the Second Lien Document Credit Agreement and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; Obligations are currently due and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent payable in full as a result of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment acceleration or otherwise (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral any Lien held by it under any Second Lien Loan Document or otherwise if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be are diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral or shall be diligently attempting to vacate any stay or prohibition against such exercise (prompt written notice of the initial commencement of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Agent provided, that the First Lien Agent shall incur no liability for, and the rights of the First Lien Agent hereunder or in respect of the Collateral Agents) or shall be unaffected by, the failure of the First Lien Agent to give any such notice); (ii) any Grantor the “Amortization Period” (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) shall be subject then exist and collections of the Collateral are being applied and distributed pursuant to any Insolvency Sections 2.04(c) and 2.04A(b) of the First Lien Credit Agreement; or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any iii) the acceleration of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or Obligations (if any) is rescinded in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted Credit Agreement or by Section 6)court order;
(2) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(b), will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by otherwise so long as the First Liens granted to secure the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any First Obligations of the Second Lien Claimholder) Claimholders attach to the Proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2.1; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not contest, protest or object to (and waive any and all claims with respect to) the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case Enforcement Action so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary Liens granted to achieve a Discharge of First secure the Second Lien Obligations are distributed of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the Proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2.1.
(b) Whether or not any Insolvency Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Borrower, the First Lien Agent and the First Lien Claimholders agree that they will not effectuate any Collateral Sale during the first 45 days after the occurrence of the “Amortization Period” (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) unless either (1) such Collateral Sale will result in the payment in full in cash of the First Lien Obligations and the Second Lien Obligations or (2) the Second Lien Agent shall have consented thereto. If the First Lien Agent desires to arrange a Collateral Sale at any time after such 45-day period, First Lien Agent will first offer the Second Lien Claimholders the option to purchase the First Lien Obligations in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.4 by giving the Second Lien Agent notice thereof (the “Purchase Notice”), which the Second Lien Agent will promptly forward to each Second Lien Claimholder.
(c) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorBorrower, but subject to the first proviso of Section 3.1(a)(1) and to Section 3.1(b), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence enforce rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, commence, and if applicable, maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off) and, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral and Enforcement Actions with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may may, subject to Section 3.1(b), enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, subject to Section 3.1(b), the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and right to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cd) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Obligations in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorBorrower;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance a manner not inconsistent with the terms any other provisions of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization (including, without limitation, vote to accept or reject any plan of partial or complete liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, compromise composition or liquidationextension), file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance not inconsistent with the terms any other provisions of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);; and
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at join (but not exercise any public, private or control with respect to) any judicial foreclosure upon such proceeding or other judicial lien enforcement proceeding with respect to the Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary that any such action could not reasonably be expected, in any material respect, to prevent restrain, hinder, limit, delay for any material period or otherwise interfere with the running of Enforcement Action by the First Lien Agent (it being understood that any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsLiens attaching to the proceeds thereof shall be subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2.1). Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds Proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to Enforcement Action against any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure Enforcement Action expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds Proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(de) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c(b) and (d) and Section 6.3(b6.4(b):
(1) each except as otherwise permitted hereunder, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwiseDocuments;
(2) each except as otherwise permitted hereunder, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable any Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(ef) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations Borrower in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(fg) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of any Enforcement Action by the exercise by Second Lien Agent or any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of or any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateralthem.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Holdings, the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Creditors will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Second-Lien Claimholder take Creditor is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Enforcement Action Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First First-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First First-Lien Claimholder Creditor, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First First-Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until shall have the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredexclusive right, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second-Lien Creditor, all as though the Second-Lien Obligations did not exist; provided, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by Grantor, the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second-Lien Obligations, (B) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First-Lien Collateral Agent or the First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in excess of those necessary respect thereof) in order to achieve a Discharge of First preserve or protect its Lien Obligations are distributed on the Collateral in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement and applicable law(C) the Second-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (EnerSys)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Borrower or Guarantor, (i) the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, furtherincluding, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarywithout limitation, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any Lockbox Agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Common Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder; provided provided, however, (A) that in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Lien Borrower or any Guarantor, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, and (B) the Trustee may take any action not adverse to the Liens on the Common Collateral Agent securing the Senior Lender Claims in excess of those necessary order to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed preserve or protect its rights in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(athe proviso in Section 3.1(a)(ii) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a)the proviso in Section 3.1(a)(ii) above, 3.1(c(a) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2b) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Senior Lender Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. Restrictions on Junior Priority Collateral Agent.
(a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien the Junior Priority Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Junior Priority Claimholders:
: (1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral (including the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action exercise of any right of setoff or otherwise exercise any right under any lockbox agreement or all any control agreement with respect to Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”foreclosure); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, -16- (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(222) will not contest, protest or object to to, or otherwise interfere with, any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien any Senior Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Senior Priority Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien theany Senior Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Senior Priority Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral Collateral, whether under the First Lien Loan Senior Priority Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
otherwise; and (3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in Section 3.1(a)(13.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien any Senior Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of the Senior Priority Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise Collateral Enforcement Action; provided, however, that, in the case of any rights or remedies relating clauses (1), (2) and (3) above, the Liens granted to secure the Junior Priority Obligations of the Junior Priority Claimholders shall attach to the Collateral, Proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
2. (b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)the Junior Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Junior Priority Claimholders, agrees that each Senior Priority Collateral Agent and the First Lien Senior Priority Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt) and, except that Second Lien in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions of Collateral Agents shall have by the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, respective Grantors after a Senior Priority Default) make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral (including, without limitation, exercising remedies under Deposit Account Control Agreements and Dominion Accounts) without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Junior Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Junior Priority Claimholder; provided provided, however, that any proceeds received by the First Lien securing the Junior Priority Obligations shall remain on the Proceeds (other than those properly applied to the Senior Priority Obligations) of such Collateral Agent released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Junior Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Junior Priority Claimholders, agrees that each Senior Priority Collateral Agent and the First Lien Senior Priority Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Priority Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC or the PPSA and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien The Junior Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Junior Priority Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive seek, and hereby waives any right, to have any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with part thereof marshaled upon any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Parent or any other Grantor, each :
(i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Claimholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including set-off) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
(2) will not , contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Claimholder Representative or any First Lien Claimholder, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second Lien Collateral Trustee or any Second Lien Claimholder is a party, or any other exercise by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Claimholder Representative or any First Lien Claimholder Claimholder, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Representative or the First Lien Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Common Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(bClaimholder Representative(s) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided provided, that (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against Parent or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, and (B) the Second Lien Collateral Trustee may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess Obligations, or the rights of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of any First Lien Obligations are distributed Claimholder Representative or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawrespect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the any First Lien Collateral Agent Claimholder Representative and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor First Lien Claimholder under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee, on behalf of itself and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateralagrees that, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a)(12.1(a) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(athe proviso in clause (ii) and 6.3(bof Section 2.1(a) and of this Section 3.1(c)Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents Trust Agreement for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a)the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 2.1(a) of this Agreement, 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which any First Lien Claimholder Representative or the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Representative or First Lien Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents Trust Agreement or any other applicable Second Lien Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent Claimholder Representative or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Common Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (ai) Until So long as the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Parent, the Borrower or any other Grantor, each (i) neither any Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Authorized Representative nor any Second Lien Claimholders:
Secured Party will (1A) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien any Shared Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount in respect of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall or institute any Second Lien Collateral Agent action or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
, (2B) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to the Shared Collateral or any other First Lien Collateral by the First Lien Collateral Agent Agent, any First Lien Authorized Representative or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party in respect of the First Lien Obligations, the exercise of any right by the First Lien Collateral Agent, any First Lien Authorized Representative or any First Lien Secured Party (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the First Lien Obligations under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent, any First Lien Authorized Representative or any First Lien Secured Party either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Shared Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by otherwise in respect of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien ClaimholderObligations, or (C) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, Shared Collateral in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge respect of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)except as otherwise provided herein, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agent, the First Lien Authorized Representatives and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the any Second Lien Collateral Agents Authorized Representative or any Second Lien Secured Party; provided, however, that (1) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Parent, the Borrower or any other Grantor, any Second Lien Claimholder; provided that Authorized Representative may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to its Second Lien Obligations, (2) any proceeds received by Second Lien Authorized Representative may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations or the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of Agent, the First Lien Obligations are distributed Authorized Representatives or the First Lien Secured Parties to exercise remedies in accordance with respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Shared Collateral, (3) any Second Lien Authorized Representative and the Second Lien Secured Parties may exercise their rights and remedies as unsecured creditors, as provided in Section 4.1 5.04, and applicable law(4) any Second Lien Authorized Representative may exercise the rights and remedies provided for in Section 6.03. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the First Lien Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agent, the First Lien Authorized Representatives and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Shared Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, disposition and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (SemGroup Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. Landlord shall not exercise its right to terminate this Lease by reason of an Event of Default by Tenant hereunder if during the time that Leasehold Mortgagee shall require to complete its remedies under its Leasehold Mortgage; provided, however:
(a) Until that Leasehold Mortgagee proceeds, promptly and with due diligence, to exercise the Discharge remedies under its Leasehold Mortgage and thereafter prosecutes and completes the same with all due diligence and in those instances in which any Leasehold Mortgagee is prohibited by any process or injunction issued by any court or by reason of First Lien Obligations has occurredany action by any court having jurisdiction of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding involving Tenant from commencing or prosecuting foreclosure or other appropriate proceedings in the nature thereof, whether the time herein allowed any Leasehold Mortgagee to prosecute such foreclosure or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against other proceeding shall be extended for the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligationsprohibition; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.and
(b) Until that Leasehold Mortgagee shall pay to Landlord the Discharge Rental and all other charges required to be paid by Tenant hereunder which have accrued and those which shall become due and payable during said period. Upon the completion of First Lien Obligations has occurredany foreclosure proceedings or acquisition of Tenant’s interest in this Lease by Leasehold Mortgagee, whether such Leasehold Mortgagee, any purchaser at a foreclosure sale or not any Insolvency their permitted successors or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to assigns immediately commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right thereafter diligently prosecute to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent completion cure of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received all defaults by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (Tenant other than this Agreement) those that cannot be cured, which non-curable default shall be deemed waived by Landlord as to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documentssuch Leasehold Mortgagee only.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Ground Lease
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Prior to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredLender Termination Date, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Obligor, (i) the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) other Noteholders will not commence or maintain, (A) exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , or otherwise exercise institute any action or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage remedies, including, without limitation, any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Periodforeclosure, (iB) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Lender, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent of any right under any cash management agreement, landlord waiver or any First Lien Claimholder bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement or of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(C) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders or any First Lien Claimholder of them from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by . Prior to the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)Lender Termination Date, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder; provided that (i) in any proceeds received Insolvency Proceeding commenced by or against any Obligor, the Second Lien Agent may file a proof of claim with respect to the Noteholder Debt, (ii) the Second Lien Agent may (x) send such notices of the existence of, or any evidence or confirmation of, the Noteholder Debt under the Noteholder Documents or the Liens of the Second Lien Agent, or any other collateral agent, agent or representative of the Noteholders which has appointed the Second Lien Agent to act for, and bind, it (and all Noteholders for which it acts as collateral agent, agent or representative) under and for purposes of this Agreement, in the Collateral to any court or governmental agency or (y) file or record any such notice or evidence to the extent necessary to prove or preserve the Liens of the Second Lien Agent, or any other collateral agent, agent or representative of the Noteholders which has appointed the Second Lien Agent to act for, and bind, it (and all Noteholders for which it acts as collateral agent, agent or representative) under and for purposes of this Agreement, in the Collateral, (iii) the Second Lien Agent may file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of any Noteholder, including any claims secured by the Collateral, in each case to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, and (iv) the Second Lien Agent or any other collateral agent, agent or representative of the Noteholders which has appointed the Second Lien Agent to act for, and bind, it (and all Noteholders for which it acts as collateral agent, agent or representative) under and for purposes of this Agreement, may take action in order to create, perfect or preserve (but not enforce) its Lien on any Collateral. The Second Lien Agent, for and on behalf of the Noteholders, agrees that, unless and until the First Lien Lender Termination Date has occurred: the Second Lien Agent and the other Noteholders will not commence, or join with any Person (other than the First Lien Agent and/or the other First Lien Lenders upon the request thereof) in commencing any enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding with respect to any Lien held by it under any of the Noteholder Documents or otherwise; and the Second Lien Agent and the other Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of or any other First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawLender under any of the First Lien Lender Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer, or other disposition of any Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders Lenders or any of them may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor party under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws Code or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Lender Termination Date has occurred, except as expressly provided above in Sections this Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this or the proviso of Section 3.1(c3.1(b), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders other Noteholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Lender Termination Date has occurred.
(db) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders any other Noteholder may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks Lender seek to enforce or collect the any First Lien Obligations Debt or the any Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with Collateral; provided that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement (including Section 3(a) above), but subject at all times to the provisions of Section 4 of this Agreement, regardless of whether the Second Lien Agent may enforce or exercise any or all such rights and remedies, or commence, petition or file for any such action or failure to act by or on behalf of proceeding, (i) after a period ending one hundred eighty (180) days after the date that the First Lien Collateral Agent receives written notice from the Second Lien Agent that Second Lien Agent has declared, in writing, the existence of any event of default under any of the Noteholder Documents and has accelerated the payment of all the principal amount of the Noteholder Debt and has demanded, in writing, the repayment of such Noteholder Debt from the Obligors, and (ii) if and only if, as of the expiration of such one hundred eighty (180) day period, (A) the applicable event of default set forth in the written notice set forth in Section 3.1(b)(i) above is continuing and has not been cured, waived or remedied, and (B) the First Lien Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Lender is adverse to not then diligently pursuing in good faith the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement rights or remedies against a material portion of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect the Collateral (including, without limitation, any of the following: solicitation of bids from third parties to conduct the Second Lien Obligationsliquidation of all or any material portion of the Collateral, such judgment Lien shall be subject the engagement or retention of sales brokers, marketing agents, investment bankers, accountants, auctioneers or other third parties for the purpose of valuing, marketing, promotion or selling all or any material portion of the Collateral, the notification of account debtors to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation make payments to the First Lien Obligations) in Agent, the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject initiation of any action to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents take possession of all or any other Second Lien Claimholder material portion of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of Collateral or the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement commencement of any Lien held by any of them legal proceedings or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs actions against or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent all or any material portion of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderCollateral).
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Gencorp Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
Creditors (1v) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence exercise any rights or maintainremedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second-Lien Creditor is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Person in commencing, any Enforcement Action action or otherwise exercise any proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice including any action of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) foreclosure, enforcement, collection or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding Proceeding), (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2w) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholderotherwise, (x) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, (y) will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredsuit, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced or other proceeding any claim against any First-Lien Creditor seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or otherwise, with respect to, and no First-Lien Creditor shall be liable for, any action taken or omitted to be taken by any First-Lien Creditor with respect to the Collateral or pursuant to the First-Lien Documents and (z) will not make any judicial or nonjudicial claim or demand or commence any judicial or non-judicial proceedings against the Company any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates under or with respect to any Second-Lien Security Document seeking payment or damages from or other Grantorrelief by way of specific performance, subject instructions or otherwise under or with respect to any Second-Lien Security Document (other than filing a proof of claim as set forth below and in Section 3.1(a)(1)5.4) or exercise any right, remedy or power under or with respect to, or otherwise take any action to enforce, other than filing a proof of claim as set forth below and in Section 5.4, any Second-Lien Security Document; and (ii) the First First-Lien Collateral Agent shall have the exclusive right, and the First Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with with, or the consent of of, the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor, all as though the Second-Lien Obligations did not exist; provided that (A) such exclusive right, with respect to Second-Lien Obligations, shall last for a period of 180 days (subject to extension for any proceeds received by period during which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent in excess is diligently pursing remedies against the Collateral or is prohibited by applicable law from pursuing such remedies (the “Standstill Period”)) commencing on the later of those necessary to achieve a Discharge (x) the acceleration of First Second-Lien Obligations are distributed and (y) the First-Lien Collateral Agent receiving notice of acceleration from the Second-Lien Collateral Agent, (B) in accordance any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Company or any Grantor, the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with Section 4.1 respect to the Second-Lien Obligations, (C) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First-Lien Collateral Agent or the other First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Shared Collateral in compliance with the terms of this Agreement and applicable law(D) the Second-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the Shared Collateral, if any, in each case in compliance with the terms of this Agreement. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement by the First-Lien Collateral Agent or First-Lien Creditors shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Subject to the Discharge rights of First Lien the Collateral Trustee and the Holders arising after the expiry of the Standstill Period, as set forth above, until the Third Party Obligations has occurredhave been fully repaid, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantorcommitments terminated and all documents entered in to in connection therewith cancelled, each Second Lien Collateral released and discharged, as applicable, the Third Party Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence lenders under the Third Party Obligations that are secured by Permitted Liens that are expressly contemplated by the applicable provisions of the “Permitted Liens” definition to be senior to the Liens securing the Note Obligations shall have the exclusive right to exercise remedies with respect to the Collateral, to exercise and enforce all privileges and rights thereunder according to their discretion and the exercise of their good faith business judgment, including, without limitation, the exclusive right to take or maintainretake control or possession of any Collateral and to hold, prepare for sale, process, sell, lease, dispose of, or liquidate any Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of any of the Collateral Trustee or any Holder. Notwithstanding any rights or remedies available to the Trustee, the Collateral Trustee or the Holders under applicable law or otherwise, prior to the expiration of the Standstill Period, and thereafter, if and for so long as the Third Party Agent or any holder of the Third Party Obligations that are secured by Permitted Liens that are expressly contemplated by the applicable provisions of the “Permitted Liens” definition to be senior to the Liens securing the Note Obligations has commenced and is diligently pursuing the exercise of their rights or remedies with respect to all or a material portion of the Collateral or is stayed from exercising any rights and remedies under applicable law (including any applicable bankruptcy or similar law), the Trustee, the Collateral Trustee and the Holders shall not, directly or indirectly, seek to commence foreclose or maintain, any Enforcement Action realize upon (judicially or non-judicially) their Lien on or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien any Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action (including, without limitation, by setoff or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage notification of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later ofaccount debtors). The Intercreditor Agreement is not expected to: (i) preclude the date on which such Second Lien Trustee, the Collateral Agent declared Trustee and the existence of any Holders from accelerating the Notes upon an Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice or from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or exercising any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating available to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company Issuer or any other Grantor Guarantor provided that has guaranteed such rights and remedies do not violate, or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms are not otherwise inconsistent with, any provision of the Second Lien Documents Intercreditor Agreement and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that further that, in the event that the Collateral Trustee of any Second Lien Claimholder Holder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as available to an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Note Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this the Intercreditor Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Third Party Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Note Obligations are subject to this the Intercreditor Agreement.
); (fii) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Trustee, the Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien Claimholder Holder of the required regularly scheduled payments of interestprincipal of, principal and other amounts owed in respect regularly scheduled payments of interest on, the Second Lien Obligations Notes (so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien the Collateral Agent Trustee or any other Second Lien Claimholder Holder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off off) in respect of the Collateral in violation of the Intercreditor Agreement); or (iii) preclude the Trustee, the Collateral Trustee and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement the Holder from taking Permitted Protective Actions. Following the acceleration of any Lien held Third Party Obligations (the “Purchase Event”), within 30 days of the Purchase Event (or such longer period as the Third Party Agent may agree to), the Collateral Trustee and the holders of the Notes will have the option, by notice to the Third Party Agent, to purchase on customary terms all (but not less than all) of the Third Party Obligations and any loans provided by the holders of them or as the Third Party Obligations in connection with a result DIP Financing outstanding at the time of purchase in full at par in cash, plus any premium that would be applicable upon prepayment of the Third Party Obligations and/or such DIP Financing and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, and all interest accrued thereon, if any, after the commencement of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder Insolvency Proceeding, at applicable post-default rates and fees, including breakage costs. If such option is exercised, the purchase of such Third Party Obligations and DIP Financing shall be consummated within not less than five Business Days and not more than 10 Business Day of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateralnotice.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Borrower or Guarantor, (i) the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, furtherincluding, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarywithout limitation, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Common Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder; provided provided, however, (A) that in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Lien Borrower or any Guarantor, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, and (B) the Trustee may take any action not adverse to the Liens on the Common Collateral Agent securing the Senior Lender Claims in excess of those necessary order to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed preserve or protect its rights in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent or other representative appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(athe proviso in Section 3.1(a)(ii) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a)the proviso in Section 3.1(a)(ii) above, 3.1(c(a) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2b) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Senior Lender Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. Set Off and Tracing of and Priorities in Proceeds.
(a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien The Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Revolving Credit Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorthat, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholder exercises its rights of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality setoff against any Grantors’ Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts that contain identifiable Proceeds of Fixed Asset Collateral, a percentage of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge amount of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect such setoff equal to the Collateral is percentage that such Proceeds bear to hold a Lien the total amount on deposit in or credited to the Collateral balance of such Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts shall be deemed to constitute Fixed Asset Collateral, which amount shall be held and distributed pursuant to Section 4.3; provided that the Second Lien foregoing shall not apply to any setoff by the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Documents for the period and Agent against any Current Asset Collateral to the extent granted therein and applied to receive a share the payment of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredRevolving Credit Obligations.
(db) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien The Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Term Loan Claimholders, also agrees that such Second Lien prior to an issuance of an Enforcement Notice, all funds deposited in a Deposit Account or a Securities Account that is subject to an Account Agreement in favor of the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take constitutes Current Asset Collateral and then applied to the Revolving Credit Obligations shall be treated as Current Asset Collateral and, unless the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent has actual knowledge to the contrary, any action claim that would hinder any exercise payments made to the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent through the Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts that are subject to such Account Agreements, are Proceeds of remedies under or otherwise constitute Fixed Asset Collateral are waived by the First Lien Term Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of Collateral Agent and the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;Term Loan Claimholders.
