Common use of Perfection of Security Interests Clause in Contracts

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 9 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Global Brass & Copper Holdings, Inc.), Loan and Security Agreement (J Crew Group Inc), Loan and Security Agreement (Spartan Stores Inc)

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Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor (a) The Grantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) the Lender to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent the Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor the Grantor as debtor, as Agent the Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor the Grantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent the Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor The Grantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Grantor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent the Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent the Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor The Grantor hereby authorizes Agent the Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor the Grantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor the Grantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor the Grantor as debtor. (b) The Grantor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by the Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that the Grantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing the Lender’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 6 contracts

Samples: Security Agreement (Las Vegas Gaming Inc), Security Agreement (Las Vegas Gaming Inc), Security Agreement (Las Vegas Gaming Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Administrative Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Administrative Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Administrative Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofEffective Date. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Administrative Agent prior to the date hereof Effective Date and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Administrative Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Administrative Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (SpartanNash Co), Loan and Security Agreement (Nash Finch Co), Loan and Security Agreement (Spartan Stores Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may reasonably require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction or under the PPSA, as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Any such financing statements may indicate the Collateral as (i) all assets of the debtor or words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the UCC of such jurisdiction or under the PPSA, or (ii) by any other description which reasonably approximates the description contained herein. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral, provided, that, the inclusion of the description of assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not constitute Collateral in any financing statement shall not be deemed a grant of a security interest in such asset of such Borrower or Guarantor in favor of Agent and Secured Parties. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtordebtor without the prior written consent of Agent. Each Borrower and Guarantor acknowledges that it is not authorized to file any financing statement, amendment, termination statement or correction statement with respect to any financing statement without the prior written consent of Agent.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.), Loan and Security Agreement (Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.), Loan and Security Agreement (Vs Holdings, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements Loan Documents or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Associated Materials, LLC), Loan and Security Agreement (Amh Holdings, LLC)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time time, without the prior written consent of Lender, file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument in respect of Collateral after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments relating to Collateral that Borrower has acquired or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender's option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction relating to Collateral), Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account into which Collateral shall be deposited unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall solely apply to deposit accounts into which Collateral shall be deposited. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument relating to Collateral, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and (v) taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (American Biltrite Inc), Loan and Security Agreement (Congoleum Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Such financing statements may describe the Collateral in the same manner as described herein or in any security agreement or pledge agreement entered into by the parties in connection herewith or may contain an indication or description of collateral that describes such property in any other manner as the Agent may determine, in its sole discretion, is necessary, advisable or prudent to ensure the perfection of the security interest in the Collateral granted to the Agent in connection herewith or therewith. Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the express prior written consent of Agent.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Haynes International Inc), Loan and Security Agreement (Haynes International Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. The following provisions, to the extent applicable to the delivery of tangible items of Collateral that constitute Notes Priority Collateral under the Senior Notes Indenture, are subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement: (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall not create a security interest in such assets or properties not constituting Collateral, but shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor except as permitted under Section 9-509(d)(2) of the UCC. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments (including, without limitation, promissory notes) as of the date hereof (in each case with a fair market value in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate), except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof (in each case with a fair market value in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate), Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, in each case, with a face amount in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof in each case, with a face amount in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof in excess of $1,000,000, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims (other than, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, commercial tort claims for less than $1,000,000), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to on Schedule 5.2 to this Agreement or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and priority required under this Agreement of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and (v) taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction. (j) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Borrowers and Guarantors shall not be required to take any action to perfect the security interest of Agent, other than the filing of UCC-1 financing statements, in any of the following assets: (i) any vehicles or equipment subject to certificate of title statutes, (ii) any Real Property, (iii) assets located in any country other than the United States of America, except Accounts owing by foreign account debtors and, following the occurrence of an Event of Default, Intellectual Property registered under foreign laws, (iv) Excluded Assets and (v) except as set forth in clause (iii) above, Intellectual Property that is not registered with the United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or any successor office thereto. (k) The Liens on Collateral granted hereunder are given as security only and shall not subject Agent or any other Secured Party to, or in any way modify, any obligations or liability of any Borrower or Guarantor relating to any Collateral.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Freedom Group, Inc.), Loan and Security Agreement (Freedom Group, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor (a) The Borrowers irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent authorize the Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent the Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers as debtor, as Agent the Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent the Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower The Borrowers hereby ratify and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves approve all financing statements naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Borrowers as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent the Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent the Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor The Borrowers hereby authorizes Agent authorize the Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor the Borrowers any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent the Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements Transaction Documents or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor the Borrowers as debtor. (b) The Borrowers do not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments, except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate. In the event that the Borrowers shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of the Borrowers (including by any agent or representative), the Borrowers shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that the Borrowers, or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as the Lender may otherwise agree. At the Lender’s option, the Borrowers shall, or the Lender may at any time on behalf of the Borrowers, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to the Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of [Lender] and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that the Borrowers shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the Lender’s request, the Borrowers shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as the Lender may request to give the Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) The Borrowers do not have any deposit accounts, except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate. The Borrowers shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) the Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of the Borrowers to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to the Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom the Borrowers are dealing and the purpose of the account; (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to the Lender; and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, the Borrowers shall as the Lender may specify either (A) deliver to the Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Borrowers and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained; or (B) arrange for the Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to the Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of the Borrowers’ salaried employees. (e) The Borrowers do not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, in each case except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate. (i) In the event that the Borrowers shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, the Borrowers shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by the Borrowers are uncertificated and are issued to the Borrowers or their nominee directly by the issuer thereof, the Borrowers shall immediately notify the Lender thereof and shall as the Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Lender as to such securities, without further consent of the Borrowers or such nominee; or (B) arrange for the Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) The Borrowers shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) the Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of the Borrowers to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to the Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom the Borrowers are dealing and the purpose of the account; (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to the Lender; and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, the Borrowers shall as the Lender may specify either (I) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to the Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Borrowers and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary; or (II) arrange for the Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to the Lender. (f) The Borrowers are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate. In the event that the Borrowers shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. The Borrowers shall immediately, as the Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of any nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to the Lender by the Borrowers and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to the Lender or as the Lender may otherwise direct; or (ii) cause the Lender to become, at the Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) The Borrowers have no commercial tort claims, except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate. In the event that the Borrowers shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim; and (ii) include the express grant by the Borrowers to the Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by the Borrowers to the Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to the Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of the Lender provided in Section 4.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by the Borrowers of this Loan Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents, the Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming the Lender or its designee as secured party and the Borrowers as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, the Borrowers shall promptly upon the Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as the Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) The Borrowers do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party, except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of the Borrowers permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of the Borrowers in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Perfection Certificate or such carriers, the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the Lender’s request, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrowers. (i) The Borrowers do not own any fee or leasehold or other interest in real property or fixtures, except as set forth in the Perfection Certificate. In the event that the Borrowers shall at any time hold or acquire any fee or leasehold or other interest in real property or fixtures, the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt of such interest by or on behalf of the Borrowers (including by any agent or representative), the Borrowers shall (i) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Lender all mortgages, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debt, leasehold mortgages and other instruments, in form acceptable for recording with the appropriate Governmental Authority, together with all necessary endorsements thereon, as shall be requested by the Lender to perfect a first priority lien on such fee or leasehold or other interest in real property or fixtures, (ii) cooperate with the Lender in filing such documents with the appropriate Governmental Authority and (iii) promptly pay to the Lender all recording taxes and other fees assessed by any Governmental Authority in respect of such filing. (j) The Borrowers shall take any other actions reasonably requested by the Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that each of the Borrowers’ signatures thereon are required therefor; (ii) causing the Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in such Collateral; (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in such Collateral; (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan Agreement (Coachmen Industries Inc), Loan Agreement (Coachmen Industries Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to file a financing statement or financing statements, instrument or other applicable document, without the signature of such Grantor, and Guarantor irrevocably naming such Grantor as debtor and unconditionally authorizes the Collateral Agent as Secured Party (collectively, the “Financing Statements”) describing the Collateral in any and all jurisdictions where, and with any and all governmental authorities with whom, the Collateral Agent reasonably deems such filing to be necessary or appropriate including, without limitation, the jurisdiction of the debtor’s location for purposes of the Code, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any country). Each Grantor will reimburse the Collateral Agent for any and all costs, charges and expenses (including fees of counsel) incurred in connection with such filings. For purposes of this Section 2.3(a), the Financing Statements shall be deemed to include any amendment, modification, assignment, continuation statement or other similar instrument consistent with the rights granted to the Secured Party under the Transaction Documents. (b) Each Grantor shall have possession of the Collateral of such Grantor, except as expressly otherwise provided in this Pledge Agreement or where the Collateral Agent chooses to perfect its agentsecurity interest by possession in addition to the filing of a Financing Statement. Where Collateral is in the possession of a third party, the applicable Grantor will join with the Collateral Agent in notifying the third party of the Collateral Agent’s security interest therein and, upon the request of the Collateral Agent, use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an acknowledgement from the third party that it is holding the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Party. With respect to any Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts, Security Entitlements, Commodity Accounts, Commodity Contracts and electronic Chattel Paper included in the Collateral, each Grantor shall ensure that the Collateral Agent has Control thereof, subject to the provisions of Section 1.6(c) of Amendment No. 2. With respect to file at any time Securities Accounts or Securities Entitlements, such Control shall be accomplished by the Grantor causing the Securities Intermediary (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the Code) maintaining such Securities Account or Security Entitlement to enter into an agreement substantially in the form of Annex III hereto (or such other agreement in form and from time substance reasonably satisfactory to time the Collateral Agent) pursuant to which the applicable Securities Intermediary shall agree to comply with the Collateral Agent’s Entitlement Orders (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(8) of the Code) without further consent by such financing statements Grantor. With respect to any Deposit Account, each Grantor shall cause the depositary institution maintaining such account to enter into an agreement substantially in the form of Annex IV hereto (or such other agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent), pursuant to which the applicable Bank (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(8) of the Code) shall agree to comply with the Collateral Agent’s instructions with respect to disposition of funds in the Deposit Account without further consent by such Grantor. With respect to any Commodity Accounts or Commodity Contracts each Grantor shall cause Control to be established in favor of the Collateral naming Agent or its designee in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent. With respect to any uncertificated Security included in the Collateral (other than any uncertificated Securities credited to a Securities Account), each Grantor shall cause the issuer of such uncertificated Security to either (i) register the Collateral Agent as the secured party registered owner thereof on the books and records of the issuer or (ii) execute an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, pursuant to which such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information issuer agrees to comply with the Collateral Agent’s instructions with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor uncertificated Security without further consent by such Grantor. With respect to any Letter of Credit Rights included in the Collateral (other than any Letter of Credit Rights constituting a supporting obligation for a receivable in which the Collateral Agent has a valid and perfected security interest), Grantor shall ensure that Collateral Agent has Control thereof by obtaining the written consent of each issuer of each related letter of credit to the assignment of the proceeds of such letter of credit to the Collateral Agent. (c) The Grantors will not create any Chattel Paper that would constitute Collateral without a legend on such Chattel Paper reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent indicating that the Collateral Agent has a secured interest in such Chattel Paper. (d) Each Grantor shall, upon such Grantor’s acquiring, or otherwise required by part 5 becoming entitled to the benefits of, any Copyright Collateral, Patent Collateral, Trademark Collateral (or associated goodwill) or other Intellectual Property or upon or prior to such Grantor’s filing, either directly or through any agent, licensee or other designee, of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together any application with any amendment and continuations with respect theretogovernmental authority for any Copyright Collateral, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed onPatent Collateral, prior to Trademark Collateral, or other Intellectual Property, in each case after the date hereof. Each Borrower , execute and Guarantor hereby ratifies deliver such contracts, agreements and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, other instruments as the case Collateral Agent may bereasonably request, as debtor subject to any other applicable provision of this Pledge Agreement, to evidence, validate, perfect and establish the priority of the security interest granted by this Pledge Agreement except with respect to Permitted Liens in such and any related Intellectual Property. (e) The Grantors shall deliver and pledge to the Collateral Agent any and all certificates representing the Pledged Stock, accompanied by undated stock powers duly executed in blank. (and any amendments with respect to such financing statementsf) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to Each Grantor shall upon the acquisition after the date hereof by such Grantor of any Stock Collateral, promptly either (x) transfer and ratifies deliver to the Collateral Agent all such Stock Collateral (together with the certificates representing such Stock Collateral securities duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by undated stock powers duly executed in blank) or (y) take such other action as the Collateral Agent shall deem reasonably necessary or appropriate to perfect, and confirms establish the authorization of Agent to file priority of, the security interest granted by this Pledge Agreement in such financing statements Stock Collateral. (g) Each Grantor shall (i) as soon as practicable (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as event within 15 days) after the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement date hereof with respect to any financing statement Xtrac Laser Equipment within the Additional Xtrac Collateral as of the date hereof, and (ii) as soon as practicable (and in any event within 15 days) after the acquisition of any new Xtrac Laser Equipment within the Additional Xtrac Collateral (or amendment any Xtrac Laser Equipment becoming Additional Available Xtrac Collateral), file a UCC-1 Financing Statement for each Xtrac Obligor (in the state or continuation with respect theretojurisdiction of residence for such Xtrac Obligor) naming providing notice that the Xtrac Laser Equipment remain the property of such Grantor and subject to a lien in favor of the Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtorhereunder.