Common use of Joint Borrower Provisions Clause in Contracts

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby agrees that such Borrower is jointly and severally liable for, and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender and its successors and assigns, the full and prompt payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borrower. Each Borrower agrees that its guaranty obligation hereunder is a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurred, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and unaffected by, (i) the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release of any such security); (iv) the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or (v) any other action or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunder. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lender, to any other Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are and will be of direct and indirect interest, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers. Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and agrees that, for purposes of the Loan Documents, it receives a benefit from the availability of credit under this Agreement to all of the Borrowers.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan Agreement (Campus Crest Communities, Inc.), Loan Agreement (Campus Crest Communities, Inc.)

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Joint Borrower Provisions. (a1) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably designates, appoints and authorizes the other Borrowers as its agent and attorney-in-fact to take actions under this Agreement and any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any communication from or to any of the Borrowers (including, without limitation, any notice, consent or other instructions from any of the Borrowers) without any confirming communication from or to the other Borrowers; provided, however, that upon notice to any Borrower (which notice shall be given at the sole and absolute discretion of the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to fail or refuse to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (to the extent such action requires communication, including, without limitation, any notice, consent or other instructions, from any of the Borrowers), unless the Administrative Agent has received confirming communications from all Borrowers. Any action taken by one Borrower under this Agreement and any other Loan Document shall be conclusively binding upon the other Borrowers. (2) Each Borrower agrees that such Borrower it is jointly and severally liable for, to the Administrative Agent and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender and its successors and assigns, the full and prompt Lenders for the payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, of all Obligations owed and that such liability is independent of the liability and obligation of the other Borrowers with respect thereto, whether such Obligations are due or hereafter owing not due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated or whether such Obligations otherwise become unenforceable against the other Borrowers. Any payment by a Borrower of an Obligation shall not reduce its liability and obligation with respect to Lender by each all other BorrowerObligations hereunder. A separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against one of the Borrowers whether action is brought against the other Borrowers or whether the other Borrowers are joined in such action or actions. Each Borrower agrees that authorizes the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, without notice or demand and without affecting its guaranty obligation hereunder is a continuing guaranty of liability and obligations hereunder, from time to time, to (i) receive and hold security for the payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurredand exchange, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditionalenforce, irrespective ofwaive, and unaffected by, (i) the genuinenessrelease, validityfail to perfect, regularity, enforceability sell or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release otherwise dispose of any such security);, (ii) apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Administrative Agent in its discretion may determine, and (iii) release or substitute any one or more of endorser, guarantor or co-obligors of the Obligations. (iv3) Each Borrower waives any right to require the insolvency of Administrative Agent or the Lenders to (i) proceed against the other Borrowers, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any Borrower Party; or security, or (viii) pursue any other action remedy in the Administrative Agent's or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantorthe Lenders' power whatsoever. Each Borrower waives any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of the other Borrowers, or the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of the other Borrowers, or any claim that such Borrower's Obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of the other Borrowers. Until the Obligations shall be regardedhave been finally, irrevocably, indefeasibly paid in full, each Borrower waives any right of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution (contractual, statutory, or otherwise) including, without limitation, any claim or right of subrogation under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any successor statute, arising from the existence or performance of this Agreement, and shall be in each Borrower waives any right to enforce any remedy which the same position, as principal debtor with respect to Administrative Agent and/or the Obligations guaranteed hereunder. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with Lenders now have or may hereafter have against the other Borrowers and that waives any financial accommodations benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security hereafter held by Lenderthe Administrative Agent, to any other on behalf of the Lenders for the Obligations. Each Borrower hereunder waives all presentments, demands for performance, notices of nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor, and under notices of acceptance of this Agreement and of the existence, creation or incurring of new or additional Obligations by the other Loan Documents are and will be of direct and indirect interest, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers. . (4) Each of the Borrowers Borrower acknowledges and agrees thatthat it will have the sole responsibility for obtaining from the other Borrowers such information concerning the other Borrowers' financial conditions or business operations as such Borrower may require, for purposes and that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have no duty at any time to disclose to any Borrower any information relating to the other Borrowers, including, without limitation, information regarding its business, operations or financial condition. (5) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, if any amount paid on account of the Loan DocumentsObligations is subsequently invalidated, it receives declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid by any Lender or the Administrative Agent or paid over to a benefit from trustee, receiver or any other entity, whether under any bankruptcy act or otherwise (such payment, a "Preferential Payment"), then, to the availability extent of credit under this Agreement such Preferential Payment, the Obligations or part thereof originally intended to all of the Borrowersbe satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Credit Agreement (Macerich Co), Credit Agreement (Macerich Co)

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby agrees represents to the Agent and Lenders that such Borrower it is jointly and severally liable for, and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender and its successors and assigns, the full and prompt payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borrower. Each Borrower agrees that its guaranty obligation hereunder is an integral part of a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurredconsolidated enterprise, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute each Borrower will receive direct and unconditional, irrespective ofindirect benefits from the availability of the joint credit facility provided for herein, and unaffected by, (i) from the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument ability to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) access the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any collective credit resources of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release of any such security); (iv) the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or (v) any other action or circumstances consolidated enterprise that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunderare Borrowers. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents is, and acknowledges that it is part at all times shall be, jointly and severally liable for each and every one of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers Liabilities hereunder, regardless of which Borrower requested, received, used, or directly enjoyed the benefit of the extensions of credit hereunder. All of the Collateral shall secure all of the Liabilities. Each Borrower’s Liabilities are independent obligations and that any financial accommodations by Lenderare absolute and unconditional. Each Borrower, to the extent permitted by law, hereby waives any defense to such Liabilities that may arise by reason of the disability or other defense or cessation of liability of any other Borrower hereunder for any reason other than payment in full. Each Borrower also waives any defense to such Liabilities that it may have as a result of the Agent’s election of or failure to exercise any right, power, or remedy, including, without limitation, the failure to proceed first against such other Borrower or any security it holds for such other Borrower’s Liabilities under any Loan Document, if any. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Borrower expressly waives all demands and under 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 Agent 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 such Borrower, extend for the benefit of any other Borrower 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 Borrower, and may proceed against each Borrower, directly and independently of any other Borrower, as such obligee may elect in accordance with this Agreement. (c) Each Borrower acknowledges that the Liabilities of such Borrower undertaken herein or in the other Loan Documents are Documents, and will the grants of security interests and liens by such Borrower to secure Liabilities of the other Borrower could be construed to consist, at least in part, of direct the guaranty of Liabilities of the other Borrower and, in full recognition of that fact, each Borrower consents and indirect interestagrees as hereinafter set forth in the balance of this Section 14.24. The consents, benefit waivers, and advantage to all Borrowers. Each agreements of the Borrowers acknowledges that are contained in the balance of this Section 14.24 are intended to deal with the suretyship aspects of the transactions evidenced by the Loan Documents (to the extent that a Borrower may be deemed a guarantor or surety for the Liabilities of another Borrower) and thus are intended to be effective and applicable only to the extent that any Borrower has agreed to answer for the Liabilities of another Borrower or has granted a lien or security interest in Collateral to secure the Liabilities of another Borrower. Conversely, the consents, waivers, and agreements of the Borrowers that are contained in the balance of this Section 14.24 shall not be applicable to the direct Liabilities of a Borrower with respect to credit extended directly to such Borrower, and shall not be applicable to security interests or liens on Collateral of a Borrower given to directly secure direct Liabilities of such Borrower where no aspect of guaranty or suretyship is involved. Each Borrower consents and agrees thatthat the Lenders 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 Borrowers, and without affecting the enforceability or continuing effectiveness hereof as to such Borrower, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents: (a) supplement, restate, modify, amend, increase, decrease, extend, renew, accelerate or otherwise change the time for purposes payment or the terms of the Liabilities or any part thereof, including any increase or decrease of the rate(s) of interest thereon; (b) supplement, restate, modify, amend, increase, decrease or waive, or enter into or give any agreement, approval or consent with respect to, the Liabilities 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 Borrower, or any condition, covenant, default, remedy, right, representation or term thereof or thereunder; (c) accept new or additional instruments, documents or agreements in exchange for or relative to any of the Loan Documents or the Liabilities or any part thereof, (d) accept partial payments on the Liabilities; (e) receive and hold additional security or guarantees for the Liabilities or any part thereof, (f) 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 Lenders in their sole and absolute discretion may determine; (g) release any other Person (including, without limitation, any other Borrower) from any personal liability with respect to the Liabilities or any part thereof, (h) with respect to any Person other than such Borrower (including, without limitation, any other Borrower), settle, release on terms satisfactory to the Lenders or by operation of applicable laws or otherwise liquidate or enforce any Liabilities 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 (i) consent to the merger, change or any other restructuring or termination of the corporate or partnership existence of any other Borrower or any other Person, and correspondingly agree, in accordance with all applicable provisions of the Loan Documents, to the restructure of the Liabilities, and any such merger, change, restructuring or termination shall not affect the liability of any Borrower or the continuing effectiveness hereof, or the enforceability hereof with respect to all or any part of the Liabilities. (d) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Agent may enforce the Loan Documents independently as to each Borrower and independently of any other remedy the Agent at any time may have or hold in connection with the Liabilities, and it receives a benefit from shall not be necessary for the availability Agent to marshal assets in favor of credit under any Borrower 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 the Agent to marshal assets in favor of any Borrower or any other Person or to proceed against any other Borrower or any Collateral provided by any Person, and agrees that the Agent may proceed against Borrowers or any Collateral in such order as they shall determine in their sole and absolute discretion, subject to the terms hereof. (e) The Agent may file a separate action or actions against any Borrower, 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 the Agent and any other Borrower, or any Affiliate of any other Borrower (other than such Borrower itself), may deal with each other in connection with the Liabilities 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 Borrower of the Loan Documents. (f) The Agent’s rights hereunder shall be reinstated and revived, and the enforceability of this Agreement shall continue, with respect to any amount at any time paid on account of the Liabilities which thereafter shall be required to be restored or returned by the Agent (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 a bankruptcy trustee or a Person having the avoiding powers of a bankruptcy trustee, or similar avoiding powers), and without requiring the Agent 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 Agent 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 Liabilities even though the Liabilities, including any part thereof or any other security or guaranty therefor, may be or hereafter may become invalid or otherwise unenforceable as against any Borrower and whether or not any other Borrower 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 (a) any disability or other defense of any other Borrower with respect to the Liabilities or with respect to the enforceability of the Agent’s security interest in or Encumbrance on any collateral securing any of the Liabilities (including, without limitation, the Collateral), (b) the unenforceability or invalidity of any security or guaranty for the Liabilities or the lack of perfection or continuing perfection or failure of priority of any security for the Liabilities, (c) the cessation for any cause whatsoever of the liability of any other Borrower (other than by reason of the full payment and performance of all Liabilities), (d) any failure of the Agent to give notice of sale or other disposition of Collateral to any other Borrower or any other Person other than such waiving Borrower, or any defect in any notice that may be given to any other Borrower for any other Person other than such waiving Borrower, in connection with any sale or disposition of any collateral securing the Liabilities or any of them (including, without limitation, the Collateral), (e) any failure of the Agent to comply with applicable law in connection with the sale or other disposition of any collateral or other security for any Liabilities that is owned by another Borrower or by any other Person other than such waiving Borrower, including any failure of the Agent to conduct a commercially reasonable sale or other disposition of any such collateral or other security for any Liabilities, (f) any act or omission of the Agent or others that directly or indirectly results in or aids the discharge or release of any other Borrower, or the Liabilities of any other Borrower, or any security or guaranty therefor, by operation of law or otherwise, or (g) any law which provides that the obligation of a surety or guarantor must neither be larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal or which reduces a surety’s or guarantor’s obligation in proportion to the principal obligation. Until such time, if any, as all of the Liabilities (other than contingent Liabilities and indemnities which survive repayment of the Loans) have been paid and performed in full and no portion of any commitment of the Lenders to any Borrower under any Loan Document remains in effect, no Borrower shall have any right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement or indemnity, and each Borrower expressly waives any right to enforce any remedy that the Agent now have or hereafter may have against any other Person and waives the benefit of, or any right to participate in, any collateral now or hereafter held by the Agent. Except to the extent expressly provided for in any Loan Document, each Borrower expressly waives, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all rights or entitlements to presentments, demands for payment or performance, notices of nonpayment or nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and all other notices or demands of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the Liabilities, and all notices of acceptance of the Loan Documents or of the existence, creation or incurring of new or additional Liabilities. (h) Each Borrower hereby agrees to keep each other Borrower fully apprised at all times as to the status of its business, affairs, finances, and financial condition, and its ability to perform its Liabilities under the Loan Documents, and in particular as to any adverse developments with respect thereto. Each Borrower hereby agrees to undertake to keep itself apprised at all times as to the status of the business, affairs, finances, and financial condition of each other Borrower, and of the ability of each other Borrower to perform its Liabilities under the Loan Documents, and in particular as to any adverse developments with respect to any thereof. Each Borrower hereby agrees, in light of the foregoing mutual covenants to inform each other, and to keep themselves and each other informed as to such matters, that the Agent shall have no duty to inform any Borrower of any information pertaining to the business, affairs, finances, or financial condition of any other Borrower, or pertaining to the ability of any other Borrower to perform its Liabilities under the Loan Documents, even if such information is adverse, and even if such information might influence the decision of one or more of the Borrowers to continue to be jointly and severally liable for, or to provide Collateral for, Liabilities of one or more of the other Borrowers. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Borrower hereby expressly waives any duty of the Agent to inform any Borrower of any such information. (i) Borrowers and each of them warrant and agree that each of the waivers and consents set forth herein are made after consultation with legal counsel and with full knowledge of their significance and consequences, with the understanding that events giving rise to any defense or right waived may diminish, or otherwise adversely affect rights that Borrowers otherwise may have against other Borrowers, the Agent or others, or against Collateral, and that, under the circumstances, the waivers and consents herein given are reasonable. If any of the waivers or consents herein is determined to be contrary to any applicable law or public policy, such waivers and consents shall be effective to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Mothers Work Inc), Loan and Security Agreement (Mothers Work Inc)