(2c) each Second Lien The Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Revolving Credit Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementAgent, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Term Loan Claimholders, further agree that prior to an issuance of an Enforcement Notice, any Proceeds of Collateral, whether or not deposited in a Deposit Account or a Securities Account subject to an Account Agreement in favor of the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to Agent, shall not (as between the interest Agents, the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Term Loan Claimholders) be treated as Proceeds of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained for purposes of determining the relative priorities in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided provided, however, that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document Note Facility Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such an Event of Default and demand for payment Default, (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds Proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided provided, that any proceeds Proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing filings, whether of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing otherwise by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the priority provisions of as set forth in this AgreementAgreement and the Loan Documents;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);; and
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) . Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders;
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(ea) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Note Facility Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(fb) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other ABL Grantor, each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder of any rights and remedies under the ABL Loan Documents or otherwise, in each case, to the extent relating to the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent (other than any proceeds which the Joint ABL Agent permits the ABL Grantor to use in the context of any Enforcement Action) in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other ABL Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent and the First Lien ABL Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(5)), in each case, with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent and the First Lien ABL Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien ABL Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, in each case, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of ABL Priority Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral or an ABL Grantor, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other ABL Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the First Lien ABL Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or the First Lien ABL Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral and neither with respect to any ABL Pledged Collateral, take possession or control of such ABL Priority Collateral so long as the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object elects in writing not to take possession or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)control thereof;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, including any claims secured by the ABL Priority Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations and the ABL Priority Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;; and
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase all or substantially all ABL Priority Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such ABL Priority Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder, or any sale of ABL Priority Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations; and
(76) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement engage consultants and perform audits, examinations, and appraisals relating to the extent necessary enforcement of Liens on any ABL Priority Collateral so long as such actions are not adverse to prevent the running rights of any applicable statute the Joint ABL Agent to exercise remedies thereof and do not materially affect, in the reasonable discretion of limitation or similar restriction on claimsthe Joint ABL Agent, the value of the ABL Priority Collateral. Each Second Lien The Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any ABL Priority Collateral or any proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and Section 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent and Second Lien the Term Loan Claimholders will not take any action with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral that would hinder any exercise of remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien ABL Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the ABL Priority Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien the Term Loan Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien ABL Obligations against the ABL Grantor or the Liens securing the First Lien ABL Obligations granted in any of the First Lien ABL Priority Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder ABL Claimholder, in each case, with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien ABL Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other ABL Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Term Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any the ABL Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of ABL Priority Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien ABL Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are subject to this Agreement; provided, further, that so long as the Discharge of ABL Obligations has not occurred, in the event any Term Loan Claimholder obtains any judgment against the ABL Grantor on its guaranty of the Term Loan Obligations, the Term Loan Collateral Agent agrees, for itself and on behalf of the Term Loan Claimholders, not to record or enforce such judgment against any real property owned or leased by the ABL Grantor to the extent not constituting ABL Priority Collateral.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and Section 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien in any assets or property of the ABL Grantor held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Joint ABL Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien ABL Priority Collateral. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the Term Loan Collateral Agent or Term Loan Claimholders may have with respect to the Term Priority Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Each Second Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and each applicable Second Lien Secured Party, agrees that, from the date of effectiveness of this Agreement until the date upon which the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has shall have occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against (i) except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Company or any other Grantor, each Second First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the Second First Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence Secured Parties shall have the sole and exclusive right to enforce, collect or maintain, realize on any Collateral securing any First Lien Obligations or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights right or remedies remedy with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second any Collateral securing any First Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; Obligations and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such no Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take Secured Party will commence or continue the exercise of any Enforcement Action secured creditor remedies with respect to any of the Collateral if, notwithstanding securing any Second Lien Obligations without the expiration written consent of the Standstill Period, (i) each of the First Lien Agents, and will not take, receive or accept any proceeds of any Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding securing any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawObligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Notwithstanding Section 3.1(a) or any other Grantorprovision of this Agreement, subject nothing contained in this Agreement will be construed to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that prevent any Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
Secured Party from (ci) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file filing a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the any Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Obligations owed to it in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
, (2ii) take taking any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens of any First Lien Agent or any other First Lien Secured Party on the any Collateral securing any of the First Lien Obligations, Obligations or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the any other First Lien Claimholders Secured Party to commence or continue the exercise of any secured creditor remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting toon, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement Collateral, (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3iii) file filing any necessary or responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made filed by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims claim or Lien of such Second Lien Agent or Second Lien Secured Party, (iv) filing any pleadings, objections, motions, or agreements which assert rights available to unsecured creditors of any Grantor arising under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law; provided that in the event any Second Lien Agent or any Second Lien Secured Party becomes a judgment lien creditor in respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor, such judgment lien shall be subordinated to the Liens securing First Lien Obligations on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second Lien ClaimholdersObligations are so subordinated to the Liens securing First Lien Obligations under this Agreement or (v) voting on any Plan of Reorganization or filing any proof of claim in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of any Grantor; provided that each Second Lien Agent, including for and on behalf of itself and each applicable Second Lien Secured Party, agrees that neither it nor any claims secured by other Second Lien Secured Party shall take any action or vote against any Plan of Reorganization which provides for the Collateral, if anysatisfaction in full in cash of all Second Lien Obligations on or prior to the effective date of such Plan of Reorganization, in the case of each case in accordance of clauses (i) through (v) above to the extent such action is not inconsistent with the express terms of this Agreement;.
(4c) vote on any plan of reorganizationSubject to Section 3.1(b) above, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in (i) each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the no Second Lien Collateral Agents and Agent nor any Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders Secured Party will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by any First Lien Agent or any First Lien Secured Party with respect to the Collateral or any other collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the CollateralCollateral or such other collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party, hereby waives any and all rights it or such any Second Lien Claimholders Secured Party may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party seeks to enforce or collect the any First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in pursuant to any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementDocuments, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party is adverse to the interest interests of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this AgreementSecured Parties.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors, each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents, for itself and the on behalf of its Related Second Lien Claimholders, hereby agrees that it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateralany Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, exercise of a power of sale, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding); provided that each the Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) Directing First Lien Collateral Agent shall have received notice from the date on which such Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent declared with respect to the existence acceleration by the relevant Second Lien Claimholders of any Event the maturity of Default all then outstanding Second Lien Obligations (and requesting that Enforcement Action be taken with respect to the Collateral) so long as defined inthe applicable “event of default” shall not have been cured or waived (or the applicable acceleration rescinded) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, provided further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder take Claimholders exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person (other than the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent) in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies, if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, either (iA) the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or the any other First Lien Claimholders Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing (or shall have sought or requested and be diligently pursuing relief from or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and the pursuit of) an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice with any determination of such exercise which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be given to made by the Second Directing First Lien Collateral AgentsAgent or such First Lien Claimholders in their reasonable judgment) or (iiB) any Grantor shall be subject to of the Obligors is then a debtor in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (Proceeding; provided further that in the Standstill Period shall be tolled for any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second period that the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or Second the other First Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Claimholders are stayed from exercising remedies with respect to the Collateral;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any Enforcement Action or any other foreclosure proceeding or action or exercise of a power of sale brought by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any Enforcement Action or any other foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder4.1; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;and
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral Collateral, or any proceeds of Collateral or payment with respect to any Collateral, in connection with the any Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorcreditor or in connection with any insurance policy award or any award in a condemnation or similar proceeding (or deed in lieu of condemnation) with respect to any Collateral, in each case unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure or exercise of a power of sale expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the such Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and its Related Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.1. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the each Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral (other than inspection, monitoring, reporting and similar rights provided for in the Second Lien Financing Documents) is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any First Lien Obligor, subject to Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b), the First Lien Collateral Agents and the other First Lien Claimholders (and any receiver appointed by any of them) shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights and remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the “credit bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(7)), and make determinations regarding the release, Disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, in each case without any consultation with or the consent of any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by any First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agents and the other First Lien Claimholders (and any receiver appointed by any of them) may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Documents and exercise rights and remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent or receiver appointed by them to sell or otherwise Dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, exercise of a power of sale or other enforcement action or proceeding to incur expenses in connection with such sale or other Disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC or other applicable law and of a secured creditor under Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) file a claim, proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Second Lien Obligors;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral to the extent (A) not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the other First Lien Claimholders to exercise rights and remedies in respect thereof, and (B) not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the automatic release of Liens provided in Section 5.1;
(3) file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims or Liens secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) subject to clause (e) below, file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Obligors arising under either the applicable Debtor Relief Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case if not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, or as may otherwise expressly be consented to by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent;
(5) vote on any plan of reorganization, plan of arrangement, plan of compromise or arrangement, proposal or similar dispositive restructuring plan, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, make other filings and make any arguments and motions with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(6) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1); and
(7) bid for or purchase any Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure or exercise of a power of sale upon such Collateral initiated by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of any Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) ), each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable its Related Second Lien Claimholder, Claimholders:
(1) agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of rights or remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer collection or other disposition Disposition of the any Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien securing any First Lien Obligations or any First Lien Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such its Related Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien Lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor Obligors that has have guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any GrantorObligor, prior to the termination of the Standstill Period); provided that (i) any such exercise shall not be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6) and (ii) in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing . Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, principal fees and other amounts owed in respect of due under the Second Lien Obligations Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any a Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention respect of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Certara, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Notwithstanding anything to the Discharge contrary contained in this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall not commence or otherwise take any action or proceeding to realize upon any or all of First Lien Obligations the Collateral or exercise any other rights or enforce any other remedies available under the Financing Documents or as a matter of law unless and until a Remedies Notice has been delivered to it pursuant to Section 6.02 and the Remedies Effective Date specified therein has occurred; provided that nothing contained herein shall limit the rights of the Required Creditors (acting through the Intercreditor Agent) to instruct in writing the Collateral Agent to make, whether or not to immediately cease making, any applications from any Pledged Accounts, or the obligation of the Collateral Agent to comply with such instructions or (ii) issue a Notice of Default, in each case to the extent consistent with the Financing Documents.
(b) At the direction of a Remedies Notice, the Collateral Agent, from and after the Remedies Effective Date specified in such Remedies Notice, shall take the Enforcement Action or Actions specified therein, including (to the extent specified therein) seeking to enforce the Collateral Documents and to realize upon the Collateral or, in the case of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company Group Members, seeking to enforce the claims of the Creditors Parties thereunder; provided that the Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to follow any Remedies Notice as to which the Collateral Agent has not received adequate security or indemnity or to the extent that the Collateral Agent has received a written opinion or advice of its counsel to the effect that actions required to be taken by it pursuant to such Remedies Notice are in conflict with any provisions of Applicable Law, this Agreement or any other GrantorFinancing Document or any order of any Governmental Authority, each Second Lien and the Collateral Agent shall not under any circumstances (except to the extent that any such liability is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted directly and primarily from its gross negligence or willful misconduct), be liable to any Creditor Party or any other Person for following or refraining from following the Second Lien Claimholders:written directions contained in any Remedies Notice.
(1c) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies In connection with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral ifSpringdale Assets, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, Creditor Party hereby agrees that it will not shall take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with all reasonable steps necessary to effectuate the exercise of any right or remedy (including setsub-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality division of the foregoing, unless and until Springdale Assets from the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredGroup Assets.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Security and Intercreditor Agreement (Allegheny Energy Supply Co LLC)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event right of Default (and as defined in) setoff or any right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take is a party) or institute any Enforcement Action action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or (including any material portion action of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agentsforeclosure) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)other Lien Enforcement Action;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as the Liens granted to secure the Second Lien Obligations of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2;
(4) will not initiate or join in or petition for or vote in favor of any proceeds received by resolution for or instigate or support, any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and
(5) will not:
(i) accelerate any payment of all or any of the Second Lien Obligations;
(ii) collect the Second Lien Obligations or any part thereof;
(iii) enforce any right of repayment of any Second Lien Obligations; or
(iv) initiate (or join in) or file or prosecute any proceeding or judicial action with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that, upon 5 Business Days prior written notice to the First Lien Collateral Agent after the Standstill Period, to the extent permitted by the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents, the Second Lien Collateral Agent may accelerate the Second Lien Obligations and may, subject to the terms of clause (4) above and the other provisions of this Agreement, file and prosecute a lawsuit to collect the Second Lien Obligations. As used in excess this Section 3.1(a)(5), the term “Standstill Period” means the period beginning on the occurrence of those necessary an Event of Default under and as defined in the Second Lien Loan Documents and ending on the date that is 540 days following the latest date after both (1) any Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have given notice (making specific reference to achieve a Discharge this Section 3.1(a)(5) and describing such Event of Default that is subject to such notice) to the First Lien Obligations are distributed Collateral Agent that any such Event of Default under the Second Lien Loan Documents shall have occurred and be continuing and of such Second Lien Collateral Agent’s intent to exercise rights and remedies and (2) the commencement of material work under all of the contracts that any of the Grantors then have entered into as of the time of the delivery of the notice in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe preceding clause (1).
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence manage, perform and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce the terms of the First Lien Loan Documents in respect of the Collateral, to exercise and enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations in its sole discretion regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, including, without limitation, the exclusive right to take or retake control or possession of the Collateral and to hold, prepare for sale, process, lease, sell, dispose of or liquidate the Collateral, all without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve perfect or protect (but not enforce) maintain its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with subject to the terms of this Agreement;
(43) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, ask the Company for scheduled payments with respect to Second Lien Obligations required to be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreementthe Second Lien Loan Documents then due and owing but no acceleration of such obligations;
(4) exercise any and all of their rights and remedies in respect of conversion to common equity of any Second Lien Obligations; and
(5) sell, with respect to assign or otherwise transfer any and all of the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or votetheir rights relating thereto, or pleading related subject to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent and in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise , so long as any of its rights or remedies with respect such subsequent holder agrees in writing to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated be bound by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation terms of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsAgreement. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwiseotherwise or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations or afford the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations;
(2) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d) and subject to Section 3.1(f), the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien ObligationsObligations and being subordinate thereto) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d)(d) and Section 4.3, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as both such payment does not constitute proceeds of Collateral and such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupmentoff) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Company or any other GrantorObligors, each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents, for itself and the on behalf of its Related Second Lien Claimholders, hereby agrees that it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff, recoupment and the right to credit bid, if any) with respect to the Collateralany Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding); provided that each the Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Person authorized by it may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) Directing First Lien Collateral Agent shall have received notice from the date on which such Directing Second Lien Collateral Agent declared with respect to the existence acceleration by the relevant Second Lien Claimholders of any Event the maturity of Default all then outstanding Second Lien Obligations (and requesting that Enforcement Action be taken with respect to the Collateral) so long as defined inthe applicable “event of default” shall not have been cured or waived (or the applicable acceleration rescinded) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, provided further that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder take Claimholders exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the any Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in instituting or commencing, any other Enforcement Action or any other action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies, if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, either (iA) the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or the any other First Lien Claimholders Claimholder shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing (or shall have sought or requested and be diligently pursuing relief from or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and the pursuit of) an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice with any determination of such exercise which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be given to made by the Second Directing First Lien Collateral AgentsAgent or such First Lien Claimholders in their reasonable judgment) or (iiB) any Grantor shall be subject to of the Obligors is then a debtor in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Proceeding;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent Agents or other First Lien Claimholders in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder4.1; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;and
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral Collateral, or any proceeds of Collateral or payment with respect to any Collateral, in connection with the any Enforcement Action or any other exercise of any right or remedy with respect to any Collateral or any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in its capacity as a creditor or in connection with any insurance policy award or any award in a condemnation or similar proceeding (including set-off and recoupmentor deed in lieu of condemnation) with respect to any Collateral Collateral, in its capacity as a creditor, each case unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the such Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and its Related Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.1. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the each Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral (other than inspection, monitoring, reporting and similar rights provided for in the Second Lien Financing Documents) is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any First Lien Obligor, subject to Sections 3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and 6.3(b), the First Lien Collateral Agents and the other First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights and remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the “credit bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and make determinations regarding the release, Disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, in each case without any consultation with or the consent of any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by any First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agents and the other First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Documents and exercise rights and remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise Dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or other Disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC or other applicable law and of a secured creditor under Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) file a claim, proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any of the Second Lien Obligors by a Person other than a Second Lien Claimholder;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral to the extent (A) not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the other First Lien Claimholders to exercise rights and remedies in respect thereof, and (B) not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the automatic release of Liens provided in Section 5.1;
(3) file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims or Liens secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including Section 6.9(c); provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1); and
(6) bid for or purchase any Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the Directing First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of any Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a3.1(a)(1), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable its Related Second Lien Claimholder, Claimholders:
(1) agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent it and its Related Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of rights or remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer collection or other disposition Disposition of the any Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien securing any First Lien Obligations or any First Lien Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such its Related Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien Lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor Obligors that has have guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Initial Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any GrantorObligor, prior to the termination of the Standstill Period or as otherwise prohibited pursuant to the second proviso in Section 3.1(a)(1)); provided that (i) any such exercise shall not be directly or indirectly inconsistent with or prohibited by the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6 and any provision prohibiting or restricting the Second Lien Claimholders from taking various actions or making various objections) and (ii) in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of any Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing . Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, principal fees and other amounts owed in respect of due under the Initial Second Lien Obligations Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any a Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (in respect of Collateral, including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention any right of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateralsetoff.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. Restrictions on the Term Collateral Agent and the Term Priority Lien Claimholders.
(a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent and the Second each Term Priority Lien ClaimholdersClaimholder:
(1) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Revolving Credit Collateral (including the Collateralexercise of any right of setoff or any right under any Account Agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Term Collateral Agent or any Term Priority Lien Claimholder is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided provided, however, that each Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent declared first declares the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second a Term Priority Lien Document and demanded Default, demands the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Term Priority Lien Obligations; Obligations and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent has received notice from such Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent of such declarations declaration of such Event of a Term Priority Lien Default and demand for payment (the “Term Collateral Agent Standstill Period”); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent or any Second Term Priority Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Term Collateral Agent Standstill Period, (ix) the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the such Revolving Credit Collateral (and the Revolving Credit Collateral Agent shall give prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Term Collateral AgentsAgent) or (iiy) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided is commenced by or against any Grantor that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)has not been dismissed;
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Revolving Credit Claimholder, or any other exercise by the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholder of any rights and remedies remedies, relating to the Collateral Revolving Credit Collateral, whether under the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in Section 3.1(a)(13.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement against the Revolving Credit Collateral; provided, however, that, in the case of (1), (2) and (3) above, the Liens granted to secure the Term Priority Lien Obligations shall attach to any remaining proceeds resulting from actions taken by the Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed Revolving Credit Claimholder in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthis Agreement after Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent and the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt) and, except that Second Lien in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions of Revolving Credit Collateral Agents shall have by the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, respective Grantors after a Revolving Credit Default) make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Term Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Term Priority Lien Claimholder; provided provided, however, that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Liens securing the Term Priority Lien Obligations are distributed shall remain on the proceeds (other than those properly applied to the Revolving Credit Obligations) of such Revolving Credit Collateral released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawII. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral, the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent and the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of the Revolving Credit Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Term Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Term Priority Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Term Priority Lien ObligationsObligations of any Grantor; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other such Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien ObligationsRevolving Credit Collateral, or the rights of any First Lien the Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders any Revolving Credit Claimholder to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on any of the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Term Priority Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Revolving Credit Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement;
(5) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Term Priority Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this AgreementObligations;
(56) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to any of the Revolving Credit Collateral after the termination of the Term Collateral Agent Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(67) make a cash bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent on all or any other First Lien Claimholder, portion of the Revolving Credit Collateral in any foreclosure proceeding or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency action (or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such a credit bid may not include so long as it includes a “credit bid” cash component and results in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien ObligationsRevolving Credit Obligations in connection therewith); and
(7) 8) for the avoidance of doubt, take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement the foregoing actions or exercise any of the foregoing rights or any other right or remedy with respect to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsTerm Priority Lien Collateral. Each Second Lien The Term Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Term Priority Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Revolving Credit Collateral or any proceeds of such Revolving Credit Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any such Revolving Credit Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except creditor in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 violation of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b3.1(a)(1), 6.3(b)(1) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Term Collateral Agents and Agent or the Second Term Priority Lien Claimholders with respect to the Revolving Credit Collateral is to hold a Lien (if any) on the such Collateral pursuant to the Second respective Term Priority Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b6.3(b)(1):
(1) each Second Lien The Term Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Term Priority Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders it will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies in respect of the Revolving Credit Collateral under the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents or that is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Revolving Credit Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien The Term Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Term Priority Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Term Collateral Agent and the Term Priority Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Revolving Credit Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Loan Documents or undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, in each case in respect of the Revolving Credit Collateral regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Revolving Credit Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second the Term Priority Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders;
(3) each Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Term Priority Lien Document (in each case, other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders with respect to the enforcement of the Liens on the Revolving Credit Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Revolving Credit Loan Documents.