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Pledge and Security Agreement (Perseus Partners Vii L P), Pledge and Security Agreement (Photomedex Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment amendments, financing change statements and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of Agent. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Ableco, L.L.C. and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims against third parties as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in Canada (in the case of H&H Canada and Atlantic), Mexico (in the case of Indiana Tube Mexico and Kasco Ensambly) or the United States (in the case of all other Borrowers and Guarantors) in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral having an aggregate book value equal to or greater than $25,000 are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any person not referred to in the Information Certificate or any carrier not referred to in the Information Certificate, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. With respect to goods, documents of title or other Collateral having an aggregate book value equal to or greater than $100,000, promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by the third party in the custody, control or possession of such goods, documents of title or other Collateral and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such goods, documents of title or other Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and priority (subject to the liens expressly permitted under Sections 9.8(b) through (g) hereof) of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC, the PPSA or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States or Canada as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or the PPSA or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Handy & Harman Ltd.), Loan and Security Agreement (WHX Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and each Guarantor each irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or such Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and each Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and each Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and such Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In Until such time as all of the Obligations have been paid in full in accordance with Section 13.1(a) hereof, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantor has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower and such Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), Borrower or such Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, Borrower and each Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) with a value in excess of $250,000, in the aggregate, Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrower or such Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantor has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account, which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account (other than the opening of a Store Account), Borrower or Guarantor shall, as Agent may specify, either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower’s or Guarantor’s employees. (e) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower or any Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or such Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower or such Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower or any Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower or such Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower or such Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower or such Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantor is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument with a principal amount in excess of $250,000, individually, and $500,000, in the aggregate whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrower’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantors has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims for an amount in excess of $250,000, individually, and $500,000 in the aggregate, Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower or such Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower or such Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower or such Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower or such Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower and Guarantors shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower or a Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower or such Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral (other than goods in-transit) with a Value in excess of $250,000 either individually or in the aggregate, are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrower and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or such Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrower and each Guarantor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Hhgregg, Inc.), Loan and Security Agreement (HHG Distributing, LLC)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to prepare and file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofClosing Date, including, without limitation, any financing statement that describes the Collateral as “all personal property” or “all assets” of such Loan Party or that describes the Collateral in some other manner as Agent reasonably deems necessary. Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or GuarantorLoan Party, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof Closing Date and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements Loan Documents or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor. (b) No Loan Party has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the Closing Date, which, individually evidences an amount in excess of $1,000,000, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b). In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the Closing Date, Loan Parties shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Loan Party (including by any agent or representative), such Loan Party shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Loan Party has or may at any time acquire, which, individually evidences an amount in excess of $1,000,000, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Loan Party shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Loan Party, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Bank of America, N.A. and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), which, individually evidences an amount in excess of $1,000,000, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Loan Party shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Louisiana-Pacific Corp), Loan and Security Agreement (Louisiana-Pacific Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. 3.1 Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Secured Party (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Secured Party may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Secured Party may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Guarantor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Secured Party prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Secured Party to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Secured Party to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or a Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or a Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: General Security Agreement (Delta Apparel Inc), General Security Agreement (Delta Apparel Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes the Administrative Agent (or its agent) to prepare and file at any time and from time to time such financing statements statements, together with any amendments and continuations with respect thereto, with respect to the Collateral naming the Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, as the Administrative Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party or otherwise as the Administrative Agent may determine and as may be required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of UCC to perfect the security interest granted by such jurisdiction as Loan Party to the Administrative Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect theretounder this Agreement, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofClosing Date; provided that, with respect to Inventory located in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, no Loan Party shall be required to take any action, and no Lending Party shall take any action, under the laws of such jurisdiction to perfect the security interest granted by such Loan Party. Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements previously approved by the Administrative Borrower naming the Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or GuarantorLoan Party, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent prior to the date hereof Closing Date and ratifies and confirms the authorization of the Administrative Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Collateral in any financing statement naming the Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements Loan Documents or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral; provided upon the request of such Loan Party, the Administrative Agent shall, or shall cause its designee as the secured party to, promptly file an amendment to any such financing statement to eliminate such assets and properties from such description. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement continuation, amendment or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming the Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor. (b) In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument that constitutes Collateral, in each case having an individual value of at least $1,000,000, or, when aggregated together with the value of all other such chattel paper and instruments not yet delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section, a value of at least $10,000,000, then upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Loan Party (including by any agent or representative), such Loan Party shall promptly deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Administrative Agent, all such tangible chattel paper and instruments, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably specify, in each case except as the Administrative Agent may otherwise agree. At the Administrative Agent’s option, each Loan Party shall, or the Administrative Agent may at any time on behalf of any Loan Party, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to the Administrative Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association, as the Administrative Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) that constitutes Collateral, in each case having an individual value of at least $1,000,000, or, when aggregated together with the value of all other such chattel paper and transferable records not yet subject to the control of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section, a value of at least $5,000,000, such Loan Party shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the Administrative Agent’s request, such Loan Party shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to give the Administrative Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) On or prior to the date that is one hundred twenty (120) days after the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (i) Deposit Account Control Agreements by and among the Administrative Agent, each applicable Loan Party and each bank where such Loan Party has a deposit account (other than any Excluded Account, as defined below) and (ii) Investment Property Control Agreements by and among the Administrative Agent, each applicable Loan Party and each securities intermediary that maintains a securities account of such Loan Party (other than any Excluded Account), in each case, duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, such Loan Party and such bank or securities intermediary, as applicable; provided that, if a Cash Dominion Period occurs within such 120 day period, the Loan Parties will use their commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the Deposit Account Control Agreements and Investment Property Control Agreements required above. Subject to Section 6.3(a), Loan Parties shall not, directly or indirectly, after the Closing Date open, establish or maintain any deposit account or securities account (other than an Excluded Account, as defined below) unless on or before the opening of such deposit account or securities account, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement or Investment Property Control Agreement, as applicable, with respect to such deposit account or securities account, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or the securities intermediary at which such securities account is maintained, as applicable. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to any of the following (each an “Excluded Account”): (A) deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for, payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Loan Party’s employees, (B) the Store Bank Accounts which, individually or in the aggregate, do not at any time have more than $5,000,000 on deposit therein, (C) any deposit account or securities account that is not located within the United States of America which, individually or in the aggregate, does not at any time have more than $5,000,000 on deposit therein, (D) any deposit account or securities account that is located within the United States of America which, individually or in the aggregate, does not have at any time have more than $2,000,000 on deposit therein or (E) any disbursement account that is used solely for the purpose of paying obligations of one or more of the Loan Parties that have become due and payable. (e) In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument that constitutes Collateral, in each case having an individual value of at least $1,000,000, or, when aggregated together with the value of all other such letters of credit, banker’s acceptances and other similar instruments not yet delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section, a value of at least $5,000,000, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the Closing Date, such Loan Party shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Such Loan Party shall promptly, as the Administrative Agent may specify in writing, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to the Administrative Agent by such Loan Party and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to the Administrative Agent or as the Administrative Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause the Administrative Agent to become, at the Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (f) In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time after the Closing Date have any commercial tort claims that constitute Collateral (excluding any commercial tort claim where a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party has reasonably determined that the amount likely to be recovered in respect of such claim will not exceed $2,000,000), such Loan Party shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Loan Party to the Administrative Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Loan Party to the Administrative Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to the Administrative Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. (g) Except as set forth in Schedule 8.2, the Loan Parties do not have any Inventory valued in excess of $200,000 in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the Closing Date, except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Loan Party set forth in Schedule 8.2 in the ordinary course of business of such Loan Party in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. (h) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Loan Parties shall take any other actions reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of the Administrative Agent to enforce, the security interest of the Administrative Agent in any and all of the Collateral (subject only to the Liens permitted under Section 10.2), including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC and other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Loan Party’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Administrative Agent to enforce, the security interest of the Administrative Agent in such Collateral, and (iii) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Mohawk Industries Inc), Loan and Security Agreement (Mohawk Industries Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower of the Obligors agrees to take all action that the Collateral Agent may request as a matter of nonbankruptcy law to perfect and Guarantor protect the Collateral Agent’s Collateral Interest in the Collateral and for such Collateral Interest to obtain the priority therefore contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, executing and delivering such documents and instruments, financing statements, obtaining such notices and assents of third parties, obtaining governmental approvals and providing such other instruments and documents in recordable form as the Collateral Agent may request. Obligors irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes authorize the Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming the Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Obligors as debtordebtors, as Collateral Agent may require, together with any amendment and including continuations with respect thereto, that (a) indicate the Collateral (i) as “all assets of such Obligor” or words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York or such jurisdiction, or (ii) as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail, and (b) provide any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction for the sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any financing statement or amendment, including (i) whether such jurisdiction as Agent may determineObligor is an organization, together with the type of organization and any amendment and continuations with respect theretoorganization identification number issued to such Obligor and, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as (ii) in the case may beof a financing statement filed as a fixture filing, as debtor with respect if any, a sufficient description of real property to which the Collateral relates. Such Obligor agrees to furnish any such information to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to promptly upon the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any)Agent’s request. Each Borrower and Guarantor Obligors hereby authorizes authorize Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Obligors any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Obligors at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Obligors as debtors. (b) No Obligor has any Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof. In the event that any Obligor shall be entitled to or shall receive any Chattel Paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Obligor or the Lead Obligor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such Obligor (including by any agent or representative), such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall deliver, or Guarantor cause to be delivered to Collateral Agent, all tangible Chattel Paper and instruments that such Obligor or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as debtorCollateral Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Collateral Agent may otherwise agree. At Collateral Agent’s option, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall, or Collateral Agent may at any time on behalf of such Obligor, cause the original of any such instrument or Chattel Paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Collateral Agent with the following legend referring to Chattel Paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of [name of Collateral Agent] and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Obligor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Collateral Agent’s request, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Collateral Agent may reasonably request to give Collateral Agent control of such electronic Chattel Paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Except as set forth on Exhibit 8.3(d), no Obligor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any Investment Property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof. (i) In the event that any Obligor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Collateral Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Obligor are uncertificated and are issued to any Obligor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Obligor shall immediately notify Collateral Agent thereof and shall as Collateral Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Collateral Agent as to such securities, without further consent of such Obligor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Collateral Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Obligor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Collateral Agent shall have received not less than Five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of a Obligor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Obligor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Collateral Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall as Collateral Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Collateral Agent, an investment property control agreement (in form and substance acceptable to the Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion) with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Obligor or the Lead Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Collateral Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Collateral Agent. (e) No Obligor is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any Letter of Credit Rights as of the date hereof. In the event that any Obligor shall be entitled to or shall receive any Letter of Credit Rights, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall immediately, as Collateral Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Collateral Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Collateral Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Collateral Agent by such Obligor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Collateral Agent or as Collateral Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Collateral Agent to become, at such Obligor’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (f) No Obligor has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof. In the event that any Obligor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Obligor to Collateral Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Obligor to Collateral Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Collateral Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent otherwise provided herein or otherwise arising by the execution by Obligors of this Agreement, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Obligors as debtors, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Obligors shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (g) The Obligors hereby covenant and agree that each Leasehold Interest shall at all times be free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any nature or description (other than Permitted Encumbrances) and no other creditor of the estate (secured or unsecured) shall be entitled to encumber any Leasehold Interest without the express written consent of the Collateral Agent. (h) The due and punctual payment and performance of the Obligations shall also be secured by the Encumbrance created by the Mortgage upon the Headquarters Facility of Lead Borrower described therein. (i) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Obligors (I) may hold assets consisting of Chattel Paper, Letter of Credit Rights, and commercial tort claims in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000 in which the Collateral Agent’s security interest has not been perfected; and (II) may hold assets consisting of Investment Property in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000 in which the Collateral Agent’s security interest has not been perfected.