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Initial Subsidiary Borrower and each future Subsidiary Borrower, by executing and delivering an Accession Agreement, hereby irrevocably designates, appoints and authorizes the Company as its agent and attorney-in- fact to take actions under this Agreement and any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Banks shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any communication from or to the Company, on behalf of any Subsidiary Borrower. In its discretion, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Banks may fail or refuse to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document based on communications from any Subsidiary Borrower. Any action taken by the Company or any Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement and any other Loan Document shall be binding upon all of the other Borrowers. (b) Without limiting any rights, powers and remedies of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Bank and the Banks under the Guaranties, each Borrower agrees that such Borrower it is jointly and severally liable for, and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender and its successors and assignsthe Administrative Agent, the full Issuing Bank and prompt the Banks for the payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, of all Obligations owed and that such liability is independent of the Obligations of the other Borrowers, whether due or hereafter owing to Lender not due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated or whether such Obligations otherwise become unenforceable. Any payment by each a Borrower shall not reduce its Obligations hereunder. A separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against one or more of the Borrowers whether action is brought against any other BorrowerBorrower or whether other Borrowers are joined in such action or actions. Each Borrower agrees that authorizes the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Banks and the Issuing Bank, without notice or demand and without affecting its guaranty obligation hereunder is a continuing guaranty of liability hereunder, from time to time, to (i) receive and hold security for the payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurredand exchange, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditionalenforce, irrespective ofwaive, and unaffected by, (i) the genuinenessrelease, validityfail to perfect, regularity, enforceability sell or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release otherwise dispose of any such security);, (ii) apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Administrative Agent in its discretion may determine, and (iii) release or substitute any one or more of the endorsers, guarantors, or co- obligors. (ivc) Each Borrower waives any right to require the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Banks to (vi) proceed against any other action Borrower, (ii) proceed against or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal exhaust any security, or equitable discharge (iii) pursue any other remedy in the Administrative Agent's, the Issuing Bank's or defense of a surety or guarantorthe Banks' power whatsoever. Each Borrower waives any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of any Borrower, or the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of any Borrower, or any claim that any Borrower's Obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of any other Borrower. Until the Obligations shall be regardedhave been paid in full, each Borrower waives any right of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution (contractual, statutory, or otherwise) including, without limitation, any claim or right of subrogation under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any successor statute, arising from the existence or performance of this Agreement, and shall be in each Borrower waives any right to enforce any remedy which the same positionAdministrative Agent, as principal debtor with respect the Issuing Bank and the Banks now have or may hereafter have against any Borrower and waives any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security now or hereafter held by the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Issuing Banks and the Banks. Each Borrower waives all presentments, demands for performance, notices of nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor, and notices of acceptance of this Agreement and of the existence, creation or incurring of new or addition Obligations guaranteed hereunderby any Borrower. (bd) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lender, to any other Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are and will be of direct and indirect interest, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers. Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and agrees thatthat it will have the sole responsibility for obtaining from each other Borrower such information concerning such other Borrower's financial conditions or business operations as such Borrower may require, for purposes and that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Banks have no duty at any time to disclose to any Borrower any information relating to the business operations or financial condition of the Loan Documents, it receives a benefit from the availability of credit under this Agreement to all of the Borrowersany other Borrower.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Credit Agreement (Jacobs Engineering Group Inc /De/)

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that such Borrower is it shall be jointly and severally liable forfor the Loan and all other Obligations arising under this Agreement and/or any of the other Loan Documents. In furtherance thereof, each Borrower acknowledges and agrees as follows: (a) For the purpose of implementing the joint borrower provisions of the Loan Documents, each Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints each other Borrower as its agent and attorney-in-fact for all purposes of the Loan Documents, including the giving and receiving of notices and other communications. (b) TO INDUCE THE LENDER TO MAKE THE LOAN, AND IN CONSIDERATION THEREOF, EACH BORROWER HEREBY AGREES TO INDEMNIFY THE LENDER AGAINST, AND HOLD THE LENDER HARMLESS FROM, ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, EXPENSES, LOSSES, DAMAGES AND/OR CLAIMS OF DAMAGE OR INJURY ASSERTED AGAINST THE LENDER BY ANY BORROWER OR BY ANY OTHER PERSON ARISING FROM OR INCURRED BY REASON OF (i) RELIANCE BY THE LENDER ON ANY REQUESTS OR INSTRUCTIONS FROM ANY BORROWER, OR (ii) ANY OTHER ACTION TAKEN BY THE LENDER IN GOOD FAITH WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS. (c) Each Borrower acknowledges that the liens and security interests created or granted herein and by the other Loan Documents will secure Obligations of all Borrowers under the Loan Documents and, in full recognition of that fact, each Borrower consents and agrees that the Lender may, at any time and from time to time, without notice or demand, and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees without affecting the enforceability or security hereof or of any other Loan Document: (1) agree with any Borrowers to Lender and its successors and assignssupplement, modify, amend, extend, renew, accelerate, or otherwise change the time for payment or the terms of the Obligations or any part thereof, including any increase or decrease of the rate(s) of interest thereon; (2) agree with any Borrowers to supplement, modify, amend or waive, or enter into or give any agreement, approval or consent with respect to, the full Obligations or any part thereof or any of the Loan Documents or any additional security or guaranties, or any condition, covenant, default, remedy, right, representation or term thereof or thereunder; (3) 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; (4) accept partial payments on the Obligations; (5) receive and prompt payment hold additional security or guaranties for the Obligations or any part thereof; (6) release, reconvey, terminate, waive, abandon, subordinate, exchange, substitute, transfer and enforce any security for or guaranties of the Obligations, and apply any security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as Lender, in its sole and absolute discretion may determine; (7) release any Person or any guarantor from any personal liability with respect to the Obligations or any part thereof; (8) settle, release on terms satisfactory to the Lender or by operation of applicable laws or otherwise liquidate or enforce any Obligations and any security therefor or guaranty thereof in any manner, consent to the transfer of any such security and bid and purchase at any sale; and (9) consent to the merger, change or any other restructuring or termination of the corporate existence of any Borrower or any other Person, and correspondingly restructure the obligations of such Borrower or other Person, and any such merger, change, restructuring or termination shall not affect the liability of any Borrower or the continuing existence of any lien or security interest hereunder, under any other Loan Document to which any Borrower is a party or the enforceability hereof or thereof with respect to all or any part of the Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 12.29, there shall be no written modification of the Loan Documents without execution by either Western Place or LP Borrower. (d) Upon the occurrence of and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Lender may enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents independently as to each Borrower and independently of any other remedy or security the Lender at any time may have or hold in connection with the Obligations, and in collecting on the Loan it shall not be necessary for the Lender to marshal assets in favor of any Borrower or any other Person or to proceed upon or against and/or exhaust any other security or remedy before proceeding to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Each Borrower expressly waives any right to require the Lender, in connection with the Lender’s efforts to obtain repayment of the Loan and other Obligations, to marshal assets in favor of any Borrower or any other Person or to proceed against any other Person or any collateral provided by any other Person, and agrees that the Lender may proceed against any Persons and/or collateral in such order as it shall determine in its sole and absolute discretion in connection with the Lender’s efforts to obtain repayment of the Loan and other Obligations. Lender may file a separate action or actions against each Borrower to enforce the Obligations, whether at stated maturityaction is brought or prosecuted with respect to any other security or against any other Person, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed whether any other Person is joined in any such action or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borroweractions. Each Borrower agrees that its guaranty obligation hereunder is a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collectionLender, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurred, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and unaffected by, (i) the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, each Borrower and/or any other Loan Document or any Person may deal with each other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender in connection with respect to any of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any actionotherwise, 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 absence security of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release of any such security); (iv) the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or (v) any other action this Agreement or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunder. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lender, to any other Borrower Loan Documents. The rights of the Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are shall be reinstated and will revived, and the enforceability of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall continue, with respect to any amount at any time paid on account of the Obligations which thereafter shall be required to be restored or returned by the Lender as a result of direct the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of any Borrower or any other Person, or otherwise, all as though such amount had not been paid. The enforceability of this Agreement and indirect interestthe other Loan Documents at all times shall remain effective even though the any or all Obligations, benefit or any other security or guaranty therefor, may be or hereafter may become invalid or otherwise unenforceable as against any Borrower or any other Person and advantage to all Borrowerswhether or not any Borrower or any other Person shall have any personal liability with respect thereto. Each Borrower expressly waives any and all defenses to the enforcement of its obligations under the Loan Documents now or hereafter arising or asserted by reason of (i) any disability or other defense of any Borrower or any other Person with respect to the Obligations, (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 Borrower or any other Person (other than by reason of the full and final payment and performance of all Obligations), (iv) any failure of the Lender to marshal assets in favor of any of the Borrowers or any other Person, (v) any failure of the Lender to give notice of sale or other disposition of any Collateral for the Obligations to any Borrower or to any other Person or any defect in any notice that may be given in connection with any such sale or disposition, (vi) any failure of the Lender to comply in any non-material respect with applicable laws in connection with the sale or other disposition of any Collateral or other security for any Obligation, (vii) any act or omission of the Lender or others that directly or indirectly results in or aids the discharge or release of any Borrower or of any other Person or of any of the Obligations or any other security or guaranty therefor by operation of law or otherwise, (viii) any law which provides that the obligation of a surety or guarantor must neither be larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal or which reduces a surety’s or guarantor’s obligation in proportion to the principal obligation, (ix) any failure of the Lender to file or enforce a claim in any bankruptcy or other proceeding with respect to any Person, (x) the election by the Lender, in any bankruptcy proceeding of any Person, of the application or non-application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the United States Bankruptcy Code, (xi) any extension of credit or the grant of any lien under Sxxxxxx 000 xx xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Bankruptcy Code except to extent otherwise provided in this Agreement, (xii) any use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, (xiii) any agreement or stipulation with respect to the provision of adequate protection in any bankruptcy proceeding of any Person, (xiv) the avoidance of any lien or security interest in favor of the Lender securing the Obligations for any reason, or (xv) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment of debt, liquidation or dissolution proceeding commenced by or against any Person, including any discharge of, or bar or stay against collecting, all or any of the Obligations (or any interest thereon) in or as a result of any such proceeding. Without in any way limiting the foregoing, with respect to the Loan Documents and the Obligations, each Borrower: (A) waives all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by the Lender, even though that election of remedies, such as nonjudicial foreclosure with respect to security for Borrowers’ obligations, has destroyed each of their rights of subrogation and reimbursement against the other by the operation of applicable law; and (B) waives any right to a fair value hearing or similar proceeding following a nonjudicial foreclosure of the Obligations to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. (e) The Borrowers represent and warrant to the Lender that they have established adequate means of obtaining from each other, on a continuing basis, financial and other information pertaining to their respective businesses, operations and condition (financial and otherwise) and their respective properties, and each now is and hereafter will be completely familiar with the businesses, operations and condition (financial and otherwise) of the other and their respective properties. Each Borrower hereby expressly waives and relinquishes any duty on the part of Lender to disclose to such Borrower any matter, fact or thing related to the businesses, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the other Borrowers or the other Borrowers’ properties, whether now known or hereafter known by the Lender during the life of this Agreement. With respect to any of the Obligations, the Lender need not inquire into the powers of any Borrower or the officers, employees or other Persons acting or purporting to act on such Borrower’s behalf. (f) Without limiting the foregoing, or anything else contained in this Agreement, each Borrower waives all rights and defenses that it may have because the Obligations are secured by real property. This means, among other things: (1) The Lender may collect on the Obligations from any Borrower without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by any other Borrower; and (2) If the Lender forecloses on any real property collateral pledged by any Borrower for the Obligations: (A) the amount of the indebtedness owed by the other Borrowers may be reduced only by the price for which that collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth more than the sale price; and (B) the Lender may collect from any Borrower even if the Lender, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, has destroyed any right any Borrower may have to collect from the other Borrowers. (g) This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses each Borrower may have because the Obligations are secured by real property. Each Borrower expressly waives any right to receive notice of any judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure or sale of any real property collateral provided by the other Borrowers to secure the Obligations and failure to receive any such notice shall not impair or affect such Borrower’s obligations hereunder or the enforceability of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any liens created or granted hereby or thereby. (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere contained herein or in any other Loan Document to which any Borrower is a party, with respect to the Loan and all other Obligations, each Borrower hereby waives (until such time as the Obligations have been fully satisfied) with respect to the other Borrowers and their successors and assigns (including any surety) and any other Person any and all rights at law or in equity, to subrogation, to reimbursement, to exoneration, to contribution, to setoff, to any other rights and defenses available to it under applicable law, or to any other rights that could accrue to a surety against a principal, to a guarantor against a maker or obligor, to an accommodation party against the party accommodated, or to a holder or transferee against a maker and which each of them may have or hereafter acquire against the other or any other Person in connection with or as a result of such Borrower’s execution, delivery and/or performance of this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party until the Obligations are paid and performed in full. Each Borrower agrees that it shall not have or assert any such rights against any other Borrower or any other Borrower’s successors and assigns or any other Person (including any surety), either directly or as an attempted setoff to any action commenced against such Borrower by any other Borrower (as borrower or in any other capacity) or any other Person until the all Obligations are paid and performed in full. Each Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that, for purposes of that this waiver is intended to benefit the Loan Documents, it receives a benefit from the availability of credit Lender and shall not limit or otherwise affect any Borrower’s liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to all which it is a party, or the enforceability hereof or thereof. (i) Each Borrower warrants and agrees that each of the Borrowerswaivers and consents set forth herein is made with full knowledge of its significance and consequences, with the understanding that events giving rise to any defense waived may diminish, destroy or otherwise adversely affect rights which each otherwise may have against the other, against the Lender or others, or against any collateral. If any of the waivers or consents herein are determined to be contrary to any applicable law or public policy, such waivers and consents shall be effective to the maximum extent permitted by law.