(e) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d) and 3.4, the Second Lien Term Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Term Priority Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Term Priority Lien Obligations Obligations, and the Term Collateral Agent may exercise rights and remedies with respect to the Term Priority Lien Collateral in accordance with the terms of the Second Term Priority Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided provided, however, that in the event that the Term Collateral Agent or any Second Term Priority Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Revolving Credit Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Term Priority Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien in respect of Revolving Credit Collateral shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Term Priority Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Term Collateral Agent or the Term Priority Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, premium, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second its Term Priority Lien Obligations Obligations, so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Term Collateral Agent or any other Second the Term Priority Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor in respect of the Revolving Credit Collateral (including set-off and recoupmentoff) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Revolving Credit Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders may have with respect to against the First Lien CollateralGrantors under the Revolving Credit Loan Documents.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until The provisions of this clause (a) are subject to clause (e) below in this Section 8.2. So long as the Discharge of First Second-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Parent or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the First-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other First-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Creditors will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence exercise any rights or maintainremedies (including setoff) with respect to any ATA Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in commencing, any Enforcement Action action or otherwise exercise any proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the ATA Collateral (prompt notice including any action of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) foreclosure, enforcement, collection or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other Second-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other Second-Lien Claimholder Creditor of any rights and remedies relating to the ATA Collateral under the First Second-Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other Second-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the ATA Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until shall have the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredexclusive right, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the Second-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the ATA Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second First-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second First-Lien ClaimholderCreditor, all as though the First-Lien Obligations did not exist; provided provided, that (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against Parent or any other Grantor, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the First-Lien Obligations, (B) the First-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the ATA Collateral securing the Second-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or the other Second-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in excess of those necessary respect thereof) in order to achieve a Discharge of First preserve or protect its Lien Obligations are distributed on the ATA Collateral in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement, the First-Lien Documents and applicable law, (C) the First-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the First-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the ATA Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (D) the First-Lien Creditors may file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and (E) the First-Lien Creditors may vote on any plan of reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with, or not violative of, the terms of this Agreement with respect to the First-Lien Obligations and the ATA Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the ATA Collateral, the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the First other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First Second-Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation accordance with the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder Documents and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderapplicable law. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of ATA Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second The First-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the First-Lien ClaimholderCreditors, agrees that it will not take or receive any ATA Collateral or any proceeds of ATA Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorATA Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Second-Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Second-Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second First-Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors with respect to the ATA Collateral is to hold a Lien on the ATA Collateral pursuant to the Second First-Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First the Second-Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the First-Lien Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second The First-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First-Lien Creditors, and each other applicable Second First-Lien ClaimholderCreditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the First-Lien Documents), (i) agrees that such Second the First-Lien Collateral Agent and Second the other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Second-Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderwith respect to the ATA Collateral, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the ATA Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the Second-Lien Obligations to the First-Lien Obligations with respect to the ATA Collateral or grant the Liens securing the First-Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the Second-Lien Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Second-Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Second-Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementATA Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Second-Lien Claimholder Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the First-Lien Claimholder; andCreditors.
(3d) each Second The First-Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second First-Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second First-Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First Second-Lien Claimholder Creditors with respect to the ATA Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Second-Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in preceding clauses (a) through (d) of this Section 8.2, at any time while an “event of default” exists under (and as specifically set forth in this Agreementdefined in) the First-Lien Documents, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies then so long as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor 120 days have elapsed after notice thereof (which notice requests that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor action be taken with respect to the Second ATA Collateral) has been received by the Second-Lien ObligationsCollateral Agent and so long as the respective “event of default” shall not have been cured or waived (or any acceleration in respect thereof rescinded), the First-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First-Lien Creditors, and the other First-Lien Creditors may, but only if the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or the Second-Lien Creditors are not pursuing in good faith enforcement proceedings with respect to all or any portion of the ATA Collateral in a commercially reasonable manner (with any determination of which ATA Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or such judgment Second-Lien Creditors in their reasonable judgment), enforce the Liens on ATA Collateral granted pursuant to the First-Lien Security Documents, provided that (x) any ATA Collateral or any proceeds of ATA Collateral received by the First-Lien Collateral Agent or such other First-Lien Creditor, as the case may be, in connection with the enforcement of such Lien shall be subject to applied in accordance with Section 8.3 hereof and (y) the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Second-Lien Claimholder Creditors may at any time take over such enforcement proceedings, provided that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or such Second-Lien Creditors, as the case may be, pursue enforcement proceedings with respect to the ATA Collateral in a commercially reasonably manner, with any determination of rights which ATA Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or remedies such Second-Lien Creditors in their reasonable judgment, and provided further that the First-Lien Collateral Agent or First-Lien Creditors, as a secured creditor the case may be, shall only be able to recoup (including setfrom amounts realized by the Second-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Second-Lien Claimholder may have Creditors) in any enforcement proceeding with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
ATA Collateral (g) The First whether initiated by the Second-Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second or Second-Lien Collateral Agent of Creditors or taken over by them as contemplated above) any expenses incurred by them in accordance with the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderpriorities set forth in Section 8.3 hereof.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Global Aviation Holdings Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien ClaimholdersSecured Parties:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party or any other exercise by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) Secured Party); and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to (and will waive any and all claims with respect to) the forbearance by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law4.1.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Representatives, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debtdebt (including debt related to any DIP Financing) in any sale, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agents Representative shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(5)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party; provided that any proceeds received by the any First Lien Collateral Agent Representative in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of any First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawhereof. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Representatives, First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien ClaimholdersSecured Parties, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) subject to Section 6.1(b), vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ClaimholderSecured Party, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(76) take object to any action not otherwise in violation proposed acceptance of this Agreement Collateral by a First Lien Representative, a First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Secured Party pursuant to Section 9- 620 of the extent necessary to prevent UCC. The Second Lien Representative and the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties represented by it, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties represented by it are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b), 3.1(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Representative, the Second Lien Claimholders Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b(c):
(1) each the Second Lien Representative and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties represented by it, agrees that such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agent and such Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties represented by it will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each the Second Lien Representative and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties represented by it, hereby waives any and all rights it such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Claimholders Collateral Agent or such Second Lien Secured Parties represented by it may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party; and
(3) each the Second Lien Representative and the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Secured Parties represented by it, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent (each at the written direction of the Required Holders under the Indenture) and the other Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Representative, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder Secured Party of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Party may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Second Lien Secured Parties, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any Second Lien Security Document or any other Second Lien Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure or the other First Lien Secured Parties with respect to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderCollateral as set forth in this Agreement.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurrednot occurred (but subject to the Second Lien Claimholders’ rights under Section 4.1), whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Issuer or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and :
(i) subject to the limited rights of the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Claimholders under Section 4.1 to make demand for and receive payment of interest in the specific circumstances provided in that Section, the Second Lien Claimholders will not commence accelerate, make any demand for or maintain, accept any payment under the Grantor Guaranties or exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any other rights or remedies with in respect to of the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: Obligations (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined inincluding set-off) under any Second Lien Document and demanded Credit Documents (including, without limitation, the repayment of all the principal amount exercise of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall right under any Second Lien Collateral Agent Document to which a Grantor is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure).
(ii) no Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, will (ia) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any enforcement or foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Senior Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First Senior Lien Claimholder Claimholder, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Senior Lien Loan Note Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(b) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any First the Senior Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any enforcement or foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to against the CollateralIssuer or the Guarantor, in each case so long as the respective interests of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to any remaining proceeds received by of foreclosure proceedings against the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary Collateral, after application to achieve a Discharge of First the Senior Lien Obligations are distributed and subject to the relative priorities described in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.2 hereof; and
(biii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent and the First Senior Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Claimholder; provided, that (A) in any Insolvency Proceeding commenced by or against the Issuer or any other Grantor, any Second Lien Claimholder; provided that Claimholder may file a proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, (B) any proceeds received Second Lien Claimholder may take any action (not adverse, as reasonably determined by the First Senior Lien Claimholders, to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the Senior Lien Obligations, or the rights of the Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any Senior Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in excess respect thereof and not inconsistent with the term of those this Agreement) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Collateral, (C) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to achieve a Discharge any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of First the claims of the Second Lien Obligations are distributed Claimholders, including without limitation any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement, (D) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either Bankruptcy Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and applicable law. (E) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any proof of claim and other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral.
(b) In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent and the First Senior Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Senior Lien Loan Note Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise exercise, in addition to the rights and remedies provided under the Senior Lien Note Documents, all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction, all such rights and remedies being cumulative and not exclusive.
(c) Notwithstanding So long as the foregoing, the Second Discharge of Senior Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
Obligations has not occurred (1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect but subject to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Claimholders’ rights under Section 4.1), whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Issuer or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions Claimholders agree that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it they will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Senior Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this occurred (but subject to the Second Lien Claimholders’ rights under Section 3.1(c4.1), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First the Senior Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred and in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Credit Documents and applicable law.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each The Second Lien Collateral AgentClaimholders, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees (i) agree that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Senior Lien Loan Note Documents or that is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives waive any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders they may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First the Senior Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Senior Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Senior Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Senior Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders.
(3e) each Each Second Lien Collateral Agent Claimholder hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Senior Lien Collateral Agent or any other First the Senior Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Senior Lien Loan Note Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Credit Documents, no rights or remedies may be enforced, and no notices or demands may be given, with respect to any other Second Senior Lien Claimholder Primary Assets as a consequence of the required payments an Event of interest, principal Default arising solely under (and other amounts owed in respect as defined in) any cross default provision of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result Credit Documents by reason of the exercise by occurrence of an Event of Default under (and as defined in) Senior Lien Note Agreements, unless such Event of Default has continued without permanent or temporary waiver or cure for more than 180 days. Upon a cure or permanent or temporary waiver of any Event of Default under the Senior Lien Note Agreements, any Event of Default under the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or Credit Documents that arises solely as a result of any other violation by any a cross default provision under the Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs Credit Documents shall thereupon be automatically and concurrently be deemed cured or otherwise adversely affects any rights permanently or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect temporarily waived, as applicable, to the First same extent as the cure or permanent or temporary waiver under the Senior Lien CollateralNote Documents.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement (FriendFinder Networks Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. Actions Upon Breach; Specific Performance. If any Second Lien Claimholder, in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, in any way take, attempt to or threaten to take any action with respect to the Collateral (a) Until including, without limitation, any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with respect to this Agreement), or fail to take any action required by this Agreement, this Agreement shall create an irrebutable presumption and admission by such Second Lien Claimholder that relief against such Second Lien Claimholder by injunction, specific performance and/or other appropriate equitable relief is necessary to prevent irreparable harm to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredClaimholders, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced it being understood and agreed by or against the Company or any other Grantor, Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of each Second Lien Claimholder that (i) the First Lien Claimholders’ damages from its actions may at that time be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable, and (ii) each Second Lien Claimholder waives any defense that the Grantors and/or the First Lien Claimholders cannot demonstrate damage and/or be made whole by the awarding of damages. Each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintainCollateral Agent may demand specific performance of this Agreement. The First Lien Collateral Agent, or seek to commence or maintainon behalf of itself and the First Lien Claimholders under the First Lien Loan Documents, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to and the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, hereby irrevocably waive any or all such rights or remedies after defense based on the passage adequacy of a period remedy at law and any other defense which might be asserted to bar the remedy of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on specific performance in any action which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) may be brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders, as the case may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest be. No provision of this Agreement shall constitute or object be deemed to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought constitute a waiver by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure right to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity seek damages from any Person in connection with any breach or alleged breach of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderthis Agreement.
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Samples: Amendment and Restatement Agreement (KAR Auction Services, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Parent Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Last Out Creditors will not exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent or the any First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action Last Out Creditor is a party) or other exercise of their institute or commence, or join with any Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien either Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other Senior Creditor or any other exercise by the First Lien either Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other Senior Creditor, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien either Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the other Senior Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; and (ii) the Senior Collateral Agents shall have the exclusive right, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Required Senior Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the Senior Collateral Agents, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Last Out Creditor, all as though the First Lien Last Out Obligations did not exist; provided, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Parent Borrower or any other Grantor, the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the First Lien Last Out Obligations, (B) the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the Senior Obligations, or the rights of the Senior Collateral Agents or any the other Second Senior Creditors to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect their Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by on the Collateral in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (C) the First Lien Collateral Agent Last Out Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in excess opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of those necessary to achieve a Discharge the claims of the First Lien Obligations are distributed Last Out Creditors, including any claim secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement, (D) the First Lien Last Out Creditors may file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and applicable law(E) the First Lien Last Out Creditors may vote on any plan of reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement with respect to the First Lien Last Out Obligations and the Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders other Senior Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Senior Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agents on behalf of itself and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderLast Out Creditors, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second First Lien Last Out Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other First Lien Claimholders Last Out Creditors with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second First Lien Collateral Last Out Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred in accordance with the terms of the First Lien Obligations has occurredLast Out Note Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second The First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Last Out Creditors, and each other applicable Second First Lien ClaimholderLast Out Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the First Lien Last Out Note Documents), (i) agrees that such Second the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent and Second the other First Lien Claimholders Last Out Creditors will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the Senior Obligations to the First Lien Last Out Obligations or grant the Liens securing the First Lien Last Out Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the Senior Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the First Lien Claimholders Last Out Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor First Lien Last Out Creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien any Senior Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Senior Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Senior Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementSenior Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien any Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the First Lien Claimholder; andLast Out Creditors.
(3d) each Second The First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second First Lien Collateral Last Out Security Documents or any other applicable Second First Lien Document (other than this Agreement) Last Out Note Documents shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien any Senior Collateral Agent or any the other First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditors with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Senior Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect Notwithstanding anything to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms contrary in preceding clauses (a) through (d) of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d)Section 3.1, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or at any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as time while a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have payment default exists with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent Last Out Obligations following the final maturity of the First Lien Last Out Obligations or the acceleration by the relevant First Lien Last Out Creditors of the maturity of all then outstanding First Lien Last Out Obligations, and in either case so long as 180 days have elapsed after notice thereof (and requesting that enforcement action be taken with respect to the Collateral) has been received by the Senior Collateral Agent commencing and so long as the respective payment default shall not have been cured or waived (or the respective acceleration rescinded), the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Last Out Creditors, and the other First Lien Last Out Creditors may, but only if the Senior Collateral Agent or the Senior Creditors are not pursuing enforcement preceding with respect to the Collateral in a commercially reasonable manner (with any Enforcement Action; determination of which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the Senior Collateral Agent or such Senior Creditors in their reasonable judgment), enforce the Liens on Collateral granted pursuant to the First Lien Last Out Security Documents, provided that failure to deliver (x) any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral received by the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent or such notice shall not impair other First Lien Last Out Creditor, as the validity case may be, in connection with the enforcement of such Enforcement Action Lien shall be applied in accordance with Section 4 hereof and (y) the Senior Collateral Agent or give rise any other Senior Creditors may at any time take over such enforcement proceedings, provided that the Senior Collateral Agent or such Senior Creditors, as the case may be, pursues enforcement proceedings with respect to liability hereunderthe Collateral in a commercially reasonably manner, with any determination of which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the Senior Collateral Agent or such Senior Creditors in their reasonable judgment, and provided further that the First Lien Last Out Collateral Agent or First Lien Last Out Creditors, as the case may be, shall only be able to recoup (from amounts realized by the Senior Collateral Agent or any Senior Creditors) in any enforcement proceeding with respect to the Collateral (whether initiated by the Senior Collateral Agent or Senior Creditors or taken over by them as contemplated above) any expenses incurred by them in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 4 hereof.
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Samples: First Lien Intercreditor Agreement (RSC Equipment Rental, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company CSC or any other Grantorof its subsidiaries, each (i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including by way of setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, or contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Creditor, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Common Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment by way of setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), refrain from enforcing or exercising remedies, and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunderNoteholder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in if the exercise Lien of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless Agent for the benefit of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor Noteholders under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of Noteholder Collateral Documents did not exist; provided that (A) in any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the foregoingGuarantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, Noteholder may file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Noteholder Claims, (B) the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Collateral Agent or any other Grantor;
(2) Noteholder may take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Common Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, Lender Claims in order to createestablish, perfectpreserve, preserve perfect or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on rights in the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Common Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with (C) the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of Noteholder shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including setinterests available to unsecured Creditors of the Guarantor arising under either the Bankruptcy Code or applicable non-off and recoupment) or enforcement bankruptcy law, in each case not otherwise in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.and
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Appliance Warehouse of America Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (ai) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Obligor or Senior Obligor, the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien ClaimholdersSubordinated Creditor:
(1A) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien any Obligor Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or take possession of, sell or otherwise realize (judicially or non judicially) upon any of the Obligor Collateral (including, without limitation, through the notification of account debtors or the exercise of any right of setoff or all any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Subordinated Creditor is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: foreclosure) (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second action, a “Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Enforcement Action);
(2B) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditor or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditor of any rights and remedies relating to the Obligor Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Debt Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), otherwise; and will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Senior Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Obligor Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company any Obligor or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)Senior Obligor, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Obligor Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Subordinated Creditor. The Senior Agent shall provide at least five (5) days notice to the Subordinated Creditor of its intent to exercise and enforce its rights or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by remedies with respect to the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawObligor Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Obligor Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Debt Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them the Senior Agent or the Senior Creditors to sell or otherwise dispose of Obligor Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(ciii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder Subordinated Creditor may:
(1A) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien ObligationsSubordinated Debt; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorObligor;
(2B) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Obligor Collateral securing the First Lien Senior Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Senior Creditor to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Obligor Collateral;
(3C) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien ClaimholdersSubordinated Creditor, including any claims secured by the Obligor Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4D) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the CollateralSubordinated Debt; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;and
(5E) exercise any of its rights or remedies Lien Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral after the termination Discharge of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, The Subordinated Creditor agrees that it will not take or receive any Obligor Collateral or any proceeds of Obligor Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral Lien Enforcement Action in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(bSection 4(a) and this Section 3.1(c4(a)(iii), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders Subordinated Creditor with respect to the Obligor Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Obligor Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents Subordinated Debenture for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Senior Obligations has occurred.
(div) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c4(a)(i) and Section 6.3(b(iii):
(1A) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, the Subordinated Creditor agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders it will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Senior Debt Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Obligor Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2B) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, the Subordinated Creditor hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks Senior Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Senior Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Senior Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Senior Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderthe Subordinated Creditor; and
(3C) each Second Lien Collateral Agent the Subordinated Creditor hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Subordinated Debt Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be effective to restrict or deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Creditors with respect to the Obligor Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Debt Documents.
(ev) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 4(a)(i) and (iv), the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders Subordinated Creditor may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations Obligors in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Subordinated Debt Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder the subordinated Creditor becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Obligor Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien ObligationsSubordinated Debt, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Senior Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations Subordinated Debt are subject to this Agreement.
(fvi) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a2, 4(a)(i) and 3.1(d(iv), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder Subordinated Creditor of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations Subordinated Debt so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder the Subordinated Creditor of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupmentoff) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Creditors may have with respect to the First Lien Obligor Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Subordination Agreement (Allis Chalmers Energy Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. Notice; Set Off and Tracing of and Priorities in Proceeds
(a) With respect to the Notes Collateral consisting of Equipment and Real Estate Assets only, the Notes Collateral Agent shall provide not less than ten (10) days notice to the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent prior to any Enforcement of such Notes Collateral.
(b) The US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, and the Notes Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Notes Claimholders, each agree that, prior to an issuance of an Enforcement Notice, any proceeds of Collateral, whether or not deposited under Account Agreements, which are used by any Grantor to acquire other property which is Collateral shall not (as among the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent, the Revolving Credit Claimholders, the Notes Collateral Agent and the Notes Claimholders) be treated as proceeds of Collateral for purposes of determining the relative priorities in the Collateral which was so acquired. The Revolving Credit Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, and the Notes Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Notes Claimholders, each agree that after an issuance of an Enforcement Notice, each such Person shall cooperate in good faith to identify the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Primary Collateral and the Notes Collateral, as the case may be (it being agreed that after an issuance of an Enforcement Notice, unless the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent has actual knowledge to the contrary, all funds deposited under Account Agreements and then applied to the Revolving Credit Obligations shall be presumed to be Revolving Credit Primary Collateral (a presumption that can be rebutted by the Notes Collateral Agent only by evidence presented to the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent within thirty (30) Business Days after such application)); provided, however, that neither any Revolving Credit Claimholder nor any Notes Claimholder shall be liable or in any way responsible for any claims or damages from conversion of the Revolving Credit Primary Collateral or the Notes Collateral, as the case may be (it being understood and agreed that (A) the only obligation of any Revolving Credit Claimholder is to pay over to the Notes Collateral Agent, in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, all proceeds that such Revolving Credit Claimholder received that have been identified as proceeds of the Notes Collateral (except to the extent that such proceeds are represented by a Net Cash Proceeds Letter of Credit) and (B) the only obligation of any Notes Claimholder is to pay over to the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent, in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, all proceeds that such Notes Claimholder received that have been identified as proceeds of the Revolving Credit Primary Collateral). The US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent and the Notes Collateral Agent may request from the other an accounting of the identification of the proceeds of Collateral (and the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent and the Notes Collateral Agent, as the case may, upon which such request is made shall deliver such accounting reasonably promptly after such request is made).
(c) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Revolving Credit Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Notes Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Notes Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (hereby consents to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted application, prior to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent of an Enforcement Notice issued by the First Lien Notes Collateral Agent, of cash or other proceeds of Collateral deposited under Account Agreements in favor of the US Revolving Credit Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity repayment of such Enforcement Action or give rise Revolving Credit Obligations pursuant to liability hereunderthe Revolving Credit Documents.