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

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof with a value in excess of $500,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate (or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, then with any value), Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, except as to any Store Account opened or established after the date hereof, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Agent shall only have received such information as to such Store Account on the next monthly report with respect to deposit accounts in accordance with Section 7.1(a) hereof, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account (other than a Store Account or a disbursement account so long as no Event or Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing or so long as such Store Account or disbursement account is not maintained at a bank which also maintains a collection, lockbox or concentration account of a Borrower or Guarantor) such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to escrow accounts, xxxxx cash accounts, or deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for lottery payments, payroll, payroll taxes, workers compensation insurance payments and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (f) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities (other than securities consisting of Excluded Assets or consisting of Capital Stock of any Excluded Subsidiary), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities (other than securities consisting of Excluded Assets or consisting of Capital Stock of any Excluded Subsidiary), now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (g) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account or a Customer Loyalty Account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (i) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims that arise in connection with or relate to any assets which are or were at any time included in the calculation of the Borrowing Base, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (j) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the Person transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing and such goods shall not constitute Eligible Inventory or Eligible Equipment unless the criteria for Eligible Equipment or Eligible Equipment (as the case may be) have been satisfied. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral, except that Borrowers and Guarantors shall not be required to use such efforts to deliver a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to a retail store location opened after the date hereof unless such retail store location is leased from HPT or any of its Affiliates. (k) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’ s signature thereon is required therefore, (ii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, and (iii) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Travelcenters of America LLC), Loan and Security Agreement (Travelcenters of America LLC)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In Except as permitted by the Uniform Commercial Code, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof that constitutes Collateral, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that constitute Collateral that Borrower may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender’s option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) that constitutes Collateral, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2 of the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower’s salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property that constitutes Collateral, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof that constitutes Collateral, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities that constitute Collateral, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities that constitute Collateral, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower, are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, if any investment property constituting Collateral has been credited or will be credited to, or is or will be on deposit, in such account, unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument that constitutes Collateral as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument that constitutes Collateral, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at Borrower’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims that constitute Collateral as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims that constitute Collateral, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any such commercial tort claim described therein that constitutes Collateral shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim that constitutes a part of the Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods or documents of title that constitute Collateral or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers (except for goods or documents of title that constitute Collateral or other tangible Collateral located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods or other Collateral), Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, and (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Vector Group LTD), Loan and Security Agreement (Vector Group LTD)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file (for itself and the benefit of the Secured Parties) on behalf of such Borrower or Guarantor at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral of such Borrower or Guarantor naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may requirereasonably require to evidence the security interest granted to the Agent under the Financing Agreements to the extent provided therein, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral of such Borrower or Guarantor (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of Agent, except with respect to any release of any Lien in assets or properties that do not constitute Collateral.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Nci Building Systems Inc), Loan and Security Agreement (Nci Building Systems Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In Until such time as the Credit Facility shall have been terminated and all Obligations have been paid in full in accordance with Section 13.1(a) hereof, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) with a value in excess of $100,000, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees or to the cash deposit referred to in Section 9.8(m) of this Agreement. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (A) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify and (B) if any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (1) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (2) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account or the Specified Investment Account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument with a principal amount in excess of $250,000, individually, and $500,000, in the aggregate, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim for an amount in excess of $250,000, individually, and $500,000, in the aggregate, and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except (i) as set forth in the Information Certificate, (ii) Coffee Brewing Equipment and (iii) for goods located in the United States of America in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral (other than Coffee Brewing Equipment) are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers with a Value in excess of $250,000, individually, and $500,000, in the aggregate, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States of America as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Farmer Brothers Co)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Secured Party (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements in the United States of America with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor, as Agent Secured Party may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor or otherwise required by part Section 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Secured Party may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Debtor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Secured Party prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Secured Party to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby authorizes Agent Secured Party to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Debtor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor a Debtor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor a Debtor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor a Debtor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor. (b) Each Debtor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments located in the United States of America as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. In the event that a Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof that is or will be located in the United States of America, such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of a Debtor (including by any agent or representative), such Debtor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Secured Party, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Debtor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Secured Party may from time to time specify, in each case except as Secured Party may otherwise agree. At Secured Party’s option, each Debtor shall, or Secured Party may at any time on behalf of such Debtor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Secured Party with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central), as Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that a Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Promptly upon Secured Party’s request, each Debtor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Secured Party may reasonably request to give Secured Party control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Debtor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. Each Debtor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account that is maintained or located in the United States of America unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Secured Party shall have received not less than five (5) business days prior written notice of the intention of such Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Secured Party the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Secured Party, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Debtor shall as Secured Party may specify either (A) deliver to Secured Party a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account, in form and substance satisfactory to Secured Party and Tranche B Agent, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Debtor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Secured Party to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Secured Party. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Debtor’s salaried employees. (e) Each Debtor does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in its Information Certificate. (i) In the event that a Debtor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Debtor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Secured Party, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Secured Party may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by a Debtor are uncertificated and are issued to such Debtor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Debtor shall immediately notify Secured Party thereof and shall as Secured Party may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Secured Party as to such securities, without further consent of such Debtor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Secured Party to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Each Debtor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary where such intermediary’s jurisdiction is located in the United States of America unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Secured Party shall have received not less than five (5) Business days prior written notice of the intention of such Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Secured Party the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Secured Party, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Debtor shall as Secured Party may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Secured Party, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto, in form and substance satisfactory to Secured Party, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Debtor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Secured Party to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Secured Party. (f) As of the date hereof, each Debtor is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument where the law governing the perfection of a security interest therein is the law of a State in the United States of America, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. In the event that a Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument where the law governing the perfection of a security interest therein is the law of a State in the United States of America, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Such Debtor shall immediately, as Secured Party may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Secured Party, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Secured Party, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Secured Party by such Debtor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Secured Party or as Secured Party may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Secured Party to become, at such Debtor’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Each Debtor has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. In the event that a Debtor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Debtor to Secured Party of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Debtor to Secured Party shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Secured Party. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Secured Party provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by a Debtor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Secured Party is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Debtor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Debtor shall promptly upon Secured Party’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Secured Party such other agreements, documents and instruments as Secured Party may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) As of the date hereof, each Debtor does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party where the law governing the perfection of a security interest therein is the law of a State in the United States of America, except as set forth in its Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Debtor permitted in the Financing Agreements in the ordinary course of business of such Debtor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers and the law governing the perfection of a security interest therein is the law of a State of the United States of America, each Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Promptly upon Secured Party’s request, each Debtor shall deliver to Secured Party a Collateral Access Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Secured Party, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and applicable Debtor. (i) Each Debtor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Secured Party from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that a Debtor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Secured Party’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: General Security Agreement (SMTC Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) So long as this Agreement is in full force and effect , each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements heretofore filed and naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtordebtor without the prior written consent of Lender, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any officer of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Langer Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code UCC of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) As of the date hereof, Borrower does not have any duplicate originals of any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments related to the Assigned Leases. In the event that

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Hypercom Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such any Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower Borrowers hereby ratify and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves approve all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such any Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies ratify and confirms confirm the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Borrowers hereby authorizes Agent authorize Lender to adopt on behalf of such any Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Borrowers to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor without Lender's prior written consent, at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such any Borrower as debtor so long as any Obligations (including any Letter of Credit Accommodations) have not been paid and satisfied in full in cash or Guarantor Lender is obligated to provide Loans or Letter of Credit Accommodations to any Borrower pursuant to the Financing Agreements. (b) Borrowers do not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as debtor.of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Guess Inc Et Al/Ca/)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such any Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower Borrowers hereby ratify and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves approve all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such any Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies ratify and confirms confirm the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Borrowers hereby authorizes Agent authorize Lender to adopt on behalf of such any Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Borrowers to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor without Lender's prior written consent, at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such any Borrower as debtor so long as any Obligations (including any Letter of Credit Accommodations) have not been paid and satisfied in full in cash or Guarantor as debtorLender is obligated to provide Loans or Letter of Credit Accommodations to any Borrower pursuant to the Financing Agreements.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Guess Inc Et Al/Ca/)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument that constitutes Collateral after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) that constitute Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account, other than a Store Account, unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities that constitute Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities that constitute Collateral, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary that constitute or do or will at any time have any Collateral in them unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof that constitute Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims that arise in connection with or are related to any other Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Officemax Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Southern), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower's salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (f) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (g) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (h) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (i) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (j) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (k) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Delta Apparel Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender’s option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower’s salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A)cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B)arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of any nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at Borrower’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Vitacost.com, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Western), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Natrol Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Guarantor, at any time prior to the termination of this Agreement and payment in full of the Obligations in accordance with the terms hereof, file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument for an amount in excess of $100,000 after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments for an amount in excess of $100,000 that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Financial Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" for an amount in excess of $100,000 (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower's or Guarantor's salaried employees. Except for any Blocked Account, Lockbox Account or as otherwise agreed by the applicable Borrower or Guarantor, Agent shall not exercise control over any deposit account unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities (other than for Utilihost, Inc., ElectricAmerica, Inc., Electric.com, Inc., Power Efficiency Corp. and Encorp, Inc.), such Boxxxxxx xx Xxarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. Except as otherwise agreed by the applicable Borrower or Guarantor, Agent shall not exercise control over any investment account, securities account or similar account unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument for an amount in excess of $100,000, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be).

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Commerce Energy Group Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may reasonably require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to on or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In So long as any Obligations are outstanding and the Commitments have not been terminated, without Agent’s prior consent, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument for obligations in excess of $2,000,000 in any one case or $2,000,000 in the aggregate that constitutes Collateral after the date hereof, the applicable Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time reasonably specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time an Event of Default exists on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner reasonably acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may reasonably request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities constituting Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time reasonably specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may reasonably specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of such securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof (except with respect to any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument in support of a financed Capital Expenditure permitted under Section 9.18 hereof) involving an amount in excess of $1,000,000 in any one case or $2,000,000 in the aggregate that constitute Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either, in each case unless otherwise agreed to by Agent, (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims involving a claim in excess of $2,000,000 (or commercial tort claims in the aggregate in excess of $5,000,000), that arise in connection with or are related to any other Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral having an aggregate value in excess of $1,000,000 (which as to documents of title for this purpose shall be deemed to refer to the value of the goods covered by such document of title) in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of or after the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof having a value in excess of $250,000 in any one case in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Latrobe Specialty Metals, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may reasonably request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, except as to any Store Account opened or established after the date hereof, so long as no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred, Agent shall only have received such information as to such Store Account on the next monthly report with respect to deposit accounts in accordance with Section 7.1 (a) hereof, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account (other than as to a Store Account so long as no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing), such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees or the escrow of security deposits with respect to Real Property subject to lease. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, for itself and the benefit of Lenders, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than two (2) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument with a face amount in excess of $500,000, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims in excess of $1,000,000, such Borrower or Guarantor (or Borrower Agent) shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral (other than motor vehicles, if any), (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (J Crew Group Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofof the Original Loan Agreement. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof of the Original Loan Agreement and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (New York & Company, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor. Agent agrees, at the expense of Borrower, to use reasonable efforts to deliver to Borrower copies of any such financing statements (or amendments or continuation statements with respect thereto) but failure to deliver such financing statements shall not result in any liability to Agent. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Madeleine L.L.C., as Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or exxxxxxxxxe of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, as Agent may request either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower's employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or Guarantor its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, as Agent may request either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Borrower shall, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower does not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.3(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States or Canada in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and (subject to liens permitted hereunder) first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) upon Agent's request, causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, and (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction. (j) So long as the Intercreditor Agreement remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Section 5.3, any obligations in clauses (b), (c), (f), and (h) of this Section 5.3 regarding the delivery by Borrower of any items shall be deemed satisfied by Borrower if Borrower delivers such items to the Agent under, and as defined in, the Congress Loan Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Anchor Glass Container Corp /New)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and or Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of Agent. (b) No Borrower or Guarantor has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, which together with all other chattel paper and instruments that Borrowers and Guarantors have become entitled to or have received after the date hereof has a fair market value in excess of $100,000 individually or in the aggregate, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, such Borrower or Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of such Borrower or Guarantor, cause the originals of any such instruments and chattel paper that have a fair market value in excess of $100,000 individually or in the aggregate, to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), which together with all other electronic chattel paper or “transferable record” that Borrowers and Guarantors have become entitled to has a fair market value in excess of $100,000 individually or in the aggregate, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower or Guarantor has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s Information Certificate. No Borrower or Guarantor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any Central Collection Deposit Account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the Central Collection Deposit Account, the owner of the Central Collection Deposit Account, the name and address of the bank at which such Central Collection Deposit Account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the Central Collection Deposit Account, (ii) the bank where such Central Collection Deposit Account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such Central Collection Deposit Account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such Central Collection Deposit Account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions reasonable acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to (i) deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees or (ii) an account maintained by Borrowers and a management company engaged by Borrowers for the purpose of paying the real property taxes of Borrowers and Guarantors so long as (A) Borrowers prefund the amount of taxes to be paid in such account not earlier than ten (10) Business Days prior to the date such taxes are required to be paid and (B) at all times other than the time when such account may be prefunded during such ten (10) day period with the amount of taxes to be so paid, not more than $5,000 is maintained in such account. Agent shall not exercise its right to require amounts in such accounts to be sent to the Agent Payment Account except as provided by Section 6.3 hereof. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(e) hereto.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (New York & Company, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determinebe necessary to perfect the security interest granted herein, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or GuarantorBorrower, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral, and each Borrower authorizes Lender to file a financing statement with a collateral description of "all assets" or "all personal property". In Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement with respect to Lender's obligations to provide releases of Collateral or termination statements, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Jazz Semiconductor Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b). In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of General Electric Capital Corporation in its capacity as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(d). Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, except as to any Store Account opened or established after the date hereof, so long as no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing, Agent shall only have received such information as to such Store Account on the next monthly report with respect to deposit accounts in accordance with Section 7.1(a) hereof, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account (other than as to a Store Account so long as no Default or Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. At all times the Borrowers and Guarantors shall maintain a Deposit Account Control Agreement in full force and effect with respect to the Concentration Account and the Elavon Deposit Account. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(e).

