Validity and Priority of Security Interest The provisions of this Agreement, and the other Loan Documents create legal and valid Liens on all the Collateral in favor of the Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, and such Liens constitute perfected and continuing Liens on all the Collateral, having priority over all other Liens on the Collateral, except for those Liens identified in clauses (c), (d) and (e) of the definition of Permitted Liens securing all the Obligations, and enforceable against the Borrower and all third parties.
Creation, Perfection and Priority of Liens The execution and delivery of the Collateral Documents by Loan Parties and Sponsors, together with (i) the actions taken on or prior to the date hereof pursuant to subsections 4.1, 4.2, 6.8 and 6.9 and (ii) the delivery to Administrative Agent of any Pledged Collateral not delivered to Administrative Agent at the time of execution and delivery of the applicable Collateral Document (all of which Pledged Collateral has been so delivered) are effective to create in favor of Administrative Agent for the benefit of Lenders, as security for the respective Secured Obligations (as defined in the applicable Collateral Document in respect of any Collateral), a valid and perfected First Priority Lien on all of the Collateral, and all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and maintain the perfection and First Priority status of such Liens have been duly made or taken and remain in full force and effect, other than the filing of any UCC financing statements or Mortgages delivered to Administrative Agent for filing or recording, as applicable (but not yet filed or recorded) and the periodic filing of UCC continuation statements in respect of UCC financing statements filed by or on behalf of Administrative Agent.
Perfection and Priority of Liens Receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following:
Creation, Perfection and Priority of Security Interests The representations and warranties regarding creation, perfection and priority of security interests in the Purchased Property, which are attached to this Agreement as Appendix B, are true and correct to the extent that they are applicable.
Validity of Liens The Security Documents shall be effective to create in favor of the Agent a legal, valid and enforceable first (except for Permitted Liens entitled to priority under applicable law) security interest in and lien upon the Collateral. All filings, recordings, deliveries of instruments and other actions necessary or desirable in the opinion of the Agent to protect and preserve such security interests shall have been duly effected. The Agent shall have received evidence thereof in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
Priority of Liens (a) Notwithstanding (i) the date, time, method, manner, or order of grant, attachment, or perfection of, or any defect or deficiency in, or failure to perfect, any Liens granted to the ABL Secured Parties in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral or any Liens granted to the Term Secured Parties in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral and regardless of how any such Lien was acquired (whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise), (ii) the order or time of filing or recordation of any document or instrument for perfecting the Liens in favor of the ABL Agent for the benefit of the ABL Secured Parties or any Term Agent for the benefit of the Term Secured Parties in any Collateral, (iii) any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, Debtor Relief Laws or any other applicable law, or of the ABL Documents or the Term Documents, (iv) whether the ABL Agent or any Term Agent, in each case, either directly or through agents, holds possession of, or has control over, all or any part of the Collateral, (v) the date on which the ABL Obligations or the Term Obligations are advanced or made available to the Loan Parties, or (vi) any failure of the ABL Agent or any Term Agent to perfect its Lien in the Collateral, the subordination of any Lien on the Collateral securing any ABL Obligations or Term Obligations, as applicable, to any Lien securing any other obligation of any Borrower or Term Guarantor, or the avoidance, invalidation or lapse of any Lien on the Collateral securing any ABL Obligations or Term Obligations, the ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the ABL Secured Parties, and each Term Agent, on behalf of itself and the applicable Term Secured Parties, hereby agree that the following priorities apply to the Liens upon and right to payment from Proceeds of the ABL Priority Collateral and the Term Priority Collateral:
Perfection and Priority The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement constitutes a valid and continuing perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in all Collateral subject, for the following Collateral, to the occurrence of the following: (i) in the case of all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing a financing statement under the UCC, the completion of the filings specified on Schedule 2 (which, in the case of all filings referred to on such schedule, have been duly authorized by each Grantor and delivered to the Collateral Agent in completed form), (ii) with respect to any deposit account, the execution of a Control Agreement, (iii) in the case of all Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents for which UCC filings are insufficient, all appropriate filings having been made with the Applicable IP Office, (iv) in