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Samples: Loan Agreement (G REIT Liquidating Trust)

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby agrees represents to the Lenders that such Borrower it is jointly and severally liable for, and hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender and its successors and assigns, the full and prompt payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borrower. Each Borrower agrees that its guaranty obligation hereunder is an integral part of a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurredconsolidated enterprise, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute each Borrower will receive direct and unconditional, irrespective ofindirect benefits from the availability of the joint credit facility provided for herein, and unaffected by, (i) from the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument ability to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) access the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any collective credit resources of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release of any such security); (iv) the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or (v) any other action or circumstances consolidated enterprise that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunderare Borrowers. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents is, and acknowledges that it is part at all times shall be, jointly and severally liable for each and every one of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers Liabilities hereunder, regardless of which Borrower requested, received, used, or directly enjoyed the benefit of the extensions of credit hereunder. All of the Collateral shall secure all of the Liabilities. Each Borrower's Liabilities are independent obligations and that any financial accommodations by Lenderare absolute and unconditional. Each Borrower, to the extent permitted by law, hereby waives any defense to such Liabilities that may arise by reason of the disability or other defense or cessation of liability of any other Borrower hereunder for any reason other than payment in full. Each Borrower also waives any defense to such Liabilities that it may have as a result of any Lender's or Agent's election of or failure to exercise any right, power, or remedy, including, without limitation, the failure to proceed first against such other Borrower or any security it holds for such other Borrower's Liabilities under any Loan Document, if any. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Borrower expressly waives all demands and under 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 Lenders and the Agents 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 such Borrower, extend for the benefit of any other Borrower 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 Borrower, and may proceed against each Borrower, directly and independently of any other Borrower, as such obligee may elect in accordance with this Agreement. (c) Each Borrower acknowledges that the Liabilities of such Borrower undertaken herein or in the other Loan Documents are Documents, and will be the grants of direct security interests and indirect interestliens (a) supplement, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers. Each restate, modify, amend, increase, decrease, extend, renew, accelerate or otherwise change the time for payment or the terms of the Borrowers acknowledges Liabilities or any part thereof, including any increase or decrease of the rate(s) of interest thereon; (b) supplement, restate, modify, amend, increase, decrease or waive, or enter into or give any agreement, approval or consent with respect to, the Liabilities 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 Borrower, or any condition, covenant, default, remedy, right, representation or term thereof or thereunder; (c) accept new or additional instruments, documents or agreements in exchange for or relative to any of the Loan Documents or the Liabilities or any part thereof, (d) accept partial payments on the Liabilities; (e) receive and agrees thathold additional security or guarantees for the Liabilities or any part thereof, for purposes (f) 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 Lenders in their sole and absolute discretion may determine; (g) release any other Person (including, without limitation, any other Borrower) from any personal liability with respect to the Liabilities or any part thereof, (h) with respect to any Person other than such Borrower (including, without limitation, any other Borrower), settle, release on terms satisfactory to the Lenders or by operation of applicable laws or otherwise liquidate or enforce any Liabilities 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 (i) consent to the merger, change or any other restructuring or termination of the corporate or partnership existence of any other Borrower or any other Person, and correspondingly agree, in accordance with all applicable provisions of the Loan Documents, to the restructure of the Liabilities, and any such merger, change, restructuring or termination shall not affect the liability of any Borrower or the continuing effectiveness hereof, or the enforceability hereof with respect to all or any part of the Liabilities. (d) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent may enforce the Loan Documents independently as to each Borrower and independently of any other remedy the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or any Lender at any time may have or hold in connection with the Liabilities, and it receives a benefit from shall not be necessary for the availability Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Lenders to marshal assets in favor of credit under any Borrower 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 the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Lenders to marshal assets in favor of any Borrower or any other Person or to proceed against any other Borrower or any Collateral provided by any Person, and agrees that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lenders may proceed against Borrowers or any Collateral in such order as they shall determine in their sole and absolute discretion, subject to the terms hereof. (e) The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent may file a separate action or actions against any Borrower, 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 the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender and any other Borrower, or any Affiliate of any other Borrower (other than such Borrower itself), may deal with each other in connection with the Liabilities 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 Borrower of the Loan Documents. (f) The Administrative Agent's, the Collateral Agent's and the Lenders' rights hereunder shall be reinstated and revived, and the enforceability of this Agreement shall continue, with respect to any amount at any time paid on account of the Liabilities which thereafter shall be required to be restored or returned by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Lenders (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 a bankruptcy trustee or a Person having the avoiding powers of a bankruptcy trustee, or similar avoiding powers), and without requiring the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Lenders 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 Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender 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 Liabilities even though the Liabilities, including any part thereof or any other security or guaranty therefor, may be or hereafter may become invalid or otherwise unenforceable as against any Borrower and whether or not any other Borrower 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 (a) any disability or other defense of any other Borrower with respect to the Liabilities or with respect to the enforceability of the Collateral Agent's security interest in or Encumbrance on any collateral securing any of the Liabilities (including, without limitation, the Collateral), (b) the unenforceability or invalidity of any security or guaranty for the Liabilities or the lack of perfection or continuing perfection or failure of priority of any security for the Liabilities, (c) the cessation for any cause whatsoever of the liability of any other Borrower (other than by reason of the full payment and performance of all Liabilities), (d) any failure of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or any Lender to give notice of sale or other disposition of Collateral to any other Borrower or any other Person other than such waiving Borrower, or any defect in any notice that may be given to any other Borrower for any other Person other than such waiving Borrower, in connection with any sale or disposition of any collateral securing the Liabilities or any of them (including, without limitation, the Collateral), (e) any failure of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or any Lender to comply with applicable law in connection with the sale or other disposition of any collateral or other security for any Liabilities that is owned by another Borrower or by any other Person other than such waiving Borrower, including any failure of the Administrative Agent to conduct a commercially reasonable sale or other disposition of any such collateral or other security for any Liabilities, (f) any act or omission of the Administrative Agent or others that directly or indirectly results in or aids the discharge or release of any other Borrower, or the Liabilities of any other Borrower, or any security or guaranty therefor, by operation of law or otherwise, or (g) any law which provides that the obligation of a surety or guarantor must neither be larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal or which reduces a surety's or guarantor's obligation in proportion to the principal obligation. Until such time, if any, as all of the Liabilities (other than contingent Liabilities and indemnities which survive repayment of the Loans) have been paid and performed