Joint and Several Borrowers. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, except as hereinafter provided, each Borrower shall be jointly and severally liable as primary obligor and not merely as surety for repayment of all Obligations of any PR Borrower arising under the Loan Documents. Such joint and several liability shall apply to each Borrower regardless of whether (i) any Loan was only requested on behalf of or made to another Borrower or the proceeds of any Loan were used only by another Borrower, (ii) any interest rate election was made only on behalf of another Borrower, or (iii) any indemnification obligation or any other obligation arose only as a result of the actions of another Borrower; provided the liability of each of the PR Borrowers under this Agreement, the Notes and the other Loan Documents shall be limited to the Obligations of the PR Borrowers. Each Borrower shall retain any right of contribution arising under applicable law against the other Borrowers as the result of the satisfaction of any Obligations; provided, such rights are hereby fully subordinated in all respects to the payment in full of the Obligations, no Borrower shall assert such right of contribution against any other Borrower until 93 days after the Facility Termination Date, and each Borrower shall hold in trust and separate from its other property any funds or other property received on account of any such right of contribution and pay the same over to the Administrative Agent for application to the Obligations until payment in full of the Obligations. (b) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.15, SEI hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of each of the PR Borrowers, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any other Senior Secured Party. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection. (c) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.15, each PR Borrower hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the other PR Borrower, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any other Senior Secured Party. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection. (d) It is the intention of the parties that with respect to each Borrower, its obligations under Sections 2.15(a), (b) and (c) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective of: (i) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement, any Note, or any other Loan Document as to any other Borrowers; (ii) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender: (A) to enforce any right or remedy against any other Borrower or any other Person under the provisions of this Agreement, any Note, any other Loan Document or otherwise, or (B) to exercise any right or remedy against any guarantor of, or Collateral securing, any Obligations; (iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower; (iv) any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower or any other Person for any reason including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to (and each Borrower hereby waives any right to or claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise or unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence affecting, any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower; (v) any addition, exchange, release, surrender or nonperfection of any collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition of, or consent to departure from, any guaranty, held by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note securing any of the Obligations; or (vi) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any other Borrower, any surety or any guarantor. (e) Each Borrower agrees that its joint and several liability hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment (in whole or in part) of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must be restored by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note, upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any other Borrower as though such payment had not been made. (f) Each Borrower hereby expressly waives: (i) notice of the Lenders’ acceptance of this Agreement; (ii) notice of the existence or creation or non-payment of all or any of the Obligations; (iii) notice of the release of any Borrower; (iv) presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, and all other notices whatsoever other than notices expressly provided for in this Agreement or by applicable law; and (v) all diligence in collection or protection of or realization upon the Obligations or any thereof, any obligation hereunder, or any security for or guaranty of any of the foregoing. (g) No delay on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any right or remedy shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender of any right or remedy shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. No action of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender permitted hereunder shall in any way affect or impair any of their rights or any of their obligations to any of the Borrowers under this Agreement (except as otherwise waived, modified, or amended). (h) Until the Facility Termination Date, SEI hereby unconditionally subordinates all present and future debts, liabilities or obligations now or hereafter owing to SEI (i) of any of the PR Borrowers, to the payment in full of any Obligations of the PR Borrowers, (ii) of each Guarantor, to the payment in full of the obligations of each such Guarantor under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, and (iii) of each other Person now or hereafter constituting a Loan Party, to the payment in full of the obligations of such Loan Party under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents. All amounts due under such subordinated debts, liabilities or obligations shall, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, be collected and, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, be paid over forthwith to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders on account of the Obligations or such other obligations, as applicable, and, after such request and pending such payment, shall be held by SEI as agent and bailee of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders separate and apart from all other funds, property and accounts of SEI.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Stewart Enterprises Inc), Credit Agreement (Stewart Enterprises Inc)
Joint and Several Borrowers. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, except as hereinafter provided, each Borrower shall be jointly and severally liable as primary obligor and not merely as surety for repayment of all Obligations of any PR Borrower arising under the Loan Documents. Such joint and several liability shall apply to each Borrower regardless of whether (i) any Loan was only requested on behalf of or made to another Borrower or the proceeds of any Loan were used only by another Borrower, (ii) any interest rate election was made only on behalf of another Borrower, or (iii) any indemnification obligation or any other obligation arose only as a result of the actions of another Borrower; provided the liability of each of the PR Borrowers under this Agreement, the Notes and the other Loan Documents shall be limited to the Obligations of the PR Borrowers. Each Borrower shall retain any right of contribution arising under applicable law against the other Borrowers as the result of the satisfaction of any Obligations; provided, such rights are hereby fully subordinated in all respects to the payment in full of the Obligations, no Borrower shall assert such right of contribution against any other Borrower until 93 days after the Facility Termination Date, and each Borrower shall hold in trust and separate from its other property any funds or other property received on account of any such right of contribution and pay the same over to the Administrative Agent for application to the Obligations until payment in full of the Obligations.