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Samples: Indenture (EM Holdings LLC)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Borrower or Guarantor, (i) the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, furtherincluding, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarywithout limitation, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any Blocked Account Agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Common Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder (and the Trustee and Noteholders shall be deemed to have consented to any such enforcement, exercise or determination); provided provided, however, (A) that in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Lien Borrower or any Guarantor, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, and (B) the Trustee may take any action not adverse to the Liens on the Common Collateral Agent securing the Senior Lender Claims in excess of those necessary order to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed preserve or protect its rights in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b(ii) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in Section 3.1(a)) (ii) above, 3.1(c(a) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2b) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Senior Lender Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Priority Claimholders:
(1i) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent declared the existence of any “Event of Default (and as defined in) Default” under any Second Lien Document Priority Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; Priority Obligations and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent received notice from such the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent of such declarations declaration of such an “Event of Default and demand for payment Default” (the “Standstill Period”) (provided that the Second Priority Collateral Agent shall have given the First Priority Collateral Agent at least 15 days written notice prior to such Enforcement Action, which notice may be given during the pendency of the applicable Standstill Period); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Priority Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral (subject to customary rights such as the right to timely file a proof of claim) if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or the First Lien Priority Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Priority Collateral AgentsAgent) or (ii) any Grantor shall be the Company or Guarantor is subject to any an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)Proceeding;
(2ii) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Priority Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Priority Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Priority Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3iii) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(i) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Priority DM3\8975843.1 Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein;
(iv) will not take or cause to be taken any action, the purpose or effect of which is to make any Lien in respect of any Second Priority Obligation pari passu with or senior to, or give any Second Priority Claimholder any preference or priority relative to, the Liens with respect to the First Priority Obligations or the First Priority Claimholders; and
(v) will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit, Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any First Priority Claimholder or First Priority Collateral Agent seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, injunction or otherwise, with respect to, and no First Priority Claimholder or First Priority Collateral Agent shall be liable to the Second Priority Collateral Agent or any Second Priority Claimholder for, any action taken or omitted to be taken by such First Priority Claimholder or First Priority Collateral Agent with respect to any Collateral or pursuant to the First Priority Loan Documents.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i), the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the First Lien Priority Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent shall have the “credit bid bid” rights (subject to customary rights such as the right to timely file a proof of claim) set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(vi))) and, and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Priority Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the First Lien Priority Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Priority Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with or consent of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Priority Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Priority Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Priority Claimholder may:
(1i) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Priority Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2ii) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Priority Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or the DM3\8975843.1 First Lien Priority Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3iii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Priority Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4iv) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Priority Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Priority Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5v) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i);; and
(6vi) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Priority Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Priority Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i) (to the extent the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Priority Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Priority Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Priority Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1i) each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Claimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Priority Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Priority Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2ii) each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Priority Claimholders may DM3\8975843.1 have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Priority Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Priority Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Priority Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Priority Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Claimholders; and
(3iii) each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Priority Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Priority Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Priority Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in To the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Priority Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Priority Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Priority Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Priority Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Priority Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Priority Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Priority Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal principal, premium, fees and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Priority Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs shall impair or otherwise adversely affects affect any rights or remedies the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Priority Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of During any First Lien Obligations has occurredObligation Period, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Borrower or Guarantor, (i) neither any Trustee nor the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, furtherincluding, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarywithout limitation, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which any Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Common Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the releaserelease (in connection with any such enforcement of rights or exercise of remedies), disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents any Trustee or any other Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder; provided provided, however, (A) that in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Lien Borrower or any Guarantor, any Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, and (B) any Trustee may take any action not adverse to the Liens on the Common Collateral Agent securing the Senior Lender Claims in excess of those necessary order to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed preserve or protect its rights in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingEach Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Common Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of during any First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Obligation Period. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of during any First Lien Obligations has occurredObligation Period, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(athe proviso in Section 3.1(a)(ii) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents each Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after at the Discharge end of such First Lien Obligations has occurredObligation Period.
(dc) Subject During any First Lien Obligation Period, subject to Sections 3.1(a)the proviso in Section 3.1(a)(ii) above, 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1a) each Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2b) each Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it such Trustee or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Senior Lender Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until The provisions of this clause (a) are subject to clause (f) below in this Section 3.1. So long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Holdings, the Company Borrowers or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Creditors will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff, voting or other proxy rights) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Second-Lien Claimholder take Creditor is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Enforcement Action Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action other than as expressly permitted by Section 6the terms of the Credit Agreement);
(2) ), and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First First-Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until shall have the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredexclusive right, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor, all as though the Second-Lien Obligations did not exist; provided provided, that (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against Holdings, a Borrower or any other Grantor, the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second-Lien Obligations, (B) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First-Lien Collateral Agent or the other First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in excess of those necessary respect thereof) in order to achieve a Discharge of First preserve or protect its Lien Obligations are distributed on the Collateral in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement, (C) the Second-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (D) the Second-Lien Creditors may file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and applicable law(E) the Second-Lien Creditors may vote on any plan of reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement with respect to the Second-Lien Obligations and the Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and (acting under the First instructions of the Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors) may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditors, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred (or, in the case of Non-Shared Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First-Lien Lender Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors with respect to the Shared Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral pursuant to the Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First the First-Lien Obligations has occurred in accordance with the terms of the Second-Lien Documents and applicable law and (ii) unless and until the Discharge of First-Lien Lender Obligations has occurred, the sole right of the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second-Lien Creditors with respect to the Non-Shared Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Non-Shared Collateral pursuant to the Second-Lien Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of the First-Lien Lender Obligations has occurred in accordance with the terms of the Second-Lien Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Creditors, and each other applicable Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Documents), (i) agrees that such Second the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and Second the other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the First-Lien Obligations to the Second-Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second-Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First-Lien Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First First-Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First First-Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the Second-Lien Claimholder; andCreditors.
(3d) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Second-Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First First-Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Creditors, and each other Second-Lien Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Documents) agrees that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Second-Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against Creditors will not, without the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms prior written consent of the Second Required First-Lien Documents and applicable law Lenders (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case the First-Lien Collateral Agent at their direction or proceeding under with their consent), issue any Insolvency payment blockage or Liquidation Proceeding similar notice with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second First-Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreementbefore the Discharge of First-Lien Obligations has occurred.
(f) Except as specifically set forth Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 3.1(apreceding clauses (a) and 3.1(d)through (e) of this Section 3.1, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit at any time while a payment default exists with respect to any Second-Lien Lender Obligations following the receipt final maturity of the Second-Lien Lender Obligations, or the acceleration by the Second relevant Second-Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder Lenders of the required payments maturity of interestany then outstanding Second-Lien Lender Obligations, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations either case so long as such receipt is 180 days have elapsed after notice thereof (and requesting that enforcement action be taken with respect to the Collateral) has been received by the First-Lien Collateral Agent and so long as the respective payment default shall not have been cured or waived (or the direct or indirect result respective acceleration rescinded), the Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the exercise by any Second Second-Lien Lenders, but only if the First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second the First-Lien Claimholder of rights Creditors are not pursuing enforcement proceedings, or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by exercising any of them their rights and remedies, with respect to all or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder portion of the express terms Collateral in a commercially reasonable manner (with any determination of this Agreement. Nothing which Collateral to proceed against, and in this Agreement impairs what order, to be made by the First-Lien Collateral Agent acting on the instructions of the First-Lien Creditors in their reasonable judgment), may enforce the Liens on Collateral granted pursuant to the Second-Lien Security Documents, provided that (x) any Collateral or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies proceeds of Collateral received by the First Second-Lien Collateral Agent or Second-Lien Lender, as the case may be, in connection with the enforcement of such Lien shall be applied in accordance with Section 4 hereof and (y) the First-Lien Collateral Agent may at any other First time take over such enforcement proceedings, provided that the First-Lien Claimholder may have Collateral Agent pursues enforcement proceedings with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Collateral in a commercially reasonably manner, with any determination of which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the First-Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially in its reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second judgment, and provided further that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent of or Second-Lien Lenders, as the First case may be, shall only be able to recoup (from amounts realized by the First-Lien Collateral Agent) in any enforcement proceeding with respect to the Collateral (whether initiated by the First-Lien Collateral Agent commencing or taken over by it as contemplated above) any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair expenses incurred by the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderSecond-Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 4 hereof.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Representatives, the Second Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each the Designated Second Lien Representative and/or the Designated Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 120 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) date the date on which First Lien Representatives received notice from such Designated Second Lien Collateral Agent Representative that such Designated Second Lien Representative has declared the existence of any Event of Default under (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Loan Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment Obligations thereunder (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or the applicable First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Designated Second Lien Collateral AgentsRepresentative) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Representative, Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 66 hereof);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) other applicable law; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), ) will not object to the forbearance by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Representatives, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an any Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents Representatives shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Representatives, the First Lien Collateral Agent Agents and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to be a consent by (or waiver of any claim in respect of) (x) any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder to any disposition of Collateral or any Enforcement Action by any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder other than in a commercially reasonable manner or (y) any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder to any disposition of Collateral or any Enforcement Action by any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder other than in a commercially reasonable manner.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholder, may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);; and
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient sufficient, and used, to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation Obligations on the closing of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimssuch credit bid transaction. Each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Representatives, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), ) and 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, agrees that such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agent and such Second Lien Claimholders represented by it will not take any action with respect to the Collateral that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) subject to the last sentence of Section 3.1(b), each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholder represented by it, hereby waives any and all rights it such Second Lien Representative or such Second Lien Collateral Agent and such Second Lien Claimholders represented by it may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Representative and each Second Lien Collateral Agent Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Second Lien Claimholder represented by it, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable any Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementThe Second Lien Representatives, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6 hereof) for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Representative, any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the any First Lien Representative, any First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Second Lien Claimholders, hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any Second Lien Security Document or any other Second Lien Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure or the other First Lien Claimholders with respect to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderCollateral as set forth in this Agreement.
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Samples: Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Subject to Section 3.1(f), so long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Holdings, the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Creditors will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Second-Lien Claimholder take Creditor is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Enforcement Action Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First First-Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until shall have the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredexclusive right, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor, all as though the Second-Lien Obligations did not exist; provided that provided, that:
(A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second-Lien Obligations;
(B) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First-Lien Collateral Agent or the other First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in excess of those necessary respect thereof) in order to achieve a Discharge of First preserve or protect its Lien Obligations are distributed on the Collateral in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe terms of this Agreement; and
(C) the Second-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditors, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and setoff or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred and, except to the extent any Collateral or the proceeds thereof are taken or received in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (the exercise of a right or remedy with respect to the extent Collateral by the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents and Second Agent or any Second-Lien Claimholders are permitted Creditor, then such Collateral or proceeds shall be paid over to retain the proceeds thereof First-Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.2. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second-Lien Note Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent and Second each other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Note Documents), (i) agrees that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second-Lien Creditors will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the First-Lien Obligations to the Second-Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second-Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First-Lien Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First First-Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First First-Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the Second-Lien Claimholder; andCreditors.
(3d) each Second Each Second-Lien Collateral Agent Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Note Documents) hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Second-Lien Note Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First First-Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement[Reserved].
(f) Except as specifically set forth Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 3.1(apreceding clauses (a) through (e) of this Section 3.1, at any time after the Second-Lien Enforcement Date, the Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and 3.1(don behalf of the Second-Lien Creditors, and the other Second-Lien Creditors may, but only if the First-Lien Collateral Agent or the First-Lien Creditors are not pursuing or exercising remedies with respect to the Collateral (with any determination of which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the First-Lien Collateral Agent or such First-Lien Creditors in their sole discretion), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit enforce the receipt Liens on Collateral granted pursuant to the Second-Lien Security Documents, provided that (x) any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral received by the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any such other Second Second-Lien Claimholder Creditor, as the case may be, in connection with the enforcement of such Lien shall be applied in accordance with Section 4 hereof and (y) the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second First-Lien Claimholder Creditors may at any time take over such enforcement actions or proceedings, provided that the First-Lien Collateral Agent or such First-Lien Creditors, as the case may be, pursues enforcement proceedings with respect to the Collateral, with any determination of rights which Collateral to proceed against, and in what order, to be made by the First-Lien Collateral Agent or remedies such First-Lien Creditors in their sole discretion, and provided further that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent or Second-Lien Creditors, as a secured creditor the case may be, shall only be able to recoup (including setfrom amounts realized by the First-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First First-Lien Claimholder may have Creditors) in any enforcement proceeding with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
Collateral (g) The First whether initiated by the First-Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second or First-Lien Collateral Agent of Creditors or taken over by them as contemplated above) any expenses incurred by them in accordance with the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderpriorities set forth in Section 4 hereof.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Second-Priority Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take Indenture Secured Party will (x) commence any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill PeriodAction, (iy) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought with respect to the Common Collateral by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender in respect of the Senior Lender Claims, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long Enforcement Action and (ii) except as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)otherwise provided herein, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an any Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents any Second-Priority Agent or any Indenture Secured Party; provided, however, that (A) each Second-Priority Agent and each Indenture Secured Party may file a proof of claim or take any other Second action with respect to the Noteholder Claims required in connection with the preservation, validity and establishment of such Claim, including in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (B) each Second-Priority Agent and each Indenture Secured Party may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the Senior Lender Claims, or the rights of the First-Lien Claimholder; provided that Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, preserve or protect its rights in, and the perfection (other than by possession thereof) and priority of its Lien on, the Common Collateral except for the perfection of Liens in any proceeds received by Common Collateral in which the First Lien Collateral of the First-Lien Agent in excess respect of those necessary the Senior Claims is not perfected, (C) each Second-Priority Agent and each Indenture Secured Party may seek equitable relief (whether by any of injunction, specific performance or otherwise) to achieve enforce its rights under the Noteholder Collateral Documents, provided such action does not adversely affect the Liens securing the Senior Lender Claims or the rights of the First-Lien Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise their remedies in respect thereof, (D) each Second-Priority Agent and each Indenture Secured Party may take any action against any Person relating to the rights and powers of such Person with respect to the sale or disposition of any Common Collateral (other than a Discharge sale in which the Lien of First such First-Lien Obligations are distributed Agent or Indenture Secured Party in accordance such Common Collateral shall be released as provided herein) and (E) each Second-Priority Agent may take any or all actions and exercise any or all rights or remedies permitted under the Noteholder Collateral Documents or applicable law with Section 4.1 and applicable lawrespect to the Common Collateral during any Second-Priority Lien Enforcement Period which is not suspended. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral or other collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action Senior Lender Claims has not otherwise occurred, except as specifically provided in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Section 3.1(a), each Second-Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderIndenture Secured Party, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or other collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral or other collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Common Collateral or other collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until respect of the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Noteholder Claims. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Second-Priority Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders Indenture Secured Parties with respect to the Common Collateral or any other collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral or such other collateral in respect of the Noteholder Claims pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents Noteholder Documents, as applicable, for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Each Second-Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderIndenture Secured Party, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral no Second-Priority Agent and Second Lien Claimholders or Indenture Secured Party will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the First-Lien Agent or the Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral or any other collateral under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the CollateralCommon Collateral or such other collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Second-Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderIndenture Secured Party, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders any Indenture Secured Party may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andSenior Lender Collateral.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Each Second-Priority Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Noteholder Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Lenders with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Term Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Holdings, the Company or any other Grantor: none of the ABL Collateral Agent, each Second Lien the ABL Secured Parties, the Notes Collateral Agent and or the Second Lien Claimholders:
Notes Secured Parties (1x) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including, without limitation, setoff) with respect to any TL Priority Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateralexercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement in respect of TL Priority Collateral to which the ABL Collateral Agent, the Notes Collateral Agent, any ABL Secured Party or any Notes Secured Party is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Person (other than the Term Collateral Agent and the Term Secured Parties) in commencing any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure), enforcement, collection or execution; provided provided, however, that each Second Lien the ABL Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) from the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared of delivery of a notice in writing to the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Term Collateral Agent of the ABL Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its right to take such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment actions (the “ABL Standstill Period”); provided, further, that however, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien neither the ABL Collateral Agent nor any ABL Secured Party will exercise any rights or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action remedies with respect to the any TL Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the ABL Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Term Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Term Secured Parties shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of any of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the TL Priority Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien ABL Collateral AgentsAgent) or and are pursuing the exercise thereof, (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2y) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Term Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Term Secured Party with respect to, or any other exercise by the First Lien Term Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Term Secured Party of any rights and remedies relating to to, the TL Priority Collateral under the First Lien Loan Term Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3z) subject to their the rights of the ABL Collateral Agent under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (i)(x) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Term Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Term Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the TL Priority Collateral, in each case so long as any the respective interests of the ABL Secured Parties and the Notes Secured Parties attach to the proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3.1(a)(1)2.1; provided, that the First Lien Notes Collateral Agent and the First Notes Secured Parties will not object to the forbearance by the ABL Collateral Agent or the ABL Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the TL Priority Collateral, in each case so long as the interests of the Notes Secured Parties attach to the proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2.1; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 2.2(a) shall be construed to authorize (A) the ABL Collateral Agent, any ABL Secured Party, the Notes Collateral Agent or any Notes Secured Party to sell any TL Priority Collateral free of the Lien Claimholders of the Term Collateral Agent or any Term Secured Party or (B) the Notes Collateral Agent or any Notes Secured Party to sell any TL Priority Collateral free of the Lien of the ABL Collateral Agent or any ABL Secured Party; and subject to Section 4, the Term Collateral Agent and the Term Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment set off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, dispositiondisposition of, or restrictions with respect to to, the TL Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien ABL Collateral Agents or Agent, any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the CollateralABL Secured Party, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Notes Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ClaimholderNotes Secured Party; provided, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.that:
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Dole Food Co Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Pledgor: (i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
Secured Parties (1x) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take Secured Party is a party or the enforcement of or execution on any Enforcement Action judgment Lien) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
, (2y) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Secured Party of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholderotherwise, and (z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any the respective interests of the Second Lien Secured Parties attach to the proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3.1(a)(1), 2 hereof and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Party; provided provided, that (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Company or any other Pledgor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Secured Parties may file a proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, (B) the Second Lien Secured Parties shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in excess opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of those necessary the claims of the Second Lien Secured Parties, including without limitation any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case if not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, (C) the Second Lien Secured Parties shall be entitled to achieve a Discharge file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of First the Pledgors arising under either the Bankruptcy Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case if not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, and (D) the Second Lien Secured Parties shall be entitled to file any proof of claim and other filings and make any arguments and motions in order to preserve or protect its Liens on the Collateral that are, in each case, not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
. The First Lien Collateral Agent agrees to provide five (c5) Notwithstanding the foregoing, days’ notice to the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement Agent of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders its intent to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of enforce its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);Collateral.
(6b) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each itself and the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties, agrees that that, it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections permitted by Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and of this Section 3.1(c)Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law.
(di) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, Agent for itself and on behalf of each the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderSecured Parties, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties is adverse to the interest interests of any the Second Lien Claimholder; andSecured Parties.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (iPCS, INC)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until If a Secured Obligation Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Discharge Required Secured Parties, on behalf of First Lien Obligations has occurredthe Secured Parties, whether shall be permitted and authorized to take such actions (or not to direct in writing the Collateral Agent to take such actions) as are specified by such Required Secured Parties, including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against and all actions (and the Company exercise of any and all rights, remedies and options) which any Secured Party or any Agent may have under the Financing Documents or under applicable law, including the ability to cure any Secured Obligation Event of Default, or, so long as some or all of the Secured Obligations are then due and payable, to foreclose on the Liens granted under the Security Documents and exercise the right of such Agent to sell the Collateral or any part thereof (or accept a deed in lieu of foreclosure) and sell, lease or otherwise realize upon the other Grantorproperty mortgaged, each Second Lien pledged and assigned to the Collateral Agent under the Security Documents (any such request from the Required Secured Parties, a “Remedies Direction”). No Secured Party shall have any right to direct any Agent to take any action in respect of the Collateral other than in accordance with the terms hereof. The Collateral is vested in and held by the Second Lien Claimholders:
Collateral Agent or its agent (1for the benefit of the Secured Parties) will not commence or maintainand only the Collateral Agent, or seek acting on the written instructions of the Required Secured Parties, has the right to commence or maintaintake actions (and exercise rights, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies and options) with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien . Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, nothing herein shall preclude any Secured Party from enforcing (or refraining to enforce) the provisions of its Secured Obligation Document in respect of the property, assets or other rights described in Section 5.03, and no such action (or inaction) shall require the consent or approval of (or notification to) any Person other than such Secured Party. If the Collateral Agent receives a Remedies Direction directing the Collateral Agent to commence a Foreclosure Action, the Collateral Agent shall notify each other Secured Party of such Remedies Direction.
(b) Any action (including any Foreclosure Action) which has been requested pursuant to a Remedies Direction may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after be modified, supplemented, terminated and/or countermanded if the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: Collateral Agent shall have received either (i) a revocation notice from the date on Required Secured Parties or (ii) a written notice from the Required Secured Parties which contains different or supplemental directions with respect to such Second Lien action.
(c) At the direction of the Required Secured Parties pursuant to a Remedies Direction, the Collateral Agent declared shall seek to enforce the existence Security Documents and to realize upon the Collateral or, in the case of any Event of Default under clause (and f) or (g) of Section 7.01 of the Credit Agreement (or equivalent provision under any Replacement Letter of Credit Facility) in respect of the Borrower of which the Collateral Agent has been notified in writing by the Administrative Agent, to seek to enforce the claims of the Secured Parties under the Financing Documents in respect thereof; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to follow any Remedies Direction as defined to which the Collateral Agent has received a written opinion of counsel to the effect that such Remedies Direction is in conflict with any provisions of applicable law, this Agreement or any other Financing Document or any order of any court or Governmental Authority. The Collateral Agent shall not, under any circumstances, be liable to any other Secured Party or any other Person for following with reasonable care the written directions of the Required Secured Parties.