in full and no portion of any commitment of the Lenders to any Borrower under any Loan Document remains in effect, no Borrower shall have any right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement or indemnity, and each Borrower expressly waives any right to enforce any remedy that the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent now have or hereafter may have against any other Person and waives the benefit of, or any right to participate in, any collateral now or hereafter held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent. Except to the extent expressly provided for in any Loan Document, each Borrower expressly waives, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all rights or entitlements to presentments, demands for payment or performance, notices of nonpayment or nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and all other notices or demands of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the Liabilities, and all notices of acceptance of the Loan Documents or of the existence, creation or incurring of new or additional Liabilities. (h) Each Borrower hereby agrees to keep each other Borrower fully apprised at all times as to the status of its business, affairs, finances, and financial condition, and its ability to perform its Liabilities under the Loan Documents, and in particular as to any adverse developments with respect thereto. Each Borrower hereby agrees to undertake to keep itself apprised at all times as to the status of the business, affairs, finances, and financial condition of each other Borrower, and of the ability of each other Borrower to perform its Liabilities under the Loan Documents, and in particular as to any adverse developments with respect to any thereof. Each Borrower hereby agrees, in light of the foregoing mutual covenants to inform each other, and to keep themselves and each other informed as to such matters, that the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall have no duty to inform any Borrower of any 106 information pertaining to the business, affairs, finances, or financial condition of any other Borrower, or pertaining to the ability of any other Borrower to perform its Liabilities under the Loan Documents, even if such information is adverse, and even if such information might influence the decision of one or more of the Borrowers to continue to be jointly and severally liable for, or to provide Collateral for, Liabilities of one or more of the other Borrowers. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Borrower hereby expressly waives any duty of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to inform any Borrower of any such information. (i) Borrowers and each of them warrant and agree that each of the waivers and consents set forth herein are made after consultation with legal counsel and with full knowledge of their significance and consequences, with the understanding that events giving rise to any defense or right waived may diminish, or otherwise adversely affect rights that Borrowers otherwise may have against other Borrowers, Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, or others, or against Collateral, and that, under the circumstances, the waivers and consents herein given are reasonable. If any of the waivers or consents herein is determined to be contrary to any applicable law or public policy, such waivers and consents shall be effective to the maximum extent permitted by law."

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Mazel Stores Inc)

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Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that such Borrower is it shall be jointly and severally liable forfor the Loans and all other Obligations arising under this Agreement and/or any of the other Loan Documents. In furtherance thereof, each Borrower acknowledges and agrees as follows: (a) For the purpose of implementing the joint borrower provisions of the Loan Documents, each Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints each other Borrower as its agent and attorney-in-fact for all purposes of the Loan Documents, including the giving and receiving of notices and other communications. (b) To induce the Lenders to make the Loans, and in consideration thereof, each Borrower hereby absolutely agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent, Lenders and unconditionally guarantees the other Indemnitees against, and hold the Administrative Agent, Lenders and the other Indemnitees harmless from, any and all liabilities, expenses, losses, damages and/or claims of damage or injury asserted against Administrative Agent and/or Lenders by any Borrower or by any other Person arising from or incurred by reason of (i) reliance by the Administrative Agent and/or Lenders on any requests or instructions from any Borrower, or (ii) any other action taken by Administrative Agent and/or Lenders in good faith with respect to Lender this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. (c) Each Borrower acknowledges that the liens and its successors security interests created or granted herein and assignsby the other Loan Documents will secure Obligations of all Borrowers under the Loan Documents and, in full recognition of that fact, each Borrower consents and agrees that the Administrative Agent and/or Lenders may, at any time and from time to time, without notice or demand, and without affecting the enforceability or security hereof or of any other Loan Document: (i) agree with any Borrower to supplement, modify, amend, extend, renew, accelerate, or otherwise change the time for payment or the terms of the Obligations or any part thereof, including any increase or decrease of the rate(s) of interest thereon; (ii) agree with any Borrower to supplement, modify, amend or waive, or enter into or give any agreement, approval or consent with respect to, the full Obligations or any part thereof or any of the Loan Documents or any additional security or guaranties, or any condition, covenant, default, remedy, right, representation or term thereof or thereunder; (iii) 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; (iv) accept partial payments on the Obligations; (v) receive and prompt payment hold additional security or guaranties for the Obligations or any part thereof; (vi) release, reconvey, terminate, waive, abandon, subordinate, exchange, substitute, transfer and enforce any security for or guaranties of the Obligations, and apply any security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as Administrative Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion may determine; (vii) release any Person or any guarantor from any personal liability with respect to the Obligations or any part thereof; (viii) settle, release on terms satisfactory to Administrative Agent or by operation of applicable laws or otherwise liquidate or enforce any Obligations and any security therefor or guaranty thereof in any manner, consent to the transfer of any such security and bid and purchase at any sale; and consent to the merger, change or any other restructuring or termination of the corporate existence of any Borrower or any other Person, and correspondingly restructure the obligations of such Borrower or other Person, and any such merger, change, restructuring or termination shall not affect the liability of any Borrower or the continuing existence of any lien or security interest hereunder, under any other Loan Document to which any Borrower is a party or the enforceability hereof or thereof with respect to all or any part of the Obligations. (d) Upon the occurrence of and during the continuance of any Event of Default, Administrative Agent may enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents independently as to each Borrower and independently of any other remedy or security Administrative Agent and/or Lenders at any time may have or hold in connection with the Obligations, and in collecting on the Loans it shall not be necessary for Administrative Agent to marshal assets in favor of any Borrower or any other Person or to proceed upon or against and/or exhaust any other security or remedy before proceeding to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Each Borrower expressly waives any right to require Administrative Agent and/or Lenders, in connection with Administrative Agent and/or Lender’s efforts to obtain repayment of the Loans and other Obligations, to marshal assets in favor of any Borrower or any other Person or to proceed against any other Person or any collateral provided by any other Person, and agrees that Administrative Agent and/or Lenders may proceed against any Persons and/or collateral in such order as it shall determine in its sole and absolute discretion in connection with Administrative Agent’s efforts to obtain repayment of the Loans and other Obligations. Administrative Agent may file a separate action or actions against each Borrower to enforce the Obligations, whether at stated maturityaction is brought or prosecuted with respect to any other security or against any other Person, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed whether any other Person is joined in any such action or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borroweractions. Each Borrower agrees that its guaranty obligation hereunder is a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collectionAdministrative Agent, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performanceLenders, in full, of the Obligations has occurred, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and unaffected by, (i) the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, each Borrower and/or any other Loan Document or any Person may deal with each other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender in connection with respect to any of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any actionotherwise, 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 absence security of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release of any such security); (iv) the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or (v) any other action this Agreement or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunder. