Negative Pledge. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on any property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:
(i) Liens created for the benefit of the Lenders;
(ii) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement;
(iii) Permitted Encumbrances;
(iv) Liens on property (A) of a Subsidiary to secure only obligations owing to the Borrower or another such Subsidiary or (B) of any Person which becomes a Subsidiary after the date of this Agreement, provided that such Liens in this clause (B) are in existence at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and were not created in anticipation thereof;
(v) Liens upon real and/or tangible personal property acquired after the date hereof (by purchase, construction or otherwise) by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, each of which Liens either (A) existed on such property before the time of its acquisition and was not created in anticipation thereof, or (B) was created solely for the purpose of securing Indebtedness representing, or incurred to finance, refinance or refund, the cost (including the cost of construction) of such property; provided that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any property of the Borrower or such Subsidiary other than the property so acquired and improvements thereon; provided, further, that the principal amount of Indebtedness secured by any such Lien shall at no time exceed the fair market value (as determined in good faith by a senior financial officer of the Borrower) of such property at the time such Lien is created; and provided finally, that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 18 months of acquisition thereof;
(vi) Liens on assets related to railcar operating leases (including, but not limited to, car service contracts and cash collateral accounts funded with revenues under such leases) securing obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary under such lease;
(vii) attachment, judgment and other similar Liens arising in connection with court proceedings, provided that (A) the execution or other enforcement of such Liens in an aggregate amount exceeding $50,000,000 is effectively stayed and (B) the claims secured thereby are being actively contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(viii) Liens securing Secured Nonrecourse Obligations;
(ix) in addition to the Liens permitted in the foregoing clauses (i) through (viii) of th...
Negative Pledge. The Loan Parties will not, and will not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, enter into or suffer to exist any agreement (other than in favor of Agent) prohibiting or conditioning the creation or assumption of any Lien in favor of the Obligations upon any of its assets; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to:
(i) restrictions or conditions imposed by Requirements of Law or by this Agreement or any other Loan Document,
(ii) customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary pending such sale,
(iii) restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured or purchase money Indebtedness or capital leases permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions and conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness,
(iv) customary provisions in lease and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof,
(v) customary anti-assignment clauses in licenses under which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries are the licensees,
(vi) any agreement in effect at a time a Person becomes a Subsidiary, so long as such agreement was not entered into in connection with or in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary,
(vii) any encumbrances or restrictions imposed by any amendments or refinancings that are otherwise permitted by the Loan Documents; provided that such amendments or refinancings are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, with respect to such encumbrances and restrictions than those prior to such amendments or refinancings,
(viii) customary restrictions on Liens imposed by agreements relating to deposit accounts and cash deposits and in the ordinary course of business,
(ix) [Reserved], and
(x) restrictions or conditions set forth in the ABL Loan Documents.
Negative Pledge. In this Clause 20.3, “
Negative Pledge. No Obligor shall (and the Company shall procure that no member of the Bank Group shall), without the prior written consent of an Instructing Group, create or permit to subsist any Encumbrance over all or any of its present or future revenues or assets other than an Encumbrance:
(a) which is an Existing Encumbrance set out in:
(i) Part 1A of Schedule 10 (Existing Encumbrances) provided that such Encumbrance is released within 10 Business Days of the Merger Closing Date; or
(ii) Part 1B of Schedule 10 (Existing Encumbrances) provided that the principal amount secured thereby may not be increased unless any Encumbrance in respect of such increased amount would be permitted under another paragraph of this Clause 25.2;
(b) which arises by operation of Law or by a contract having a similar effect or under an escrow arrangement required by a trading counterparty of any member of the Bank Group and in each case arising or entered into the ordinary course of business of the relevant member of the Bank Group;
(c) which is created pursuant to any of the Finance Documents (including, for the purposes of securing any Alternative Baseball Financing) and any Bridge Finance Documents;
(d) arising from any Finance Leases, sale and leaseback arrangements or Vendor Financing Arrangements permitted to be incurred pursuant to Clause 25.4 (Financial Indebtedness);
(e) which arises in respect of any right of set-off, netting arrangement, title transfer or title retention arrangements which:
(i) arises in the ordinary course of trading and/or by operation of Law;
(ii) is entered into by any member of the Bank Group in the normal course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances on bank accounts of members of the Bank Group operated on a net balance basis;
(iii) arises in respect of netting or set off arrangements contained in any Hedging Agreement or other contract permitted under Clause 25.12 (Limitations on Hedging);
(iv) is entered into by any member of the Bank Group on terms which are generally no worse than the counterparty’s standard or usual terms and entered into in the ordinary course of business of the relevant member of the Bank Group; or
(v) which is a retention of title arrangement with respect to customer premises equipment in favour of a supplier (or its Affiliate); provided that the title is only retained to individual items of customer premises equipment in respect of which the purchase price has not been paid in full;
(f) w...