(d) If the Administrative Agent is directed to accelerate the Loans in accordance with the Credit Agreement, the Replacement Letter of Credit Administrative Agent is directed to accelerate the Replacement Letter of Credit Loans in accordance with the Replacement Letter of Credit Facility or any Swap Bank determines to declare (or take other action resulting in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment an early termination of all the principal amount its Permitted Swap Agreement then such Secured Party shall deliver to each other Secured Party within two Business Days of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent receipt of such declarations direction or of such determination, as the case may be, a written notice to that effect to the Agents in order to permit the Secured Parties to coordinate the timing of the acceleration and early termination of their respective Secured Obligations. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, the requisite number of Secured Parties specified in any Secured Obligation Document may at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Secured Obligation Event of Default and demand for payment (under such Secured Obligation Document accelerate the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to Secured Obligations thereunder or cause the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration early termination of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this relevant Permitted Swap Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Collateral Agency and Intercreditor Agreement (GenOn Energy, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and (i) neither the Second Lien Claimholders:
Trustee nor any Noteholder will (1x) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien any Common Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action in respect of any Noteholder Claims, or otherwise exercise institute any action or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”foreclosure); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (iy) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to the Common Collateral or any other Senior Lender Collateral by the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender in respect of the Senior Lender Claims, the exercise of any right by the Intercreditor Agent or any Senior Lender (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the Senior Lender Claims under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Intercreditor Agent or any Senior Lender either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise in respect of the Senior Lender Collateral or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent Senior Lender Claims, or any First Lien Claimholder(z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the CollateralCommon Collateral in respect of Senior Lender Claims and (ii) except as otherwise provided herein, the Intercreditor Agent and the Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including setoff and the right to credit bid their debt) and make determinations regarding the release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Trustee or any Noteholder; provided, however, that (A) in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action Trustee may file a claim or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, (B) the Trustee may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral without any consultation with securing the Senior Lender Claims or the consent rights of the Second Intercreditor Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; on, the Common Collateral, (C) the Trustee and the Noteholders may exercise their rights and remedies as unsecured creditors, as provided that any proceeds received by in Section 5.4, and (D) the First Lien Collateral Agent Trustee may exercise the rights and remedies provided for in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law6.3. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, disposition and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action Senior Lender Claims has not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to occurred, the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of itself and each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder, agrees that it will not not, in the context of its role as secured creditor, take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Common Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge respect of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Noteholder Claims. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral in respect of Noteholder Claims pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a), 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders neither the Trustee nor any Noteholder will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Intercreditor Agent or the Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderSenior Lender Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders any Noteholder may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in on any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementSenior Lender Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender is adverse to the interest interests of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Noteholders.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent The Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Noteholder Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Intercreditor Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Lenders with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided provided, however, that each Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document Pari Tranche Note Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent of such declarations of such an Event of Default and demand for payment Default, (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or the First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Credit Agreement Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Credit Agreement Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds Proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Credit Agreement Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent and the First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6))) and, and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder; provided provided, that any proceeds Proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Credit Agreement Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent and the First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Credit Agreement Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest inerest of any Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or the First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations and the Collateral; Collateral provided that no filing filings, whether of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing otherwise by the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder may be inconsistent with the priority provisions of as set forth in this Agreement;Agreement and the Loan Documents; and
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);; and
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Credit Agreement Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien of the Credit Agreement Collateral Agent, for itself Agent and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent hereby agrees that if it will not take or receive shall obtain possession of any Collateral or shall realize any proceeds or payment in respect of any such Collateral, pursuant to any Credit Agreement Collateral in connection with Document or any Pari Tranche Collateral Document or by the exercise of any right rights available to it under applicable law or remedy in any Insolvency Proceeding or through any other exercise of remedies (including set-off and recoupment) with respect pursuant to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorintercreditor agreement), unless and until at any time prior to the Discharge of First Lien the Credit Agreement Obligations has occurredand the Discharge of the Pari Tranche Obligations, except then it shall hold such Collateral, proceeds or payment in connection with trust for the other Credit Agreement Claimholders and Pari Tranche Claimholders having a security interest in such Collateral and promptly transfer any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (such Collateral, proceeds or payment, as the case may be, to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof be distributed in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.1 hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred.
(d) . Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Pari Tranche Claimholders, agrees that such Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent and Second Lien the Pari Tranche Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Credit Agreement Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Pari Tranche Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien the Pari Tranche Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Credit Agreement Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Credit Agreement Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Pari Tranche Claimholders;
(3) each Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Pari Tranche Note Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Credit Agreement Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Credit Agreement Loan Documents.
(ea) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a) and (d), the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Pari Tranche Note Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Pari Tranche Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Credit Agreement Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(fb) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Pari Tranche Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Pari Tranche Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Pari Tranche Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien the Pari Tranche Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Pari Tranche Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Credit Agreement Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Credit Agreement Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other ABL Grantor, each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder of any rights and remedies under the ABL Loan Documents or otherwise, in each case, to the extent relating to the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien ABL Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other ABL Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent and the First Lien ABL Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(5)), in each case, with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder; provided that Table of Contents any proceeds received by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent and the First Lien ABL Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien ABL Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, in each case, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of ABL Priority Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to ABL Priority Collateral or an ABL Grantor, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other ABL Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the First Lien ABL Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or the First Lien ABL Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral and neither with respect to any ABL Pledged Collateral, take possession or control of such ABL Priority Collateral so long as the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object elects in writing not to take possession or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)control thereof;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, including any claims secured by the ABL Priority Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations and the ABL Priority Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject Table of Contents a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;; and
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase ABL Priority Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such ABL Priority Collateral initiated by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder, or any sale of ABL Priority Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations; and
(76) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement engage consultants and perform audits, examinations, and appraisals relating to the extent necessary enforcement of Liens on any ABL Priority Collateral so long as such actions are not adverse to prevent the running rights of any applicable statute the ABL Collateral Agent to exercise remedies thereof and do not materially affect, in the reasonable discretion of limitation or similar restriction on claimsthe ABL Collateral Agent, the value of the ABL Priority Collateral. Each Second Lien The Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any ABL Priority Collateral or any proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and Section 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent and Second Lien the Term Loan Claimholders will not take any action with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral that would hinder any exercise of remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien ABL Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the ABL Priority Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, hereby waives any and all Table of Contents rights it or such Second Lien the Term Loan Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien ABL Obligations against any ABL Grantor or the Liens securing the First Lien ABL Obligations granted in any of the First Lien ABL Priority Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder ABL Claimholder, in each case, with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien ABL Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other ABL Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Term Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any ABL Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of ABL Priority Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien ABL Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens on the Term Loan Priority Collateral securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and Section 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien in any assets or property of the ABL Grantor held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ABL Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien ABL Priority Collateral. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the Term Loan Collateral Agent or Term Loan Claimholders may have with respect to the Term Priority Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien ABL Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Holdings, the Company or any other Grantor: none of the Term Collateral Agent, each Second Lien the Term Secured Parties, the Notes Collateral Agent and or the Second Lien Claimholders:
Notes Secured Parties (1x) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including, without limitation, setoff) with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateralexercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement in respect of ABL Priority Collateral to which the Term Collateral Agent, any Term Secured Party, the Notes Collateral Agent or any Notes Secured Party is a party) or institute or commence or join with any Person (other than the ABL Collateral Agent and the ABL Secured Parties) in commencing any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution); provided provided, however, that each Second Lien the Term Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) from the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared of delivery of a notice in writing to the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien ABL Collateral Agent of the Term Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its right to take such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment actions (the “Term Standstill Period”); provided, further, that however, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien neither the Term Collateral Agent nor any Term Secured Party will exercise any rights or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action remedies with respect to the any ABL Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Term Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders ABL Secured Parties shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of any of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the ABL Priority Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Term Collateral AgentsAgent) or and are pursuing the exercise thereof, (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2y) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder ABL Secured Party with respect to, or any other exercise by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder ABL Secured Party of any rights and remedies relating to to, the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien Loan ABL Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3z) subject to their the rights of the Term Collateral Agent under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (i)(x) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien ABL Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the ABL Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case so long as any the respective interests of the Term Secured Parties and the Notes Secured Parties attach to the proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3.1(a)(1)3.1; provided, that the First Lien Notes Collateral Agent and the First Notes Secured Parties will not object to the forbearance by the Term Collateral Agent or the Term Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case so long as the interests of the Notes Secured Parties attach to the proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3.1; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 3.2(a) shall be construed to authorize (A) the Term Collateral Agent, any Term Secured Party, the Notes Collateral Agent or any Notes Secured Party to sell any ABL Priority Collateral free of the Lien Claimholders of the ABL Collateral Agent or any ABL Secured Party or (B) the Notes Collateral Agent or any Notes Secured Party to sell any ABL Priority Collateral free of the Lien of the Term Collateral Agent or any Term Secured Party; and the ABL Collateral Agent and the ABL Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, dispositiondisposition of, or restrictions with respect to to, the ABL Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Term Collateral Agents or Agent, any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the CollateralTerm Secured Party, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Notes Collateral Agent or any other First Lien ClaimholderNotes Secured Party; provided, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.that:
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Dole Food Co Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later earlier of: (i) following the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence occurrence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Subordinated Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) Loan Document, the date on which the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent received was given notice from such Second thereof in accordance with Section 8.9 and (ii) following the occurrence of the acceleration of the Subordinated Lien Obligations, the date on which the Super Senior Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment was given notice thereof in accordance with Section 8.9 (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral ifso long as, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or the First Lien Super Senior Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral or the Company or any other Grantor is then, and then only for so long as it remains, a debtor under or with respect to (or otherwise subject to) any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (with prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest protest, hinder, delay, or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Super Senior Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Super Senior Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Super Senior Claimholder) and);
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Super Senior Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure 168776.01000/150935551v.4 proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 hereof and applicable lawlaw (to the extent such law is not inconsistent with the priority of distributions provided under Section 4.1 hereof);
(4) will not attempt to direct the Super Senior Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Claimholders to exercise any right, remedy or power with respect to the Collateral or exercise any consent to the exercise by the Super Senior Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Claimholders of any right, remedy or power with respect to the Collateral;
(5) will not institute any suit or assert in any suit, Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against the Super Senior Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Claimholders seeking damages or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or otherwise with respect to, and neither the Super Senior Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Claimholders will be liable for, any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them with respect to the Collateral;
(6) will not take any action to cause or attempt to cause any Lien on the Collateral securing the Subordinated Lien Obligations to be senior to or pari passu with the Liens securing the Super Senior Obligations; and
(7) will not attempt, directly or indirectly, whether by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to challenge the enforceability of any provision of this Agreement or the enforceability of any Lien securing the Super Senior Obligations. The foregoing shall not be construed to prohibit the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent from enforcing the provisions of this Agreement.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Until the Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent and the First Lien Super Senior Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(d)(7)), and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, release or restrictions dispositions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Subordinated Lien 168776.01000/150935551v.4 Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations are distributed to the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent and the First Lien Super Senior Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with this Agreement and any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, subject to compliance with applicable laws, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cd) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a proofs of claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations; provided that an Obligations in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Super Senior Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or the First Lien Super Senior Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect the validity, enforceability, perfection or priority (but not enforceto the extent permitted by this Agreement) of its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder the other Super Senior Claimholders will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)action;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and 168776.01000/150935551v.4 make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, not in accordance with violation of the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder may seek, or otherwise support, any relief that would alter the lien priorities provided herein or otherwise be inconsistent with or seek to contravene the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1); provided that in the event that the exercise any of rights or remedies are necessary at any time after the expiration of the Standstill Period, the Super Senior Claimholders and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders shall reasonably discuss the possibility of undertaking a coordinated enforcement process, provided that neither party shall be responsible for paying the other party’s costs in connection with any such enforcement and, unless the Super Senior Claimholders and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders otherwise agree in writing, such discussions shall not reinstate or otherwise extend the Standstill Period or constitute a forbearance or waiver of the Subordinated Lien Claimholders’ ability to exercise rights or remedies after the termination of the Standstill Period;
(6) exercise any right or remedy permitted under Section 3.1(f);
(7) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Super Senior Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Subordinated Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations; and;
(7) 8) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims;
(9) seek specific performance or other injunctive relief to compel the Company to comply with a non-payment obligation (including, without limitation, any Equity Rights) under any Subordinated 168776.01000/150935551v.4 Lien Loan Document or other agreement or Equity Interest with respect to any Equity Rights;
(10) exercise any Equity Rights; and
(11) inspect or appraise the Collateral (and engage or retain investment bankers or appraisers for the sole purpose of appraising or valuing the Collateral) or receive information or reports concerning the Collateral. Each Second The Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Super Senior Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure as expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(de) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (d) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and Second the Subordinated Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the CollateralCollateral by the Super Senior Collateral Agent, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, absent gross negligence, willful misconduct, bad faith, self-dealing or fraud on the part of Super Senior Collateral Agent or such Super Senior Claimholder, as the case may be;
(2) each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Subordinated Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Super Senior Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Super Senior Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Super Senior Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Super Senior Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second the Subordinated Lien Claimholders, in each case absent gross negligence, willful misconduct, bad faith, self-dealing or fraud on the part of the Super 168776.01000/150935551v.4 Senior Collateral Agent or such Super Senior Claimholder, as the case may be; and
(3) each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Subordinated Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Super Senior Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Super Senior Credit Documents.
(ef) Except As long as specifically set forth in such exercise is not contrary to the terms of this Agreement, and whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced, the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Subordinated Lien Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Super Senior Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(fg) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or limit the payment to and the receipt by the Second Subordinated Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Subordinated Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Subordinated Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing Except as may be expressly provided herein to the contrary for the exclusive benefit of the Subordinated Lien Claimholders, nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Super Senior Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Super Senior Collateral.
(gh) The First Lien Super Senior Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts endeavor to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien 168776.01000/150935551v.4 Super Senior Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Action (“Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderNotice”).
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Prior to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredSenior Lender Claims, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien ClaimholdersWarnaco Obligor:
(1i) the Noteholder Collateral Trustee and the Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Shared Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, furtherincluding, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarywithout limitation, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any Blocked Account Letter, Restricted Account Letter, Landlord Waiver or Bailee's Letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Noteholder Collateral Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Shared Collateral under the First Lien Loan Noteholder Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Shared Collateral; and (ii) the Senior Agent and the Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including, without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt) and make determinations regarding release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Noteholder Collateral Trustee or any Noteholder; provided, however, that in each case the event the Senior Agent has not initiated the exercise of any rights or remedies with respect to the Shared Collateral prior to the 90th day following the acceleration of the Senior Lender Claims in accordance with the terms of the Senior Loan Documents, then so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any no Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Warnaco Obligor, the Company Noteholder Collateral Trustee shall be entitled to exercise any rights or remedies or take any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions action with respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided (it being understood that any proceeds received by action shall in all respects comply with the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess terms of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 this Agreement and applicable law. Requirements of Law).
(b) In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Shared Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Shared Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoingEach Noteholder Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement on behalf of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations itself and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or voteNoteholders, or pleading related agrees that, prior to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral AgentSenior Lender Claims, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Shared Collateral or any proceeds of Shared Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Shared Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until but, subject to the proviso in Section 3.1(a), prior to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)Senior Lender Claims, the sole right of the Second Lien Noteholder Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Shared Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredSenior Lender Claims.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral AgentEach Noteholder Trustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, (i) agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders neither it nor the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Shared Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
otherwise (2other than pursuant to the proviso in Section 3.1(a)) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Senior Lender Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect pursuant to the Collateral as set forth proviso in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsSection 3.1(a)).
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Common Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds Proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of the First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein.
(b) Until the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(5))) and, and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral on notice to the Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders, but without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided provided, that any proceeds Proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of the First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Second Lien Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Common Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Common Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Common Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Common Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;and
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Common Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Common Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Common Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Common Collateral in its capacity as a creditorcreditor other than in accordance with and subject to Section 4.2(c), unless and until the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and Section 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Common Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this AgreementSection 3.1(d) and Section 6, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Second Lien Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than including initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Common Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Upon the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against occurrence and during the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence continuance of any Event of Default Default, and after the Administrative Agent’s receipt of written instructions for an Exercise of Remedies from the Required First Out Lenders (such written instructions, the “First Out Remedies Instruction” and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which of the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent Administrative Agent’s receipt of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (written instructions, the “Standstill PeriodFirst Out Remedies Instruction Date”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the Required First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Out Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action direct the Administrative Agent in writing to take one or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment more Exercise of Remedies and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents Administrative Agent shall have commence (as if directed by the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)Required Lenders), and subject diligently pursue in good faith an Exercise of Remedies as directed in writing by the Required First Out Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver each First Out Remedies Instruction from the Required First Out Lenders to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect each other Lender.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the Collateral without any consultation with or contrary in this Agreement, the consent Last Out Lenders shall in no event be permitted to deliver written instructions for an Exercise of Remedies to the Administrative Agent prior to the date of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdictionTLA/TLB Repayment Event.
(c) Notwithstanding receipt by the foregoingAdministrative Agent of a First Out Remedies Instruction delivered as provided in Section 2(a) hereof, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation obligations of the provisions Administrative Agent under this Section 2 shall be subject to the rights and benefits of this the Administrative Agent in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent, in any case, shall not be required to pursue an Exercise of Remedies with respect to an Event of Default that has been cured or waived.
(d) Prior to the Second Lien Obligationsdate of the TLA/TLB Repayment Event, the Administrative Agent shall pursue an Exercise of Remedies only at the direction of the Required First Out Lenders in accordance with this Agreement; provided that an Insolvency nothing in this Section 2 shall be construed to prohibit or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced limit the Administrative Agent from exercising any rights and remedies under the Loan Documents to the extent directed by (i) all Lenders or against (ii) the Company or any other Grantor;Required First Out Lenders.
(2e) No Last Out Lender will take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligationsthat would hinder, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, delay or otherwise support interfere with any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken Exercise of Remedies directed by the Required First Out Lenders in accordance with this Agreement or contest the priority, perfection or avoidability of any Lien securing the Obligations.
(f) Each Lender waives all rights to object to the manner that the Administrative Agent seeks the Exercise of Remedies so long as such Exercise of Remedies is otherwise in accordance with this Agreement and the Loan Documents.
(g) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, subject to the other terms of this Agreement and notwithstanding anything contained in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, the following actions may be taken by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Required First Out Lenders and such actions do not constitute the Exercise of Remedies:
(i) legal action within thirty (30) days of the expiration of, and solely to the extent necessary to prevent the running of, any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims under applicable law (provided that nothing herein shall prevent no monetary damages, other monetary relief or Proceeds of Collateral are received or retained in connection therewith in contravention of the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing terms of this Agreement);
(3ii) file any necessary the filing of responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims Obligations, so long as such pleading is not otherwise in contravention of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4iii) vote any action to assert a compulsory crossclaim or counterclaim against any Loan Party (provided that no monetary damages, other monetary relief or Proceeds of Collateral are received or retained in connection therewith in contravention of the terms of this Agreement);
(iv) during an Insolvency Proceeding (1) the voting on any plan Plan, (2) the filing of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make and (3) the making of any other filings and make any or arguments and motions that are, in each casecase under this Section 2(g)(iv), in accordance with and not in contravention of any of the terms of this Agreement or the Loan Documents;
(v) any action taken in accordance with, and to enforce the terms of, any intercreditor or subordination agreement with any Person (other than a Loan Party) with respect to any indebtedness, Liens or other obligations subordinated to the Obligations (provided that (1) prior written notice of such action is provided to the Lenders, (2) no such action includes any Exercise of Remedies, (3) any payment or other property received, to the extent resulting from a payment or other transfer of property or an interest in property of a Loan Party, will be remitted to the Administrative Agent and applied to the Obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Agreement and (4) any other payments received in connection with respect such action will otherwise be subject to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing terms of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or subordination agreement with any other documentPerson, any related intercreditor or subordination agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of Administrative Agent, and this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6vi) bid engagement of consultants, valuation firms, investment bankers and other advisors and perform or engage third parties to perform audits, examinations and appraisals of the Collateral and not for purpose of marketing or purchase Collateral at conducting a disposition of such Collateral, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Loan Documents and applicable law so long as taking any publicsuch action does not hinder, private delay or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated otherwise interfere with the Exercise of Remedies by the First Lien Collateral Administrative Agent or in any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligationsmaterial respect; and
(7vii) take solicitation of bids from and/or retaining third parties in preparation of conducting any action liquidation of all or a material portion of the Collateral (but not otherwise in violation of this Agreement taking any further steps to actively market or to conduct any such liquidation). Notwithstanding anything to the extent necessary to contrary contained in this Agreement, (x) nothing contained in this Section 2 shall prevent the running of Required First Out Lenders from giving a Waterfall Activation Notice at any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, time after the Discharge occurrence and during the continuance of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
a Waterfall Triggering Event and (dy) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives Last Out Lenders shall retain any and all rights it acting solely in their respective capacities as holders of Equity Interests and/or Third Lien Notes, or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in unsecured creditors of any of the First Loan Parties; provided that (x) such rights as holders of unsecured creditors are not based on their status as secured creditors, (y) such rights in their capacities as holders of Equity Interests and/or Third Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance Notes or unsecured creditors are not otherwise inconsistent with this Agreement, regardless the terms and provisions of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(ey) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder Last Out Lender becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Company, any other Grantor or any other Grantor, each Subsidiary:
(i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Claimholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including the Collateral; provided that each exercise of any right under any account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take is a party) or institute any Enforcement Action action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Claimholder, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)otherwise, will not or object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the First Lien Collateral; provided, however, that if an Event of Default (as defined in each case the Second Lien Credit Agreement (as in effect on the date hereof)) has occurred and for so long as any proceeds received such Event of Default is continuing, subject at all times to the provisions of Sections 2 and 4, commencing 180 days after the receipt by the First Lien Agent of written notice from the Second Lien Agent that such Event of Default has occurred and is existing and that the Second Lien Agent has made written demand to the Company for accelerated payment of the Second Lien Obligations (the “Standstill Period”), the Second Lien Agent may take action to enforce its Liens on the Second Lien Collateral Agent in excess (including the institution of those necessary any action or proceeding with respect to achieve a Discharge of its rights or remedies with respect to any Second Lien Collateral) upon 10 days’ prior written notice to the First Lien Obligations are distributed Agent (which notice may be given prior to the completion of such 180-day period, but not prior to the 150th day of such period); provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in accordance no event shall the Second Lien Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder accept, take or receive any proceeds of Collateral or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with Section 4.1 respect to the Collateral if, and applicable law.
the Standstill Period shall be extended to include such period (bafter the expiration of the 180-day period) Until during which, the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredAgent or First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing in good faith the exercise of any of their rights or remedies with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (without limiting the generality of the foregoing, whether including commencement of any action to foreclose its Liens on such Collateral, any action to take possession of such Collateral or not commencement of any legal proceedings or actions against or with respect to Collateral) (prompt notice of the initial commencement of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Agent, provided, that the First Lien Agent shall incur no liability for, and the rights of the First Lien Agent hereunder, its rights in respect of the Collateral, and enforceability of any provision of this Agreement, shall be unaffected by the failure of the First Lien Agent to give any such notice), and provided further that the Standstill Period (x) shall be tolled during any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by involving any Grantor and (y) shall be tolled for any period not to exceed 180 days during which there is no Insolvency or against the Company or Liquidation Period involving any Grantor but due to other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), circumstances the First Lien Collateral Agent believes in good faith that it is prevented by applicable law (including for the avoidance of doubt judicial ruling) from exercising its enforcement rights and remedies against all or any part of the Collateral, provided that in the case of this clause (y) the First Lien Agent is diligently attempting in good faith to obtain relief from such applicable law and is not so prevented by applicable law because of action taken by the First Lien Agent or the First Lien Lenders in violation of applicable law; and
(ii) the First Lien Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in Section 3.1(a)(i), have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment set off and the right to credit bid their debt, ) and except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in as limited by Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.15.1(b) below, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the First Lien Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent , and in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the First Lien Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of First Lien Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clauses (a)(i) or (c) Notwithstanding of this Section 3.1, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against Holdings, the foregoingCompany or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
Agent may (1A) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
, (2B) take any action action, including (x) filing any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of any claims of the Second Lien Claimholders (other than any affirmative defense or counterclaim in respect of a claim that would not otherwise be permitted to be made under the terms hereof) and (y) voting on any plan of reorganization in accordance with the terms of Section 6.9(c), filing any proof of claim and making any motions permitted under this Agreement with respect to the Collateral, in each case not adverse to the priority status of the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, Collateral or the rights of any the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Second Lien Collateral and neither to preserve its rights to share in the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims proceeds of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, Collateral in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to and (C) seek relief from the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period automatic stay to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);6.2.