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lender, to any other Borrower Loan Documents. The rights of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are shall be reinstated and will revived, and the enforceability of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall continue, with respect to any amount at any time paid on account of the Obligations which thereafter shall be required to be restored or returned by Administrative Agent and/or Lenders as a result of direct the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of any Borrower or any other Person, or otherwise, all as though such amount had not been paid. The enforceability of this Agreement and indirect interestthe other Loan Documents at all times shall remain effective even though the any or all Obligations, benefit or any other security or guaranty therefor, may be or hereafter may become invalid or otherwise unenforceable as against any Borrower or any other Person and advantage to all Borrowerswhether or not any Borrower or any other Person shall have any personal liability with respect thereto. Each Borrower expressly waives any and all defenses to the enforcement of its obligations under the Loan Documents now or hereafter arising or asserted by reason of (i) any disability or other defense of any Borrower or any other Person with respect to the Obligations, (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 Borrower or any other Person (other than by reason of the full and final payment and performance of all Obligations), (iv) any failure of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders to marshal assets in favor of any of the Borrowers or any other Person, (v) any failure of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders to give notice of sale or other disposition of any Collateral for the Obligations to any Borrower or to any other Person or any defect in any notice that may be given in connection with any such sale or disposition, (vi) any failure of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders to comply in any non-material respect with applicable laws in connection with the sale or other disposition of any Collateral or other security for any Obligation, (vii) any act or omission of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders or others that directly or indirectly results in or aids the discharge or release of any Borrower or of any other Person or of any of the Obligations or any other security or guaranty therefor by operation of law or otherwise, (viii) any law which provides that the obligation of a surety or guarantor must neither be larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal or which reduces a surety’s or guarantor’s obligation in proportion to the principal obligation, (ix) any failure of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders to file or enforce a claim in any bankruptcy or other proceeding with respect to any Person, (x) the election by Administrative Agent, in any bankruptcy proceeding of any Person, of the application or non-application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the United States Bankruptcy Code, (xi) any extension of credit or the grant of any lien under Xxxxxxx 000 xx xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Bankruptcy Code except to extent otherwise provided in this Agreement, (xii) any use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, (xiii) any agreement or stipulation with respect to the provision of adequate protection in any bankruptcy proceeding of any Person, (xiv) the avoidance of any lien or security interest in favor of Administrative Agent securing the Obligations for any reason, or (xv) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment of debt, liquidation or dissolution proceeding commenced by or against any Person, including any discharge of, or bar or stay against collecting, all or any of the Obligations (or any interest thereon) in or as a result of any such proceeding. Without in any way limiting the foregoing, with respect to the Loan Documents and the Obligations, each Borrower: (A) waives all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by Administrative Agent, even though that election of remedies, such as non-judicial foreclosure with respect to security for Borrowers’ obligations, has destroyed each of their rights of subrogation and reimbursement against the other by the operation of Section 580(d) of the California Code of Civil Procedure or otherwise; and (B) waives any right to a fair value hearing or similar proceeding following a nonjudicial foreclosure of the Obligations, whether arising under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580a or otherwise. (e) The Borrowers represent and warrant to Administrative Agent and Lenders that they have established adequate means of obtaining from each other, on a continuing basis, financial and other information pertaining to their respective businesses, operations and condition (financial and otherwise) and their respective properties, and each now is and hereafter will be completely familiar with the businesses, operations and condition (financial and otherwise) of the other and their respective properties. Each Borrower hereby expressly waives and relinquishes any duty on the part of Administrative Agent and/or Lenders to disclose to such Borrower any matter, fact or thing related to the businesses, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the other Borrowers or the other Borrowers’ properties, whether now known or hereafter known by Administrative Agent and/or Lenders during the life of this Agreement. With respect to any of the Obligations, the Administrative Agent and/or Lenders need not inquire into the powers of any Borrower or the officers, employees or other Persons acting or purporting to act on such Borrower’s behalf. (f) Without limiting the foregoing, or anything else contained in this Agreement, each Borrower waives all rights and defenses that it may have because the Obligations are secured by real property. This means, among other things: (i) Administrative Agent and/or Lenders may collect on the Obligations from any Borrower without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by the other Borrowers; and (ii) If Administrative Agent and/or Lenders foreclose on any real property collateral pledged by any Borrower for the Obligations: (A) the amount of the indebtedness owed by the other Borrowers may be reduced only by the price for which that collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth more than the sale price; and (B) Administrative Agent and Lenders may collect from any Borrower even if Administrative Agent and/or Lenders, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, has destroyed any right any Borrower may have to collect from the other Borrowers. (g) This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses each Borrower may have because the Obligations are secured by real property. These rights and defenses include, but are not limited to, any rights or defenses based upon Sections 580a, 580b, 580d or 726 of the California Code of Civil Procedure. Each Borrower expressly waives any right to receive notice of any judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure or sale of any real property collateral provided by the other Borrower to secure the Obligations and failure to receive any such notice shall not impair or affect such Borrower’s obligations hereunder or the enforceability of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any liens created or granted hereby or thereby. (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere contained herein or in any other Loan Document to which any Borrower is a party, with respect to the Loans and all other Obligations, each Borrower hereby waives with respect to the other Borrowers and their successors and assigns (including any surety) and any other Person any and all rights at law or in equity, to subrogation, to reimbursement, to exoneration, to contribution, to setoff, to any other rights and defenses available to it by reason of California Civil Code Sections 2787 and 2855, inclusive, or to any other rights that could accrue to a surety against a principal, to a guarantor against a maker or obligor, to an accommodation party against the party accommodated, or to a holder or transferee against a maker and which each of them may have or hereafter acquire against the other or any other Person in connection with or as a result of such Borrower’s execution, delivery and/or performance of this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party until the Obligations are paid and performed in full. Each Borrower agrees that it shall not have or assert any such rights against any other Borrower or any other Borrower’s successors and assigns or any other Person (including any surety), either directly or as an attempted setoff to any action commenced against such Borrower by any other Borrower (as borrower or in any other capacity) or any other Person until the all Obligations are paid and performed in full. Each Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that, for purposes of the Loan Documents, it receives a that this waiver is intended to benefit from the availability of credit Administrative Agent and Lenders and shall not limit or otherwise affect any Borrower’s liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to all which it is a party, or the enforceability hereof or thereof. (i) Each Borrower warrants and agrees that each of the Borrowerswaivers and consents set forth herein is made with full knowledge of its significance and consequences, with the understanding that events giving rise to any defense waived may diminish, destroy or otherwise adversely affect rights which each otherwise may have against the other, against Administrative Agent and Lenders or others, or against any collateral. If any of the waivers or consents herein are determined to be contrary to any applicable law or public policy, such waivers and consents shall be effective to the maximum extent permitted by law.