(b) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.152.8, SEI hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of each of the PR Borrowers, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender Agent or any other Senior Secured PartyLender. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.152.8, each PR Borrower hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the other PR Borrower, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender Agent or any other Senior Secured PartyLender. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(d) It is the intention of the parties that with respect to each Borrower, its obligations under Sections 2.15(a2.8(a), (b) and (c) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective of:
(i) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement, any Note, or any other Loan Document as to any other Borrowers;
(ii) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender:
(A) to enforce any right or remedy against any other Borrower or any other Person under the provisions of this Agreement, any Note, any other Loan Document or otherwise, or
(B) to exercise any right or remedy against any guarantor of, or Collateral securing, any Obligations;
(iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower;
(iv) any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower or any other Person for any reason including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to (and each Borrower hereby waives any right to or claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise or unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence affecting, any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower;
(v) any addition, exchange, release, surrender or nonperfection of any collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition of, or consent to departure from, any guaranty, held by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note securing any of the Obligations; or
(vi) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any other Borrower, any surety or any guarantor.
(e) Each Borrower agrees that its joint and several liability hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment (in whole or in part) of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must be restored by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note, upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any other Borrower as though such payment had not been made.
(f) Each Borrower hereby expressly waives: (i) notice of the Lenders’ ' acceptance of this Agreement; (ii) notice of the existence or creation or non-payment of all or any of the Obligations; (iii) notice of the release of any Borrower; (iv) presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, and all other notices whatsoever other than notices expressly provided for in this Agreement or by applicable law; and (v) all diligence in collection or protection of or realization upon the Obligations or any thereof, any obligation hereunder, or any security for or guaranty of any of the foregoing.
(g) No delay on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any right or remedy shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender of any right or remedy shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. No action of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender permitted hereunder shall in any way affect or impair any of their rights or any of their obligations to any of the Borrowers under this Agreement (except as otherwise waived, modified, or amended).
(h) Until this Agreement is terminated in accordance with the Facility Termination Dateterms hereof, SEI hereby unconditionally subordinates all present and future debts, liabilities or obligations now or hereafter owing to SEI (i) of any of the PR Borrowers, to the payment in full of any Obligations of the PR Borrowers, (ii) of each Guarantor, to the payment in full of the obligations of each such Guarantor under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, and (iii) of each other Person now or hereafter constituting a Loan Credit Party, to the payment in full of the obligations of such Loan Credit Party under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents. All amounts due under such subordinated debts, liabilities or obligations shall, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, be collected and, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, be paid over forthwith to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders on account of the Obligations or such other obligations, as applicable, and, after such request and pending such payment, shall be held by SEI as agent and bailee of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders separate and apart from all other funds, property and accounts of SEI.