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Hancock Fabrics Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender’s option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Southwest) (and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank or other financial institution at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank or other financial institution with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank or other financial institution where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) upon the occurrence or during the continuance of an event of Default, and upon the request of Lender on or before the opening of any deposit account, Borrower shall, as Lender may specify, either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower’s salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default on or before the opening of an investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in Schedule 5.2(f) hereof. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly-notify Lender thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at Borrower’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of the title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefore, (ii) causing Lender’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Impreso Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor Borrowers irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes authorize Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment amendments and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Such financing statements may describe the Collateral in the same manner as described herein or in any security agreement or pledge agreement entered into by the parties in connection herewith or may contain an indication or description of Collateral that describes such property in any other manner as the Agent may determine, in its sole discretion, is necessary, advisable or prudent to ensure the perfection of the security interest in the Collateral granted to the Agent in connection herewith or therewith. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the express prior written consent of Agent.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Haynes International Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender's option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Pfsweb Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally (a) The Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such a financing statement or financing statements (collectively, the “Financing Statements”) describing the Collateral in any and all jurisdictions where, and with any and all governmental authorities with whom, the Collateral Agent reasonably deems such filing to be necessary or appropriate including, without limitation, the jurisdiction of the debtor’s location for purposes of the Code, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. The Grantor will reimburse the Collateral Agent for any and all costs, charges and expenses (including fees of counsel) incurred in connection with such filings. For purposes of this Section 2.2(a), the Financing Statements shall be deemed to include any amendment, modification, assignment, continuation statement or other similar instrument consistent with the rights granted to the Secured Party under the Transaction Documents. (b) The Grantor shall have possession of the Collateral, except as expressly otherwise provided in this Pledge Agreement or where the Collateral Agent chooses to perfect its security interest by possession in addition to the filing of a Financing Statement. Where Collateral is in the possession of a third party, the Grantor will join with the Collateral Agent in notifying the third party of the Collateral Agent’s security interest therein and, upon the request of the Collateral Agent, use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an acknowledgement from the third party that it is holding the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Party. (c) The Grantor shall cooperate with the Collateral Agent in obtaining control (including “Control” as contemplated by Section 9-312(b) of the Code) with respect to Collateral consisting of Deposit Accounts and Letter-of-Credit Rights. (d) The Grantor will not create any Chattel Paper that would constitute Collateral without a legend on such Chattel Paper reasonably acceptable to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as indicating that the Collateral Agent has a secured party and interest in such Borrower or Guarantor as debtorChattel Paper. (e) The Grantor shall, as Agent may requireupon the Grantor’s acquiring, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 becoming entitled to the benefits of, any Copyright Collateral, Patent Collateral, Trademark Collateral (or associated goodwill) or other Intellectual Property or upon or prior to the Grantor’s filing, either directly or through any agent, licensee or other designee, of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together any application with any amendment and continuations with respect theretogovernmental authority for any Copyright Collateral, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed onPatent Collateral, prior to Trademark Collateral, or other Intellectual Property, in each case after the date hereof. Each Borrower , execute and Guarantor hereby ratifies deliver such contracts, agreements and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, other instruments as the case Collateral Agent may bereasonably request, as debtor subject to any other applicable provision of this Pledge Agreement, to evidence, validate, perfect and establish the priority of the security interest granted by this Pledge Agreement except with respect to Permitted Liens in such and any related Intellectual Property. (f) The Grantor shall deliver and pledge to the Collateral Agent any and all certificates representing the Pledged Stock, accompanied by undated stock powers duly executed in blank. (and any amendments with respect to such financing statementsg) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to The Grantor shall upon the acquisition after the date hereof by the Grantor of any Stock Collateral, promptly either (x) transfer and ratifies and confirms deliver to the authorization of Collateral Agent to file all such financing statements Stock Collateral (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of together with the certificates representing such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Stock Collateral securities duly endorsed in any financing statement naming Agent blank or its designee accompanied by undated stock powers duly executed in blank) or (y) take such other action as the secured party Collateral Agent shall deem reasonably necessary or appropriate to perfect, and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of establish the other Financing Agreements or otherwisepriority of, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized security interest granted by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included this Pledge Agreement in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Stock Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Pledge and Security Agreement (Photomedex Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor, as Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Collateral Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Debtor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby authorizes Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Debtor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Noteholder Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor solely to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In Except in accordance with the Indenture and the Security Documents, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Debtor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor. (b) No Debtor has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate or as constitutes an Excluded Asset. In the event that any Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument which does not constitute an Excluded Asset after the date hereof, such Debtor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt of such chattel paper or instrument (and so long as such chattel paper or instrument is not an Excluded Asset) by or on behalf of any Debtor (including by any agent or representative), such Debtor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Perfection Agent, all such tangible chattel paper and instruments, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Perfection Agent may from time to time specify. At Perfection Agent's option, Debtor shall, or Perfection Agent may at any time on behalf of Debtor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Perfection Agent. (c) In the event that any Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) which does not constitute an Excluded Asset, such Debtor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon receipt thereof, Debtor shall take, or cause to be taken, such necessary actions to give Perfection Agent control of such electronic chattel paper (so long as such electronic chattel paper is not an Excluded Asset) under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Debtor has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Promptly after the Issue Date each Debtor shall deliver fully executed Deposit Account Control Agreements for all deposit accounts that constitute Collateral, together with opinions of counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent. No Debtor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account which does not constitute an Excluded Asset unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days' prior written notice of the intention of such Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Perfection Agent, and (iii) Debtor shall promptly deliver to Collateral Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Debtor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. (e) No Debtor holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Debtor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities (other than certificated securities that are Excluded Assets), such Debtor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Perfection Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Perfection Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities (other than certificated securities that are Excluded Assets), now or hereafter acquired by any Debtor are uncertificated and are issued to such Debtor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Debtor shall immediately notify Collateral Agent thereof and shall promptly cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Perfection Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Debtor or such nominee. (ii) No Debtor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account or an investment account, securities account, commodity account or similar account which is an Excluded Asset) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days' prior written notice of the intention of such Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Perfection Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Debtor shall execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Collateral Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Debtor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary. (f) No Debtor is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument which does not constitute an Excluded Asset, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Debtor shall promptly use reasonable efforts to notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Such Debtor shall promptly deliver, or cause to be delivered to Perfection Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (unless any such instrument is an Excluded Asset), the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Perfection Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Perfection Agent by such Debtor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Perfection Agent or as Perfection Agent may otherwise direct. (g) No Debtor has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Debtor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Debtor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Debtor to Collateral Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Debtor to Collateral Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Collateral Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Collateral Agent provided in Section 2.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by each Debtor of this Agreement or any of the other Noteholder Agreements, Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and the applicable Debtor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, such Debtor shall promptly upon Collateral Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Collateral Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Collateral Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) No Debtor has any goods, documents of title or other Collateral which do not constitute Excluded Assets in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except (i) as set forth in the Information Certificate, (ii) for any Collateral in the possession or under the control of the Perfection Agent or the Collateral Agent and (iii) except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of such Debtor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Debtor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, such Debtor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Perfection Agent's request, such Debtor shall exercise commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to Perfection Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and such Debtor. (i) Each Debtor shall take all other actions reasonably requested by Collateral Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and, subject to Permitted Prior Liens, first priority of, and the ability of Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of Collateral Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that such Debtor's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Collateral Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of Collateral Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of Collateral Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and (v) taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Security Agreement (Block 7932 Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment amendments, financing change statements and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of Agent. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims against third parties as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in Canada (in the case of H&H Canada and Atlantic), Mexico (in the case of Indiana Tube Mexico and Kasco Ensambly) or the United States (in the case of all other Borrowers and Guarantors) in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral having an aggregate book value equal to or greater than $25,000 are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any person not referred to in the Information Certificate or any carrier not referred to in the Information Certificate, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. With respect to goods, documents of title or other Collateral having an aggregate book value equal to or greater than $100,000, promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by the third party in the custody, control or possession of such goods, documents of title or other Collateral and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such goods, documents of title or other Collateral. (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority (subject to the liens expressly permitted under Sections 9.8(b) through (g) hereof) of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC, the PPSA or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States or Canada as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or the PPSA or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (WHX Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may reasonably require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description or be deemed to constitute a grant of a security interest in such assets or property not constituting Collateral and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In Without Agent’s prior written consent, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtordebtor provided, that, (1) upon the sale or other disposition of specific items of Collateral in compliance with Section 9.7 hereof, Agent shall file or cause to be filed, upon the request and at the expense of Borrowers, UCC partial releases solely with respect to such Collateral and (2) upon the termination of this Agreement and payment and satisfaction of all of the Obligations (other than unasserted contingent indemnity obligations) and the delivery of cash collateral to the extent required by Section 13.1, Agent shall file or cause to be filed, at the expense of Borrowers, UCC termination statements with respect to all of the Collateral (excluding such cash collateral).

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Merix Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may reasonably require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, except with Agent's prior express written consent. (b) No Borrower has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Western), as Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, each Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may reasonably request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in such Borrower's Information Certificate. No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall, as Agent may specify, either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this Section 5.2(d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Borrower's salaried employees. (e) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in such Borrower's Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities (except for the Capital Stock of the Direct Foreign Subsidiaries that is excluded from Collateral pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof), such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall, as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of such Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall, as Agent may specify, either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) No Borrower is the beneficiary of or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(f) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit by such Borrower to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lender, or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) No Borrower has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(g) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute a grant of security interest therein to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrowers of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) No Borrower has any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in such Borrower's Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of Borrowers' business in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral of any Borrower are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in an Information Certificate, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and such Borrower. (i) Each Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent and the Lenders to enforce, the security interests of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that such Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name, for itself and in its capacity as agent for Lenders, to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent and the Lenders in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent and the Lenders to enforce, the security interests of Agent and the Lenders in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Rockford Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may requirerequire to perfect its security interest in the Collateral, and including which financing statements shall include any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such each jurisdiction as Agent may determinein which the filing of a financing statement can perfect a security interest in the relevant Collateral, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without Agent’s prior written consent.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Bell Microproducts Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) On or prior to the Issue Date, each Grantor will file, or cause to be filed, a financing statement under the UCC of the State of Delaware with respect to the Collateral, naming such Grantor as debtor and the Collateral Agent as secured party. Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor shall deliver copies of all financing statements to the Collateral Agent. (b) Each Grantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor as debtor, as Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code UCC of such jurisdiction as Collateral Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Grantor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor hereby authorizes Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Grantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Grantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements Security Documents, any Other Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness Document or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Grantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor as debtor. Without limiting the foregoing, the Grantors consent that UCC financing statements may be filed describing the Collateral as “all assets” or “all personal property” of the Grantors (provided that no such description shall be deemed to modify the description of Collateral set forth in Section 3.01). (c) Each Grantor shall, as soon as practicable after the Issue Date, but in any event no later than 180 days after the Issue Date (except to the extent any such security interest cannot be perfected with commercially reasonable efforts), use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver or cause to be delivered to Collateral Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments for any obligation that such Grantor has on the Issue Date in excess of $200,000 in any one case or $500,000 in the aggregate that constitutes Collateral, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank. In the event that any Grantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument for any obligation in excess of $200,000 in any one case or $500,000 in the aggregate that constitutes Collateral after the date hereof and if prior to the Discharge of First Lien Debt, shall be required to deliver the same to the First Lien Agent, such Grantor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. If requested by the Collateral Agent, such Grantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Collateral Agent, all such tangible chattel paper and instruments, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may require. (d) In the event that any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) that constitutes Collateral, such Grantor shall notify the Collateral Agent thereof in writing. At any time at which the First Lien Agent is given control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in the applicable jurisdiction, such Grantor shall give the Collateral Agent, substantially contemporaneously therewith (or of the Discharge of First Lien Debt has occurred, use reasonable efforts to give as soon as practicable) control by the same means as it is given to the First Lien Agent. (e) Each Grantor shall, as soon as practicable after the Issue Date, but in any event no later than 180 days after the Issue Date (except to the extent any such security interest cannot be perfected with commercially reasonable efforts), use commercially reasonable efforts to cause each bank at which a deposit account is maintained and which has entered into a deposit account control agreement for the benefit of the First Lien Agent to enter into a Deposit Account Control Agreement. At any time a deposit account control agreement is entered into between a bank and the First Lien Agent, or, after the Discharge of First Lien Debt, at any time a deposit account is opened, each Grantor shall deliver to the Collateral Agent substantially concurrently with the delivery of the control agreement to the First Lien Agent (or if the Discharge of First Lien Debt has occurred, use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver as soon as practicable) a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Grantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (e) shall not apply to deposit accounts (i) specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Grantor’s salaried employees, (ii) prior to the Discharge of First Lien Debt, for which no deposit account control agreement is required to be entered into for the benefit of the First Lien Agent, or (iii) after the Discharge of First Lien Debt, deposit accounts of any Grantor, provided that this clause (iii) shall cease to apply if the aggregate balance in all such deposit accounts for all Grantors for 30 consecutive days or more exceeds $2.5 million. (f) In the event that any Grantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the Issue Date hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Grantor shall endorse, assign and deliver the same to Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Collateral Agent may from time to time specify. (g) At any time a Grantor establishes or maintains any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) and, if prior to the Discharge of First Lien Debt, an investment property control agreement is entered into between the Grantor and the relevant securities intermediary or commodity intermediary and the First Lien Agent, such Grantor shall use commercially reasonably efforts to cause the applicable securities intermediary or commodity intermediary to enter into an Investment Property Control Agreement with the Collateral Agent substantially contemporaneously with entering into such control agreement with the First Lien Agent (if prior to the Discharge of First Lien Debt). (h) In the event that any Grantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims in excess of $100,000 or $250,000 in the aggregate and if prior to the Discharge of First Lien Debt, grant a perfected security interest therein to the First Lien Agent, such Grantor shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Grantor to Collateral Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Grantor to Collateral Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Collateral Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 3.02(b) hereof, Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Grantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. (i) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3 to the contrary, unless specifically required by the terms of any Other Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness Document, no Grantor shall be required to take any of the actions required by Section 3.02(c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) with respect to any Collateral to the extent the Collateral Agent’s security interest therein is prior to the taking of such action, perfected by filing.

