SECURITY AGREEMENT
Exhibit
10.4
EXHIBIT
E
This
SECURITY
AGREEMENT, dated as of
November 30,
2007
(this “Agreement”),
is
among
Xxxxxxxx
Uranium Inc., a Nevada
corporation (the
“Company”),
all
of the Subsidiaries of the
Company (such
subsidiaries,
the “Guarantors”
and together with the
Company, the
“Debtors”)
and the holders of the Company’s
8%
Original
Issue Discount Secured Convertible
Debentures
due November ___, 2009 and
issued on November ___, 2007 in
the original aggregate principal amount
of
$[_____ (collectively,
the
“Debentures”)
signatory
hereto, their endorsees,
transferees and assigns
(collectively, the
“Secured
Parties”).
W
I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS,
pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (as
defined in the
Debentures),
the Secured Parties have severally agreed to extend
the loans to
the Company evidenced by the Debentures;
WHEREAS,
pursuant to a certain Subsidiary
Guarantee, dated
as of the date hereof (the
“Guarantee”),
the Guarantors
have jointly and severally agreed
to
guarantee and act as
surety
for payment of such
Debentures;
and
WHEREAS,
in order to induce the Secured
Parties to extend the loans evidenced by the Debentures, each Debtor has agreed
to execute and deliver to the Secured Parties this Agreement and to grant the
Secured Parties,
pari passu
with each other Secured Party
and through the Agent, a security
interest in certain property of such
Debtor to secure the prompt payment, performance and discharge in full of all
of
the Company’s
obligations under the Debentures
and the Guarantors’
obligations under the
Guarantee.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the
agreements herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration,
the
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
1. Certain
Definitions. As
used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth
in
this Section 1. Terms used but not otherwise defined in this
Agreement that are defined in Article 9 of the UCC (such as “account”,
“chattel
paper”,
“commercial
tort claim”, “deposit
account”, “document”,
“equipment”,
“fixtures”,
“general
intangibles”, “goods”,
“instruments”,
“inventory”,
“investment
property”, “letter-of-credit
rights”, “proceeds”
and “supporting obligations”)
shall have the respective
meanings given such terms in
Article 9 of the UCC.
(a) “Collateral”
means the collateral in which the
Secured Parties are granted a security interest by this Agreement and which
shall include the following personal property and real property of
the Debtors, whether presently owned
or existing or hereafter acquired or coming into existence, wherever situated,
and all additions and accessions thereto and all substitutions and replacements
thereof, and all proceeds, products and accounts thereof, including,
without limitation, all
proceeds from the sale or transfer of the Collateral and of insurance covering
the same and of any tort claims in connection therewith, and all dividends,
interest, cash,
notes, securities, equity interest or other property at any time and from
time to time
acquired, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange
for,
any or all of the Pledged Securities (as defined below):
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(i)
All
goods, including, without
limitation, (A) all
machinery, equipment, computers, motor vehicles,
trucks, tanks,
boats, ships, appliances, furniture, special and general tools, fixtures, test
and quality control devices and other equipment of every kind and nature and
wherever situated, together with all documents of title and documents
representing the same, all
additions and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all parts therefor,
and
all substitutes for any of the foregoing and all other items used and useful
in
connection with any Debtor’s
businesses and all
improvements
thereto; and (B) all
inventory;
(ii)
All
contract rights and other general intangibles, including, without limitation,
all partnership interests, membership interests, stock or other securities,
rights under any of the
Organizational Documents, agreements related to the Pledged
Securities,
licenses, distribution
and
other agreements, computer software (whether “off-the-shelf”,
licensed from any third party or
developed by any Debtor), computer software development rights, leases,
franchises, customer lists,
quality control procedures, grants and rights, goodwill, trademarks, service
marks, trade styles, trade names, patents, patent applications, copyrights,
and
income tax refunds;
(iii) All
accounts, together with all
instruments, all documents of title representing any of
the foregoing, all
rights in any merchandising, goods, equipment, motor vehicles and trucks which
any of the same may represent, and all right, title, security and guaranties
with respect to each account, including any right of stoppage
in transit;
(iv)
All
documents, letter-of-credit rights, instruments and chattel
paper;
(v) All
commercial tort
claims;
(vi) All
deposit accounts and all cash
(whether or not deposited in such deposit accounts);
(vii) All
investment
property;
(viii) All
supporting
obligations;
(ix) All
real and immovable property,
both freehold and leasehold, and all of the Debtors' right, title and interest
in mineral rights and claims, now owned or held or hereafter acquired by the
Debtors; and
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(ix) All
files, records, books of account,
business
papers, and computer programs; and
(x) the
products and proceeds of all of the
foregoing Collateral set forth in clauses (i)-(x) above.
Without
limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the “Collateral”
shall include all investment property
and general
intangibles respecting ownership and/or other equity interests in each
Guarantor, including, without limitation, the shares of capital stock and the
other equity interests listed on Schedule H
hereto (as the same may be modified from time to
time pursuant to
the terms hereof), and any other shares of capital stock and/or other equity
interests of any other direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor obtained
in
the future, and, in each case, all certificates representing
such shares and/or equity interests
and, in each case, all rights, options, warrants, stock, other securities and/or
equity interests that may hereafter be received, receivable or distributed
in
respect of, or exchanged for, any of the foregoing and all rights
arising under or in connection
with the Pledged Securities, including, but not limited to, all dividends,
interest and cash.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing
herein shall be deemed to constitute an assignment of any asset which, in the
event of an assignment,
becomes void by operation of applicable law or the assignment of which is
otherwise prohibited by applicable law (in each case to the extent that such
applicable law is not overridden by Sections 9-406, 9-407 and/or 9-408 of the
UCC or other
similar applicable law); provided,
however,
that to the extent permitted by
applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid security interest in such
asset and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall
create a valid security interest in the proceeds
of such
asset.
(b) “Intellectual
Property”
means the collective reference to all
rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether
arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise,
including, without
limitation, (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States,
any
other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether registered or
unregistered and whether published or unpublished, all registrations and
recordings
thereof, and all applications in
connection therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations,
recordings and applications in the United States Copyright Office, (ii) all
letters patent of the United States, any other country or any political
subdivision
thereof, all reissues and
extensions thereof, and all applications for letters patent of the United States
or any other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part
thereof, (iii) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names,
company names, business names,
fictitious business names, trade dress, service marks, logos, domain names
and
other source or business identifiers, and all goodwill associated therewith,
now
existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and
recordings thereof, and all
applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any
State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision
thereof,
or otherwise, and all common law
rights related thereto, (iv) all trade secrets arising under the laws of the
United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, (v)
all
rights to obtain any reissues, renewals or extensions of the foregoing,
(vi) all licenses for any of the
foregoing, and (vii) all causes of action for infringement of the
foregoing.
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(c) “Majority
in Interest” means,
at any time of determination, the
majority in interest (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of
Debentures at the time
of
such determination) of the Secured Parties.
(d) “Necessary
Endorsement” means
undated stock powers endorsed in blank
or other proper instruments of assignment duly executed and such other
instruments or documents as the Agent (as that term is defined
below) may
reasonably request.
(e) “Obligations”
means all of the liabilities and
obligations
(primary, secondary, direct, contingent, sole, joint or several) due or to
become due, or that are now or may be hereafter contracted or acquired, or
owing
to, of any Debtor to the Secured Parties, including, without limitation,
all obligations under this
Agreement, the Debentures,
the Guarantee and any other
instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in
connection herewith or
therewith, in each case, whether now or hereafter existing, voluntary or
involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or
unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from
time to time decreased
or extinguished and later increased,
created or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities
that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or
recovered directly or indirectly from any of the Secured Parties
as a preference, fraudulent transfer or
otherwise as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended
or modified from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the term “Obligations”
shall include, without
limitation:
(i) principal of, and interest on
the Debentures and the loans extended pursuant thereto; (ii) any and all other
fees, indemnities, costs, obligations and liabilities of the Debtors from time
to time under or in connection with this Agreement, the Debentures,
the Guarantee and any other instruments,
agreements
or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or
therewith; and (iii) all amounts (including but not limited to post-petition
interest) in respect of the foregoing that would be payable but for
the fact that the
obligations to pay such amounts are unenforceable or not allowable due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving any
Debtor.