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Joint and Several Borrowers. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision Each Borrower represents to the Credit Parties that each Loan Party is an integral part of this Agreementa consolidated enterprise, except as hereinafter providedand that each Loan Party will receive direct and indirect benefits from the availability of the joint credit facility provided for herein, each and from the ability to access the collective credit resources of the consolidated enterprise which the Loan Parties comprise.
(b) Each Borrower is, and at all times shall be be, jointly and severally liable as primary obligor for each and not merely as surety every one of the Obligations, regardless of which Loan Party requested, received, used, or directly enjoyed the benefit of the extensions of credit hereunder. All of the Collateral shall secure all of the Obligations. Each Loan Party's obligations are independent obligations and are absolute and unconditional. Each Borrower, to the extent permitted by law, hereby waives any defense to such obligations that may arise by reason of the disability or other defense or cessation of liability of any other Loan Party for repayment any reason other than the indefeasible payment in full of all Obligations of the Obligations. Each Borrower also waives any PR Borrower arising under the Loan Documents. Such joint and several liability shall apply defense to each Borrower regardless of whether (i) any Loan was only requested on behalf of or made to another Borrower or the proceeds of any Loan were used only by another Borrower, (ii) any interest rate election was made only on behalf of another Borrower, or (iii) any indemnification obligation or any other obligation arose only such obligations that it may have as a result of a Credit Party's election of or failure to exercise any right, power, or remedy, including, without limitation, the actions failure to proceed first against such other Loan Party or any security it holds for such other Loan Party's obligations under any Loan Document, if any. Without limiting the generality of another Borrower; provided the foregoing, each Borrower expressly waives all demands and notices whatsoever (except for any demands or notices, if any, that such Borrower expressly is entitled to receive pursuant to the terms of any Loan Document), and agrees that the Credit Parties may, without notice (except for such notice, if any, as such Borrower expressly is entitled to receive pursuant to the terms of any Loan Document) and without releasing the liability of each such Borrower, extend for the benefit of any other Loan Party the time for making any payment, waive or extend the performance of any agreement or make any settlement of any agreement for the benefit of any other Loan Party, and may proceed against any Loan Party, directly and independently of any other Loan Party, as such obligee may elect in accordance with this Agreement.
(c) Each Borrower acknowledges that the obligations of the PR Borrowers under this Agreement, the Notes and Loan Parties undertaken herein or in the other Loan Documents, and the grants of security interests and liens by such Loan Party to secure obligations of any other Loan Party could be construed to consist, at least in part, of the guaranty of obligations of the other Loan Party and, in full recognition of that fact, each Borrower consents and agrees to the provisions hereinafter set forth in the balance of this Section 2.16. The consents, waivers, and agreements of the Borrowers that are contained in the balance of this Section 2.16 are intended to deal with the suretyship aspects of the transactions evidenced by the Loan Documents (to the extent that a Loan Party may be deemed a guarantor or surety for the obligations of another Loan Party) and thus are intended to be effective and applicable only to the extent that any Loan Party has agreed to answer for the obligations of another Loan Party or has granted a lien or security interest in Collateral to secure the obligations of another Loan Party. Conversely, the consents, waivers, and agreements of the Borrowers that are contained in the balance of this Section 2.16 shall not be limited applicable to the direct obligations of a Loan Party with respect to the credit extended directly to such Loan Party, and shall not be applicable to security interests or liens on Collateral of a Loan Party given to directly secure direct obligations of such Loan Party where no aspect of guaranty or suretyship is involved. Each Borrower consents and agrees that the Credit Parties may, at any time and from time to time, without notice or demand, whether before or after any actual or purported termination, repudiation or revocation of this Agreement by any one or more Loan Parties, and without affecting the enforceability or continuing effectiveness hereof as to such Loan Party, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents: (i) Supplement, restate, modify, amend, increase, decrease or waive, or enter into or give any agreement, approval or consent with respect to, the Obligations or any part thereof, or any of the Loan Documents or any security or guarantees granted or entered into by any Person(s) other than such Loan Party, or any condition, covenant, default, remedy, right, representation or term thereof or thereunder; (ii) Accept new or additional instruments, documents or agreements in exchange for or relative to any of the Loan Documents or the Obligations or any part thereof; (iii) Accept partial payments on the