(6b) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any The Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral Collateral, either in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditoror otherwise, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in accordance with Section 3.1(a) of this Agreement. It is understood and agreed for the avoidance of doubt that any transfer of Collateral pursuant to or in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Agent’s exercise of remedies shall be subject to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations, and any Collateral Agents and or proceeds received or recovered by or on behalf of the Second Lien Claimholders are permitted Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder shall be paid over to retain the proceeds thereof First Lien Agent in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)4.2. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections accordance with Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and of this Section 3.1(c)Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is the right to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and therein, and, after the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred, the right to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after in accordance with the Discharge terms of First the Second Lien Obligations has occurredCredit Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections Except as expressly provided in Section 3.1(a)) of this Agreement, 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the First Lien Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent Priority Indenture Trustee and the Second Lien Priority Collateral Trustee, each for itself and the Second Priority Claimholders:
(1i) will not commence (and hereby waive any right, privilege or maintainpower to), directly or indirectly, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights rights, privileges, powers or remedies with respect to or against any Collateral (including the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event right, privilege or power of Default (and as defined in) setoff or any right, privilege or power under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, account control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Second Priority Trustee, the Second Priority Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent Trustee or any Second Lien Priority Claimholder take is a party) or institute any Enforcement Action action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral ifsuch rights, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Periodprivileges, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights powers or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
(2ii) will not (and hereby waive any right, privilege, or power to), directly or indirectly, contest, interfere with, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or any other action or proceeding brought by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee or any First Lien Priority Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee or any First Lien Priority Claimholder of any rights and rights, privileges, powers, or remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Priority Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3iii) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1will not (and hereby waive any right, privilege or power to), will not directly or indirectly, object to the forbearance by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee or any the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights rights, privileges, powers or remedies relating to the Collateral; provided, that, in each the case so long as of (i), (ii) and (iii) above, the Liens granted to secure the Second Priority Obligations of the Second Priority Claimholders shall attach to any proceeds received resulting from actions taken by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee or any First Priority Claimholder in excess accordance with this Agreement after application of those such proceeds to the extent necessary to achieve meet the requirements of a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawPriority Obligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee and the other First Lien Priority Claimholders shall have the sole and exclusive right right, privilege and power to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise all rights, privileges, powers, and remedies (including set-offoff and the right to take or retake control or possession of such Collateral and to hold, recoupment and prepare for sale, process, sell, lease, dispose of, or liquidate such Collateral or the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, dispositionDisposition, treatment, or restrictions with respect to control of the Collateral without any consultation with (other than any prior notice required by applicable law) or the consent of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Lien Priority Claimholder; provided provided, that any the Lien securing the Second Priority Obligations shall attach to the proceeds received by of such Collateral released or Disposed of subject to the relative priorities described herein. In exercising rights, privileges, powers or remedies, each of the Second Priority Indenture Trustee and the Second Priority Collateral Trustee, each on behalf of itself and the other Second Priority Claimholders, agrees (and waives the right, privilege or power to contest) that the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent Trustee and the other First Lien Priority Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Priority Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights rights, privileges and powers of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosureforeclosure or any other similar judicial or legal process, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or dispositionDisposition, and to exercise all the rights rights, privileges, powers, and remedies of a secured creditor under any applicable law, treaty, rule, regulation, or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, including the UCC UCC, other laws of the United States, the laws of Mexico, and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding . Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents and any Trustee, the Second Priority Indenture Trustee nor the other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) votePriority Claimholders shall have any right, file a claim privilege or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect power to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing direct the First Lien ObligationsPriority Collateral Trustee, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Priority Indenture Trustee or other First Priority Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereofany rights, in order to createprivileges, perfectpowers, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);Collateral.
(6c) bid for The Second Priority Collateral Trustee and the other Second Priority Claimholders shall execute and deliver, and perform their respective obligations under the Common Representative Agreement and shall not directly or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) indirectly take any action not otherwise that is inconsistent with or contrary to Articles 4, 5, and 6 of the Common Representative Agreement. The rights, privileges, powers, and remedies of the parties herein are supplemental of, and in violation of this Agreement to no event shall limit the extent necessary to prevent Common Representative Agreement.
(d) The Second Priority Collateral Trustee and the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each other Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it Priority Claimholders will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right right, privilege, power or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 violation of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a.
(e) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right Each of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Priority Indenture Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereofTrustee, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Claimholders, agrees that such agree that:
(i) the Second Lien Priority Indenture Trustee, the Second Priority Collateral Agent Trustee and the other Second Lien Priority Claimholders will not take directly or indirectly request judicial relief in any action Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or in any other court that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit the lawful exercise or enforcement of any exercise of remedies under right, privilege, power or remedy otherwise available to the First Lien Loan Documents Priority Collateral Trustee, the First Priority Indenture Trustee or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, the other First Priority Claimholders in respect of the Collateral (including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition Disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise), or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Liens securing the First Priority Obligations or subordinate any Lien securing the First Priority Obligations to any Lien securing the Second Priority Obligations, or that would grant any Liens securing the Second Priority Obligations in equal or prior ranking to any Liens securing the First Priority Obligations;
(2ii) no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the Second Priority Security Documents or any other Second Priority Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights, privileges, powers, and remedies of the First Priority Collateral Trustee or the other First Priority Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Priority Documents.
(f) Each of the Second Priority Indenture Trustee and the Second Priority Collateral Trustee, each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each the other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Claimholders, hereby waives waives:
(i) any and all rights it rights, privileges, powers and remedy each or such the other Second Lien Priority Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee, the First Priority Indenture Trustee or any the other First Lien Claimholder seeks Priority Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Priority Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Priority Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Priority Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee, the First Priority Indenture Trustee or any the other First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Collateral Trustee, the Second Priority Indenture Trustee or the other Second Priority Claimholders; and
(3ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in claim any way the rights and remedies of them may have against the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee or any the other First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders or their representatives, based on actions taken or inactions with respect to the Collateral as set forth that are not otherwise in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with violation of the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(fg) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement or the Second Priority Documents impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights rights, privileges, powers or remedies the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent Trustee or any the other First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Priority Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Satelites Mexicanos Sa De Cv)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Prior to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredLender Termination Date, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Obligor, the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) other Noteholders will not commence or maintain, (A) exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , or otherwise exercise institute any action or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage remedies, including, without limitation, any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Periodforeclosure, (iB) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Lender, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent of any right under any cash management agreement, landlord waiver or any First Lien Claimholder bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement or of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(C) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Lenders or any First Lien Claimholder of them from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by . Prior to the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)Lender Termination Date, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholder; provided that (i) in any proceeds received Insolvency Proceeding commenced by or against any Obligor, the Second Lien Agent may file a proof of claim with respect to the Noteholder Debt and the Noteholders may vote with respect to any Conforming Plan of Reorganization, (ii) the Second Lien Agent may (x) send such notices of the existence of, or any evidence or confirmation of, the Noteholder Debt under the Noteholder Documents or the Liens of the Second Lien Agent, or any other collateral agent, agent or representative of the Noteholders which has appointed the Second Lien Agent to act for, and bind, it (and all Noteholders for which it acts as collateral agent, agent or representative) under and for purposes of this Agreement, in the Collateral to any court or governmental agency or (y) file or record any such notice or evidence to the extent necessary to prove or preserve the Liens of the Second Lien Agent, or any other collateral agent, agent or representative of the Noteholders which has appointed the Second Lien Agent to act for, and bind, it (and all Noteholders for which it acts as collateral agent, agent or representative) under and for purposes of this Agreement, in the Collateral, (iii) the Second Lien Agent may file any necessary or appropriate responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims or Liens of any Noteholder, including any claims secured by the Collateral, in each case to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, (iv) the Second Lien Agent or any other collateral agent, agent or representative of the Noteholders which has appointed the Second Lien Agent to act for, and bind, it (and all Noteholders for which it acts as collateral agent, agent or representative) under and for purposes of this Agreement, may take action in order to create, perfect or preserve (but not enforce) its Lien on any Collateral, (v) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Second Lien Agent and Noteholders shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Obligors arising under either applicable bankruptcy law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (vi) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Second Lien Agent and Noteholders shall be entitled to vote on any plan of reorganization, to the extent consistent with the provisions hereof (it being understood that the Second Lien Agent and Noteholders shall not be permitted to vote in favor or support of any plan of reorganization that is not a Conforming Plan or Reorganization), and (vii) the Second Lien Agent or any Noteholder may exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after termination of the Standstill Period. The Second Lien Agent, for and on behalf of the Noteholders, agrees that, unless and until the First Lien Lender Termination Date has occurred, the Second Lien Agent and the other Noteholders will not commence, or join with any Person (other than the First Lien Agent and/or the other First Lien Lenders upon the request thereof) in commencing any enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding with respect to any Lien held by it under any of the Noteholder Documents or otherwise; and the Second Lien Agent and the other Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of or any other First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawLender under any of the First Lien Lender Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer, or other disposition of any Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Claimholders Lenders or any of them may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor party under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws Code or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Lender Termination Date has occurred, except as expressly provided above in Sections this Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this or the proviso of Section 3.1(c3.1(b), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders other Noteholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Lender Termination Date has occurred.
(db) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders any other Noteholder may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks Lender seek to enforce or collect the any First Lien Obligations Debt or the any Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with Collateral; provided that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement (including Section 3(a) above), but subject at all times to the provisions of Section 4 of this Agreement, regardless of whether the Second Lien Agent may enforce or exercise any or all such rights and remedies, or commence, petition or file for any such action or failure to act by or on behalf of proceeding, (i) after a period (the “Standstill Period”) ending one hundred eighty (180) days after the date that the First Lien Collateral Agent receives written notice from the Second Lien Agent that Second Lien Agent has declared, in writing, the existence of any event of default under any of the Noteholder Documents and has accelerated the payment of all the principal amount of the Noteholder Debt and has demanded, in writing, the repayment of such Noteholder Debt from the Obligors, and (ii) if and only if, as of the expiration of such one hundred eighty (180) day period, (A) the applicable event of default set forth in the written notice delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(b)(i) above is continuing and has not been cured, waived or remedied, and (B) the First Lien Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Lender is adverse to not then diligently pursuing in good faith the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement rights or remedies against a material portion of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect the Collateral (including, without limitation, any of the following: solicitation of bids from third parties to conduct the Second Lien Obligationsliquidation of all or any material portion of the Collateral, such judgment Lien shall be subject the engagement or retention of sales brokers, marketing agents, investment bankers, accountants, auctioneers or other third parties for the purpose of valuing, marketing, promotion or selling all or any material portion of the Collateral, the notification of account debtors to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation make payments to the First Lien Obligations) in Agent, the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject initiation of any action to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents take possession of all or any other Second Lien Claimholder material portion of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of Collateral or the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement commencement of any Lien held by any of them legal proceedings or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs actions against or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent all or any material portion of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderCollateral).
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Exercise of Remedies. Restrictions on the Term Loan Collateral Agent and Additional Pari Passu Debt Representatives.
(a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent Agent, the Term Loan Claimholders, the Additional Pari Passu Debt Representatives and the Second Lien Additional Pari Passu Claimholders:
(1) will not commence seek to have a trustee, receiver, liquidator or maintainsimilar official appointed for or over, attempt any action to take possession of, or otherwise exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any Current Asset Collateral (including the Collateralexercise of any right of setoff or any right under any Account Agreement with respect to Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided that each Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent or any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (iA) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral any Term Loan Agent or Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative, as applicable, first declared the existence of any Event of a Term Loan Default (and or an Additional Pari Passu Loan Default, as defined in) under any Second Lien Document applicable, and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or applicable Additional Pari Passu Obligations, as applicable; and (iiB) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Revolving Credit Facility Administrative Agent and the other Additional Pari Passu Debt Representatives received notice from such Second Lien the Term Loan Collateral Agent or any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative of such declarations declaration of such Event of a Term Loan Default or an Additional Pari Passu Loan Default, as applicable, and demand for payment repayment (the “Term Loan/Additional Pari Passu Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien of the Term Loan Collateral Agent Agent, the Term Loan Claimholder, Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative or Additional Pari Passu Claimholder exercise any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Current Asset Collateral (unless (x) the final step triggering the “one action rule” or any similar legal provision in any applicable state has occurred and (y) the applicable Term Loan Claimholder or Additional Pari Passu Claimholder has provided written notice to the Revolving Credit Claimholders and any other Additional Pari Passu Claimholders no later than five days prior to the commencement of such final step of its exercise of any rights or remedies permitted hereunder) if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Term Loan/Additional Pari Passu Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the such Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take and any action expressly permitted by Section 6applicable Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to to, or otherwise interfere with, any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral Current Asset Collateral, whether under the First Lien Loan Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in Section 3.1(a)(13.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of the Revolving Credit Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise Collateral Enforcement Action; provided that, in the case of any rights or remedies relating (1), (2) and (3) above, the Liens granted to secure the Term Loan Obligations of the Term Loan Claimholders and the Additional Pari Passu Obligations of the Additional Pari Passu Claimholders shall attach to the Proceeds of Collateral (and of Common Collateral, in each the case so long as of Additional Pari Passu Obligations) resulting from any proceeds received such actions taken by the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed or any Revolving Credit Claimholder in accordance with this Agreement (after giving effect to any proper application of such Proceeds to the Revolving Credit Obligations) subject to the relative priorities described in Section 4.1 and applicable law2.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Term Loan Claimholders, and each Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative, for itself and on behalf of the applicable Additional Pari Passu Claimholders, agrees that the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent and the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt) and, except that Second Lien in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions of Current Asset Collateral Agents shall have by the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, respective Grantors after a Revolving Credit Facility Default) make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Current Asset Collateral (including exercising remedies under Account Agreements with respect to Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts) without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent, any Term Loan Claimholder, any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative or any other Second Lien Additional Pari Passu Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien securing the Term Loan Obligations and Additional Pari Passu Obligations shall remain on the Proceeds of Common Collateral Agent (other than those properly applied to the Revolving Credit Obligations) of such Collateral released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Current Asset Collateral, the First Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Term Loan Claimholders, and each Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative, for itself and on behalf of the applicable Additional Pari Passu Claimholders agrees that the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent and the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of the Current Asset Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC (and any similar or equivalent legislation of any applicable jurisdiction outside the United States) and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent, and any other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative or any Additional Pari Passu Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Obligations, as applicable; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect its Lien on any of the Collateral; provided that such action shall not be inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and shall not be adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien ObligationsCurrent Asset Collateral, or the rights of any First Lien the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or the First Lien Revolving Credit Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Claimholders, as applicable, including any claims secured by the Current Asset Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Obligations and the Fixed Asset Collateral (that, in the case of Additional Pari Passu Obligations, constitutes Common Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement);
(56) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to any of the Collateral after the termination of the Term Loan/Additional Pari Passu Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take make a cash bid on all or any action not otherwise portion of the Collateral in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation foreclosure proceeding or similar restriction on claimsaction. Each Second Lien The Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and the Term Loan Claimholders, and each other Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative, on behalf of itself and the applicable Second Lien ClaimholderAdditional Pari Passu Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Current Asset Collateral or any proceeds Proceeds of such Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any such Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except creditor in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 violation of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until until, the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in this Section 3.1(c) and Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c6.3(c)(1), the sole right of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents and Agent, the Second Lien Claimholders Term Loan Claimholders, any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative or any Additional Pari Passu Claimholder with respect to the Current Asset Collateral is to hold a Lien on the such Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Term Loan Security Documents or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds Proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a3.l(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b6.3(c)(1):
(1) each Second Lien (x) the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that the Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Term Loan Claimholders will not, and (y) each other Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative, for itself and on behalf of the applicable Second Lien ClaimholderAdditional Pari Passu Claimholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative and Second Lien such applicable Additional Pari Passu Claimholders will not, except as not prohibited herein, take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or that is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Current Asset Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien (x) the Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Term Loan Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien the Term Loan Claimholders may have and (y) each Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative, for itself and on behalf of the applicable Additional Pari Passu Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Claimholders may have in each case, as a junior lien creditor with respect to the Current Asset Collateral or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Revolving Credit Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations or the Liens on the Current Asset Collateral securing the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or to any action that is not prohibited by this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Revolving Credit Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderthe Term Loan Claimholders or such Additional Pari Passu Claimholders; and
(3) each Second Lien (x) the Term Loan Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any of the applicable Second Lien Collateral Term Loan Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Term Loan Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders with respect to the Current Asset Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and (y) each Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any of the applicable Additional Pari Passu Security Documents or any other Additional Pari Passu Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders with respect to the Current Asset Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents.
(e) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in this AgreementSections 3.1(a), 3.1(d) and 3.5, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent, the Term Loan Claimholders, any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative and the other Second Lien Claimholders any Additional Pari Passu Claimholder may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against any Grantor (in the case of any Term Loan Claimholders) or the Company or and any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens applicable Additional Pari Passu Subsidiary Guarantors (in the case of any Additional Pari Passu Claimholders) and may exercise rights and remedies with respect to secure the Second Lien Obligations Fixed Asset Collateral, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Credit Documents, as applicable, and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor)law; provided that in the event that any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder or any Additional Pari Passu Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Current Asset Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or the Applicable Additional Pari Passu Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Revolving Credit Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations and the Additional Pari Passu Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agents Agent, any Term Loan Claimholders, any Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative or any other Second Lien Additional Pari Passu Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Obligations, so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by the Term Loan Collateral Agent, any Second Lien Collateral Agent Term Loan Claimholders, any such Additional Pari Passu Debt Representative or any other Second Lien Claimholder such Additional Pari Passu Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupmentoff) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms them, in each case in contravention of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Revolving Credit Claimholders may have against the Grantors under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, other than with respect to the First Lien CollateralFixed Asset Collateral solely to the extent expressly provided herein.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations ABL Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Term Loan Borrower, any ABL Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral subject to Section 5.6, (i) no Term Loan Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
or Term Loan Lender will (1x) will not commence or maintain, Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies or seek to commence Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies (including setoff or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies recoupment) with respect to the any ABL Priority Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , or otherwise exercise institute any action or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”foreclosure); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (iy) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral by the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent or any First Lien Claimholder ABL Lender in respect of the ABL Claims, the exercise of any right by the ABL Agent or any ABL Lender (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the ABL Claims, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral under the First Lien ABL Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise in respect of ABL Claims, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder ABL Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise Exercise of any rights or remedies Any Secured Creditor Remedies relating to the Collateral, ABL Priority Collateral in each case so long respect of ABL Claims and (ii) except as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)otherwise provided herein, the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent and the First Lien Claimholders ABL Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, disposition or restrictions with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of any Term Loan Agent or any Term Loan Lender; provided, however, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Second Lien Collateral Agents Term Loan Borrower, any ABL Borrower or any other Second Grantor, a Term Loan Agent may file a proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the applicable Term Loan Claims, and (B) a Term Loan Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the ABL Claims, or the rights of the ABL Agent or the ABL Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien Claimholderon, the ABL Priority Collateral; provided, further, that a Term Loan Agent or any Term Loan Lender may exercise any or all of such rights, powers, or remedies after a period of at least 180 days has elapsed since (i) a Term Loan Agent has declared the existence of an “Event of Default” under the applicable Term Loan Credit Agreement, accelerated (to the extent such amount was not already due and owing) the payment of the principal amount of all Term Loan Obligations and demanded payment thereof and (ii) the ABL Agent has received notice thereof from such Term Loan Agent; provided, further, however, that neither any Term Loan Agent nor any other Term Loan Lender shall exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of such 180-day period, the ABL Agent or the other ABL Lenders (A) shall have commenced, whether before or after the expiration of such 180-day period, and be diligently pursuing the exercise of their rights, powers or remedies with respect to all or any material portion of the ABL Priority Collateral (prompt written notice of such exercise to be given to the Term Loan Agents), or (B) shall have been stayed by operation of law or any court order from pursuing any such exercise of remedies (the period during which the Term Loan Agents and the Term Loan Lenders may not pursuant to this Section 3.1(a)(ii) exercise any rights, powers or remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, the “Term Loan Standstill Period”); provided further, however, that after the expiration of the Term Loan Standstill Period, so long as neither the ABL Agent nor any other ABL Lenders have commenced any action to enforce their Lien on any material portion of the ABL Priority Collateral, in the event that and for so long as the Term Loan Lenders (or the Term Loan Agent on their behalf) have commenced any actions to enforce their Lien with respect to all or any material portion of the ABL Priority Collateral to the extent permitted hereunder and are diligently pursuing in good faith such actions, neither the ABL Lenders nor the ABL Agent shall take any action of a similar nature with respect to such ABL Priority Collateral without the prior written consent of the Term Loan Agents; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess all other provisions of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations this Agreement are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawcomplied with. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, the First Lien Collateral ABL Agent and the First Lien Claimholders ABL Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien ABL Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation consistent with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless terms of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderABL Loan Documents. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of ABL Priority Collateral or other collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Senior Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (Forterra, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Senior Secured Debt Obligations has occurredhave been Paid in Full, whether or not any an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other GrantorDebtors, each Second Lien the Senior Collateral Agent and shall have the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence exclusive right to take or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take continue any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration or any other assets of the Standstill PeriodDebtors, including the exclusive right to manage, perform and enforce (or not enforce) the terms of the Senior Secured Debt Documents with respect to the Collateral, to exercise and enforce all privileges and rights thereunder in such order and manner as it may determine in its sole discretion (in accordance with and subject to the terms of the Senior Secured Debt Documents), including, without limitation, the exclusive right to take or retake control or possession of any Collateral and to make determinations regarding the release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Collateral, without any consultation with or the consent of the Subordinated Lender. In that regard, no Subordinated Party shall, without the prior written consent of the Senior Collateral Agent (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent take or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an continue any Enforcement Action Action, (ii) exercise or other seek to exercise of their any rights or remedies in each case (including setoff) with respect to all any Collateral, or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take institute any action expressly permitted by Section 6or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure);
, (2iii) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought with respect to the Collateral by the First Lien Senior Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Secured Party in respect of the Senior Secured Debt Obligations, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Secured Debt Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise in respect of the Senior Secured Debt Obligations, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(iv) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding Enforcement Action or other action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the CollateralCollateral in respect of Senior Secured Debt Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Subordinated Lender may, subject to Section 8.02, file and defend proofs of claim against the Debtors in each case so long as any proceeds received by Insolvency Proceeding involving the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawDebtors.