(f)
“Organizational
Documents”
means with respect to any Debtor, the documents
by which
such Debtor was organized (such as a certificate of incorporation, certificate
of limited partnership or articles of organization, and including, without
limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock
or other forms of preferred equity) and
which relate to the internal governance of such Debtor (such as bylaws, a
partnership agreement or an operating, limited liability or members
agreement).
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(g) “Pledged
Securities”
shall have the meaning ascribed
to such term in Section
4(i).
(h) “UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of New
York and or any other
applicable law of any state or states which has jurisdiction with respect to
all, or any portion of, the Collateral or this Agreement, from time to time. It is the intent
of the parties that defined terms in the UCC should be construed in their
broadest sense so that the term “Collateral”
will be construed in its broadest
sense. Accordingly if there are, from time to time, changes to
defined terms
in the UCC that broaden the
definitions, they are incorporated herein and if existing definitions in the
UCC
are broader than the amended definitions, the existing ones shall be
controlling.
2. Grant
of Security
Interest in
Collateral. As an
inducement for the Secured
Parties to extend the loans as evidenced by the Debentures and to secure the
complete and timely payment, performance and discharge in full, as the case
may
be, of all of the Obligations, each Debtor hereby unconditionally and
irrevocably
pledges, grants and hypothecates to
the Secured Parties a
security
interest in and to, a lien upon and a
right of set-off against all of their respective right, title and interest
of
whatsoever kind and nature
in and to, the Collateral (a“Security
Interest”
and,
collectively, the “Security Interests”).
3. Delivery
of Certain
Collateral. Contemporaneously
or prior
to the execution of this Agreement, each Debtor shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Agent (a) any and all certificates and other instruments representing
or evidencing
the Pledged Securities, and (b) any and all certificates and other instruments
or documents representing any of the other Collateral, in each case, together
with all Necessary Endorsements. The Debtors are,
contemporaneously
with the execution hereof,
delivering to Agent, or have previously delivered to Agent, a true and correct
copy of each Organizational Document governing any of the Pledged
Securities.
4. Representations,
Warranties,
Covenants and Agreements of the Debtors.
Except as set forth under
the
corresponding section of the disclosure schedules delivered to the Secured
Parties concurrently herewith (the “Disclosure Schedules”),
which Disclosure Schedules shall be
deemed a part hereof, each
Debtor represents and warrants to, and
covenants and
agrees with, the Secured Parties as follows:
(a) Each
Debtor has the requisite corporate,
partnership, limited liability company or other power and authority to enter
into this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder.
The execution,
delivery and performance by each Debtor of this Agreement and the filings
contemplated therein have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the
part of such Debtor and no further action is required by such Debtor. This
Agreement has been
duly executed by each Debtor. This Agreement constitutes the legal,
valid and binding obligation of each Debtor, enforceable against each Debtor
in
accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization and similar laws of general application relating to or affecting
the rights and remedies of creditors and by general principles of
equity.
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(b)
The
Debtors have no place of business or offices where their respective books of account
and records
are kept (other than temporarily at the offices of its attorneys or accountants)
or places where Collateral is stored or located, except as set forth on
Schedule
A attached
hereto. Except as specifically set forth on Schedule A,
each Debtor is the record owner of the
real property where such Collateral is located, and there exist no mortgages
or
other liens on any such real property except for Permitted Liens (as defined
in
the Debentures). Except as disclosed on Schedule
A, none of such Collateral
is in the
possession of any consignee, bailee, warehouseman, agent or
processor.
(c) Except
for Permitted Liens (as defined
in the Debentures) and except as set forth on Schedule B
attached hereto, the Debtors are the
sole owner of the
Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by any Debtor in the
ordinary course of business), free and clear of any liens, security interests,
encumbrances, rights or claims, and are fully authorized to grant the Security
Interests. Except
as set forth on
Schedule
B attached hereto,
there is not on file in
any
governmental or regulatory authority, agency or recording office an effective
financing statement, security agreement, license or transfer or any notice
of
any of the foregoing (other
than those that will be filed in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to this
Agreement) covering or affecting any of the
Collateral. Except as set forth on Schedule B
attached hereto and except pursuant to
this Agreement, as long as
this Agreement shall be in
effect, the Debtors shall not execute and shall not knowingly permit to be
on
file in any such office or
agency any other financing
statement or other document or instrument (except to the extent filed or
recorded in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to the
terms of this
Agreement).
(d) No
written claim has been received that
any Collateral or Debtor's use of any Collateral violates the rights of any
third party. There has been no adverse decision to any Debtor's claim of
ownership rights in or
exclusive rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to any Debtor's
right to keep and maintain such Collateral in full force and effect, and
there is no proceeding
involving said rights
pending or, to the best knowledge of any Debtor, threatened before any court,
judicial
body, administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other governmental
authority.
(e) Each
Debtor shall at all times maintain
its books of account and records relating to the Collateral at its principal
place of business and its
Collateral at the locations set forth on Schedule A
attached hereto and may not relocate
such books of account and records or tangible Collateral unless it delivers
to
the Secured Parties at least 30 days prior to such relocation (i)
written notice of such
relocation and the new location thereof (which must be within the United States)
and (ii) evidence that appropriate financing statements under the UCC and other
necessary documents have been filed and recorded and other steps have been
taken
to perfect the Security
Interests
to create in favor of the Secured
Parties a valid, perfected and continuing perfected first priority lien in
the
Collateral.
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(f)
This Agreement creates in
favor of the Secured
Parties a valid security
interest in the Collateral, subject only
to Permitted
Liens (as defined in the Debentures) securing the payment and performance of
the
Obligations. Upon making the filings described in the immediately
following paragraph, all security interests created hereunder in any
Collateral
which may be perfected by
filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements shall have been duly
perfected. Except for the filing of the Uniform Commercial Code
financing statements referred to in the immediately following paragraph, the
recordation
of the Intellectual Property
Security Agreement (as defined below) with respect to copyrights and copyright
applications in the United States Copyright Office referred to in paragraph
(m),
the execution and delivery
of deposit account control agreements
satisfying the requirements of
Section 9-104(a)(2) of the UCC with respect to each deposit account of the
Debtors, and the delivery
of the certificates and other instruments provided in Section 3, no action is necessary
to create,
perfect or protect the
security interests created hereunder. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, except for the filing of said financing statements, the
recordation of said Intellectual Property Security Agreement, and the execution
and delivery of said deposit account
control agreements, no consent
of any third parties and no authorization, approval or other action by, and
no
notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body is
required for (i) the execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement, (ii) the creation or
perfection of the Security Interests created hereunder in the Collateral or
(iii) the enforcement of the rights of the Agent and the Secured
Parties
hereunder.
(g) Each
Debtor hereby authorizes the
Agent
to file one or more financing statements
under the UCC,
with respect to the Security Interests,
with the proper filing and recording
agencies in any jurisdiction deemed proper
by
it.
(h) The
execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement by the Debtors does not (i) violate any of the provisions
of any
Organizational Documents of any Debtor or any judgment, decree, order or award
of any court, governmental body or arbitrator or any applicable law, rule or
regulation applicable to any Debtor or (ii) conflict with, or constitute
a default (or an event that
with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give
to
others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with
or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement,
credit facility, debt or other
instrument (evidencing any Debtor's debt or otherwise) or other understanding
to
which any Debtor is a party or by which any property or asset of any
Debtor is bound or
affected. If any, all required consents
(including, without limitation, from
stockholders or
creditors of any Debtor)
necessary for any Debtor to
enter into and perform its obligations hereunder have been obtained.
(i) The
capital stock and other equity
interests listed on Schedule H
hereto (the “Pledged
Securities”)
represent
all of the capital stock and
other equity interests of the Guarantors, and represent all capital stock and
other equity interests owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Company. All of the Pledged Securities are validly issued, fully
paid and nonassessable,
and
the Company is the legal and beneficial owner of the Pledged Securities, free
and clear of any lien, security interest or other encumbrance except for the
security interests created by this Agreement and other Permitted Liens
(as
defined in the Debentures).