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Samples: Security Agreement (Associated Materials, LLC)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determinebe necessary to perfect the security interest granted herein, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral, and each Borrower and Guarantor authorizes Agent to file a financing statement with a collateral description of "all assets" or "all personal property". In Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement with respect to Agent's obligations to provide releases of Collateral or termination statements, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) None of the Borrowers or Guarantors has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree; provided, that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrowers and Guarantors shall not be required to deliver to Agent up to $1,000,000 in the aggregate of any such chattel paper or instruments and instruments of transfer or assignment. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Western) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.”; provided, that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrowers and Guarantors shall not be required to xxxx up to $1,000,000 in the aggregate of any such chattel paper and instruments. (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) None of the Borrowers or Guarantors has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. No Borrower or Guarantor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not maintain at any one time an aggregate amount of more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) in deposit accounts maintained at any location outside the United States, and Agent and Lenders shall not require Borrowers and Guarantors to deliver to Agent any Deposit Account Control Agreements otherwise required under the terms of this subsection (d) with respect to such deposit accounts located outside of the United States so long as Borrowers and Guarantors are in compliance with the terms of this sentence.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Jazz Technologies, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determinedetermine in good faith, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. Borrower hereby authorizes the Agent to use collateral descriptions such as “all personal property” or “all assets”, in each case “whether now owned or hereafter acquired”, words of similar import or any other description the Agent, in its sole discretion, so chooses in any such financing statements. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral, provided, that, in such event, upon Borrower’s written request and at Borrower’s expense, Agent shall file such amendments to its financing statements to change the assets described therein so as to constitute the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower as debtor so long as this Agreement has not been terminated or Guarantor as debtorall of the Obligations have not been paid and satisfied in full in immediately available funds.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Aep Industries Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agenta) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect Prior to the Collateral naming Agent initial Credit Event under the Credit Agreement or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may requireany other Loan Document, and including thereafter upon the pledge of any other information with respect to such Borrower Additional Security by Valhi Holding and upon each investment or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 reinvestment of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to funds deposited in the Collateral Account pursuant to Section 7 of this Pledge Agreement, Valhi Holding shall (and any amendments with respect to such financing statementsi) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit deliver or cause to be fileddelivered to the Administrative Agent all previously undelivered certificates and instruments evidencing Pledged Shares, other than Pledged Shares that have been deposited in an Approved Depositary, and (ii) give all notices and take such other action as may be necessary to perfect the Administrative Agent's security interest in any correction statement Pledged Shares that have been deposited with an Approved Depositary, or termination statement any funds or investments in the Collateral Account. (b) All Pledged Shares, other than Pledged Shares that have been deposited with respect an Approved Depositary, shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent in suitable form for transfer by delivery, or shall be accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, with signatures appropriately guaranteed, and accompanied in each case by any financing statement required transfer tax stamps, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. (c) Valhi Holding shall cause each Approved Depositary to make appropriate entries to the Administrative Agent's account on the books of such Approved Depositary to reflect the transfer of all Pledged Shares that have been deposited with such Approved Depositary to the Administrative Agent to be held as collateral under this Pledge Agreement, and to deliver to the Administrative Agent a written confirmation of the book-entry transfer of such Pledged Shares into such account, to be held as Collateral under this Pledge Agreement. (d) Valhi Holding shall notify TIMET of the security interest created hereby on the initial Pledged Shares and shall cause TIMET, within ten (10) Business Days of the date of this Pledge Agreement, to send written notice to the Administrative Agent acknowledging such security interest and expressly agreeing to remit any and all dividends and distributions on account of the Pledged Shares issued by TIMET (other than cash dividends) remitted after the date of this Pledge Agreement directly to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent's address set forth in Schedule 15.7 to the Credit Agreement, and, upon receipt by TIMET of any notice from the Administrative Agent that a Default or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Credit Agreement, to remit all cash dividends and any and all other distributions on account of the Pledged Shares issued by TIMET directly to the Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and at the same address (and, upon the Administrative Agent's receipt of any such Borrower or Guarantor as debtorcash dividends, the Administrative Agent will deposit such funds into the Collateral Account).

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Pledge and Security Agreement (Contran Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor; provided, that, (i) upon the sale or other disposition of specific items of Collateral in compliance with Section 9.7 hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors may file UCC partial releases solely with respect to such Collateral and (ii) upon the termination of this Agreement and payment and satisfaction of all of the Obligations and the delivery of cash collateral to the extent required by Section 13.1, Borrowers and Guarantors may file UCC termination statements with respect to all of the Collateral (excluding such cash collateral). Upon the request and at the expense of Borrowers, Agent shall furnish Borrowers with copies of all financing statements filed by or on behalf of Agent naming Agent, as secured party, and a Borrower or Guarantor, as debtor.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Mackie Designs Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each So long as any Obligations are outstanding and this Agreement has not been terminated, each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Collateral Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In So long as any Obligations are outstanding and this Agreement has not been terminated, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, except as may be required in connection with the disposition of Collateral permitted hereunder.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Term Loan and Security Agreement (CPG International Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower authorizes, and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) shall cause each of the other Credit Parties from time to time party to any Collateral Documents to authorize, Bank to file at any time financing statements, continuation statements and amendments thereto that describe the Collateral and to describe the Collateral as all assets of each Credit Party of the kind pledged under the Collateral Documents and which contain any other information required by the Code for the sufficiency of filing office acceptance of any financing statement, continuation statement or amendment, including whether such Credit Party is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Credit Party, if applicable. Any such financing statements may be signed by Bank on behalf of each Credit Party, as provided in the Code, and may be filed at any time in any jurisdiction. Borrower shall from time to time such financing statements with respect execute and deliver, and shall cause each of the other Credit Parties from time to time party to any Collateral Documents to execute and deliver, to Bank, at the request of Bank, all Negotiable Collateral and other documents that Bank may reasonably request, in form satisfactory to Bank, to perfect and continue perfected Bank's security interests and Liens in the Collateral and in order to consummate fully all of the transactions contemplated under the Loan Documents. Each Credit Party shall have possession of its property and assets constituting Collateral, except where expressly otherwise provided in the Loan Documents or where Bank chooses to perfect its security interests by possession in addition to the filing of a financing statement. Where Collateral naming Agent or its designee as is in possession of a third-party bailee, Borrower shall take such steps, and shall cause each of the secured other Credit Parties from time to time party and to any Collateral Documents to take such Borrower or Guarantor as debtorsteps, as Agent may requireBank reasonably requests for Bank to (a) obtain an acknowledgment, in form and substance satisfactory to Bank, of the bailee that the bailee holds such Collateral for the benefit of Bank, and including (b) without limitation of the provisions contained in Section 4.3 and Section 6.8, obtain "control" of any other information with respect to Collateral consisting of investment property, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights or electronic chattel paper (as such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of items and the term "control" are defined in Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determineCode) by causing the securities intermediary or depositary institution or issuing bank to execute a control agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Bank. Borrower shall not, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to not cause or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under permit any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwiseCredit Parties to, create any chattel paper without placing a legend on the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor chattel paper acceptable to Bank indicating that Bank has a security interest in the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtorchattel paper.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Orchid Biosciences Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of Agent.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (WHX Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such either Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction or under Canadian Security Laws as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower Borrowers hereby ratify and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves approve all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such any Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies ratify and confirms confirm the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Borrowers hereby authorizes Agent authorize Lender to adopt on behalf of such any Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Borrowers to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor without Lender's prior written consent, at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such any Borrower as debtor so long as any Obligations (including any Letter of Credit Accommodations) have not been paid and satisfied in full in cash or Guarantor Lender is obligated to provide Loans or Letter of Credit Accommodations to any Borrower pursuant to the Financing Agreements. (b) Borrowers do not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as debtor.of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Guess Inc Et Al/Ca/)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may reasonably require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, except with Lender's prior express written consent. (b) No Borrower has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender's option, each Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Hilco Capital LP, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, each Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in such Borrower's Information Certificate. No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall, as Lender may specify, deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this Section 5.2(d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Borrower's salaried employees. (e) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in such Borrower's Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities (except for the Capital Stock of the Direct Foreign Subsidiaries that is excluded from Collateral pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof), such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall, as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of such Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall, as Lender may specify, either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) No Borrower is the beneficiary of or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(f) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit by such Borrower to Lender and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender, or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender, to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) No Borrower has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(g) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute a grant of security interest therein to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrowers of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Lender's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) No Borrower has any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in such Borrower's Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of Borrowers' business in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral of any Borrower are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in an Information Certificate, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, such Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and such Borrower. (i) Each Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interests of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that such Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interests of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including/without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Rockford Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Administrative Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Administrative Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Administrative Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofEffective Date. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Administrative Agent prior to the date hereof Effective Date and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Administrative Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Administrative Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower Xxxxxxxx and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the Effective Date, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Administrative Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (SpartanNash Co)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor (a) Grantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party Agent and such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code UCC of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party Agent and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Grantor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Grantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party Agent and any Borrower or Guarantor Grantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Grantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party Agent and such Borrower or Guarantor Grantor as debtor. (b) Grantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Grantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Grantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing to the extent provided in the Loan Agreement. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Grantor (including by any agent or representative), Grantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Grantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, Grantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Grantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Western) as agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such Agent.” (c) In the event that Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Grantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Grantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may reasonably request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Grantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Grantor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Grantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Grantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Grantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Grantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Grantor’s salaried employees. (e) Grantor does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Grantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities (other than of an Acquired Business pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition), Grantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Grantor are uncertificated and are issued to Grantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Grantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof, and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Grantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities, except that Grantor shall not be required to take such actions with respect to uncertificated securities of an Acquired Business purchased pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition. (ii) Grantor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of the intention of Grantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Grantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Grantor shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Grantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Grantor is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Grantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument to the extent provided in the Loan Agreement, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Grantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Grantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Grantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Grantor’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Grantor has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Grantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Grantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing to the extent provided in the Loan Agreement, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Grantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Grantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 2.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Grantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as Agent and Grantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Grantor shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Grantor does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Grantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Grantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Grantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Grantor shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Grantor. (i) Grantor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Grantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as Agent on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, and (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: General Security Agreement (HyperSpace Communications, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (i) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (ii) No Borrower has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender's option, each applicable Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (iii) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, each applicable Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (iv) No Borrower has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Borrower's employees. (v) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (A) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of such Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (B) No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (vi) No Borrower is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by such Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at such Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (vii) No Borrower has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrowers of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Lender's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (viii) No Borrower has any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for (i) Inventory held by Fansteel de Mexico and (ii) goods located in the United States in transit to a location of such Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of the title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, the applicable Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, the applicable Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and such Borrower. (ix) Each Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein) of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that such Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Fansteel Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment amendments, financing change statements and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of Agent.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Handy & Harman Ltd.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or under the PPSA of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the such Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements Loan Documents or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Innophos, Inc.)