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Samples: Loan Agreement (Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT, Inc.)

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby agrees represents to the Lenders that such each is an integral part of a consolidated enterprise, and that each Borrower is will receive direct and indirect benefits from the availability of the joint credit facility provided for herein, and from the ability to access the collective credit resources of the consolidated enterprise that are Borrowers. Each Borrower is, and at all times shall be, jointly and severally liable forfor each and every one of the Obligations hereunder, regardless of which Borrower 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 Borrower's Obligations are independent obligations and are absolute and unconditional. Each Borrower, to the extent permitted by law, hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees waives any defense to Lender and its successors and assigns, such Obligations that may arise by reason of the full and prompt disability or other defense or cessation of liability of any other Borrower for any reason other than payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borrowerin full. Each Borrower agrees also waives any defense to such Obligations that its guaranty obligation hereunder is it may have as a continuing guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection, that its obligations under this Article IX shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, of the Obligations has occurred, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and unaffected by, (i) the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument to which any Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence result of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) Lender's or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any Agent's election of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existence, value or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien againstexercise any right, power, or remedy, including, without limitation, the failure to proceed first against such other Borrower or any security it holds for such other Borrower's Obligations under any Loan Document, if any. Without limiting the generality of 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 Lenders and Agent 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 such Borrower, extend for the Obligations benefit of the other Borrower the time for making any payment, waive or any action, or extend the absence performance of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release agreement or make any settlement of any such security); (iv) agreement for the insolvency benefit of any Borrower Party; or (v) other Borrower, and may proceed against each Borrower, directly and independently of any other action or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower shall be regarded, and shall be in the same positionBorrower, as principal debtor such obligee may elect in accordance with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunderthis Agreement. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lender, to any other Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are and will be of direct and indirect interest, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers. Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and agrees that, for purposes of the Loan Documents, it receives a benefit from the availability of credit under this Agreement to all of the Borrowers.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Restoration Hardware Inc)

Joint Borrower Provisions. (a) Each Borrower hereby agrees represents to the Lenders that such each is an integral part of a consolidated enterprise, and that each Borrower is will receive direct and indirect benefits from the availability of the joint credit facility provided for herein, and from the ability to access the collective credit resources of the consolidated enterprise that are Borrowers. Each Borrower is, and at all times shall be, jointly and severally liable forfor each and every one of the Liabilities hereunder, regardless of which Borrower requested, received, used, or directly enjoyed the benefit of the extensions of credit hereunder. All of the Collateral shall secure all of the Liabilities. Each Borrower's Liabilities are independent obligations and are absolute and unconditional. Each Borrower, to the extent permitted by law, hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees waives any defense to Lender and its successors and assigns, such Liabilities that may arise by reason of the full and prompt disability or other defense or cessation of liability of any other Borrower for any reason other than payment (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance of, all Obligations owed or hereafter owing to Lender by each other Borrowerin full. Each Borrower also waives any defense to such Liabilities that it may have as a result of any Lender's or Agent's election of or failure to exercise any right, power, or remedy, including, without limitation, the failure to proceed first against such other Borrower or any security it holds for such other Borrower's Liabilities under any Loan Document, if any. Without limiting the generality of 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 its guaranty obligation hereunder the Lenders and the Agents may, without notice (except for such notice, if any, as such Borrower expressly is a continuing entitled to receive pursuant to the terms of any Loan Document) and without releasing the liability of such Borrower, extend for the benefit of any other Borrower 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 Borrower, and may proceed against each Borrower, directly and independently of any other Borrower, as such obligee may elect in accordance with this Agreement. Each Borrower acknowledges that the Liabilities of such Borrower undertaken herein or in the other Loan Documents, and the grants of security interests and liens by such Borrower to secure Liabilities of the other Borrower could be construed to consist, at least in part, of the guaranty of payment Liabilities of the other Borrower and, in full recognition of that fact, each Borrower consents and performance agrees as hereinafter set forth in the balance of this Section 20.24. The consents, waivers, and not agreements of collectionthe Borrowers that are contained in the balance of this Section 20.24 are intended to deal with the suretyship aspects of the transactions evidenced by the Loan Documents (to the extent that a Borrower may be deemed a guarantor or surety for the Liabilities of another Borrower) and thus are intended to be effective and applicable only to the extent that any Borrower has agreed to answer for the Liabilities of another Borrower or has granted a lien or security interest in Collateral to secure the Liabilities of another Borrower. Conversely, the consents, waivers, and agreements of the Borrowers that its obligations under are contained in the balance of this Article IX Section 20.24 shall not be discharged until payment and performance, in full, applicable to the direct Liabilities of the Obligations has occurred, and that its obligations under this Article IX shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and unaffected by, (i) the genuineness, validity, regularity, enforceability or any future amendment of, or change in, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, document or instrument to which any a Borrower is or may become a party; (ii) the absence of any action to enforce this Agreement (including this Article IX) or any other Loan Document or the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any of the provisions thereof; (iii) the existencecredit extended directly to such Borrower, value and shall not be applicable to security interests or condition of, or failure to perfect its Lien against, any security for the Obligations or any action, or the absence of any action, by Lender in respect thereof (including the release of any such security); (iv) the insolvency of any Borrower Party; or (v) any other action or circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense liens on Collateral of a surety Borrower given to directly secure direct Liabilities of such Borrower where no aspect of guaranty or guarantorsuretyship is involved. Each Borrower shall be regardedconsents and agrees that the Lenders 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 Borrowers, and shall be in without affecting the same position, as principal debtor with respect to the Obligations guaranteed hereunder. (b) Each Borrower expressly represents and acknowledges that it is part of a common enterprise with the other Borrowers and that any financial accommodations by Lender, to any other Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are and will be of direct and indirect interest, benefit and advantage to all Borrowers. Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and agrees that, for purposes of the Loan Documents, it receives a benefit from the availability of credit under this Agreement to all of the Borrowers.enforceability or continuing

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Restoration Hardware Inc)

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