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(j) The
ownership and other equity interests
in partnerships and limited liability companies (if any) included in the Collateral
(the “Pledged Interests”)
by their express terms do not provide
that they are securities governed by Article 8 of the
UCC and are not
held in a securities account or by any financial
intermediary.
(k) Except
for Permitted Liens (as defined in
the Debentures), each
Debtor shall at all times maintain the liens and Security Interests
provided for hereunder as valid and perfected
first
priority liens and security interests in the Collateral in favor of the Secured
Parties until this Agreement and the Security Interest hereunder shall be
terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof. Each Debtor hereby
agrees
to defend the same against the claims
of any and all persons and entities. Each Debtor shall safeguard and protect
all
Collateral for the account
of the Secured Parties. At the
request of the Agent, each Debtor will sign
and deliver to
the Agent on
behalf of the
Secured Parties at any time or from
time to time one or more financing statements pursuant to the UCC in form
reasonably satisfactory to
the Agent and will pay the
cost of filing the same in all public offices wherever filing is, or is deemed
by the Agent
to be, necessary or desirable to effect
the rights and obligations provided for herein. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, each Debtor shall pay all fees, taxes and other amounts
necessary to maintain the Collateral and the Security Interests
hereunder, and each Debtor shall obtain
and furnish to the Agent
from time to time, upon demand, such
releases and/or subordinations of claims and liens which may be required to
maintain the priority of the Security Interests
hereunder.
(l) No
Debtor will transfer, pledge,
hypothecate, encumber, license, sell or otherwise dispose of any of the
Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by a Debtor in its
ordinary course of business and sales of inventory by a Debtor in its
ordinary course
of business) without the prior
written consent of a Majority in Interest.
(m) Each
Debtor shall keep and preserve its
equipment, inventory and other tangible Collateral in good condition, repair
and
order and shall not operate or locate any such Collateral (or cause to
be operated or
located) in any area excluded from insurance coverage.
(n) Each
Debtor shall maintain with
financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to the
Collateral, including
Collateral hereafter acquired, against
loss or damage of the kinds and in
the amounts customarily insured against by entities of established reputation
having similar properties similarly situated and in such amounts as are
customarily carried under similar circumstances by other such entities
and otherwise as is prudent for
entities engaged in similar businesses but in any event sufficient to cover
the
full replacement cost thereof. Each Debtor shall cause each insurance
policy issued in connection herewith to provide, and the insurer issuing
such policy to certify to the
Agent,
that (a) the Agent will be named as
lender loss payee and additional insured under each such insurance policy;
(b)
if such insurance be proposed to be cancelled or materially changed for any
reason whatsoever, such
insurer will promptly notify the Agent and such cancellation or change shall
not
be effective as to the Agent for at least thirty (30) days after receipt by
the
Agent of such notice, unless the effect of such change is to extend or increase
coverage under
the policy; and (c) the Agent will
have the right (but no obligation) at its election to remedy any default in
the
payment of premiums within thirty (30) days of notice from the insurer of such
default. If no Event of Default (as defined in the
Debentures)
exists and if the proceeds arising out
of any claim or series of related claims do not exceed $100,000,
loss payments in each instance will be
applied by the applicable Debtor to the repair and/or replacement of property
with respect to which the loss was incurred to the extent
reasonably
feasible, and any loss payments or the balance thereof remaining, to the extent
not so applied, shall be payable to the applicable
Debtor; provided,
however,
that payments received by any Debtor
after an Event of Default
occurs and is continuing or
in excess of $100,000 for
any occurrence or series of related occurrences shall be paid to the Agent
on behalf of the Secured
Parties and, if received by
such Debtor, shall be held in trust for the Secured Parties and
immediately paid over to the
Agent unless
otherwise directed in writing by the Agent. Copies of such
policies or the related certificates, in each case, naming the Agent as lender
loss payee and additional insured shall be delivered to the Agent at least
annually
and at the time any new policy of
insurance is issued.
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(o) Each
Debtor shall, within ten (10) days
of obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Secured Parties promptly, in
sufficient detail, of any
material adverse change in
the Collateral, and of the occurrence of any event
which would have
a material adverse effect on the value of the Collateral or on the Secured
Parties’
security interest, through the Agent,
therein.
(p) Each
Debtor shall promptly execute and
deliver to the Agent
such further deeds, mortgages, assignments,
security
agreements, financing statements or other instruments, documents, certificates
and assurances and take such further action as the Agent
may from time to time request and may
in its sole discretion deem necessary to perfect, protect or enforce
the
Secured Parties’
security interest in the Collateral
including, without limitation, if applicable, the execution and delivery of
a
separate security agreement with respect to each Debtor’s
Intellectual Property (“Intellectual Property
Security
Agreement”)
in which the Secured Parties have been
granted a security interest hereunder, substantially in a form reasonably acceptable
to the Agent,
which Intellectual Property Security
Agreement, other than as stated therein, shall be subject to all of the terms
and conditions
hereof.
(q) Each
Debtor shall permit the Agent and its
representatives and agents to inspect
the Collateral during
normal business hours and upon reasonable prior notice, and to make copies
of records
pertaining to the
Collateral as may be reasonably requested
by the
Agent from time to
time.
(r) Each
Debtor shall take all steps
reasonably necessary to diligently pursue and seek to preserve, enforce and
collect any rights, claims, causes of action and accounts receivable in respect of the
Collateral.
(s) Each
Debtor shall promptly notify the
Secured Parties in sufficient detail upon becoming aware of any attachment,
garnishment, execution or other legal process levied against any Collateral
and
of any other information received by such Debtor
that may
materially affect the value of the Collateral, the Security Interest or the
rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder.
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(t) All
information heretofore, herein or
hereafter supplied to the Secured Parties by or on behalf of any Debtor
with respect to
the Collateral is accurate and complete in all material respects as of the
date
furnished.
(u) The
Debtors shall at all times preserve
and keep in full force and effect their respective valid existence and good
standing and any rights and
franchises material to its business.
(v) No
Debtor will change its name, type of
organization, jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number
(if it has one), legal or corporate structure, or identity, or add
any new fictitious name
unless it provides at least 30 days prior written notice to the Secured Parties
of such change and, at the time of such written notification, such Debtor
provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and
continue
the
perfection of the Security
Interests
granted and evidenced by this
Agreement.
(w) Except
in the ordinary course of
business, no
Debtor may consign any of its inventory
or sell any of its inventory on xxxx and
hold, sale or
return, sale on approval,
or other conditional terms of sale without the consent of the Agent
which shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
(x) No
Debtor may relocate its chief
executive office to a new location without providing 30 days prior written
notification thereof to the
Secured Parties and so long as, at the time of such written notification, such
Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect
and continue the perfection
of the Security
Interests
granted and evidenced by this
Agreement.
(y) Each
Debtor was organized and remains
organized solely under the laws of the state set forth next to such
Debtor’s
name in Schedule D
attached hereto, which Schedule
D sets forth each
Debtor’s
organizational identification number
or, if any Debtor does not
have one, states that one does not exist.
(z) (i)
The actual name of each Debtor is
the name set forth in Schedule
D attached hereto;
(ii) no Debtor has any trade names
except as set forth on Schedule E
attached hereto; (iii) no Debtor has
used any name other than
that stated in the preamble hereto or as set forth on Schedule E
for the preceding five years; and (iv)
no entity has merged into any Debtor or been acquired by any Debtor within
the
past five years except as set forth on Schedule E.
(aa) At
any time and from time to time that
any Collateral consists of instruments, certificated securities or other items
that require or permit possession by the secured party to perfect the security
interest created hereby, the applicable Debtor shall deliver
such Collateral to the
Agent.
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(bb) Each
Debtor, in its capacity as issuer,
hereby agrees to comply with any and all orders and instructions of Agent
regarding the Pledged Interests consistent with the terms of this Agreement
without the further consent
of any Debtor as contemplated by Section 8-106 (or any successor section) of
the
UCC. Further, each Debtor agrees that it shall not enter into a
similar agreement (or one that would confer “control”
within the meaning of Article 8 of the
UCC) with any other
person or
entity.