Obligations; (iv) Receive and hold additional security or guarantees for the Obligations or any part thereof; (v) Release, reconvey, terminate, waive, abandon, fail to perfect, subordinate, exchange, substitute, transfer or enforce any security or guarantees, and apply any security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Credit Parties in their sole and absolute discretion may determine; (vi) Release any other Person (including, without limitation, any other Loan Party) from any personal liability with respect to the Obligations or any part thereof; (vii) With respect to any Person other than such Loan Party (including, without limitation, any other Loan Party), settle, release on terms satisfactory to the Credit Parties or by operation of Applicable Law or otherwise liquidate or enforce any Obligations and any security therefor or guaranty thereof in any manner, consent to the transfer of any security and bid and purchase at any sale; or (viii) Consent to the merger, change or any other restructuring or termination of the PR Borrowers. Each Borrower shall retain corporate or partnership existence of any right of contribution arising under other Loan Party or any other Person, and correspondingly agree, in accordance with all applicable law against the other Borrowers as the result provisions of the satisfaction of any Obligations; providedLoan Documents, such rights are hereby fully subordinated in all respects to the payment in full restructure of the Obligations, no Borrower and any such merger, change, restructuring or termination shall assert such right of contribution against any other Borrower until 93 days after not affect the Facility Termination Date, and each Borrower shall hold in trust and separate from its other property any funds or other property received on account liability of any such right of contribution and pay Loan Party or the same over continuing effectiveness hereof, or the enforceability hereof with respect to the Administrative Agent for application to the Obligations until payment in full all or any part of the Obligations.
(b) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.15, SEI hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of each of the PR Borrowers, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any other Senior Secured Party. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.15, each PR Borrower hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the other PR Borrower, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any other Senior Secured Party. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(d) It is the intention of the parties that with respect to each Borrower, its obligations under Sections 2.15(a), (b) and (c) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective of:
(i) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement, any Note, or any other Loan Document as to any other Borrowers;
(ii) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender:
(A) to enforce any right or remedy against any other Borrower or any other Person under the provisions of this Agreement, any Note, any other Loan Document or otherwise, or
(B) to exercise any right or remedy against any guarantor of, or Collateral securing, any Obligations;
(iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower;
(iv) any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower or any other Person for any reason including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to (and each Borrower hereby waives any right to or claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise or unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence affecting, any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower;
(v) any addition, exchange, release, surrender or nonperfection of any collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition of, or consent to departure from, any guaranty, held by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note securing any of the Obligations; or
(vi) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any other Borrower, any surety or any guarantor.
(e) Each Borrower agrees that its joint and several liability hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment (in whole or in part) of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must be restored by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note, upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any other Borrower as though such payment had not been made.
(f) Each Borrower hereby expressly waives: (i) notice of the Lenders’ acceptance of this Agreement; (ii) notice of the existence or creation or non-payment of all or any of the Obligations; (iii) notice of the release of any Borrower; (iv) presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, and all other notices whatsoever other than notices expressly provided for in this Agreement or by applicable law; and (v) all diligence in collection or protection of or realization upon the Obligations or any thereof, any obligation hereunder, or any security for or guaranty of any of the foregoing.
(g) No delay on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any right or remedy shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender of any right or remedy shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. No action of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender permitted hereunder shall in any way affect or impair any of their rights or any of their obligations to any of the Borrowers under this Agreement (except as otherwise waived, modified, or amended).