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Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2. (c) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, subject to Permitted Liens, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and alt of the Collateral, including, without limitation, executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Value Financial Services, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beLoan Party, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, except as expressly permitted by the applicable Uniform Commercial Code. (b) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Loan Party (including by any agent or representative), such Loan Party shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Loan Party has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Loan Party shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Loan Party, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Loan Party shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. No Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Loan Party to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Loan Party is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Loan Party shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, xxxxx cash accounts used in accordance with any Loan Party's historical practices, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Loan Party's salaried employees. (e) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.1 hereof, such Loan Party shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. Subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.1 hereof, if any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party are uncertificated and are issued to such Loan Party or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Loan Party shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Loan Party or such nominee upon written notice to such issuer from Agent that an Event of Default exists. (ii) No Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Loan Party to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Loan Party is dealing and the purpose of the account, (b) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (c) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Loan Party shall execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and such securities intermediary. (f) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. During the existence of an Event of Default and upon Agent's request, such Loan Party shall use its best efforts to immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in its good faith determination, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Loan Party and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any commercial tort claims (other than class actions unless such Loan Party's ascertainable portion of the claim in such action is in excess of $250,000) as of the date hereof in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all tort claims (other than class actions unless such Loan Party's ascertainable portion of the claim in such action is in excess of $250,000) for all Loan Parties, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all tort claims for all Loan Parties, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Loan Party to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Loan Party to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Loan Party of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Loan Party as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Loan Party shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Loan Party permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Loan Party in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods and except for goods, documents of title or Collateral which are de minimus in value. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Loan Parties shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Loan Party that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Each Loan Party shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Loan Party's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Delco Remy International Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code UCC or required pursuant to any other legislation of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements (or other registrations or filings) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement (or other registrations or filings) naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement (or other registrations or filings) shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement (or other registrations or filings) as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or other registrations or filings) (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Perry Ellis International Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determinebe necessary to perfect the security interest granted herein, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral, and each Borrower and Guarantor authorizes Agent to file a financing statement with a collateral description of "all assets" or "all personal property". In Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement with respect to Agent's obligations to provide releases of Collateral or termination statements, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Jazz Technologies, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement 41 with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor. (b) No Borrower has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of The CIT Group/Business Credit, Inc., as Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, each Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may reasonably request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in Schedule 5.2(d) hereto (which listing identifies each of the deposit accounts at such banks to a retail store location of such Borrower or Guarantor otherwise describes the nature of the use of such deposit account by such Borrower). No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall, as Agent may specify, either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (e) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in Schedule 5.2(e) hereto. (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall, as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of such Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall, as Agent may specify, either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) No Borrower is the beneficiary of or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(f) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit by such Borrower to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lender, or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) No Borrower has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(g) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute a grant of security interest therein to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrowers of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) No Borrower has any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in Schedule 5.2(h) hereto and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of Borrowers' business in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral of any Borrower are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in Schedule 5.2(h) hereto, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and such Borrower. (i) Each Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent and the Lenders to enforce, the security interests of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that such Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name, for itself and in its capacity as agent for Lenders, to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent and the Lenders in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority 44 of, or ability of Agent and the Lenders to enforce, the security interests of Agent and the Lenders in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (MTS Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Pemstar Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and (a) Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Guarantor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Guarantor's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, EXHIBIT 10.3 or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: General Security Agreement (Pfsweb Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Administrative Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Administrative Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Administrative Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Administrative Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Administrative Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Administrative Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Administrative Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Administrative Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Administrative Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Administrative Agent may otherwise agree. At Administrative Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Administrative Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Administrative Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Xxxxx Fargo Capital Finance, LLC and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Administrative Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Administrative Agent may request to give Administrative Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Administrative Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Administrative Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Administrative Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Administrative Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Administrative Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s salaried employees or deposit accounts for which a Deposit Account Control Agreement is not required pursuant to Section 6.3. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (f) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Administrative Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Administrative Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Administrative Agent thereof and cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Administrative Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee. (g) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Administrative Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Administrative Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Administrative Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Administrative Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Administrative Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Administrative Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Administrative Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Administrative Agent or as Administrative Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Administrative Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (i) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims in excess of $1,000,000 as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Administrative Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Administrative Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Administrative Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Administrative Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Administrative Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Administrative Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Administrative Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Administrative Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Administrative Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (j) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Administrative Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Administrative Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (k) Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Administrative Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Administrative Agent to enforce, the security interest of Administrative Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Administrative Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Administrative Agent to enforce, the security interest of Administrative Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Administrative Agent to enforce, the security interest of Administrative Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Spartan Stores Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or GuarantorBorrower, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (a) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (b) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower's salaried employees. (e) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (a) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or such nominee, or (b) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (c) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (d) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (e) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers do not have any commercial tort claims in the aggregate in excess of $50,000 as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrowers shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Sed International Holdings Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor (a) Borrowers irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes authorize the Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming the Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Borrowers as debtordebtors, as Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as the Collateral Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower Borrowers hereby ratify and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves approve all financing statements naming the Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, Borrowers as the case may be, as debtor debtors with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Borrowers hereby authorizes authorize Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Borrowers any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Borrowers at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrowers as debtors. (b) No Borrower has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the EXHIBIT 8.3(b). In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Collateral Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as debtorCollateral Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Collateral Agent may otherwise agree. At Collateral Agent's option, such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall, or Collateral Agent may at any time on behalf of such Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Collateral Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of IBJ Whitehall Business Credit Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Collateral Agent's request, such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Collateral Agent may reasonably request to give Collateral Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in EXHIBIT 8.3(d). (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Collateral Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to any Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Collateral Agent thereof and shall as Collateral Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Collateral Agent as to such securities, without further consent of such Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Collateral Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of a Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Collateral Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall as Collateral Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Collateral Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or the Lead Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Collateral Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Collateral Agent. (e) No Borrower is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in EXHIBIT 8.3(e). In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall immediately, as Collateral Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Collateral Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Collateral Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Collateral Agent by such Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Collateral Agent or as Collateral Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Collateral Agent to become, at such Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (f) No Borrower has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in EXHIBIT 8.3(f). In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Collateral Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Collateral Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Collateral Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Collateral Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Collateral Agent otherwise provided herein or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrowers of this Agreement, Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrowers as debtors, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrowers shall promptly upon Collateral Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Collateral Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Collateral Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (g) Borrowers shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Collateral Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of Collateral Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Collateral Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of Collateral Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of Collateral Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Mazel Stores Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In Until such time as the Credit Facility shall have been terminated and all of the Obligations have been paid in full in accordance with Section 12.1(a) hereof, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Farmer Brothers Co)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, except as to any Store Account opened or established after the date hereof, so long as no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing, Agent shall only have received such information as to such Store Account on the next monthly report with respect to deposit accounts in accordance with Section 7.1(a) hereof, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account (other than as to a Store Account so long as no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing), such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower's or Guarantor's salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (f) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (g) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity 50 intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be).

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Hancock Fabrics Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Pemstar Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower (or Servicer on behalf of Borrower) does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof. In the event that an Originator or Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower or Servicer shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by the Originator, Servicer or any other agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Southern), as Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) No Transaction Party has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in Schedule 8.8