(cc) Each
Debtor shall cause all tangible
chattel paper constituting Collateral to be delivered to the Agent, or, if
such
delivery is not possible, then to cause such tangible chattel paper to contain
a
legend noting that it is subject to the security interest
created by
this Agreement. To the extent that any Collateral consists of
electronic chattel paper, the applicable Debtor shall cause the underlying
chattel paper to be “marked”
within the meaning of Section 9-105 of
the UCC (or
successor section
thereto).
(dd) If
there is any investment property or
deposit account included as Collateral that can be perfected by “control”
through an account control agreement,
the applicable Debtor shall cause such an account control agreement,
in form and substance
in
each case satisfactory to
the Agent, to be entered
into and delivered to the
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(ee) To
the extent that any Collateral
consists of letter-of-credit rights, the applicable Debtor shall cause the issuer of each
underlying letter
of credit to consent to an assignment of the proceeds thereof to the Secured
Parties.
(ff) To
the extent that any Collateral is in
the possession of any third party, the applicable Debtor shall join with
the
Agent
in notifying such third party of the
Secured Parties’
security interest in such Collateral
and shall use its best efforts to obtain an acknowledgement and agreement from
such third party with respect to the Collateral, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory
to the Agent.
(gg) If
any Debtor shall at any time hold or
acquire a commercial tort claim, such Debtor shall promptly notify the Secured
Parties in a writing signed by such Debtor of the particulars thereof and grant
to the Secured Parties in such writing a security
interest therein
and in the proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such
writing to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
(hh) Each
Debtor shall immediately provide
written notice to the Secured Parties of any and all
accounts which
arise out of contracts with any governmental authority and, to the extent
necessary to perfect or continue the perfected status of the Security
Interests
in such accounts and proceeds thereof,
shall execute and deliver
to
the Agent an assignment of claims
for such
accounts and cooperate with
the Agent in
taking any other steps
required, in its judgment,
under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state or
local statute or rule to perfect or continue the perfected status
of the Security
Interests
in such accounts and proceeds
thereof.
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(ii) Each
Debtor shall cause each
subsidiary
of such Debtor to immediately become a
party hereto (an “Additional Debtor”),
by executing and delivering an
Additional Debtor Joinder
in substantially the form of Annex A
attached hereto and comply with the
provisions hereof applicable to the Debtors. Concurrent therewith,
the Additional Debtor shall deliver replacement schedules for, or supplements
to
all other Schedules to (or
referred to in) this Agreement, as applicable, which replacement schedules
shall
supersede, or supplements shall modify, the Schedules then in
effect. The Additional Debtor shall also deliver such opinions of
counsel, authorizing resolutions, good standing
certificates, incumbency
certificates, organizational documents, financing statements and other
information and documentation as the Agent
may reasonably request. Upon
delivery of the foregoing
to the Agent, the
Additional Debtor shall be and become a party to this Agreement
with the
same rights and obligations as the Debtors, for all purposes hereof as fully
and
to the same extent as if it were an original signatory hereto and shall be
deemed to have made the representations, warranties and covenants
set forth herein as of the date of
execution and delivery of such Additional Debtor Joinder, and all references
herein to the “Debtors”
shall be deemed to include each
Additional Debtor.
(jj) Each
Debtor shall vote the Pledged
Securities to comply with
the covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the
Debentures.
(kk) Each
Debtor shall register the pledge of
the applicable Pledged Securities on the books of such Debtor. Each
Debtor shall notify each issuer of Pledged Securities to register the pledge of the applicable
Pledged
Securities in the name of the Secured Parties on the books of such
issuer. Further, except with respect to certificated securities
delivered to the Agent, the applicable Debtor shall deliver to Agent an
acknowledgement
of pledge (which, where appropriate,
shall comply with the requirements of the relevant UCC with respect to
perfection by registration) signed by the issuer of the applicable Pledged
Securities, which acknowledgement shall confirm that: (a) it has
registered
the pledge on its books and records;
and (b) at any time directed by Agent during the continuation of an Event of
Default, such issuer will transfer the record ownership of such Pledged
Securities into the name of any designee of Agent, will take such steps
as may be necessary to effect the
transfer, and will comply with all other instructions of Agent regarding such
Pledged Securities without the further consent of the applicable
Debtor.
(ll) In
the event that, upon an occurrence of
an Event of Default, Agent
shall sell all or any of the Pledged Securities to another party or parties
(herein called the “Transferee”)
or shall purchase or retain all or any
of the Pledged Securities, each Debtor shall, to the extent applicable: (i)
deliver to Agent or the
Transferee, as the case may be, the articles of incorporation, bylaws, minute
books, stock certificate books, corporate seals, deeds, leases, indentures,
agreements, evidences of indebtedness, books of account, financial records
and
all other Organizational
Documents and records of the
Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries; (ii) use its best efforts
to
obtain resignations of the persons then serving as officers and directors of
the
Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, if so requested;
and (iii) use its best efforts
to obtain any approvals that are required by any governmental or regulatory
body
in order to permit the sale of the Pledged Securities to the Transferee or
the
purchase or retention of the Pledged Securities by Agent
and allow the Transferee or Agent to
continue the business of the Debtors and their direct and indirect
subsidiaries.
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(mm) Without
limiting the generality of the
other obligations of the Debtors hereunder, each Debtor shall promptly (i)
cause
to be registered at the
United States Copyright Office all of its material copyrights, (ii) cause the
security interest contemplated hereby with respect to all Intellectual Property
registered at the United States Copyright Office or United States Patent and
Trademark
Office to be duly recorded at the
applicable office, and (iii) give the Agent notice whenever it acquires (whether
absolutely or by license) or creates any additional material Intellectual
Property.
(nn) Each
Debtor will from time to time, at
the joint and several
expense of the Debtors, promptly execute and deliver all such further
instruments and documents, and take all such further action as may be necessary
or desirable, or as the Agent
may reasonably request, in order to
perfect and protect any security interest granted
or purported to be
granted hereby or to enable the Secured Parties to exercise and enforce their
rights and remedies hereunder and with respect to any Collateral or to otherwise
carry out the purposes of this Agreement.
(oo) Schedule
F attached hereto
lists all of the
patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, registered
copyrights, and domain names owned by any of the Debtors as of the date
hereof. Schedule F
lists all material licenses in favor of
any Debtor for the use of
any patents, trademarks, copyrights and domain names as of the date
hereof. All material patents and trademarks of the Debtors have been
duly recorded at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and all material
copyrights of the Debtors
have been duly recorded at the United
States Copyright Office.
(pp) Except
as set forth on Schedule G
attached hereto, none of the account
debtors or other persons or entities obligated on any of the Collateral is
a
governmental authority covered by the Federal Assignment
of Claims Act or
any similar federal, state or local statute or rule in respect of such
Collateral.
5. Effect
of Pledge on Certain
Rights. If
any of the Collateral subject to this
Agreement consists of nonvoting equity or ownership interests (regardless
of class,
designation, preference or rights) that may be converted into voting equity
or
ownership interests upon the occurrence of certain events (including, without
limitation, upon the transfer of all or any of the other stock or assets
of the issuer), it is agreed that
the pledge of such equity or ownership interests pursuant to this Agreement
or
the enforcement of any of Agent’s
rights hereunder shall not be deemed
to be the type of event which would trigger such conversion rights notwithstanding
any provisions in the
Organizational Documents or agreements to which any Debtor is subject or to
which any Debtor is party.
6. Defaults.
The following events shall be
“Events of
Default”:
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(a) The
occurrence of an Event of Default
(as defined in the
Debentures)
under the Debentures;
(b) Any
representation or warranty of any
Debtor in this Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any material
respect when made;
(c) The
failure by any Debtor to observe or
perform any of its obligations hereunder for five
(5) days after
delivery to such Debtor of notice of such failure by or on behalf of a Secured
Party unless such default is capable of cure but cannot be cured within such
time frame and such Debtor is using best efforts to cure same
in a timely fashion;
or
(d) If
any provision of this Agreement shall
at any time for any reason be declared to be null and void, or the validity
or
enforceability thereof
shall be contested by any Debtor, or a proceeding
shall be
commenced by any Debtor, or
by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over any Debtor, seeking
to
establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or any Debtor shall deny
that any Debtor has any liability or obligation purported to be created under
this Agreement.
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7.
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Duty
To Hold In
Trust.