Negative Pledge. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary will create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except:
(a) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement securing Debt outstanding on the date of this Agreement in an aggregate principal or face amount not exceeding $25,000,000;
(b) any Lien existing on any asset of any corporation at the time such corporation becomes a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
(c) any Lien on any asset securing Debt incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring such asset, provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 90 days after the acquisition thereof;
(d) any Lien on any asset of any corporation existing at the time such corporation is merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
(e) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition;
(f) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Debt secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this Section, provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets;
(g) Liens arising in the ordinary course of its business which (i) do not secure Debt or Derivatives Obligations, (ii) do not secure any obligation in an amount exceeding $25,000,000 and (iii) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business;
(h) Liens on cash and cash equivalents securing Derivatives Obligations, provided that the aggregate amount of cash and cash equivalents subject to such Liens may at no time exceed $25,000,000;
(i) Liens securing obligations in respect of letters of credit issued pursuant to any of the Related Documents; and
(j) Liens not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this Section securing Debt in an aggregate principal or face amount at any date not to exceed 10% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth.
Negative Pledge. The Company will not itself, and will not permit any Manufacturing Subsidiary to, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any notes, bonds, debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed (notes, bonds, debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed being herein called “Debt”), secured by pledge of, or mortgage or lien on, any Principal Domestic Manufacturing Property of the Company or any Manufacturing Subsidiary, or any shares of stock of or Debt of any Manufacturing Subsidiary (such mortgages, pledges and liens being hereinafter called “Pledge” or “Pledges”), without effectively providing that the Obligations (together with, if the Company shall so determine, any other Debt of the Company or of such Manufacturing Subsidiary then existing or thereafter created ranking equally with the Obligations) shall be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) such secured Debt, so long as such secured Debt shall be so secured, unless, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of all such secured Debt so secured plus all Attributable Debt of the Company and its Manufacturing Subsidiaries in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions would not exceed 5% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Automotive Assets; provided, however, that this Section 7.5 shall not apply to Debt secured by:
(a) Pledges of property of, or on any shares of stock of or Debt of, any corporation existing at the time such corporation becomes a Manufacturing Subsidiary;
(b) Pledges in favor of the Company or any Manufacturing Subsidiary;
(c) Pledges in favor of any governmental body to secure progress, advance or other payments pursuant to any contract or provision of any statute;
(d) Pledges of property, shares of stock or Debt existing at the time of acquisition thereof (including acquisition through merger or consolidation) or to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price thereof or to secure any Debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 60 days after, the acquisition of such property or shares or Debt for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof; and
(e) any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals or replacements), as a whole or in part, of any Pledge referred to in the foregoing clauses (a) to (d), inclusive; provided, however, that such extension, renewal or replacement Pledge shall be limited to all or a part of the same property, shares ...