(h) Until the Facility Termination Date, SEI hereby unconditionally subordinates all present and future debts, liabilities or obligations now or hereafter owing to SEI (i) of any of the PR Borrowers, to the payment in full of any Obligations of the PR Borrowers, (ii) of each Guarantor, to the payment in full of the obligations of each such Guarantor under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, and (iii) of each other Person now or hereafter constituting a Loan Party, to the payment in full of the obligations of such Loan Party under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents. All amounts due under such subordinated debts, liabilities or obligations shall, upon Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an any Default or Event of Default, the Credit Parties may enforce the Loan Documents independently as to each Loan Party and independently of any other remedy any Credit Party at any time may have or hold in connection with the Obligations, and it shall not be collected andnecessary for any Credit Party to marshal assets in favor of any Loan Party or any other Person or to proceed upon or against or exhaust any security or remedy before proceeding to enforce this Agreement or any other Loan Documents. Each Borrower expressly waives any right to require any Credit Party to marshal assets in favor of any other Loan Party or any other Person or to proceed against any other Loan Party or any Collateral provided by any other Loan Party or any other Person, upon and agrees that the request Credit Parties may proceed against any Loan Party or any Collateral in such order as they shall determine in their sole and absolute discretion, subject to the terms hereof.
(e) A Credit Party may file a separate action or actions against any Loan Party, whether action is brought or prosecuted with respect to any security or against any other Person, or whether any other Person is joined in any such action or actions. Each Borrower agrees, for itself, that any Credit Party and any other Loan Party, or any Affiliate of any other Loan Party (other than such Loan Party itself), may deal with each other in connection with the Obligations or otherwise, or alter any contracts or agreements now or hereafter existing between any of them, in any manner whatsoever, all without in any way altering or affecting the continuing efficacy as to such Loan Party of the Administrative AgentLoan Documents.
(f) Each Credit Party's rights hereunder shall be reinstated and revived, be paid over forthwith to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders enforceability of this Agreement shall continue, with respect to any amount at any time paid on account of the Obligations or such other obligations, as applicable, and, after such request and pending such payment, which thereafter shall be held required to be restored or returned by SEI any Credit Party (including, without limitation, the restoration or return of any amount pursuant to a court order or judgment (whether or not final or non-appealable), or pursuant to a good faith settlement of a pending or threatened avoidance or recovery action, or pursuant to good faith compliance with a demand made by a Person believed to be entitled to pursue an avoidance or recovery action (such as agent a bankruptcy trustee or a Person having the avoiding powers of a bankruptcy trustee, or similar avoiding powers), and bailee without requiring any Credit Party to oppose or litigate avoidance or recovery demands or actions that it believes in good faith to be meritorious or worthy of settlement or compliance, or pursue or exhaust appeals), all as though such amount had not been paid. The rights and priorities of the Administrative Credit Parties created or granted herein, and the enforceability of the Loan Documents, at all times shall remain effective to cover the full amount of all the Obligations even though the Obligations, including any part thereof or any other security or guaranty therefor, may be or hereafter may become invalid or otherwise unenforceable as against any Loan Party and whether or not any other Loan Party shall have any personal liability with respect thereto.