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(a) Upon
the occurrence of any Event of
Default and at any time thereafter, each Debtor shall, upon receipt of any
revenue, income, dividend,
interest or other sums
subject to the Security Interests,
whether payable pursuant to
the Debentures
or otherwise, or of any check, draft,
note, trade acceptance or other instrument evidencing an obligation to pay
any
such sum, hold the same in trust for the Secured Parties and shall forthwith
endorse and transfer any such sums or instruments, or both, to the Secured
Parties,
pro-rata in proportion to their respective then-currently
outstanding
principal amount of
Debentures for application to the satisfaction of the Obligations (and if any
Debenture is not outstanding, pro-rata in proportion to the initial purchases
of the
remaining Debentures).
(b) If
any Debtor shall become entitled to
receive or shall receive any securities or other property (including, without
limitation, shares of Pledged Securities or instruments representing
Pledged Securities acquired
after the date hereof, or any options, warrants, rights or other similar
property or certificates representing a dividend, or any distribution in
connection with any recapitalization, reclassification or increase or reduction
of capital,
or issued in connection with any
reorganization of such Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries)
in
respect of the Pledged Securities (whether as an addition to, in substitution
of, or in exchange for, such Pledged Securities or otherwise),
such Debtor agrees to (i) accept the
same as the agent of the Secured Parties; (ii) hold the same in trust on behalf
of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties; and (iii) to deliver any and
all
certificates or instruments evidencing the same to Agent on
or before the close of business on
the fifth business day following the receipt thereof by such Debtor, in the
exact form received together with the Necessary Endorsements, to be held by
Agent subject to the terms of this Agreement as Collateral.
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8.
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Rights
and Remedies Upon
Default.
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(a) Upon
the occurrence of any Event of
Default and at any time thereafter, the Secured Parties, acting through
the Agent,
shall have the right to exercise all
of the remedies conferred hereunder and under the Debentures, and the Secured Parties
shall have all
the rights and remedies of a secured party under the UCC. Without
limitation, the Agent, for
the benefit of the Secured
Parties,
shall have the following rights and
powers:
(i)
The Agent shall have the
right to take possession of
the Collateral and, for that purpose, enter, with the aid and assistance of
any
person, any premises where the Collateral, or any part thereof, is or may be
placed and remove the same, and each Debtor shall assemble the Collateral and
make
it available to the Agent
at places which the Agent
shall reasonably select, whether at
such Debtor's premises or elsewhere, and make available to the Agent,
without rent, all of such
Debtor’s
respective premises and facilities for
the purpose of the
Agent
taking possession of, removing or
putting the Collateral in saleable or disposable form.
(ii)
Upon
notice to the Debtors by Agent, all
rights of each Debtor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which
it would otherwise be entitled to exercise and all rights
of each Debtor to
receive the dividends and interest which it would otherwise be authorized to
receive and retain, shall cease. Upon such notice, Agent shall have
the right to receive, for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, any interest,
cash dividends or other payments
on the Collateral and, at the option of Agent, to exercise in such
Agent’s
discretion all voting rights
pertaining thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation)
to exercise all rights with
respect to the Collateral as it were the sole and absolute
owner thereof, including,
without limitation, to vote and/or to exchange, at its sole discretion, any
or
all of the Collateral in connection with a merger, reorganization, consolidation,
recapitalization or other readjustment concerning or involving the Collateral
or
any Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries.
(iii)
The Agent
shall have the right to operate the
business of each Debtor using the Collateral and shall
have the right to
assign, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of and deliver all or any part of
the
Collateral, at public or private sale or otherwise, either with or without
special conditions or stipulations, for cash or on credit or for
future delivery, in such parcel or
parcels and at such time or times and at such place or places, and upon
such terms and conditions
as the Agent may deem
commercially reasonable, all without (except as shall be required by applicable
statute and cannot be
waived) advertisement or demand upon or notice to any Debtor or right of
redemption of a Debtor, which are hereby expressly waived. Upon each
such sale, lease, assignment or other transfer of Collateral, the Agent, for the benefit
of the
Secured Parties,
may, unless prohibited by applicable
law which cannot be waived, purchase all or any part of the Collateral being
sold, free from and discharged of all trusts, claims, right of redemption and
equities of any Debtor, which are hereby waived and
released.
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(iv) The
Agent shall have the right
(but not the
obligation) to notify any account debtors and any obligors under instruments
or
accounts to make payments directly to the Agent, on behalf of the
Secured
Parties,
and to enforce the Debtors’
rights against such account debtors
and
obligors.
(v) The
Agent,
for the benefit of the
Secured Parties,
may (but is not obligated to) direct
any financial
intermediary or any other person or entity holding any investment property
to
transfer the same to the Agent, on
behalf of the Secured Parties,
or its designee.
(vi) The
Agent may (but is
not obligated to) transfer any or all
Intellectual Property registered in the name of any Debtor at the United States
Patent and Trademark Office and/or Copyright Office into the name of the Secured Parties
or any
designee or any purchaser of any Collateral.
(b) The
Agent shall comply with any applicable
law in
connection with a disposition of Collateral and such compliance will not be
considered adversely to affect the commercial reasonableness of any
sale of the
Collateral. The Agent may sell the Collateral without giving any
warranties and may specifically disclaim such warranties. If the
Agent sells any of the Collateral on credit, the Debtors will only be credited
with payments
actually made by the
purchaser. In addition, each Debtor waives any and all rights that it
may have to a judicial hearing in advance of the enforcement of any of the
Agent’s
rights and remedies hereunder,
including, without limitation, its right following
an Event of Default to take
immediate possession of the Collateral and to exercise its rights and remedies
with respect thereto.
(c) For
the purpose of enabling the Agent to
further exercise rights and remedies under this Section 8 or elsewhere
provided by agreement or
applicable law, each Debtor hereby grants to the Agent, for the benefit of
the
Agent and the Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable
without payment of royalty or other compensation to such Debtor) to use,
license
or sublicense following an Event of
Default, any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such
Debtor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license
access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded
or stored and to all computer
software and programs used for the compilation or printout
thereof.
9. Applications
of
Proceeds. The
proceeds of any such sale, lease or other disposition of the Collateral
hereunder or from payments
made on account of any
insurance policy insuring any portion of the Collateral shall be applied first,
to the expenses
of retaking, holding, storing, processing and preparing for sale, selling,
and
the like (including, without limitation, any taxes, fees and other costs
incurred in connection
therewith) of the Collateral, to the reasonable attorneys’
fees and expenses incurred by the
Agent in enforcing the
Secured Parties’
rights hereunder and in connection with
collecting, storing and disposing of the Collateral, and then to satisfaction of the
Obligations pro
rata among the Secured Parties (based on then-outstanding principal amounts
of
Debentures at the time of any such determination), and to the payment of any
other amounts required by applicable law, after which the Secured
Parties shall pay to the applicable
Debtor any surplus proceeds. If, upon the sale, license or other disposition
of
the Collateral, the proceeds thereof are insufficient to pay all amounts to
which the Secured Parties are legally entitled, the Debtors will
be liable for the deficiency,
together with interest
thereon, at the rate of 18%
per annum or the lesser amount permitted by applicable law (the “Default Rate”),
and the reasonable fees of any
attorneys employed by the Secured Parties to collect such deficiency. To the extent
permitted by applicable law, each Debtor waives all claims, damages and demands
against the Secured Parties arising out of the repossession, removal, retention
or sale of the Collateral, unless due solely to the gross negligence
or
willful misconduct of the Secured
Parties as determined by a final judgment (not subject to further appeal) of
a
court of competent jurisdiction.
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10. Securities
Law
Provision. Each Debtor
recognizes that
Agent may be limited in its ability to effect a sale to the public of
all or part of the
Pledged Securities by reason of certain prohibitions in the Securities Act
of
1933, as amended, or other federal or state securities laws (collectively,
the
“Securities
Laws”),
and may be compelled to resort to one
or more sales to a
restricted group of purchasers who may be required to agree to acquire the
Pledged Securities for their own account, for investment and not with a view
to
the distribution or resale thereof. Each Debtor agrees that sales so
made may be at
prices and on terms less favorable
than if the Pledged Securities were sold to the public, and that Agent has
no
obligation to delay the sale of any Pledged Securities for the period of time
necessary to register the Pledged Securities for sale to the public
under the Securities
Laws. Each Debtor shall cooperate with Agent in its attempt to
satisfy any requirements under the Securities Laws (including, without
limitation, registration thereunder if requested by Agent) applicable to the
sale of the Pledged
Securities by
Agent.