Negative Pledge. Neither the Borrower nor any Consolidated Subsidiary will create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except:
(a) Liens existing on the Mortgaged Property;
(b) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement securing other Debt outstanding on the date of this Agreement in an aggregate principal or face amount not exceeding $100,000,000;
(c) any Lien existing on any asset of any corporation at the time such corporation becomes a Consolidated Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
(d) any Lien on any asset securing Debt incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring such asset, provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 90 days after the acquisition thereof;
(e) any Lien on any asset of any corporation existing at the time such corporation is merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower or a Consolidated Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
(f) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or a Consolidated Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition;
(g) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Debt secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this Section, provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets;
(h) Liens arising in the ordinary course of its business which (i) do not secure Debt or Derivatives Obligations, (ii) do not secure, in the case of judgments or orders, obligations in an aggregate amount exceeding $100,000,000 and (iii) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business;
(i) Liens on cash and cash equivalents securing Derivatives Obligations, provided that the aggregate amount of cash and cash equivalents subject to such Liens may at no time exceed $100,000,000 and provided further that the sum of (x) such aggregate amount and (y) the aggregate amount of Debt secured as permitted by clause (j) below does not at any date exceed 20% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth; and
(j) Liens not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this Section securing Debt, provided that the sum of (x) the principal or face amount of such Debt and (y) the aggregate amount of cash and cash equivalents referred to in clause (i) above does not at any date...
Negative Pledge. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any of its assets or property now owned or hereafter acquired or, except:
(a) Liens securing the Obligations, provided, however, that no Liens may secure Hedging Obligations without securing all other Obligations on a basis at least pari passu with such Hedging Obligations and subject to the priority of payments set forth in Section 2.22 or Section 8.2 of this Agreement;
(b) Permitted Encumbrances;
(c) any Liens on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the Closing Date set forth on Schedule 7.2; provided, that such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(d) purchase money Liens upon or in any fixed or capital assets to secure the purchase price or the cost of construction or improvement of such fixed or capital assets or to secure Indebtedness incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction or improvement of such fixed or capital assets (including Liens securing any Capital Lease Obligations); provided, that (i) such Lien secures Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.1(c), (ii) such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently or within 180 days after the acquisition, improvement or completion of the construction thereof; (iii) such Lien does not extend to any other asset; and (iv) the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets;
(e) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.1(f); provided, that such Lien does not extend to any assets other than the assets of the Person which becomes a Subsidiary after the date of this Agreement; and
(f) extensions, renewals, or replacements of any Lien referred to in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this Section 7.2; provided, that the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased and that any such extension, renewal or replacement is limited to the assets originally encumbered thereby.
Negative Pledge. So long as any Note remains outstanding, the Guarantor will not create or permit any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on any of the Guarantor’s assets to secure (i) any of the Guarantor’s Indebtedness or (ii) the Indebtedness of any other person, unless the Guarantor contemporaneously creates or permits such Lien to secure equally and ratably the Guarantor’s obligations under this Guaranty or the Guarantor provides such other security for the Notes as is duly approved by the Trustee, at the direction of the Noteholders, in accordance with the Indenture. In addition, the Guarantor will not allow any of the Guarantor’s Material Subsidiaries to create or permit any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on any of the Guarantor’s assets to secure (i) any of the Guarantor’s Indebtedness, (ii) any of the Indebtedness of the Guarantor’s Material Subsidiaries or (iii) the Indebtedness of any other person, unless it contemporaneously creates or permits the Lien to secure equally and ratably the Guarantor’s obligations under this Guaranty or the Guarantor or such Material Subsidiary provides such other security for the Notes as is duly approved by the Trustee, at the direction of the Noteholders, in accordance with the Indenture.
Negative Pledge. Neither the Company nor the Borrower will, and the Company will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except:
(a) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement securing Debt outstanding on the date of this Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $265,000,000;
(b) any Lien existing on any asset of any corporation at the time such corporation becomes a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
(c) any Lien on any asset securing Debt incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring such asset, provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 180 days after the acquisition thereof.
(d) any Lien on any asset of any corporation existing at the time such corporation is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event;
(e) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition;
(f) any Lien on assets or capital stock of Minor Subsidiaries which secures Debt of Persons which are not Consolidated Subsidiaries in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has made investments ("Joint Ventures"), but for the payment of which Debt no other recourse may be had to the Company or any Subsidiaries ("Limited Recourse Debt"), or any Lien on equity interests in a Joint Venture securing Limited Recourse Debt of such Joint Venture;
(g) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, replacement, extension, renewal or refunding of any Debt secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this Section, provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets;
(h) Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which (i) do not secure Debt, (ii) do not secure any obligation in an amount exceeding $50,000,000 and (iii) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business; and
(i) Liens not otherwise permitted by and in addition to the foregoing clauses of this Section securing Debt in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $750,000,000.