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Westpoint Stevens Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor. (b) No Borrower has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, other than of the type described in Schedule 5.2(b) hereto, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all such tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender’s option, each Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Western) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, each Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificates. No Borrower shall directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this Section 5.2(d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Borrower’s salaried employees. (e) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificates. (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to any Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of such Borrower or Guarantor such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) Except as set forth in Schedule 5.2(f) hereto, no Borrower is the beneficiary of, or is otherwise directly entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificates. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any direct right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by such Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at such Borrower’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) As of the date hereof, no Borrower has any commercial tort claims in which the amount claimed by such Borrower is in excess of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000). In the event that any Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims in which the amount claimed by such Borrower is in excess of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000), such Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrowers of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and any Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) No Borrower has any Goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificates and except for Goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s business in the possession of the carrier transporting such Goods. In the event that any Goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificates or such carriers, each Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, such Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and such Borrower. (i) Each Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that such Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, and (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Geologistics Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment amendments and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or GuarantorBorrower, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof in respect of the security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendmentsamendments thereto, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit permit, authorize or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Lexington Precision Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower (a) Except to the extent provided herein, the Obligors agree to take all action that the Lender may reasonably request as a matter of non-bankruptcy law to perfect and Guarantor protect the Lender’s Collateral Interest in the Collateral and for such Collateral Interest to obtain the priority therefor contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, executing and delivering such documents and instruments, financing statements, providing such notices and assents of third parties, obtaining governmental approvals and providing such other instruments and documents in recordable form as the Lender may reasonably request. The Obligors irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) authorize the Lender to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent the Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Obligors as debtordebtors, as Agent Lender may reasonably require, together with any amendment and including continuations with respect thereto, that (a) indicate the Collateral (i) as “all assets of the Obligors” or words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York or such other jurisdiction, or (ii) as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail, and (b) provide any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such any jurisdiction as Agent may determinefor the sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any financing statement or amendment, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantorincluding, as applicable (i) whether the each Obligor is an organization, the type of organization and any organization identification number issued to such Obligor and, (ii) in the case may be, of a financing statement filed as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendmentsa fixture filing, if any), a sufficient description of real property to which the Collateral relates. Each Borrower and Guarantor The Obligors agree to furnish any such information to the Lender promptly upon the Lender’s request. The Obligors hereby authorizes Agent authorize the Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor the Obligors any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In Without the event that the description written authorization of the collateral Lender, in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor the Obligors at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor the Obligors as debtor. (b) The Obligors do not have any Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic) as of the date of this Agreement. In the event that the Obligors shall be entitled to or shall receive any Chattel Paper after the date hereof with a value in excess of $250,000, the Obligors shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by the Obligors (including by any agent or representative), the Obligors shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Lender, all tangible Chattel Paper with a value in excess of $250,000 that the Obligors may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as the Lender may otherwise agree. At the Lender’s option after and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Obligors shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of the Obligors, cause the original of any such Chattel Paper with a value in excess of $250,000 to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner reasonably acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to Chattel Paper as applicable: “This chattel paper is subject to the security interest of Bank of America, N.A. and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this chattel paper violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that the Obligors shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction) with a value in excess of $500,000, the Obligors shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the Lender’s request, the Obligors shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as the Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic Chattel Paper with a value in excess of $250,000 in the manner specified in Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record in the manner specified in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Except as set forth on EXHIBIT 9.3(d), the Obligors do not, as of the date of this Agreement, own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any Investment Property or have any Investment Account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary. (e) In the event that any of the Obligors shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Obligor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Lender may from time to time reasonably specify. If any securities now or hereafter acquired by any of the Obligor are uncertificated and are issued to such Obligor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Obligor shall promptly notify the Lender thereof and shall as the Lender may specify, either (i) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Lender as to such securities, without further consent of such Obligor or such nominee, or (ii) arrange for the Lender to become the registered owner of the securities.. (f) Except as set forth on EXHIBIT 9.3(f), the Obligors are not, as of the date of this Agreement, the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any Letter of Credit Rights. In the event that any of the Obligors shall be entitled to or shall receive any Letter of Credit Rights after the date of this Agreement with a value in excess of $250,000, such Obligor shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. The Obligors shall promptly, upon the reasonable request of the Lender, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument with a value in excess of $250,000, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to the Lender by the Obligors and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to the Lender or as the Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause the Lender to become, at the Obligors’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be) in each case with a value in excess of $250,000. (g) The Obligors do not have any commercial tort claims (as defined in the UCC) as of the date of this Agreement. In the event that the Obligors shall at any time after the date of this Agreement have any commercial tort claims (as defined in the UCC) with a value in excess of $250,000, the Obligors shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by the Obligors to the Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest as required herein the sending thereof by the Obligors to the Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to the Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of the Lender otherwise provided herein or otherwise arising by the execution by the Obligors of this Agreement, the Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and Obligors as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, the Obligors shall promptly upon the Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim with a value in excess of $250,000.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Charlotte Russe Holding Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except for any ACMI Contracts constituting chattel paper, existing on the date hereof and as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), or a request from Agent with respect to any chattel paper existing on the date hereof, each Borrower and Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. (ii) At Agent's option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (iii) No Borrower or Guarantor has delivered or at any time shall cause to be delivered to any Person which is not the account debtor with respect thereto, an original, executed ACMI Contract. (c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts (i) held by financial institutions located in the United States of America at which Borrowers or Guarantors do not maintain more than $50,000 for any single account at any one time or $250,000 in the aggregate for all such deposit accounts, (ii) specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower's or Guarantor's salaried employees, and (iii) held by financial institutions located in (x) any Non-Preferred Foreign Jurisdiction or (y) for the first 180 days after the date hereof, any Preferred Foreign Jurisdiction. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities constituting Collateral, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities constituting Collateral, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (i) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (ii) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims (excluding any such claims of their respective insurers, including insurers claiming in the name of a Borrower or Guarantor, pursuant to rights of subrogation or otherwise in respect of amounts paid to Borrowers or Guarantors under policies of insurance in respect of the conduct of third-party commercial tortfeasors) in an aggregate amount in excess of $5,000,000 for all such claims of all Borrowers and Guarantors, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any goods constituting Collateral, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods (i) leased to third parties to the extent permitted under the terms hereof, or (ii) located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement that Agent determines in good faith is necessary to obtain access to and use any books or records related to the Accounts constituting Collateral, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the appropriate Borrower or Guarantor. (i) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower's or Guarantor's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) without limitation upon Section 1.70(1) hereof complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender’s option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Western) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate (which listing identifies each of the deposit accounts at such banks to a retail store location of Borrower or otherwise describes the nature of the use of such deposit account by Borrower). Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this Section 5.2(d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower’s salaried employees. The terms of this Section 5.2(d) also shall not apply to a deposit account in which Borrower may maintain funds in an amount not to exceed the aggregate sales tax payable by Borrower in all jurisdictions on account of sales by Borrower during the most recently ended two (2) calendar months (the “Tax Reserve Account”). The Borrower may use the funds in the Tax Reserve Account only to pay sales tax payable by Borrower. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary of or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(f) hereto. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at Borrower’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(g) hereto. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Lender’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of the title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender’s request, Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Ecost Com Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2. (c) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, subject to Permitted Liens, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Findwhat Com Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Lender to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Lender or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as Lender may otherwise agree. At Lender's option, Borrower shall, or Lender may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Lender may reasonably request to give Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (A) deliver to Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower's salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Lender may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Lender thereof and shall as Lender may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Lender as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Lender to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Lender shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Lender, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Lender, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Lender by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Lender or as Lender may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Lender to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Lender provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Lender or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Lender's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon Lender's request, Borrower shall deliver to Lender a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Lender to enforce, the security interest of Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Impax Laboratories Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent the Lender (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements and similar instruments with respect to the Collateral naming Agent the Lender or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor the Grantor as debtor, as Agent the Lender may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor the Grantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent the Lender may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements and similar instruments filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, each Grantor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statementsstatements and similar instruments) filed by or on behalf of Agent the Lender prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent the Lender to file such financing statements and similar instruments (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Grantor hereby authorizes Agent the Lender to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor each Grantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In no event prior to the event that the description payment in full of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event Obligations shall any Borrower or Guarantor Grantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement or similar instrument (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent the Lender or its designee as secured party and the Grantor as debtor, without the prior written consent of the Lender. (b) Each Grantor represents and warrants to the Lender that neither such Grantor nor any Subsidiary of such Grantor, has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof. Each Grantor covenants to the Lender that in the event that any Grantor or any Subsidiary of any Grantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Grantor or Subsidiary shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by a Grantor, such Grantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Lender, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Grantor may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Lender may from time to time specify, in each case except as the Lender may otherwise agree. At the Lender's option, each Grantor shall, or the Lender may at any time on behalf of each Grantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to the Lender with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Aegis NY Venture Fund, LP, as Lender, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Grantor shall promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Promptly upon the Lender's request, such Grantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as the Lender may reasonably request to give the Lender control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Grantor represents and warrants to Lender that neither such Grantor nor any Subsidiary of such Grantor has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth on Schedule 3.9(d) hereof. Each Grantor represents, warrants and covenants with Lender, that neither such Grantor nor any Subsidiary of such Grantor, shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) the Lender shall have received not less than one (1) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Grantor or Subsidiary to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to the Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank or other financial institution at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank or other financial institution with whom such Grantor or Subsidiary is dealing and the purpose of the account and (ii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Grantor or Subsidiary shall as the Lender may specify either (A) deliver to the Lender a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account of the Grantor or Subsidiary duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Grantor or Subsidiary and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for the Lender to become the customer of the bank with respect to such deposit account of the Grantor or Subsidiary on terms and conditions acceptable to the Lender. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of the Grantor's employees. (e) Each Grantor represents and warrants to Lender that, except for the equity interests set forth on SCHEDULE 3.9(e) hereof, no Grantor nor any Subsidiary of any Grantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any Investment Property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof. Each Grantor covenants to the Lender that: (i) In the event that such Grantor or any Subsidiary of such Grantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Grantor shall, or shall cause such Subsidiary to, promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Lender may from time to time specify, which instruments of transfer or assignment shall not be executed by the Lender unless a Default exists. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Grantor or any Subsidiary of any Grantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Grantor or any Subsidiary of such Grantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, then such Grantor shall, or shall cause such Subsidiary to, immediately notify the Lender thereof and shall, during the existence of a Default, at the Lender's option, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Lender as to such securities, without further consent of the applicable Grantor, Subsidiary or such nominee, or (B) arrange for the Lender to become the registered owner of the securities; and (ii) No Grantor shall, nor shall any Grantor permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) the Lender shall have received not less than one (1) Business Day prior written notice of the intention of such Grantor or Subsidiary to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to the Lender the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom the applicable Grantor or Subsidiary is dealing and the purpose of the account and (B) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, the applicable grantor or Subsidiary shall as the Lender may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to the Lender, a Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Borrower or Guarantor any Subsidiary and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for the Lender to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to the Lender. (f) Each Grantor represents and warrants to the Lender that neither such Grantor nor any Subsidiary of such Grantor is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof. Each Grantor covenants with the Lender that in the event that such Grantor or any Subsidiary of such Grantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Grantor shall, and shall cause such Subsidiary to, promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing. Such Grantor shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary to, immediately, as the Lender may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Lender, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to the Lender by such Grantor or the applicable Subsidiary during the existence of a Default and agreeing to make all payments thereon during the existence of a Default directly to the Lender or as the Lender may otherwise direct, or (ii) cause the Lender to become, at the Grantor's and any Subsidiary's expense during the existence of a Default or and upon the occurrence and continuation of a Default, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Each Grantor represents and warrants to the Lender that neither such Grantor nor any Subsidiary of such Grantor is the plaintiff in any pending commercial tort claims as of the date hereof. Each Grantor covenants with the Lender that in the event that such Grantor or any Subsidiary of such Grantor shall at any time after the date hereof become the plaintiff in any pending commercial tort claims, such Grantor shall, and shall cause such Subsidiary to, promptly notify the Lender thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by the applicable Grantor and/or any Subsidiary to the Lender of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by a Grantor or any Subsidiary to the Lender shall be deemed to constitute such grant to the Lender. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of the Lender provided in Section 3.9(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by the Grantors and any Subsidiary of this Agreement, the Lender is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements and similar instruments naming the Lender or its designee as secured party and the Grantors as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Grantor or any Subsidiary shall promptly upon the Lender's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the Lender such other agreements, documents and instruments as the Lender may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Each Grantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, take any other actions reasonably requested by the Lender from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and similar instruments and amendments relating thereto under the Code or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that the Grantor's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing the Lender's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of the Lender to enforce, the security interest of the Lender in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the Code or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (SLM Holdings, Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor (a) Debtor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes US Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor, as US Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code UCC of such jurisdiction as US Collateral Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Debtor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of US Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of US Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby authorizes US Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Debtor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Debtor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor. (b) Debtor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Debtor (including by any agent or representative), Debtor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to US Collateral Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Debtor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as US Collateral Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as US Collateral Agent may otherwise agree. At US Collateral Agent’s option, Debtor shall, or US Collateral Agent may at any time on behalf of Debtor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to US Collateral Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon US Collateral Agent’s request, Debtor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as US Collateral Agent may reasonably request to give US Collateral Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Debtor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Debtor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) US Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to US Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to US Collateral Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Debtor shall as US Collateral Agent may specify either (A) deliver to US Collateral Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Debtor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: General Security Agreement (Mad Catz Interactive Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each So long as any Obligations are outstanding and this Agreement has not been terminated, each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In So long as any Obligations are outstanding and this Agreement has not been terminated, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Term Loan and Security Agreement (Santana Products Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower of the Obligors agrees to take all action that the Term Collateral Agent may request as a matter of nonbankruptcy law to perfect and Guarantor protect the Term Collateral Agent’s Collateral Interest in the Collateral and for such Collateral Interest to obtain the priority therefor contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, executing and delivering such documents and instruments, financing statements, obtaining such notices and assents of third parties, obtaining governmental approvals and providing such other instruments and documents in recordable form as the Term Collateral Agent may request. Obligors irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes authorize the Term Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming the Term Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Obligors as debtordebtors, as Term Collateral Agent may require, together with any amendment and including continuations with respect thereto, that (a) indicate the Collateral (i) as “all assets of such Obligor” or words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York or such jurisdiction, or (ii) as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail, and (b) provide any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction for the sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any financing statement or amendment, including (i) whether such jurisdiction as Agent may determineObligor is an organization, together with the type of organization and any amendment and continuations with respect theretoorganization identification number issued to such Obligor and, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as (ii) in the case may be, of a financing statement filed as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendmentsa fixture filing, if any), a sufficient description of real property to which the Collateral relates. Each Borrower and Guarantor Such Obligor agrees to furnish any such information to the Term Collateral Agent promptly upon the Term Agent’s request. Obligors hereby authorizes authorize Term Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Obligors any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Obligors at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Term Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Obligors as debtors. (b) No Obligor has any Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof. In the event that any Obligor shall be entitled to or shall receive any Chattel Paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Obligor or the Lead Obligor shall promptly notify Term Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such Obligor (including by any agent or representative), such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall deliver, or Guarantor cause to be delivered to Term Collateral Agent, all tangible Chattel Paper and instruments that such Obligor or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as debtorTerm Collateral Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Term Collateral Agent may otherwise agree. At Term Collateral Agent’s option, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall, or Term Collateral Agent may at any time on behalf of such Obligor, cause the original of any such instrument or Chattel Paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Term Collateral Agent with the following legend referring to Chattel Paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of [name of Term Collateral Agent] and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Obligor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Term Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Term Collateral Agent’s request, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Term Collateral Agent may reasonably request to give Term Collateral Agent control of such electronic Chattel Paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Except as set forth on EXHIBIT 8.3(d), no Obligor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any Investment Property, as of the date hereof, or has any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof. (i) In the event that any Obligor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Term Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Term Collateral Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Obligor are uncertificated and are issued to any Obligor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Obligor shall immediately notify Term Collateral Agent thereof and shall as Term Collateral Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Term Collateral Agent as to such securities, without further consent of such Obligor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Term Collateral Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) No Obligor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Term Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of a Obligor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Term Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Obligor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Term Collateral Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall as Term Collateral Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Term Collateral Agent, an investment property control agreement (in form and substance acceptable to the Term Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion) with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Obligor or the Lead Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Term Collateral Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Term Collateral Agent. (e) No Obligor is the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any Letter of Credit Rights as of the date hereof. In the event that any Obligor shall be entitled to or shall receive any Letter of Credit Rights, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Term Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall immediately, as Term Collateral Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Term Collateral Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Term Collateral Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Term Collateral Agent by such Obligor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Term Collateral Agent or as Term Collateral Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Term Collateral Agent to become, at such Obligor’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (f) No Obligor has any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof. In the event that any Obligor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Obligor or the Lead Borrower shall promptly notify Term Collateral Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Obligor to Term Collateral Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Obligor to Term Collateral Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Term Collateral Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Term Agent otherwise provided herein or otherwise arising by the execution by Obligors of this Agreement, Term Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Term Agent or its designee as secured party and Obligors as debtors, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Obligors shall promptly upon Term Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Term Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Term Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (g) The Obligors hereby covenant and agree that each Leasehold Interest shall at all times be free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances of any nature or description (other than Permitted Encumbrances) and no other creditor of the estate (secured or unsecured) shall be entitled to encumber any Leasehold Interest without the express written consent of the Term Collateral Agent. (h) The due and punctual payment and performance of the Obligations shall also be secured by the Encumbrance created by the Mortgage upon the Headquarters Facility of Lead Borrower described therein. (i) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Obligors (I) may hold assets consisting of Chattel Paper, Letter of Credit Rights, and commercial tort claims in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000 in which the Term Collateral Agent’s security interest has not been perfected; and (II) may hold assets consisting of Investment Property in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000 in which the Term Collateral Agent’s security interest has not been perfected.

Appears in 1 contract

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

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment amendments and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or GuarantorBorrower, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof in respect of the security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendmentsamendments thereto, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit permit, authorize or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Each Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date of this Agreement, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrowers shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation, as Agent, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated December 18, 2003, as the same now exists or may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, restated, renewed or replaced, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) None of the Borrowers has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower's salaried employees (the "Excluded Deposit Accounts"). (e) No Borrower owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall, at any time after the date hereof, hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall, as Agent may specify, either (A) direct the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrowers shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent; provided, that, LPC may maintain its investment account number 390-01616 maintained with Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc. without delivery of an Investment Property Control Agreement so long as at any time the balance therein exceeds $1,000, LPC shall promptly remit such excess to Agent. (f) Borrowers are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise, after the date hereof, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated Person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrowers do not have any pending commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower shall, at any time after the date hereof have any pending commercial tort claims, such Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrowers do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date of this Agreement, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower and in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate (other than such carriers), Borrowers shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrowers shall use its reasonable best efforts to deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Borrower that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrowers shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority (subject to the prior security interests on Equipment to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 9.8(e) hereof, the prior purchase money security interests on Equipment to the extent set forth on Schedule 8.4 of the Information Certificate and the security interests on Insurance Premium Collateral to the extent permitted in Section 9.8(k) hereof in the event it is determined that any such security interests have priority), and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, and (iv) taking all commercially reasonable actions to obtain the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all commercially reasonable actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Lexington Precision Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Secured Party (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor, as Agent Secured Party may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Secured Party may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Debtor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Secured Party prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Secured Party to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby authorizes Agent Secured Party to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Debtor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor a Debtor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor a Debtor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor a Debtor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor. (b) Each Debtor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. In the event that a Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of such Debtor (including by any agent or representative), such Debtor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Secured Party, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Debtor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Secured Party may from time to time specify, in each case except as Secured Party may otherwise agree. At Secured Party’s option, each Debtor shall, or Secured Party may at any time on behalf of such Debtor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Secured Party with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central), as Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that a Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Promptly upon Secured Party’s request, each Debtor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Secured Party may reasonably request to give Secured Party control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Debtor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. Each Debtor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Secured Party shall have received not less than five (5) Business days prior written notice of the intention of such Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Secured Party the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Secured Party, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Debtor shall as Secured Party may specify either (A) deliver to Secured Party a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Debtor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Secured Party to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Secured Party. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Debtor’s salaried employees. (e) Each Debtor does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in its Information Certificate. (i) In the event that a Debtor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Debtor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Secured Party, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Secured Party may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by a Debtor are uncertificated and are issued to such Debtor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Debtor shall immediately notify Secured Party thereof and shall as Secured Party may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Secured Party as to such securities, without further consent of such Debtor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Secured Party to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Each Debtor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Secured Party shall have received not less than five (5) Business days prior written notice of the intention of such Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Secured Party the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Secured Party, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Debtor shall as Secured Party may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Secured Party, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Debtor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Secured Party to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Secured Party. (f) Each Debtor is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. In the event that a Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Such Debtor shall immediately, as Secured Party may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Secured Party, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Secured Party, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Secured Party by such Debtor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Secured Party or as Secured Party may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Secured Party to become, at such Debtor’s expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Each Debtor has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate. In the event that a Debtor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, such Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Debtor to Secured Party of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Debtor to Secured Party shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Secured Party. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Secured Party provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by a Debtor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Secured Party is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Debtor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Debtor shall promptly upon Secured Party’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Secured Party such other agreements, documents and instruments as Secured Party may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Each Debtor does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in its Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Debtor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Debtor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in its Information Certificate or such carriers, each Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party thereof in writing. Promptly upon Secured Party’s request, each Debtor shall deliver to Secured Party a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and applicable Debtor. (i) Each Debtor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Secured Party from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that a Debtor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Secured Party’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: General Security Agreement (SMTC Corp)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and each Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Administrative and Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or such Guarantor as debtor, as Administrative and Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or such Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Administrative and Collateral Agent may determinedetermine or under the PPSA, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and each Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, such Guarantor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Administrative and Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Administrative and Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and each Guarantor hereby authorizes Administrative and Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and or such Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or any Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or such Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or such Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or any Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and any Borrower or any Guarantor as debtor. Upon request, Administrative and Collateral Agent shall provide Administrative Borrower with copies of all financing statements filed by Administrative and Collateral Agent hereunder. (b) No Borrower or Guarantor has any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof in excess of $2,500,000 in any one case or $5,000,000 in the aggregate, except as set forth on Schedule 5.2(b) hereto. In the event that any Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instruments in excess of $2,500,000 in any one case or $5,000,000 in the aggregate or after the date hereof, or, if an Event of Default shall then exist, if any Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive chattel paper or instruments in any amount which has not previously been delivered to Administrative and Collateral Agent, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Administrative and Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or any Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or such Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Administrative and Collateral Agent, all such tangible chattel paper and instruments, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as debtorAdministrative and Collateral Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Administrative and Collateral Agent may otherwise agree. At Administrative and Collateral Agent’s option, each Borrower and each Guarantor shall, or Administrative and Collateral Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or any Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Administrative and Collateral Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Administrative and Collateral Agent, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Borrower or any Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly notify Administrative and Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Administrative and Collateral Agent’s request, such Borrower or such Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Administrative and Collateral Agent may reasonably request to give Administrative and Collateral Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) No Borrower or Guarantor has any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. No Borrower or Guarantor shall, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Administrative and Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the opening or establishing of such account which notice shall specify, in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Administrative and Collateral, the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or such Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall constitute an Eligible Transferee or otherwise be reasonably acceptable to Administrative and Collateral Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Borrower or such Guarantor shall, as Administrative and Collateral Agent may specify, either (A) deliver to Administrative and Collateral Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or such Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Administrative and Collateral Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of the Lenders and the Bank Product Providers, to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Administrative and Collateral Agent. The terms of this Section 5.2(d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s or any of their respective Subsidiaries’ salaried employees. (e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities that constitute Collateral, such Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Administrative and Collateral Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Administrative and Collateral Agent may from time to time