11. Costs
and Expenses. Each Debtor agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket
fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with any filing required
hereunder, including without limitation, any financing statements pursuant
to
the UCC, continuation statements, partial releases and/or termination statements
related thereto or any expenses of any searches reasonably required by the
Agent. The Debtors shall also pay all other claims and charges which
in the reasonable opinion of the Agent is reasonably likely to prejudice,
imperil or otherwise affect the Collateral or the Security Interests
therein. The Debtors will also, upon demand, pay to the Agent the
amount of any and all reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees and
expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, which the Agent, for
the
benefit of the Secured Parties, may incur in connection with (i) the enforcement
of this Agreement, (ii) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of,
collection from, or other realization upon, any of the Collateral, or (iii)
the
exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Secured Parties under the
Debentures. Until so paid, any fees payable hereunder shall be added to the
principal amount of the Debentures and shall bear interest at the Default
Rate.
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12. Responsibility
for Collateral. The Debtors assume all liabilities and responsibility
in connection with all Collateral, and the Obligations shall in no way be
affected or diminished by reason of the loss, destruction, damage or theft
of
any of the Collateral or its unavailability for any reason. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) neither the Agent nor any Secured
Party (i) has any duty (either before or after an Event of Default) to collect
any amounts in respect of the Collateral or to preserve any rights relating
to
the Collateral, or (ii) has any obligation to clean-up or otherwise prepare
the
Collateral for sale, and (b) each Debtor shall remain obligated and liable
under
each contract or agreement included in the Collateral to be observed or
performed by such Debtor thereunder. Neither the Agent nor any
Secured Party shall have any obligation or liability under any such contract
or
agreement by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the
Agent or any Secured Party of any payment relating to any of the Collateral,
nor
shall the Agent or any Secured Party be obligated in any manner to perform
any
of the obligations of any Debtor under or pursuant to any such contract or
agreement, to make inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment
received by the Agent or any Secured Party in respect of the Collateral or
as to
the sufficiency of any performance by any party under any such contract or
agreement, to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any
performance or to collect the payment of any amounts which may have been
assigned to the Agent or to which the Agent or any Secured Party may be entitled
at any time or times.
13. Security
Interests Absolute. All rights of the Secured Parties and all
obligations of the Debtors hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional,
irrespective of: (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement,
the Debentures or any agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing,
or any portion hereof or thereof; (b) any change in the time, manner or place
of
payment or performance of, or in any other term of, all or any of the
Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure
from the Debentures or any other agreement entered into in connection with
the
foregoing; (c) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any of the Collateral,
or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other
collateral for, or any guarantee, or any other security, for all or any of
the
Obligations; (d) any action by the Secured Parties to obtain, adjust, settle
and
cancel in its sole discretion any insurance claims or matters made or arising
in
connection with the Collateral; or (e) any other circumstance which might
otherwise constitute any legal or equitable defense available to a Debtor,
or a
discharge of all or any part of the Security Interests granted
hereby. Until the Obligations shall have been paid and performed in
full, the rights of the Secured Parties shall continue even if the Obligations
are barred for any reason, including, without limitation, the running of the
statute of limitations or bankruptcy. Each Debtor expressly waives
presentment, protest, notice of protest, demand, notice of nonpayment and demand
for performance. In the event that at any time any transfer of any Collateral
or
any payment received by the Secured Parties hereunder shall be deemed by final
order of a court of competent jurisdiction to have been a voidable preference
or
fraudulent conveyance under the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the United
States, or shall be deemed to be otherwise due to any party other than the
Secured Parties, then, in any such event, each Debtor’s obligations hereunder
shall survive cancellation of this Agreement, and shall not be discharged or
satisfied by any prior payment thereof and/or cancellation of this Agreement,
but shall remain a valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with
the terms and provisions hereof. Each Debtor waives all right to
require the Secured Parties to proceed against any other person or entity or to apply any Collateral
which the Secured Parties may hold at any time, or to marshal assets, or to
pursue any other remedy. Each Debtor waives any defense arising by reason of
the
application of the statute of limitations to any obligation secured
hereby.
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14. Term
of
Agreement. This
Agreement and the Security Interests
shall terminate on the date on which
all payments under the Debentures have been indefeasibly paid in full and all
other Obligations have been paid or discharged; provided, however, that all
indemnities of the Debtors contained in this Agreement (including, without
limitation, Annex B hereto) shall survive and remain operative and in full
force
and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement.
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15.
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Power
of Attorney; Further
Assurances.
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(a) Each
Debtor authorizes the Agent,
and does hereby make,
constitute and appoint the
Agent and its officers,
agents, successors
or assigns with full power
of substitution, as such Debtor’s
true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with
power, in the name of the
Agent or such Debtor, to,
after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i)
endorse any note, checks, drafts, money orders or other
instruments of
payment (including payments payable under or in respect of any policy of
insurance) in respect of the Collateral that may come into possession of the Agent;
(ii) to sign and endorse any financing
statement pursuant to the
UCC or any invoice, freight or express xxxx, xxxx of lading, storage or
warehouse receipts, drafts against debtors, assignments, verifications and
notices in connection with accounts, and other documents relating to the
Collateral; (iii) to pay or discharge
taxes, liens, security
interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on or threatened
against the Collateral; (iv) to demand, collect, receipt for, compromise, settle
and xxx for monies due in respect of the Collateral; (v) to transfer
any Intellectual Property or provide
licenses respecting any Intellectual Property; and (vi) generally, at
the option of the
Agent, and at the expense
of the Debtors, at any time, or from time to time, to execute and deliver any
and all documents and instruments and to do
all acts and
things which the
Agent deems
necessary to protect, preserve and
realize upon the Collateral and the Security Interests
granted therein in order to effect the
intent of this Agreement and the Debentures all as fully and effectually as the Debtors
might or could
do; and each Debtor hereby ratifies all that said attorney shall lawfully do
or
cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney is coupled
with an interest and shall be irrevocable for the term of this Agreement
and thereafter as long as any of
the Obligations shall be outstanding. The designation set forth
herein shall
be deemed to amend and supersede any inconsistent provision in the
Organizational Documents or other documents or agreements to which any
Debtor is subject or to
which any Debtor is a party. Without limiting the
generality of the
foregoing, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, each Secured Party is specifically authorized to execute and file
any
applications for or
instruments of transfer and assignment of any patents, trademarks, copyrights
or
other Intellectual Property with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
and the United States Copyright Office.
(b) On
a continuing basis, each Debtor will
make, execute, acknowledge,
deliver, file and record, as the case may be, with the proper filing and
recording agencies in any jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the
jurisdictions indicated on Schedule C
attached hereto, all such instruments,
and take all such action as
may reasonably be deemed necessary or advisable, or as reasonably requested by the Agent,
to perfect the Security
Interests
granted hereunder and otherwise to
carry out the intent and purposes of this Agreement, or for assuring and
confirming
to the Agent the grant or perfection
of a perfected
security
interest in all the Collateral under
the UCC.
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(c) Each
Debtor hereby irrevocably appoints the Agent
as such Debtor’s
attorney-in-fact, with full authority
in the place and instead of
such Debtor and in the name of such Debtor, from time to time in the Agent’s
discretion, to take any action and to
execute any instrument
which the Agent may deem
necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including
the filing, in its sole
discretion, of one or more financing or continuation statements and amendments
thereto, relative to any of the Collateral without the signature of such Debtor
where permitted by law, which financing statements may (but need not) describe
the Collateral
as “all assets”
or “all personal property”
or words of like import, and ratifies
all such actions taken by
the Agent. This
power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for
the
term of this Agreement and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations
shall be
outstanding.
16. Notices.
All notices, requests, demands and
other communications hereunder shall be subject to the notice provision of
the
Purchase Agreement (as such term is defined in the
Debentures).