(g) To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, each Borrower, for itself, expressly waives any and all defenses now or hereafter arising or that otherwise might be asserted by reason of: (i) Any disability or other defense of any other Loan Party with respect to the Obligations or with respect to the enforceability of the Agent's security interest in any collateral securing any of the Obligations (including, without limitation, the Collateral Agent Collateral), other than by reason of the indefeasible payment in full and performance of all Obligations and termination of the Lenders separate Total Commitment; (ii) The unenforceability or invalidity of any security or guaranty for the Obligations or the lack of perfection or continuing perfection or failure of priority of any security for the Obligations; (iii) The cessation for any cause whatsoever of the liability of any other Loan Party (other than by reason of the indefeasible payment in full and apart from performance of all other funds, property Obligations and accounts termination of SEI.the Total Commitment);
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Samples: Loan Agreement (Rex Stores Corp)
Joint and Several Borrowers. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, except as hereinafter provided, each Borrower shall be jointly and severally liable as primary obligor and not merely as surety for repayment of all Obligations of any PR Borrower arising under the Loan Documents. Such joint and several liability shall apply to each Borrower regardless of whether (i) any Loan was only requested on behalf of or made to another Borrower or the proceeds of any Loan were used only by another Borrower, (ii) any interest rate election was made only on behalf of another Borrower, or (iii) any indemnification obligation or any other obligation arose only as a result of the actions of another Borrower; provided the liability of each of the PR Borrowers under this Agreement, the Notes and the other Loan Documents shall be limited to the Obligations of the PR Borrowers. Each Borrower shall retain any right of contribution arising under applicable law against the other Borrowers as the result of the satisfaction of any Obligations; provided, such rights are hereby fully subordinated in all respects to the payment in full of the Obligations, no Borrower shall assert such right of contribution against any other Borrower until 93 days after the Facility Termination Date, and each Borrower shall hold in trust and separate from its other property any funds or other property received on account of any such right of contribution and pay the same over to the Administrative Agent for application to the Obligations until payment in full of the Obligations.
(b) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.152.17, SEI hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of each of the PR Borrowers, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender Agent or any other Senior Secured PartyLender. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.152.17, each PR Borrower hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the other PR Borrower, whether owing to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender Agent or any other Senior Secured PartyLender. This guarantee constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(d) It is the intention of the parties that with respect to each Borrower, its obligations under Sections 2.15(a2.17(a), (b) and (c) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective of:
(i) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement, any Note, or any other Loan Document as to any other Borrowers;
(ii) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender:
(A) to enforce any right or remedy against any other Borrower or any other Person under the provisions of this Agreement, any Note, any other Loan Document or otherwise, or
(B) to exercise any right or remedy against any guarantor of, or Collateral securing, any Obligations;
(iii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower;
(iv) any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination of any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower or any other Person for any reason including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to (and each Borrower hereby waives any right to or claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise or unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence affecting, any Obligations with respect to any other Borrower;
(v) any addition, exchange, release, surrender or nonperfection of any collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition of, or consent to departure from, any guaranty, held by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note securing any of the Obligations; or
(vi) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any other Borrower, any surety or any guarantor.
(e) Each Borrower agrees that its joint and several liability hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment (in whole or in part) of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must be restored by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any holder of any Note, upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any other Borrower as though such payment had not been made.
(f) Each Borrower hereby expressly waives: :
(i) notice of the Lenders’ ' acceptance of this Agreement; (ii) notice of the existence or creation or non-payment of all or any of the Obligations; (iii) notice of the release of any Borrower; (iv) presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, and all other notices whatsoever other than notices expressly provided for in this Agreement or by applicable law; and (v) all diligence in collection or protection of or realization upon the Obligations or any thereof, any obligation hereunder, or any security for or guaranty of any of the foregoing.
(g) No delay on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any right or remedy shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender of any right or remedy shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. No action of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender permitted hereunder shall in any way affect or impair any of their rights or any of their obligations to any of the Borrowers under this Agreement (except as otherwise waived, modified, or amended).
(h) Until this Agreement is terminated in accordance with the Facility Termination Dateterms hereof, SEI hereby unconditionally subordinates all present and future debts, liabilities or obligations now or hereafter owing to SEI (i) of any of the PR Borrowers, to the payment in full of any Obligations of the PR Borrowers, (ii) of each Guarantor, to the payment in full of the obligations of each such Guarantor under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents, and (iii) of each other Person now or hereafter constituting a Loan Party, to the payment in full of the obligations of such Loan Party under this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents. All amounts due under such subordinated debts, liabilities or obligations shall, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, be collected and, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, be paid over forthwith to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders on account of the Obligations or such other obligations, as applicable, and, after such request and pending such payment, shall be held by SEI as agent and bailee of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders separate and apart from all other funds, property and accounts of SEI.
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