Priority and Liens (a) Subject to the Approval Order and the Security and Pledge Agreement, the Borrower and each of the Guarantors hereby covenants, represents and warrants that, upon entry of the Approval Order, the Obligations and the other Secured Obligations (including the obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors in respect of any hedging obligations permitted hereunder and Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.03(viii), in each case owing to JPMCB, any other Lender or any of their respective banking Affiliates) and subject, in each of clauses (i) through (iv) below, to the Carve-Out:
(i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times constitute allowed claims in the Cases having priority over any and all administrative expenses, diminution claims (including the Replacement Liens and Junior Adequate Protection Liens) and all other claims against the Borrower and the Guarantors, now existing or hereafter arising, of any kind whatsoever, including all administrative expenses of the kind specified in Sections 503(b) or 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code; provided, however, that such claims granted under the Approval Order in respect of Obligations under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Loan shall be senior in priority to such claims granted under the Approval Order in respect of Obligations under the Tranche C Loan;
(ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected first priority senior security interest in and Lien on all tangible and intangible property of the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ respective estates in the Cases that is not subject to valid, perfected, non-avoidable and enforceable Liens in existence on the Closing Date, including all present and future accounts receivable, inventory, general intangibles, chattel paper, real property, leaseholds, fixtures, machinery and equipment, deposit accounts, patents, copyrights, trademarks, tradenames, rights under license agreements and other intellectual property, capital stock of any Subsidiaries of the Borrower and Guarantors and on all cash and investments maintained in the Letter of Credit Account (but excluding (x) the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ rights in respect of avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code and (y) joint venture interests with respect to which a valid prohibition on pledging such interests or granting Liens thereon exists, it being understood that, notwithstanding such exclusion of such interests, the proceeds of such interests shall be subject to such liens under Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and available to satisfy the Obligations and the other Secured Obligations);
(iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected security interests in and Liens upon all tangible and intangible property of the Borrower and the Guarantors (other than property described in clauses (ii) and (iv), as to which the liens and security interests in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will be as described in such clauses) that is subject to valid, perfected and non-avoidable liens in existence on the Closing Date, which security interests and liens in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are junior to such valid, perfected and unavoidable liens;
(iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable and fully-perfected first priority senior priming security interest in and senior priming Lien on all of the tangible and intangible property of the Borrower and the Guarantors that is subject to existing Liens that pursuant to the terms of the Existing DIP Order are subject and subordinate to the Existing DIP Liens, which existing liens, rights and interests (the “Primed Liens”) shall be primed by and made subject and subordinate to the liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, which senior priming liens in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall also prime any liens granted under the Approval Order or thereafter to provide adequate protection in respect of the Primed Liens; provided, however, that such security interests and liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be subject and subordinate to (x) the Carve-Out, (y) any valid, perfected and unavoidable interests of other parties arising out of liens existing on the Closing Date, if any, on such property that pursuant to the terms of the Existing DIP Order are senior in priority to the Existing DIP Liens and (z) statutory liens or security interests arising after the Closing Date and permitted under this Agreement that by operation of law would have priority over a previously perfected security interest; provided, further, that any valid, perfected and non-voidable liens or security interests that remain in existence after the Closing Date and that were senior to or pari passu with the liens securing obligations under the Existing Pre-Petition Agreement prior to the Closing Date shall maintain such priority or pari passu position relative to the liens securing the Tranche C Loan; provided, however, that (w) all liens granted under the Approval Order to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to secure Obligations under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Loan shall be senior in priority to all liens granted under the Approval Order to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to secure Obligations under the Tranche C Loan; (x) the Borrower and the Guarantors shall not be required to pledge to the Administrative Agent in excess of 65% of the voting capital stock of its direct Foreign Subsidiaries or any of the capital stock or interests of its indirect Foreign Subsidiaries (if, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, adverse tax consequences would result to the Borrower); (y) no portion of the Carve-Out may be utilized to fund prosecution or assertion of any claims against the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Issuing Lenders and (z) following the Termination Date, amounts in the Letter of Credit Account shall not be subject to the Carve-Out. The Lenders agree that so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower and the Guarantors shall be permitted to pay compensation and reimbursement of expenses allowed and payable under Sections 330 and 331 of title 11 of the United States Code, as the same may be due and payable, and the same shall not reduce the Carve-Out.
(b) Subject to the priorities set forth in subsection (a) above and to the Carve-Out, as to all real property the title to which is held by the Borrower or any of the Guarantors, or the possession of which is held by the Borrower or any of the Guarantors pursuant to leasehold interests and which secured the Existing Pre-Petition Indebtedness prior to the refinancing thereof on the Closing Date, the Borrower and each Guarantor hereby assigns and conveys as security, grants a security interest in, hypothecates, mortgages, pledges and sets over unto the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in all of such owned real property and in all such leasehold interests, together in each case with all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in and to all buildings, improvements, and fixtures related thereto, any lease or sublease thereof, all general intangibles relating thereto and all proceeds thereof. The Borrower and each Guarantor acknowledges that, pursuant to the Approval Order, the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders in all of such real property and leasehold instruments shall be perfected without the recordation of any instruments of mortgage or assignment. The Borrower and each Guarantor further agrees that, upon the request of the Administrative Agent following the occurrence of an Event of Default (regardless of whether such Event of Default is continuing), the Borrower and such Guarantor shall enter into separate fee or leasehold mortgages in recordable form with respect to such properties on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Valid Lien The related Mortgage is properly recorded and is a valid, existing and enforceable (A) first lien and first priority security interest with respect to each Mortgage Loan which is indicated by the Seller to be a First Lien (as reflected on the Mortgage Loan Schedule), or (B) second lien and second priority security interest with respect to each Mortgage Loan which is indicated by the Seller to be a Second Lien (as reflected on the Mortgage Loan Schedule), in either case, on the Mortgaged Property, including all improvements on the Mortgaged Property subject only to (a) the lien of current real property taxes and assessments not yet due and payable, (b) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way, easements and other matters of the public record as of the date of recording being acceptable to mortgage lending institutions generally and specifically referred to in the lender’s title insurance policy delivered to the originator of the Mortgage Loan and which do not adversely affect the Appraised Value of the Mortgaged Property, (c) other matters to which like properties are commonly subject which do not materially interfere with the benefits of the security intended to be provided by the Mortgage or the use, enjoyment, value or marketability of the related Mortgaged Property and (d) with respect to each Mortgage Loan which is indicated by the Seller to be a Second Lien Mortgage Loan (as reflected on the Mortgage Loan Schedule) a First Lien on the Mortgaged Property. Any security agreement, chattel mortgage or equivalent document related to and delivered in connection with the Mortgage Loan establishes and creates a valid, existing and enforceable (A) first lien and first priority security interest with respect to each Mortgage Loan which is indicated by the Seller to be a First Lien (as reflected on the Mortgage Loan Schedule) or (B) second lien and second priority security interest with respect to each Mortgage Loan which is indicated by the Seller to be a Second Lien Mortgage Loan (as reflected on the Mortgage Loan Schedule), in either case, on the property described therein and the Seller has full right to sell and assign the same to the Purchaser. The Mortgaged Property was not, as of the date of origination of the Mortgage Loan, subject to a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt or other security instrument creating a lien subordinate to the lien of the Mortgage;