17. Other
Security. To the extent
that the Obligations are
now or hereafter secured by property other than the Collateral or by
the guarantee, endorsement or property of any other person, firm, corporation
or
other entity, then the
Agent shall have the right,
in its sole discretion,
to
pursue, relinquish, subordinate, modify or take any other action with respect
thereto, without in any way modifying or affecting any of the Secured
Parties’
rights and remedies
hereunder.
18. Appointment
of
Agent. The
Secured Parties hereby appoint
[Enable
Growth
Partners
L.P.] to
act as their agent (“Enable”
or “Agent”)
for purposes of exercising any and all
rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder. Such appointment shall
continue until revoked in writing by a Majority
in Interest, at which time a Majority
in Interest
shall appoint a new Agent,
provided that Enable
may
not be removed as Agent unless
Enable shall
then hold less than $100,000 in principal
amount of
Debentures; provided, further,
that such removal may occur only if each of the
other Secured
Parties shall then hold not
less than an aggregate of $500,000 in
principal
amount of Debentures.
The Agent shall have
the
rights, responsibilities and immunities set forth in Annex B
hereto.
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(a) No
course of dealing between the Debtors
and the Secured Parties, nor any failure to exercise, nor any delay in
exercising, on the part of the Secured Parties, any right, power or privilege
hereunder or under the Debentures shall operate as a waiver thereof;
nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder preclude
any
other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power
or
privilege.
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(b) All
of the rights and remedies of the
Secured Parties with
respect to the Collateral, whether established hereby or by the Debentures
or by
any other agreements, instruments or documents or by law shall be cumulative
and
may be exercised singly or concurrently.
(c) This
Agreement, together with the
exhibits and schedules hereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements
and
understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties
acknowledge have been merged into this Agreement and the exhibits and schedules
hereto. No
provision of this
Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written
instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Debtors and the Secured
Parties or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement
of
any such waived provision is sought.
(d) If
any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable,
the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth
herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected,
impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially
reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same
or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision,
covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the
intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms,
provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may
be
hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
(e) No
waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement
of
this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a
waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition
or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise
any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such
right.
(f)
This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the
parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company and
the Guarantors may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations
hereunder without the prior written consent of each Secured Party (other than
by
merger). Any Secured Party may assign any or all of its rights under
this Agreement to any Person to whom such Secured Party assigns or transfers
any
Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect
to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of this Agreement that apply
to
the “Secured Parties.”
(g) Each
party shall take such further
action and execute and
deliver such further documents as may be necessary or appropriate in order to
carry out the provisions and purposes of this Agreement.
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(h)
All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and
interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed
by and
construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of
New
York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law
thereof. Each Debtor agrees that all proceedings concerning the
interpretations, enforcement
and defense of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Debentures
(whether brought against a party hereto
or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners,
members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state
and federal
courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of
Manhattan. Each Debtor
hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state
and federal courts sitting
in the City of
New York, Borough of
Manhattan for
the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby
or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert
in
any proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to
the jurisdiction of any such court,
that such proceeding is improper. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives
personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such
proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified
mail or overnight delivery (with
evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to
it
under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and
sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to limit in any
way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Each
party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal
proceeding
arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence
a
proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing
party in such proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party
for its reasonable
attorney’s
fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such
proceeding.
(i) This
Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original
and, all of
which taken together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. In the event
that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, such signature shall
create a valid binding obligation of the party executing (or
on whose behalf such signature is
executed) the same with the same force and effect as if such facsimile signature
were the original thereof.
(j) All
Debtors shall jointly and severally
be liable for the obligations of each Debtor to the Secured Parties hereunder.
(k) Each
Debtor shall indemnify, reimburse
and hold harmless the Agent
and the Secured Parties and
their respective partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees
and agents (and any other
persons with other titles that have similar functions) (collectively,
“Indemnitees”)
from and against any and all losses,
claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs and expenses, of any
kind
or nature, (including fees relating to the cost of investigating and defending
any of the foregoing)
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee in any way related
to or arising from or alleged to arise from this Agreement or the Collateral,
except any such losses, claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs
and expenses
which result from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of the Indemnitee as determined by a final,
nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. This
indemnification provision is in addition to, and not in limitation of, any
other
indemnification provision in the
Debentures, the Purchase Agreement (as such term is defined in the Debentures)
or any other agreement, instrument or other document executed or delivered
in
connection herewith or therewith.
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(l) Nothing
in this Agreement shall be construed to
subject Agent or
any Secured Party to liability as a partner in any Debtor or any if its direct
or indirect subsidiaries that is a partnership or as a member in any Debtor
or
any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a limited
liability company, nor shall Agent or
any Secured Party be deemed to have assumed any obligations under any
partnership agreement or limited liability company agreement, as applicable,
of
any such Debtor or any if its direct or indirect subsidiaries or otherwise,
unless and until any such
Secured Party exercises its right to be substituted for such Debtor as a partner
or member, as applicable, pursuant hereto.
(m) To
the extent that the grant of the
security interest in the Collateral and the enforcement of the terms hereof
require the
consent, approval or action of any partner or member, as applicable, of any
Debtor or any direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor or compliance with
any
provisions of any of the Organizational Documents, the Debtors hereby
grant such consent and approval
and waive any such noncompliance with the terms of said
documents.
[SIGNATURE
PAGES
FOLLOW]
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto
have caused this Security Agreement
to be duly executed on the day
and year first above
written.
XXXXXXXX
URANIUM INC.
By:
__________________________________________
Name:
Title:
2146281
ONTARIO LIMITED
By:
__________________________________________
Name:
Title:
[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS
FOLLOWS]
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS TO BCFT
SA]
Name
of Investing Entity:
__________________________
Signature
of Authorized Signatory of
Investing entity:
_________________________
Name
of Authorized Signatory:
_________________________
Title
of Authorized Signatory:
__________________________
[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS
FOLLOWS]
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SCHEDULE
A
Principal
Place of Business of
Debtors:
Debtors
maintain a leased office
location, consisting of a mail forwarding and answering service at 0000 XXXX
XXX
XX XXXXXXX, XXXXX
X000, XXXXXXXXXX
XX 00000. Other than this location,
debtors business takes place on their leased mining properties known as the
Elliot Lake South Project, the Longlac Project and the Monmouth Project, all
located in Ontario Canada and further described on the Mineral
Lease
Agreements attached to the Company’s
filing on Form 8K with the SEC on
October 3, 2007 as Exhibits 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4
respectively.
Locations
Where Collateral is Located or
Stored:
Other
than the above, there are no
locations.
SCHEDULE
B
The
Debtors have payment obligations and
net mineral royalty obligations to mineral rights holders as described in the
Mineral Lease Agreements described above in Schedule A.
SCHEDULE
C
The
jurisdictions in which the Debtor
presently operates are Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx xxx Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx.
SCHEDULE
D
Legal
Names and Organizational
Identification Numbers
Xxxxxxxx
Uranium, Inc., A Nevada
corporation, IRS Tax ID Number
00-0000000.
2146281
Ontario Limited, an Ontario
corporation, no tax ID number.
SCHEDULE
E
Names;
Mergers and
Acquisitions
Xxxxxxxx
Uranium, Inc. was formerly
known as Conscious Intention, Inc. Bancroft acquired 2146281 Ontario
Limited in October, 2007.
SCHEDULE
F
Intellectual
Property
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Other
than the Mineral
Leases, the Company has no
intellectual property, has no patents and has not filed a trademark on its
name.
SCHEDULE
G
Account
Debtors
None
SCHEDULE
H
100
Shares of 2146281 Ontario
Limited as evidenced by certificate
CON-02
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ANNEX
A
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT
FORM
OF ADDITIONAL DEBTOR
JOINDER
Security
Agreement dated as of
November ___,
2007
made by
Xxxxxxxx
Uranium
Inc.
and
its subsidiaries party thereto from
time to time, as Debtors
to
and in favor of
the
Secured Parties identified therein
(the “Security
Agreement”)
Reference
is made to the Security
Agreement as defined above; capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in, or by reference
in, the Security Agreement.