(b) Until The Subordinated Lender acknowledges and agrees it shall not , in an Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, directly or indirectly bid, or work in concert with any prospective bidder, in any sale or disposition of any assets of AGMIT (including any credit bid) unless such bid (i) contains a cash component sufficient to Pay in Full in cash the Discharge Senior Secured Debt Obligations and (ii) requires, and is expressly conditioned upon the court approving, such payment being made in closing of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), transaction. None of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition liability to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” Subordinated Party in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted failure by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken Senior Secured Parties to obtain repayment in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf full of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsSubordinated Obligations.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement (AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien ClaimholdersNoteholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain(and hereby waive any right, privilege, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (ipower to) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First any Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to held by it under the Second Lien Collateral Agents) Documents or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any other Second Lien Collateral Agent Loan Document or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)otherwise;
(2) will not (and hereby waive any right, privilege, or power to) contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Holder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Holder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not (and hereby waive any right, privilege, or power to) contest, protest or object to the (and waive any and all claims with respect to) action or forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from Holder in bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case Enforcement Action so long as any proceeds received by the Liens granted to secure the Second Lien Obligations of the Second Lien Noteholders attach to the Proceeds thereof (to the extent that such Proceeds exceed the First Lien Collateral Agent Obligations and subject to the relative priorities described in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law2.1).
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Holder shall have the exclusive right to commence enforce rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, commence, and if applicable, maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawNoteholder. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral and Enforcement Actions with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Holder may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they it may determine in the exercise of their its sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them it to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoingSubject to their obligations under this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder Noteholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Obligations in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Holder to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien ClaimholdersNoteholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization (including, without limitation, vote to accept or reject any plan of partial or complete liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, compromise composition or liquidationextension), file any proof of claim, initiate or file claims for fraud or breach of representations and warranties, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that , provided, however, in no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by event shall the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other the Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with Noteholders vote to accept any plan of reorganization that does not recognize and give effect to the provisions rights and relative priorities of the First Lien Holder as set forth under this Agreement;
(5) join (but not exercise any of its rights control with respect to) any judicial foreclosure proceeding or remedies other judicial lien enforcement proceeding with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Holder solely to the extent legally necessary to protect its security interest in the Collateral Agent and to the extent that any such action could not reasonably be expected, in any material respect, to restrain, hinder, limit, delay for any material period or any other otherwise interfere with the Enforcement Action by the First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided Holder (it being understood that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of neither the Second Lien Agent nor any Second Lien Obligations Noteholder shall be entitled to receive any proceeds thereof unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsexpressly permitted herein). Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds Proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to Enforcement Action against any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b6.4(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b6.4(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Holder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Holder is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderNoteholders; and
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that that, except as set forth in this Agreement, no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Holder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt payment by Oscient to the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Noteholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of any Enforcement Action by the exercise by Second Lien Agent or any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Noteholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Holder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each The Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedClaimholder agrees that it shall not, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency , take or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by receive from or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each the Borrower, directly or indirectly, in cash or other applicable Second Lien Claimholderproperty or by setoff, agrees that it will not take counterclaim or receive in any other manner (whether pursuant to any enforcement, collection, execution, levy, foreclosure action or other proceeding or otherwise) any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of all First Lien Obligations has occurred, except have been paid in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof full in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)3.2 hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredhave been paid in full, except as expressly provided herein or in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)the Laurus Security Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents Agency Agreement and the Investor Notes for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after payment in full of the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject Obligations; PROVIDED HOWEVER, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each impair the right of the Second Lien Collateral AgentClaimholders to receive payments of principal, for itself interest, fees and on behalf other amounts in respect of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderObligations as provided for in the Agency Agreement and the Investor Notes, agrees that and to enforce the making of such payments by bringing suit at law with respect to any unpaid amounts of such payments. Each of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders
(i) further agrees that the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit, impede or prohibit any exercise of remedies under by the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCollateral Agent to the extent related to satisfying the First Lien Obligations, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition Disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each , or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Collateral Document securing or purporting to secure the First Lien Obligations or subordinate the priority of the First Lien Obligations to the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second Lien Claimholder, Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations and (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have (other than as specified herein) as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other Law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing now or hereafter granted in any Collateral to secure the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementObligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this AgreementClaimholders.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent (i) the Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including set-off) with respect to the any Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
(2) will not , contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment ) and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral Collateral, or forbear from taking any such action in the sole discretion of Senior Agent and the Senior Lenders, without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Noteholder; provided, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any Grantor, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, and (B) the Trustee may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the Senior Lender Claims, or the rights of the Senior Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien Claimholder; provided that on the Collateral. Neither the Trustee nor any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawNoteholder shall commence any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding against Borrower or any Grantor under any Bankruptcy Laws. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, or forbear from taking any such action in the sole discretion of Senior Agent and the Senior Lenders, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a)) above, 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent or Senior Lenders under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken Senior Lender Collateral, or forbear from taking any such action in accordance with this Agreementthe sole discretion of Senior Agent and the Senior Lenders, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Noteholders.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent The Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Noteholder Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the Credit Facilities provided pursuant to the Senior Loan Agreement or any rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Lenders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement (Reptron Electronics Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until all principal, interest and other obligations under the Discharge First Tranche Notes have been paid in full in cash:
(1) except for non-cash payments permitted by Section 3(c) of First Lien Obligations has occurredthis Amendment, whether the Investors holding Subsequent Tranche Notes will not take from or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against for the account of the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and by set-off or in any other manner, the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence whole or maintain, any part of any moneys which may now or seek to commence hereafter be owing by the Company or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies other Grantor with respect to the Collateralobligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not sxx for payment of, or initiate or participate with others in any suit, action or proceeding against the Company or any other Grantor to (x) enforce payment of or collect the whole or any part of the obligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes (which shall include, for the avoidance of doubt, any demand or collection of payment at maturity), or (y) commence judicial enforcement of any of the rights and remedies under the Transaction Documents or applicable law with respect to the obligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes; and (3) will not exercise any put option or cause the Company or any other Grantor to honor any redemption or mandatory prepayment obligation under any Transaction Document with respect to the obligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes;
(ii) will not exercise or seek to exercise any remedies with respect to any Lien on any Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement) to secure the performance of the obligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such remedies (including any action of foreclosure);
(iii) will not contest, protest protest, object to, or object take any action to hinder or delay (including taking action to commence an involuntary Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the Investors holding First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Tranche Notes or any other exercise by the Investors holding First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Tranche Notes of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral securing the obligations under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) Tranche Notes; and
(3iv) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the Investors holding First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Tranche Notes from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; provided, that, in each the case so long as of clause (iii) above, the security interests granted to secure the obligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes shall attach to any remaining proceeds received resulting from actions taken by the holders of the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed Tranche Notes in accordance with Section 4.1 this Amendment after application of such proceeds to pay in full in cash any and applicable lawall principal, interest and other obligations under the First Tranche Notes.
(b) Until the Discharge payment in full in cash of all principal, interest and other obligations under the First Lien Obligations Tranche Notes has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the Investors holding First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Tranche Notes shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment set off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, dispositionDisposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of any holder of Subsequent Tranche Notes; provided, that the Second Lien securing the obligations under the Subsequent Tranche Notes shall remain on the remaining proceeds of such Collateral Agents released or any disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3 after application of such proceeds to the extent necessary to effect the payment in full in cash of all principal, interest and other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by obligations under the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawTranche Notes. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the Holders of First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Tranche Notes may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Transaction Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an any agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, disposition and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC (as defined in the Security Agreement) and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy the Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality In furtherance of the foregoing, unless and for avoidance of doubt, until the Discharge payment in full in cash of all principal, interest and other obligations under the First Lien Obligations Tranche Notes has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained term “Required Secured Parties” set forth in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) Security Agreement shall be deemed to restrict in any way mean the rights and remedies holders of more than 50% of the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsTranche Notes.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (CareView Communications Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge Payment in Full of First Lien Obligations Txxxxxx Debt has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Parent or any other Grantorof its Subsidiaries, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
no Loan Document Claimholder will (1a) will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence exercise any rights or maintainremedies (including any secured creditor remedies) with respect to the Collateral, or (b) contest, protest, or object to any Enforcement Action exercise of rights or otherwise remedies or forbearance from the exercise of any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”)by Txxxxxx; provided, furtherthat if a Loan Document Default has occurred and is continuing, that notwithstanding anything herein Agent may exercise rights and remedies (including secured creditor remedies) with respect to the contrary, Collateral after the expiration of the applicable Standstill Period (provided that in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien other Loan Document Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the applicable Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Txxxxxx shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action prior to the expiration of the applicable Standstill Period (or other thereafter but prior to the commencement of any exercise of their rights or remedies in each case by Agent with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral AgentsCollateral) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that and is diligently pursuing in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of good faith any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without all or any consultation with or the consent material portion of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawCollateral). In commencing connection with any exercise of rights or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Txxxxxx may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Txxxxxx Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they he may determine in the exercise of their his sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse discretion. The foregoing to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoingcontrary notwithstanding, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
Loan Document Claimholders may (1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2i) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on in the Collateral securing the First Lien ObligationsTxxxxxx Debt, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Txxxxxx to exercise rights or remedies in with respect thereof, to the Collateral) in order to createcreate or perfect their Liens in and to the Collateral, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3ii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding proceeding, or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholdersany Loan Document Claimholder, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance (iii) if an Insolvency Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Borrower or Guarantor, file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the terms of this Agreement;
Loan Document Debt, (4iv) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings reorganization and make any arguments filings and motions that are, in each case, not in accordance with contravention of the terms provisions of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations Loan Document Debt and the Collateral; provided , or (v) join (but not exercise any control with respect to) any judicial foreclosure proceeding or other judicial lien enforcement proceeding with respect to the Collateral initiated by Txxxxxx to the extent that any such action could not reasonably be expected, in any material respect, to restrain, hinder, limit, delay for any material period or otherwise interfere with such enforcement action by Txxxxxx (it being understood that no filing of Loan Document Claimholder shall be entitled to receive any claim or voteproceeds thereof unless otherwise expressly permitted herein). Furthermore, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar anything to the foregoing by contrary contained herein notwithstanding and for the Second Lien Collateral Agents or avoidance of doubt, Agent and the other Loan Document Claimholders may at any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) time and from time to time exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect assets of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation Borrower or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each Guarantor other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of than the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Nevada Gold & Casinos Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company any Borrower or any other Grantor, each :
(i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1A) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to from the Collateral; provided that each date hereof until the occurrence of the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all Date (such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (period, the “Standstill Period”); provided, furtherwill not exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies (including any right of set-off or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral (including, that notwithstanding anything herein without limitation, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, account control or collection agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take is a party) or institute or commence (or join with any Enforcement Action other Person in commencing) any enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding (including, without limitation, any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First any Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to held by it under the Second Lien Collateral Agents) Documents or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any other Second Lien Collateral Agent Loan Document or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)otherwise;
(2B) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Claimholder, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise, including, but not limited to, any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported motion by the First lien Collateral agent to sell the Collateral pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, provided that the respective interests of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds thereof, subject to the relative priorities described in Article II; provided, however, that this Section 3.01(B) shall constitute consent by the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders pursuant to Section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy Code to the Section 363 sale of any or any First Lien Claimholder) all of the Collateral; and
(3C) subject to their the rights of the Second Lien Collateral Agent under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (i)(A) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral; and
(ii) subject to Section 5.01, in each case so long as any proceeds received by until the Discharge of the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)Obligations, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that provided, that
(A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against any Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations;
(B) the Second Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of or the First Lien Obligations are distributed Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Collateral;
(C) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including, without limitation, any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement;
(D) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either the Debtor Relief Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law;
(E) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any proof of claim and applicable lawother filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral;
(F) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, to vote on any plan of reorganization, to the extent consistent with the provisions hereof; and
(G) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral upon the occurrence and during the effective continuation of the Second Lien Enforcement Date. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine advisable in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Debtor Relief Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent (on behalf of itself and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral, and that any Collateral in its capacity as a creditoror proceeds taken or received by it will be paid over to the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.02, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by the proviso in Section 3.1(a)(13.01(a)(ii) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)6.07. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this the proviso in Section 3.1(c3.01(a)(ii), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable Law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(cthe proviso in Section 3.01(a)(ii) and Section 6.3(b):
6.01, (1i) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and Agent (on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien Claimholder, Claimholders) agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay or impede any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and Agent (on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien Claimholder, Claimholders) hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner or order in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andCollateral.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Prospect Medical Holdings Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document Loan Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such the Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such an Event of Default and demand for payment Default, (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including otherwise (including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) ); and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(1) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 hereof and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take object to any action not otherwise in violation proposed acceptance of this Agreement Collateral by an First Lien Claimholder pursuant to Section 9-620 of the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claimsUCC. Each The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders; and
(3) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Loan Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations (including the receipt of Declined Proceeds (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement)) so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (RadNet, Inc.)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until Subject only to any express provisions of this Agreement or the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether Credit Agreements that require a Creditor to take or not refrain from taking any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantoraction, each Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise Creditor may exercise any rights or remedies its discretion with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action exercising or otherwise exercise refraining from exercising any of its rights and remedies or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of taking any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action enforcement action with respect to the Collateral ifwhich is specifically pledged under such Creditor’s respective Credit Documents. YA Global agrees not to take any action against any Account Receivable so long as the Landry Marks Debt is outstanding and this Agreement remains in effect. Landry Marks agrees, notwithstanding except as expressly set forth herein, not to take any action against the expiration YA Global Collateral (other than all Accounts Receivable) so long as the indebtedness owing from Borrower to YA Global pursuant to the YA Global Credit Documents remains outstanding and this Agreement remains in effect. The parties agree that YA Global may at its option take any action to accelerate payment of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the indebtedness owing by Borrower to YA Global and to foreclose or realize upon or enforce any of the YA Global Collateral (prompt notice other than any Accounts Receivable) and to exercise any other rights YA Global may have, without the prior consent of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor Landry Marks; provided, that YA Global shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may not take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest to foreclose or object realize upon or to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination security interests and Liens granted by Borrower in or on any of the Standstill Period to Landry Marks Collateral. Additionally, the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral parties agree that Landry Marks may at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) its option take any action not otherwise in violation to accelerate payment of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral all or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality portion of the foregoing, unless Landry Marks Debt and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right to foreclose or realize upon or enforce any of the Second Lien Landry Marks Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to exercise any other rights Landry Marks may have, without the extent granted therein and to receive a share prior consent of the proceeds thereofYA Global; provided, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders will Landry Marks may not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents to foreclose or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer realize upon or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the its rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to security interests and Liens granted by Borrower in or on the YA Global Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this AgreementAccounts Receivable.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement (TXP Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against Holdings, the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Creditors will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement, if any, to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Second-Lien Claimholder take Creditor is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Enforcement Action Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First First-Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until shall have the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredexclusive right, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Second-Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by Creditor, all as though the First Liens of the Second-Lien Collateral Agent under the Second-Lien Documents did not exist; provided, that (A) in excess any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of those necessary interest with respect to achieve a Discharge the Second-Lien Obligations, (B) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of First the First-Lien Obligations are distributed Collateral Agent or the other First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Collateral in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement and applicable law(C) the Second-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of itself and the Second-Lien Creditors, and each other applicable Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Credit Documents), agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First the First-Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second-Lien Credit Documents and applicable law.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Creditors, and each other applicable Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Credit Documents), (i) agrees that such Second the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and Second the other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies with respect to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the First-Lien Obligations to the Second- Lien Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second-Lien Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First-Lien Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or on the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First First-Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the Second-Lien Claimholder; andCreditors.
(3d) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Second-Lien Collateral Security Documents or any other applicable Second Second-Lien Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien BlueBay Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other GrantorCredit Party: (i) IESA (including, each Second for avoidance of doubt, in its capacity as a holder of IESA Pari Passu Obligations and IESA Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1Obligations) will not commence or maintain, (A) exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including recoupment or setoff (whether by contract or by operation of law), proxy or other voting rights) with respect to the Collateral; provided any Shared Collateral or institute or commence, or join with any Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), provided, that each Second Lien Collateral Agent IESA may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or and remedies after the passage as a result of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any an Event of Default under (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment IESA Credit Agreement after the passage of all 270 days after the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations occurrence of such Event of Default and demand for payment the receipt by the Agent of written notice that the IESA Obligations are currently due and payable in full in accordance with the terms of the IESA Credit Agreement as a result thereof (the “Standstill Period”); provided, provided further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall IESA exercise any Second Lien Collateral Agent rights or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action remedies with respect to the Shared Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of their rights or and remedies in each case with respect to all the Collateral or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) thereof or (iiB) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Secured Parties or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Secured Parties, of any rights and remedies relating to the Shared Collateral under the First Lien Loan BlueBay Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder the Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Shared Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including recoupment or set-off, recoupment off (whether by contract or by operation of law) and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of IESA (including, for avoidance of doubt, in its capacity as a holder of IESA Pari Passu Obligations and IESA Second-Lien Obligations), all as though the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien IESA Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawdid not exist. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Shared Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan BlueBay Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of the Shared Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
IESA (1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agentincluding, for itself and on behalf avoidance of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderdoubt, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral whether in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge holder of First IESA Pari Passu Obligations or IESA Second-Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this AgreementObligations). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred.
(di) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders it will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderBlueBay Documents, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Shared Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Collateral Document or subordinate the priority of the BlueBay Obligations to the IESA Obligations, or that would grant the Liens securing the IESA Second-Lien Obligations a ranking equal to the Liens securing the IESA Pari Passu Obligations or the BlueBay Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other subject to the extent permitted by applicable Second Lien Claimholderlaw, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien Lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the First Lien BlueBay Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementBlueBay Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Secured Parties is adverse to the interest of any Second IESA (including, for avoidance of doubt, in its capacity as a holder of IESA Pari Passu Obligations and IESA Second-Lien Claimholder; andObligations).
(3c) each Second Lien Collateral Agent IESA hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien IESA Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien IESA Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Secured Parties with respect to the BlueBay Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan BlueBay Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (Atari Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each : (i)
(x) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Claimholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateralexercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder is a party) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided provided, however, that each the Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) from the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event delivery of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which a notice in writing to the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from of its intention to exercise its right to take such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment actions (the “Standstill Period”"STANDSTILL PERIOD"); provided, further, that however, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other the exercise of any of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral and (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2y) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Claimholder, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3z) subject to their its rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (i)(x) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any the respective interests of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, thereof subject to the relative priorities described in Section 3.1(a)(1), 2 hereof and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided provided, that (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, (B) the Second Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of or the First Lien Obligations are distributed Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Collateral, (C) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including without limitation any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of this Agreement (D) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either the Bankruptcy Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (E) the Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any proof of claim and applicable lawother filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral and (F) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period in accordance with clause (i)(x) above. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth above, in the event that items (a), (b) and (c) Notwithstanding of the foregoingdefinition of "Discharge of First Lien Obligations" have been satisfied but First Lien Claimholders have outstanding commitments under the First Lien Credit Agreement that have not been terminated, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of then the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Section 3.1(a) shall not be applicable.