the case of letter-of-credit rights that are not supporting obligations of Collateral, the execution of a Contractual Obligation granting control to the Collateral Agent over such letter-of-credit rights, and (v) in the case of electronic chattel paper, the completion of all steps necessary to grant control to the Collateral Agent over such electronic chattel paper. Such security interest shall be prior to all other Liens on the Collateral except for Customary Permitted Liens having priority over the Collateral Agent’s Lien by operation of law or permitted pursuant to clause (c), (e) or (j) of the definition of “Customary Permitted Liens” in the Credit Agreement or subsection 8.2(c), 8.2(d), 8.2(e), 8.2(f) or 8.2(h) of the Credit Agreement upon (i) in the case of all Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments and Pledged Investment Property, the delivery thereof to the Collateral Agent of such Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments and Pledged Investment Property consisting of instruments and certificates, in each case properly endorsed for transfer to the Collateral Agent or in blank, (ii) in the case of all Pledged Investment Property not in certificated form, the execution of a Control Agreement with respect to such investment property, and (iii) in the case of all other instruments and tangible chattel paper that are not Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments or Pledged Investment Property, the delivery to the Collateral Agent of such instruments and tangible chattel paper. Except as set forth in this Section 4.2, all actions by each Grantor necessary to perfect the Lien granted hereunder on the Collateral have been duly taken.
Priority and Liens (a) Each of the Loan Parties (other than any Loan Party that is not a Debtor) hereby covenants and agrees that upon the entry of an Interim Order (and when applicable, the Final Order) its obligations hereunder and under the Loan Documents and under the US Secured Agreements: (i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times constitute an allowed Superpriority Claim in the Cases (but excluding a claim on Avoidance Actions and, prior to entry of the Final Order, the proceeds of Avoidance Actions); (ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable perfected first priority Lien (that is subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement) on all of the property of such US Loan Parties, whether now existing or hereafter acquired, that is not subject to valid, perfected, non-voidable liens in existence at the time of commencement of the Cases or to valid, non-voidable liens in existence at the time of such commencement that are perfected subsequent to such commencement as permitted by Section 546(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (limited, in the case of voting equity interests of CFC’s, to 65% of such voting equity interests), and on all of its cash maintained in the L/C Cash Deposit Account and any investment of the funds contained therein, provided that amounts in the L/C Cash Deposit Account shall not be subject to the Carve-Out; (iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable perfected junior Lien upon all property of such US Loan Parties, whether now existing or hereafter acquired, that is subject to valid, perfected and non-voidable Liens in existence at the time of the commencement of the Cases or that is subject to valid Liens in existence at the time of the commencement of the Cases that are perfected subsequent to such commencement as permitted by Section 546(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (other than certain property that is subject to the existing Liens that secure obligations in respect of the Existing Second Lien Debt, which liens shall be primed by the liens described in the following clause (iv)); and (iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(l) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a valid, binding, continuing, enforceable perfected first priority senior priming Lien on all of the property of such US Loan Parties that is subject to the existing liens (the “Primed Liens”) which secure the Existing Second Lien Debt, all of which Primed Liens shall be primed by and made subject and subordinate to the perfected first priority senior Liens to be granted to the Agent, which senior priming Liens in favor of the Agent shall also prime any Liens granted after the commencement of the Cases to provide adequate protection Liens in respect of any of the Primed Liens (i) through (iv) above, subject in each case to the Carve-Out and as set forth in the Orders.
Rights in Collateral; Priority of Liens Borrower and each other Loan Party own the property granted by it as Collateral under the Collateral Documents, free and clear of any and all Liens in favor of third parties. Upon the proper filing of UCC financing statements, and the taking of the other actions required by Lender, the Liens granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents will constitute valid and enforceable first, prior and perfected (to the extent that Liens on the Collateral can be perfected by the filing of UCC financing statements) Liens on the Collateral in favor of Lender.
Priority of Lien Transfer Agent consents to the granting of the security interest in the Pledged Shares. Transfer Agent will not agree with any third party that Transfer Agent will comply with instructions concerning the Pledged Shares originated by such third party without the prior written consent of Secured Party and Debtor.