The
undersigned hereby agrees
that upon delivery
of this Additional Debtor Joinder to the Secured Parties referred to above,
the
undersigned shall (a) be an Additional Debtor under the Security Agreement,
(b)
have all the rights and obligations of the Debtors under
the Security Agreement as fully and to
the same extent as if the undersigned was an original signatory thereto and
(c)
be deemed to have made the representations and warranties set forth therein
as
of the date of execution and delivery of this Additional Debtor
Joinder. WITHOUT
LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE UNDERSIGNED SPECIFICALLY GRANTS
TO
THE SECURED PARTIES A SECURITY INTEREST IN THE COLLATERAL AS MORE FULLY SET
FORTH IN THE SECURITY AGREEMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THE
WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL PROVISIONS SET FORTH
THEREIN.
Attached
hereto are supplemental and/or
replacement Schedules to the Security Agreement, as
applicable.
An
executed copy of this Joinder shall
be delivered to the Secured Parties, and the Secured Parties may rely on the matters set
forth herein on
or after the date hereof. This Joinder shall not be modified, amended
or terminated without the prior written consent of the Secured
Parties.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has
caused this Joinder to be executed in the name and
on behalf of the
undersigned.
[Name
of Additional
Debtor]
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Dated:
ANNEX
B
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT
THE
AGENT
1. Appointment. The
Secured Parties (all capitalized
terms used herein and not
otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings provided in the Security
Agreement to which this Annex B is attached (the "Agreement")),
by their acceptance of the benefits
of the Agreement, hereby designate Enable Growth Partners
L.P.
(“Enable”
or “Agent”) as
the Agent to act as specified herein
and in the Agreement. Each Secured Party shall be deemed irrevocably
to authorize the Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions
of
the Agreement and any other Transaction Document (as such term
is defined in
the Debentures) and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder
and thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Agent by
the
terms hereof and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably
incidental
thereto. The Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by or
through its agents or employees.
2.
Nature
of
Duties. The
Agent shall have no
duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in the
Agreement. Neither the Agent nor any of its
partners, members,
shareholders, officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for
any
action taken or omitted by it as such under the Agreement or hereunder or in
connection herewith or therewith, be responsible for the consequence
of any oversight or error of
judgment or answerable for any loss, unless caused solely by its or their gross
negligence or willful misconduct
as determined by a final
judgment (not subject to further appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction.
The duties of the Agent
shall be mechanical and administrative in nature; the Agent shall not have
by
reason of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document a fiduciary
relationship in respect of any Debtor or any Secured Party; and nothing in
the
Agreement
or any other Transaction Document,
expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose
upon
the Agent any obligations in respect of the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document except as expressly set forth herein and therein.
3.
Lack
of Reliance on the
Agent. Independently
and without
reliance upon the Agent, each Secured Party, to the extent it deems appropriate,
has made and shall continue to make (i) its own independent investigation of
the
financial condition and affairs of the Company and
its subsidiaries
in connection with such Secured Party’s
investment in the Debtors, the
creation and continuance of the Obligations, the transactions contemplated
by
the Transaction Documents, and the taking or not taking of any action
in connection therewith, and (ii) its
own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Company and its subsidiaries,
and
of the value of the Collateral from time to time, and the Agent shall have
no
duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing
basis, to provide any Secured Party
with any credit, market or other information with respect thereto, whether
coming into its possession before any Obligations are incurred or at any time
or
times thereafter. The Agent shall not be responsible to the
Debtors
or any Secured Party for any
recitals, statements, information, representations or warranties herein or
in
any document, certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith,
or
for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability,
perfection, collectibility,
priority or sufficiency of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document,
or
for the financial condition of the Debtors or the value of any of the
Collateral, or be required to make any inquiry concerning either the performance
or observance of any of the
terms, provisions or conditions of the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, or the financial condition of the Debtors, or the value of any of
the
Collateral, or the existence or possible existence of any default
or Event of Default under the
Agreement, the Debentures or any of the other Transaction
Documents.
4.
Certain
Rights of the
Agent. The Agent shall
have the
right to take any action with respect to the Collateral, on behalf of all of
the
Secured Parties. To the extent practical,
the Agent shall request instructions from the Secured Parties with respect
to
any material act or action (including failure to act) in connection with the
Agreement or any other Transaction Document, and shall be entitled
to act
or refrain from acting in accordance
with the instructions of Secured Parties holding a majority in principal amount
of Debentures (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of Debentures at
the
time of any such determination); if such instructions are
not provided despite the
Agent’s
request therefor, the Agent shall be
entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action, and if such action
is
taken, shall be entitled to appropriate indemnification from the Secured Parties
in respect of actions to
be taken by the Agent; and the Agent
shall not incur liability to any person or entity by reason of so
refraining. Without limiting the foregoing, (a) no Secured Party
shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Agent as a result of
the
Agent acting
or refraining from acting
hereunder in accordance with the terms of the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, and the Debtors shall have no right to question or challenge the
authority of, or the instructions given to, the Agent pursuant to the
foregoing and (b) the Agent shall not
be required to take any action which the Agent believes (i) could reasonably
be
expected to expose it to personal liability or (ii) is contrary to this
Agreement, the Transaction Documents or applicable law.
5. Reliance. The
Agent shall be entitled
to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, resolution,
notice, statement, certificate, telex, teletype or telecopier message,
cablegram, radiogram, order or other document or telephone message signed, sent or made by
the proper person
or entity, and, with respect to all legal matters pertaining to the Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents and its duties thereunder, upon advice
of
counsel selected by it and upon all other matters pertaining
to this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents and its duties thereunder, upon advice of other experts
selected by it. Anything
to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to any Secured
Party to assure that the
Collateral exists or is owned by the Debtors or is cared for, protected or
insured or that the liens granted pursuant to the Agreement have been properly
or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, or enforced or are entitled
to
any particular priority.
6. Indemnification. To
the extent that the Agent
is not reimbursed and indemnified by the Debtors, the Secured Parties will
jointly and severally reimburse and indemnify the Agent, in proportion to their
initially purchased respective principal amounts of Debentures,
from and against
any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature
whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against
the Agent in performing its duties
hereunder or under the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or in any
way relating to or arising out of the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document except for those determined by a final judgment (not subject
to further appeal) of a court of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted solely from the Agent's own gross
negligence or willful misconduct. Prior to taking any action
hereunder as Agent, the Agent may require each Secured Party to deposit with
it
sufficient
sums as it determines in good faith
is necessary to protect the Agent for costs and expenses associated with taking
such action.
7. Resignation
by the
Agent.
(a) The
Agent may resign from
the performance of all its functions and duties under the Agreement and the other
Transaction
Documents at any time by giving 30 days' prior written notice (as provided
in
the Agreement) to the Debtors and the Secured Parties. Such
resignation shall take effect upon the appointment of a successor Agent pursuant
to
clauses (b) and (c)
below.
(b) Upon
any such notice of
resignation, the Secured Parties, acting by a Majority
in Interest, shall appoint a successor
Agent
hereunder.
(c)
If a successor Agent shall not have
been so appointed within said 30-day period, the Agent shall then
appoint a successor
Agent who shall serve as Agent until such time, if any, as the Secured Parties
appoint a successor Agent as provided above. If a successor Agent has
not been appointed within such 30-day period, the Agent may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction
or may interplead the Debtors and the Secured Parties in a proceeding for the
appointment of a successor Agent, and all fees, including, but not limited
to,
extraordinary fees associated with the filing of interpleader
and expenses associated therewith,
shall be payable by the Debtors on demand.
8. Rights
with respect to
Collateral. Each
Secured Party agrees
with all other Secured Parties and the Agent (i) that it shall not, and shall
not attempt to, exercise any rights with respect to
its security
interest in the Collateral, whether pursuant to any other agreement or otherwise
(other than pursuant to this Agreement), or take or institute any action against
the Agent or any of the other Secured Parties in respect of
the Collateral or its rights hereunder
(other than any such action arising from the breach of this Agreement) and
(ii)
that such Secured Party has no other rights with respect to the Collateral
other
than as set forth in this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents. Upon
the acceptance of any appointment
as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties
of the retiring Agent and the retiring Agent shall be discharged
from its duties
and obligations under the Agreement. After any retiring Agent’s
resignation or removal hereunder as
Agent, the provisions of the Agreement including this Annex B shall inure to
its
benefit as to any actions taken or
omitted to be taken by it while it was
Agent.