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (BlueLinx Holdings Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. Upon the request and at the expense of Borrowers, Agent shall furnish Borrowers with copies of all financing statements filed by or on behalf of Agent naming Agent, as secured party, and a Borrower or Guarantor, as debtor.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Catalina Lighting Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor. Agent agrees, at the expense of Borrower, to use reasonable efforts to deliver to Borrower copies of any such financing statements (or amendments or continuation statements with respect thereto) but failure to deliver such financing statements shall not result in any liability to Agent. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation, and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower's employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or Guarantor its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower does not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States or Canada in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and (subject to liens permitted hereunder) first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) upon Agent's request, causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, and (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Anchor Glass Container Corp /New)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower acquires or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may reasonably request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower's salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower are uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent, for itself and for the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Trigger Event, Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may reasonably specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent, for itself and for the ratable benefit of Lenders, by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent, for itself and for the ratable benefit of Lenders, or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent, for itself and for the ratable benefit of Lenders, to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all other tort claims except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time when combined with all other tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of Lenders, of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent, for itself and for the ratable benefit of Lenders. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower does not have any material goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to (i) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority (subject to any Permitted Liens which are expressly permitted in Section 9.8 to be prior to the liens and security interests of Agent) of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, and (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Champion Enterprises Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beBorrower, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. (b) Borrower does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Borrower (including by any agent or representative), Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Florida) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Borrower does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower or shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Borrower's salaried employees. (e) Borrower does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower is uncertificated and are issued to Borrower or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, Borrower shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such investment property on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. (f) Borrower is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Borrower shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Borrower and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower does not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Borrower has no vehicles, trailers, chassis or other goods evidenced by certificates of title as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower shall be entitled to or shall receive any certificate of title for goods, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent and shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent such certificate of title which contains a notation thereon that Agent is the sole secured party with respect thereto. (i) Borrower does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States (including Puerto Rico) in transit to a location of Borrower permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower. (j) Borrower shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral and (iii) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Trailer Bridge Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Administrative and Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Administrative and Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Administrative and Collateral Agent may determinedetermine or under the PPSA, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Administrative and Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Administrative and Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Administrative and Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Administrative and Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor. Upon request, Administrative and Collateral Agent shall provide Borrower with copies of all financing statements filed by Administrative and Collateral Agent hereunder.

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Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (BlueLinx Holdings Inc.)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofOriginal Closing Date. Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beLoan Party, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof Effective Date and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, except as expressly permitted by the applicable Uniform Commercial Code. (b) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the Effective Date, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Loan Party (including by any agent or representative), such Loan Party shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Loan Party has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, each Loan Party shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Loan Party, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, such Loan Party shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any deposit accounts as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. No Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, after the Effective Date open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Loan Party to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Loan Party is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Loan Party shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, xxxxx cash accounts used in accordance with any Loan Party's historical practices, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Loan Party's salaried employees. (e) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the Effective Date, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the Effective Date, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the Effective Date hold or acquire any certificated securities, subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.1 hereof, such Loan Party shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. Subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.1 hereof, if any securities, now or hereafter acquired after the Effective Date or thereafter by any Loan Party are uncertificated and are issued to such Loan Party or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Loan Party shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Loan Party or such nominee upon written notice to such issuer from Agent that an Event of Default exists. (ii) No Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, after the Effective Date open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Loan Party to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Loan Party is dealing and the purpose of the account, (b) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (c) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Loan Party shall execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and such securities intermediary. (f) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the Effective Date, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. During the existence of an Event of Default and upon Agent's request, such Loan Party shall use its best efforts to immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in its good faith determination, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Loan Party and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers' expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any commercial tort claims (other than class actions unless such Loan Party's ascertainable portion of the claim in such action is in excess of $250,000) as of the Effective Date in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all tort claims (other than class actions unless such Loan Party's ascertainable portion of the claim in such action is in excess of $250,000) for all Loan Parties, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time after the Effective Date have any commercial tort claims in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all tort claims for all Loan Parties, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Loan Party to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Loan Party to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Loan Party of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Loan Party as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Loan Party shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Loan Party permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Loan Party in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods and except for goods, documents of title or Collateral which are de minimus in value. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the Effective Date in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Loan Parties shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Loan Party that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Each Loan Party shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Loan Party's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Delco Remy International Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each (a) Borrower and each Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or such Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or such Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and each Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or such Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with 49 (b) Borrower and each Guarantor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Borrower or such Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by Borrower or any Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), Borrower or such Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Borrower or such Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent's option, Borrower and each Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of Borrower or any Guarantor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: "This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party." (c) In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any "transferable record" (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower or such Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. 50 (d) Borrower and each Guarantor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrower and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower or any Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Borrower or such Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Borrower or such Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such financing statementsdeposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower or such Guarantor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or (B) filed by arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or on behalf for the benefit of Agent prior Borrower's or any Guarantor's salaried employees. (e) Neither Borrower nor any Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated securities, Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and ratifies deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities, now or hereafter acquired by Borrower or any Guarantor are uncertificated and confirms are issued to Borrower or such Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, Borrower or such Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of Borrower or any Guarantor or such nominee, or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. (ii) Borrower and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Borrower or such Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom Borrower or such Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account 51 (f) Borrower and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker's acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Borrower or such Guarantor shall immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by Borrower or such Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrower's expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker's acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Borrower and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Borrower or any Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Borrower or such Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Borrower or such Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Borrower or such Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Borrower or such Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and Borrower or such Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Borrower and each Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent's request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. 52 (h) Borrower and Guarantors do not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Borrower or such Guarantor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrower and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent's request, Borrower and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Borrower or the Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Borrower and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Borrower's or Guarantor's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent's name to be noted as debtorsecured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction. (j) To the extent Borrower or any Guarantor consigns Inventory to any consignee, Borrower will, prior to such consignment, cause the following to be delivered to Agent with respect to each consigned location, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to Agent: (i) copies of UCC financing statements naming Borrower or such Guarantor as consignor and the applicable customer as consignee covering such Inventory and naming Agent as assignee thereof, (ii) if applicable, a copy of a notification letter executed by Borrower or such Guarantor as delivered to any secured lender of such consignee which has a lien on consignee's Inventory notifying such secured lender of Agent's lien on such consigned Inventory; provided, that, if such Inventory is already consigned to -------- ---- such consignee prior to such secured lender receiving said notice, to the extent Borrower desires to include such consigned Inventory within Eligible Inventory, Agent shall receive an acknowledgement letter from such secured lender pursuant to which such lender waives any lien on such consigned Inventory and recognizes Agent's lien on such consigned Inventory and (iii) to the extent the Value of Inventory at any consigned location is in excess of $10,000, a Collateral Access Agreement from such consignee in favor of Agent plus, at Agent's request upon ---- the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, copies of applicable shipping and invoice documents evidencing and identifying the Inventory delivered to such consigned location. 53

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Gsi Group Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such 50 Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtordebtor without Agent's written consent or authorization.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (International Wire Group Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor (a) Debtor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent Secured Party (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Deferred Purchase Price Collateral naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor, as Agent Secured Party may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent Secured Party may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, Debtor as debtor with respect to the Deferred Purchase Price Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent Secured Party prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent Secured Party to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Debtor hereby authorizes Agent Secured Party to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Debtor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor that do not at any time constitute Deferred Purchase Price Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Assignment Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor to the extent of the Deferred Purchase Price Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Deferred Purchase Price Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Deferred Purchase Price Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Debtor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent Secured Party or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Debtor as debtor. (b) Debtor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Secured Party from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in any and all of the Deferred Purchase Price Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Debtor's signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Secured Party's name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in such Deferred Purchase Price Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Deferred Purchase Price Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Secured Party to enforce, the security interest of Secured Party in such Deferred Purchase Price Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Deferred Purchase Price Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Collateral Assignment of Debt and Security Agreements (Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures Inc/)

Perfection of Security Interests. (a) Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereofOriginal Closing Date. Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may beLoan Party, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof Effective Date and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor Loan Party any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral Collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor Loan Party as debtor, except as expressly permitted by the applicable Uniform Commercial Code. (b) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the Effective Date, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Loan Party (including by any agent or representative), such Loan Party shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that such Loan Party has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Loan Party shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Loan Party, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: “This [chattel paper] [instrument] is subject to the security interest of Congress Financial Corporation (Central), as Agent and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper] [instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.” (c) In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Loan Party shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. (d) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any deposit accounts as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. No Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, after the Effective Date open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Loan Party to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Loan Party is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, such Loan Party shall deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, xxxxx cash accounts used in accordance with any Loan Party’s historical practices, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any Loan Party’s salaried employees. (e) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the Effective Date, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the Effective Date, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. (i) In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the Effective Date hold or acquire any certificated securities, subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.1 hereof, such Loan Party shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. Subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.1 hereof, if any securities, now or hereafter acquired after the Effective Date or thereafter by any Loan Party are uncertificated and are issued to such Loan Party or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Loan Party shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Loan Party or such nominee upon written notice to such issuer from Agent that an Event of Default exists. (ii) No Loan Party shall, directly or indirectly, after the Effective Date open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a deposit account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Loan Party to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Loan Party is dealing and the purpose of the account, (b) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (c) on or before the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Loan Party shall execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Loan Party and such securities intermediary. (f) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the Effective Date, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. During the existence of an Event of Default and upon Agent’s request, such Loan Party shall use its best efforts to immediately, as Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in its good faith determination, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Loan Party and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). (g) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any commercial tort claims (other than class actions unless such Loan Party’s ascertainable portion of the claim in such action is in excess of $250,000) as of the Effective Date in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all tort claims (other than class actions unless such Loan Party’s ascertainable portion of the claim in such action is in excess of $250,000) for all Loan Parties, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Loan Party shall at any time after the Effective Date have any commercial tort claims in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time when combined with all tort claims for all Loan Parties, such Loan Party shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Loan Party to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Loan Party to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided in Section 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Loan Party of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Loan Party as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Loan Party shall promptly upon Agent’s request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection with such commercial tort claim. (h) Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants to Agent and Lenders that it does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the Effective Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of a Loan Party permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of such Loan Party in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods and except for goods, documents of title or Collateral which are de minimus in value. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the Effective Date in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Loan Parties shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, Loan Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and the Loan Party that is the owner of such Collateral. (i) Each Loan Party shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Loan Party’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, without limitation, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (Delco Remy International Inc)

Perfection of Security Interests. Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction as Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the assets and properties actually constituting Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the assets or properties constituting Collateral. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor.

Appears in 1 contract

Samples: Loan and Security Agreement (C&d Technologies Inc)

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