(b) The Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral itself and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateralagrees that, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred (other than pursuant to clause (d) of the definition thereof), except as expressly provided in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and of this Section 3.1(c)Agreement, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of the First Lien Obligations has occurred.occurred in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Credit Documents and applicable law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth above, in the event that items (a), (b) and (c) of the definition of "Discharge of First Lien Obligations" have been satisfied but First Lien Claimholders have outstanding commitments under the First Lien Credit Agreement that have not been terminated, then the provisions of this Section 3.1(b) shall not be applicable
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a)) of this Agreement, 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien Claimholder; andClaimholders.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Credit Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (American Reprographics CO)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent (i) the Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, (x) exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including set-off) with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien any Common Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action in respect of any Noteholder Claims, institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage (including any action of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”foreclosure); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (iy) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to the Common Collateral by the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender in respect of Senior Lender Claims, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Noteholder either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise in respect of Senior Lender Claims, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder(z) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, Common Collateral in each case so long respect of Senior Lender Claims and (ii) except as any proceeds received by the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)otherwise provided herein, the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any Noteholder; provided, however, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Company, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims and (B) the Trustee may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the Senior Lender Claims, or the rights of the Credit Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect the perfection and priority (vis-a-vis Persons other Second than the Senior Lenders) of its Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by on the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawCommon Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Lender Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action Senior Lender Claims has not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to occurred, the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral AgentTrustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not not, in the context of its role as secured creditor, take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Common Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge respect of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)Noteholder Claims. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(athe proviso in clause (ii) and 6.3(b) and this of Section 3.1(c3.1 (a), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral in respect of Noteholder Claims pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(athe proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.l(a), 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Credit Agent or the Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Common Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreementrespect of Senior Lender Claims, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Noteholders.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent The Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Noteholder Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each :
(i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1A) from the date hereof until the occurrence of the Second Lien Enforcement Date, will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take maintain any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First any Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to held by it under the Second Lien Collateral Agents) Documents or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any other Second Lien Collateral Agent Loan Document or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6)otherwise;
(2B) will not contest, protest or object to, or otherwise interfere with, hinder, limit, prohibit or delay, (or take any action that could reasonably be expected to hinder, delay, limit or prohibit) in any foreclosure proceeding manner (whether by judicial proceedings or action brought by otherwise, including without limitation the First Lien Collateral Agent filing or commencement of or joining any First Lien Claimholder petition commencing any Insolvency or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Loan Documents or otherwise;(including Liquidation Proceeding) any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and, provided that the respective interests of the Second Lien Claimholders attach to the proceeds thereof, subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2 and Section 4;
(3C) subject to their the rights of the Second Lien Collateral Agent under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (i)(A) above, will not contest, protest or object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action Enforcement Action;
(D) have no right to (i) direct either the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Control Agent, or any other First Lien Claimholder to exercise any right, remedy or power with respect to the Collateral or pursuant to the First Lien Loan Documents or (ii) consent or object to the exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Control Agent, or any other First Lien Claimholder of any rights right, remedy or remedies relating power with respect to the CollateralCollateral or pursuant to the First Lien Loan Documents or to the timing or manner in which any such right is exercised or not exercised (or, to the extent they may have any such right described in each case so long this clause (D) as a junior lien creditor or otherwise, they hereby irrevocably waive such right);
(E) will not oppose or otherwise contest any proceeds received motion for relief from the automatic stay or from any injunction against foreclosure or enforcement of Second Priority Liens made by any holder of First Lien Obligations or the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge any insolvency or liquidation proceedings;
(F) will not oppose or otherwise contest any lawful exercise by any holder of First Lien Obligations are distributed or the First Lien Collateral Agent of the right to credit bid First Lien Obligations at any sale in accordance foreclosure of Liens securing First Lien Obligations;
(G) will not oppose or otherwise contest any other request for judicial relief made in any court by any holder of First Lien Obligations or the First Lien Collateral Agent relating to the lawful enforcement of any First Priority Lien;
(H) will not challenge the validity, enforceability, perfection or priority of the Liens securing First Lien Obligations; and
(I) will not object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other holder of First Lien Obligations may seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing First Lien Obligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other holder of First Lien Obligations is, or could be, adverse to the interests of the Second Lien Holders, and will not assert, and hereby waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any right to demand, request, plead or otherwise assert or claim the benefit of any marshaling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may be available under applicable law with Section 4.1 and respect to Collateral or any similar rights a junior secured creditor may have under applicable law.
(bii) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1)5.1, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and and, if applicable, maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rightsand, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), and subject to Section 5.1connection with such Enforcement Action, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that:
(A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, may file claims or statements of interest with respect to all or any portion of the Second Lien Obligations,
(B) the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Claimholders, agrees that it will not retain any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with any Enforcement Action against any Collateral, and that any Collateral or proceeds taken or received by it in connection with any Enforcement Action will be applied in accordance with Section 4.1 unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, other than the receipt of reorganization securities as expressly provided in Section 6.8;
(C) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholders, including without limitation, actions seeking to avoid or challenge any Liens upon the Collateral or actions against the Second Lien Claimholders, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(D) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either Bankruptcy Law or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(E) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Claimholders shall be entitled to vote on any plan of reorganization, composition or arrangement (including, without limitation, vote to accept or reject any plan of partial or complete liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, composition or extension) to the extent consistent with the provisions hereof with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided, however, that the Second Lien Claimholders agree not to vote in favor of any plan of reorganization, liquidation, composition or arrangement that contests the attachment, perfection, priority, or validity of the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations or the provisions or application of hereof if such plan is not supported by the First Lien Claimholders;
(F) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral upon the occurrence and during the effective continuation of the Second Lien Enforcement Date;
(G) the Second Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof and not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect its Lien on the Collateral;
(H) the Second Lien Collateral Agent may join (but not exercise any control over) a judicial foreclosure or Lien enforcement proceeding with respect to the Collateral initiated by First Lien Collateral Agent, to the extent that such action could not reasonably be expected to interfere materially with the Enforcement Action, but no Second Lien Claimholder may receive any proceeds thereof unless expressly permitted herein;
(I) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private, or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by any First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations;
(J) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may take any action to seek and obtain specific performance or injunctive relief to compel a Grantor to comply with (or not violate or breach) an obligation under the Second Lien Documents, so long as (i) such action is not accompanied by a claim for monetary damages or a collection action, and (ii) such action does not, in any material respect, restrain, hinder, delay or otherwise interfere with the exercise of remedies by the First Lien Collateral Agent, the First Lien Lenders, or the Control Agent;
(K) the Second Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those or any Second Lien Claimholder may take any action to the extent necessary to achieve prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitations or similar restriction on claims, or to assert a Discharge of First compulsory cross-claim or counterclaim against any Grantor, so long as such action is not accompanied by a collection action;
(L) the Second Lien Obligations are distributed Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may inspect or appraise the Collateral or to receive information or reports concerning the Collateral, in each case in accordance with Section 4.1 the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law; and
(M) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder may enforce the terms of any subordination agreement with respect to any Indebtedness subordinated to the Second Lien Obligations so long as such enforcement is consistent with the terms hereof and not accompanied by a claim for monetary damages or a collection action. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Claimholders to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the foregoingSecond Lien Claimholders, agrees that at any time prior to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations and after (a) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of any Grantor or (b) the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither have received written notice from the First Lien Collateral Agent nor at the direction of an Act of Required Debtholders stating that (i) any First Lien Claimholder will object Debt has become due and payable in full (whether at maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise) or (ii) the holders of Liens securing First Lien Debt have become entitled under any First Lien Document to and desire to enforce any or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms all of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or Priority Liens by reason of a default under such First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motionDocuments, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and or recoupment) with respect to any Collateral, and that any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until or such proceeds taken or received by it upon demand by the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredCollateral Agent will be paid over to the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.2, except as expressly provided in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement)6.8. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c3.1(a)(ii), the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred or receive reorganization securities as expressly provided in Section 6.8, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law and otherwise take actions with respect to the Collateral permitted by this Agreement. All proceeds of Collateral received by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholders not in violation of this Agreement will be received by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholders, as applicable, free from the First Priority Liens and all other Liens except the Second Priority Liens.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso to clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, agrees that such (i) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay or impede any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderClaimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise with respect to the First Lien Collateral to object to the manner or order in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders is adverse to any of the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andCollateral Agent or the Second Lien Claimholders.
(3d) each The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the The Second Lien Collateral Agents Agent hereby acknowledges and the agrees that it will not institute any suit or other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company proceeding or assert in any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any suit, Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to or other proceeding any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to claim against the First Lien Obligations) in Collateral Agent, the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d)Control Agent, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second First Lien Claimholder seeking damages from or other relief by way of the required payments of interestspecific performance, principal injunction or otherwise, with respect to, and other amounts owed in respect of the Second no First Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies Claimholder, the First Lien Collateral Agent or the Control Agent shall be liable for, any other First Lien Claimholder may have action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts or pursuant to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunderLoan Documents, other than as expressly set forth in Section 3.2(c).
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Samples: Intercreditor Agreement (AMERICAN EAGLE ENERGY Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the Second Lien ClaimholdersPriority Secured Parties:
(1i) will not commence or maintain, or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided that each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent declared the existence and continuation of any “Event of Default (and as defined in) Default” under any Second Lien Document Priority Indenture Documents and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; Priority Obligations and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent received written notice from such the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent of such declarations declaration of such an “Event of Default and demand for payment Default” or “event of default,” as applicable, (the “Standstill Period”) (provided that the Second Priority Collateral Agent shall have given the First Priority Collateral Agent at least 10 days written notice prior to such Enforcement Action, which notice may be given during the pendency of the applicable Standstill Period); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take Priority Secured Party exercise any Enforcement Action rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or the First Lien Priority Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies (or shall have sought or requested relief or modification of the automatic stay or any other stay in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding to enable the commencement and pursuit thereof) in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Agent);
(2ii) will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Priority Claimholder or any other exercise by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any First Lien Priority Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First Lien Priority Loan Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) andotherwise;
(3iii) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1)clause (a)(i) above, will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein;
(iv) will not take or cause to be taken any action, the purpose or effect of which is to make any Lien in respect of any Second Priority Obligation pari passu with or senior to, or give any Second Priority Secured Party any preference or priority relative to, the Liens with respect to the First Priority Obligations or the First Priority Claimholders; and
(v) will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit, Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any First Priority Claimholder or First Priority Collateral Agent seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, injunction or otherwise, with respect to, and no First Priority Claimholder or First Priority Collateral Agent shall be liable to the Second Priority Collateral Agent or any Second Priority Secured Party for, any action taken or omitted to be taken by such First Priority Claimholder or First Priority Collateral Agent with respect to any Collateral or pursuant to the First Priority Loan Documents.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i), the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the First Lien Priority Claimholders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-set off, recoupment and the right to “credit bid bid” their debt, except that the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Priority Secured Parties shall have the “credit bid bid” rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(63.1(c)(vi))) and, and subject to Section 5.1, to make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Secured Party; provided that any proceeds received by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 the UCC and other applicable law, subject to the relative priorities described herein. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the First Lien Priority Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Priority Loan Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with or consent of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder Priority Secured Party and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Secured Party. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and any other Second Lien Claimholder Priority Secured Party may:
(1i) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Priority Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2ii) take any action (not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Priority Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or the First Lien Priority Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, ) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement)Collateral;
(3iii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien ClaimholdersPriority Secured Parties, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4iv) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Priority Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related relating to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Priority Secured Party may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5v) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(13.1(a)(i);; and
(6vi) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Priority Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Priority Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each The Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable itself and the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Secured Parties, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (this Agreement to the extent the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders Priority Secured Parties are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and ), 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders Priority Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Priority Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Priority Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and (c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1i) each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Secured Parties, agrees that such the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders Priority Secured Parties will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies under the First Lien Priority Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2ii) each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Secured Parties, hereby waives any and all rights it or such the Second Lien Priority Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder seeks Priority Claimholders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Priority Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Priority Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Priority Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders is adverse to the interest of any the Second Lien ClaimholderPriority Secured Parties; and
(3iii) each the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Priority Security Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Priority Indenture Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Priority Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in To the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent and the other Second Lien Claimholders Priority Secured Parties may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Priority Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents Priority Indenture Documents, and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder Priority Secured Party becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Priority Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Priority Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Priority Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Priority Secured Parties of the required payments of interest, principal principal, premium, fees and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Priority Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any the Second Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder Priority Secured Parties of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-set off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreementthem. Nothing in this Agreement impairs shall impair or otherwise adversely affects affect any rights or remedies the First Lien Priority Collateral Agent or any other the First Lien Claimholder Priority Claimholders may have with respect to the First Lien Priority Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Indenture (GOOD TECHNOLOGY Corp)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Borrower or Guarantor, (i) the Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Bridge Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Bridge Lenders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); providedremedies, furtherincluding, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrarywithout limitation, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6);
(2) will not of foreclosure, contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any Blocked Account Agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Bridge Agent or any Bridge Lender is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Common Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-offincluding, recoupment without limitation, setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Bridge Agent or the Bridge Lenders (and the Bridge Agent and the Bridge Lenders shall be deemed to have consented to any such enforcement, exercise or determination); provided, however, (A) that in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Second Lien Claimholder; provided that Guarantor, the Bridge Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Bridge Lender Claims, and (B) the Bridge Agent may take any proceeds received by action not adverse to the First Lien Liens on the Common Collateral Agent securing the Senior Lender Claims in excess of those necessary order to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed preserve or protect its rights in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthe Common Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include include, without limitation, the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws bankruptcy or similar laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral The Bridge Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Bridge Lenders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b(ii) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Bridge Agent and the Second Lien Claimholders Bridge Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Bridge Lender Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in Section 3.1(a)) (ii) above, 3.1(c(a) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral the Bridge Agent, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Bridge Lenders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral the Bridge Agent and Second Lien Claimholders the Bridge Lenders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Senior Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2b) each Second Lien Collateral the Bridge Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Bridge Lenders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Bridge Lenders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Senior Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Senior Lender Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Samples: Bridge Facility Intercreditor Agreement (Acg Holdings Inc)
Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company Borrower or any other Grantor, each Second : (i) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders:
(1) Creditors will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Collateral (including, without limitation, the Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any or all such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) right under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on lockbox agreement, control account agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Second-Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Second-Lien Claimholder take Creditor is a party) or institute or commence, or join with any Enforcement Action Person in commencing, any action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their such rights or remedies in each case with respect to all (including any action of foreclosure, enforcement, collection or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to execution and any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take any action expressly permitted by Section 6Proceeding);
(2) , and will not contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor or any other exercise by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First other First-Lien Claimholder Creditor, of any rights and remedies relating to the Collateral under the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any First the other First-Lien Claimholder Creditors from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by ; and (ii) the First First-Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until shall have the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurredexclusive E-10 right, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Agent and the First Required First-Lien Claimholders Creditors shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise instruct the First-Lien Collateral Agent, to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment setoff and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent or any other Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor, all as though the Second-Lien Subordinated Obligations did not exist; provided that provided, that, (A) in any proceeds received Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the First Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second-Lien Subordinated Obligations, (B) the Second-Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Collateral securing the First-Lien Obligations, or the rights of the First-Lien Collateral Agent or the other First-Lien Creditors to exercise remedies in excess respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Shared Collateral in a manner not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of those this Agreement, and (C) the Second-Lien Creditors shall be entitled to file any necessary responsive or defensive pleading in opposition to achieve any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second-Lien Creditors, including any claim secured by the Shared Collateral, if any, in each case in a Discharge manner not otherwise inconsistent with the terms of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawthis Agreement. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral, the First First-Lien Collateral Agent and the First other First-Lien Claimholders Creditors may enforce the provisions of the First First-Lien Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second itself and the Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditors, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentsetoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCollateral, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent and the Second other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors with respect to the Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral pursuant to the Second Second-Lien Collateral Subordinated Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First First-Lien Obligations has occurredoccurred in accordance with the terms of the Second-Lien Subordinated Notes Documents and applicable law (it being understood that at no time shall the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second-Lien Creditors have any rights with respect to the Excluded Collateral).
(dc) Subject to Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(c) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Creditors, and each other applicable Second Second-Lien ClaimholderCreditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Subordinated Notes Documents), (i) agrees that such Second the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and Second the other Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors will not take any action that would hinder hinder, delay, limit or prohibit any exercise of remedies under the First First-Lien Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderCredit Documents, including any collection, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, or that would limit, invalidate, avoid or set aside any Lien or Security Document or subordinate the priority of the First-Lien Obligations to the Second-Lien Subordinated Obligations or grant the Liens securing the Second-Lien Subordinated Obligations equal ranking to the Liens securing the First-Lien Obligations and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholder, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second the Second-Lien Claimholders Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise (whether arising under the UCC or under any other law) to object to the manner in which the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any the other First First-Lien Claimholder seeks Creditors seek to enforce or collect the First First-Lien Obligations or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First First-Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementCollateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First First-Lien Collateral Agent or any other First First-Lien Claimholder Creditors is adverse to the interest of any Second the Second-Lien Claimholder; and
(3) each Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder with respect to the Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan DocumentsCreditors.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second The Second-Lien Collateral Agents Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second-Lien Creditors, and each Second-Lien Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of the Second-Lien Subordinated Notes Documents) agrees that the Second-Lien Collateral Agent and the other Second Second-Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against Creditors will not, without the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms prior written consent of the Second Required First-Lien Documents and applicable law Creditors (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case the First-Lien Collateral Agent at their direction or proceeding under with their consent), issue any Insolvency payment blockage or Liquidation Proceeding similar notice with respect to any Grantor); provided obligations that are subordinated in the event that right of payment to any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second First-Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreementbefore the Discharge of First-Lien Credit Agreement Obligations has occurred.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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Exercise of Remedies. (a) Until So long as the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the either Company or any other Grantor, each Second Lien Collateral Agent (i) the Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders:
(1) Noteholders will not commence or maintain, exercise or seek to commence or maintain, any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercise any rights or remedies (including set-off) with respect to the any Common Collateral; provided that each Second Lien Collateral Agent may commence an Enforcement Action , institute any action or otherwise exercise any or all proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies after the passage of a period of at least 150 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which such Second Lien Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Event of Default (and as defined in) under any Second Lien Document and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of any Second Lien Obligations; and (ii) the date on which the First Lien Collateral Agent received notice from such Second Lien Collateral Agent of such declarations of such Event of Default and demand for payment (the “Standstill Period”); provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Claimholder take any Enforcement Action with respect to the Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Standstill Period, (i) the First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing an Enforcement Action or other exercise of their rights or remedies in each case with respect to all or any material portion of the Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Collateral Agents) or (ii) any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (provided that in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding any Second Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Claimholder may take including any action expressly permitted by Section 6of foreclosure);
(2) will not , contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lender, the exercise of any right under any lockbox agreement, landlord waiver or bailee's letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Trustee or any Noteholder is a party, or any other exercise by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents or otherwise;(including any Enforcement Action initiated by otherwise, or supported by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder) and
(3) subject to their rights under Section 3.1(a)(1), will not object to the forbearance by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Collateral, in each case so long as any proceeds received by Common Collateral and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable law.
(b) Until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, subject to Section 3.1(a)(1), the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders shall have the exclusive right to commence and maintain an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off, recoupment off and the right to credit bid their debt, except that Second Lien Collateral Agents shall have the credit bid rights set forth in Section 3.1(c)(6)), ) and subject to Section 5.1, make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee or any other Second Noteholder; provided, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against either Company or any Grantor, the Trustee may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Noteholder Claims, and (B) the Trustee may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the Senior Lender Claims, or the rights of the Credit Agent or the Senior Lenders to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to preserve or protect its Lien Claimholder; provided that any proceeds received by on the First Lien Collateral Agent in excess of those necessary to achieve a Discharge of First Lien Obligations are distributed in accordance with Section 4.1 and applicable lawCommon Collateral. In commencing or maintaining any Enforcement Action or otherwise exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Common Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent and the First Lien Claimholders Senior Lenders may enforce the provisions of the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion in compliance with any applicable law and without consultation with the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any Second Lien Claimholder and regardless of whether any such exercise is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholderdiscretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor lender under the UCC Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(cb) Notwithstanding the foregoingThe Trustee, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and any other Second Lien Claimholder may:
(1) vote, file a claim or statement of interest and take any other action not in violation of the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the Second Lien Obligations; provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor;
(2) take any action not adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or the rights of any First Lien Collateral Agent or the First Lien Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof, in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its Lien on the Collateral and neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any First Lien Claimholder will object to or contest, or otherwise support any other person in contesting or objecting to, any such action taken in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (provided that nothing herein shall prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or First Lien Claimholders from enforcing this Agreement);
(3) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Claimholders, including any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) vote on any plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, file any proof of claim, make other filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Obligations and the Collateral; provided that no filing of any claim or vote, or pleading related to such claim or vote, to accept or reject a disclosure statement, plan of reorganization, arrangement, compromise or liquidation, or any other document, agreement or proposal similar to the foregoing by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement;
(5) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1);
(6) bid for or purchase Collateral at any public, private or judicial foreclosure upon such Collateral initiated by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder, or any sale of Collateral during an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; provided that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Second Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of First Lien Obligations; and
(7) take any action not otherwise in violation of this Agreement to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims. Each Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderitself and the Noteholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupmentoff) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditorCommon Collateral, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except in connection with any foreclosure expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Second Lien Collateral Agents and Second Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 4.2 of this Agreement). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a) and 6.3(b) and this Section 3.1(c)above, the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agents Trustee and the Second Lien Claimholders Noteholders with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Collateral Noteholder Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations the Senior Lender Claims has occurred.
(dc) Subject to Sections the proviso in clause (ii) of Section 3.1(a)) above, 3.1(c(i) and Section 6.3(b):
(1) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and or on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, agrees that such Second Lien Collateral Agent the Trustee and Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders will not take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the Credit Agent under the First Lien Senior Loan Documents or is otherwise prohibited hereunderDocuments, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
, and (2ii) each Second Lien Collateral Agentthe Trustee, for itself and on behalf of each other applicable Second Lien Claimholderthe Noteholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Second Lien Claimholders the Noteholders may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder seeks the Senior Lenders seek to enforce or collect the First Lien Obligations Senior Lender Claims or the Liens securing the First Lien Obligations granted in any of the First Lien Collateral undertaken in accordance with this AgreementSenior Lender Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder Senior Lenders is adverse to the interest of any Second Lien Claimholder; andthe Noteholders.
(3d) each Second Lien Collateral Agent The Trustee hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the applicable Second Lien Collateral Documents or any other applicable Second Lien Noteholder Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Credit Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder the Senior Lenders with respect to the Common Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First Lien Loan Senior Lender Documents.
(e) Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, the Second Lien Collateral Agents and the other Second Lien Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as unsecured creditors against the Company or any other Grantor that has guaranteed or granted Liens to secure the Second Lien Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Documents and applicable law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any Grantor); provided that in the event that any Second Lien Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the Second Lien Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the First Lien Obligations) in the same manner as the other Liens securing the Second Lien Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Except as specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a) and 3.1(d), nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agents or any other Second Lien Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Second Lien Claimholder of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off and recoupment) or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien held by any of them or as a result of any other violation by any Second Lien Claimholder of the express terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other First Lien Claimholder may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral.
(g) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver simultaneous written notice to each Second Lien Collateral Agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent commencing any Enforcement Action; provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not impair the validity of such Enforcement Action or give rise to liability hereunder.
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