TERM LOAN GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of February 17, 2009, among SIRIUS XM RADIO INC., ITS SUBSIDIARIES IDENTIFIED HEREIN and LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION, as Collateral Agent
Exhibit 10.27
EXECUTION COPY
TERM LOAN GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
dated as of
February 17, 2009,
among
ITS SUBSIDIARIES IDENTIFIED HEREIN
and
LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION,
as Collateral Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I Definitions |
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SECTION 1.01. Credit Agreement |
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SECTION 1.02. Other Defined Terms |
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ARTICLE II Guarantee |
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SECTION 2.01. Guarantee |
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SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of Payment |
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SECTION 2.03. No Limitations |
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SECTION 2.04. Reinstatement |
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SECTION 2.05. Agreement to Pay; Subrogation |
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SECTION 2.06. Information |
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ARTICLE III Pledge of Securities |
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SECTION 3.01. Pledge |
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SECTION 3.02. Delivery of the Pledged Collateral |
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SECTION 3.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants |
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SECTION 3.04. Certification of Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Interests |
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SECTION 3.05. Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations |
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SECTION 3.06. Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest |
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ARTICLE IV Security Interests in Personal Property |
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SECTION 4.01. Security Interest |
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SECTION 4.02. Representations and Warranties |
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SECTION 4.03. Covenants |
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SECTION 4.04. Other Actions |
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SECTION 4.05. Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral |
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ARTICLE V Remedies |
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SECTION 5.01. Remedies Upon Default |
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SECTION 5.02. Application of Proceeds |
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SECTION 5.03. Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property |
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SECTION 5.04. Securities Act |
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SECTION 5.05. Registration |
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ARTICLE VI Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination |
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SECTION 6.01. Indemnity and Subrogation |
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SECTION 6.02. Contribution and Subrogation |
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SECTION 6.03. Subordination |
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ARTICLE VII Miscellaneous |
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SECTION 7.01. Notices |
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SECTION 7.02. Waivers; Amendment |
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SECTION 7.03. Collateral Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification |
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SECTION 7.04. Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 7.05. Survival of Agreement |
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SECTION 7.06. Counterparts; Effectiveness; Several Agreement |
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SECTION 7.07. Severability |
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SECTION 7.08. Right of Set-Off |
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SECTION 7.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
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SECTION 7.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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SECTION 7.11. Headings |
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SECTION 7.12. Security Interest Absolute |
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SECTION 7.13. Termination or Release |
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SECTION 7.14. Additional Subsidiaries |
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SECTION 7.15. Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact |
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SECTION 7.16. Specific Performance |
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Schedules
Schedule I | Subsidiary Guarantors | |
Schedule II | Pledged Equity Interests; Debt Securities | |
Schedule III | Intellectual Property | |
Schedule IV | Commercial Tort Claims |
Exhibits
Exhibit I | Form of Supplement |
TERM LOAN GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT dated as of February 17, 2009, among SIRIUS XM RADIO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to time party hereto and LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION (“LMC”), as Collateral Agent.
Reference is made to the Term Credit Agreement dated as of February 17, 2009 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and LMC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent. The Term Loan Lenders have agreed to extend credit to the Borrower subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement. The obligations of the Lenders to extend such credit are conditioned upon, among other things, the execution and delivery of this Agreement. The Subsidiary Guarantors are Affiliates of the Borrower, will derive substantial benefits from the extension of credit to the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement and are willing to execute and deliver this Agreement in order to induce the Term Loan Lenders to extend such credit. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Credit Agreement. (a) Capitalized terms used in this Agreement (including the preamble hereto) and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings specified in the Credit Agreement. All terms used in this Agreement and not defined herein or in the Credit Agreement have the meanings specified in Article 8 or 9 of the New York UCC (as defined herein).
(b) The rules of construction specified in Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement also apply to this Agreement.
SECTION 1.02. Other Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
“Accounts Receivable” means any right to payment of a monetary obligation from customers of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, earned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by the performance of services rendered by it in the ordinary course of business.
“Account Debtor” means any Person who is or who may become obligated to any Loan Party under, with respect to or on account of an Account.
“Article 9 Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.
“Borrower” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
“Claiming Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.
“Collateral” means Article 9 Collateral and Pledged Collateral.
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“Contributing Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.
“Copyright License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting any right to any third party under any copyright now or hereafter owned by any Loan Party or that such Loan Party otherwise has the right to license, or granting any right to any Loan Party under any copyright now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of such Loan Party under any such agreement.
“Copyrights” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party: (a) all copyright rights in any work subject to the copyright laws of the United States or any other country, whether as author, assignee, transferee or otherwise, and (b) all registrations and applications for registration of any such copyright in the United States or any other country, including registrations, supplemental registrations and pending applications for registration in the United States Copyright Office, including those listed on Schedule III.
“Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest.
“Excluded Equity Interests” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Excluded Inventory” means finished goods, chip sets and other raw material components used in manufacturing radios.
“Excluded Satellite Collateral” means (a) so long as the Loral Credit Agreement is in effect, the “Collateral”, as defined thereunder on the date hereof, and (b) so long as any Replacement Satellite Vendor Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary owed to a Satellite Vendor and incurred in accordance with the Credit Agreement to finance the construction or purchase by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of a “replacement satellite” (as defined in the definition of Replacement Satellite Vender Indebtedness) is outstanding, (i) the replacement satellite being financed thereunder (including any work-in-progress thereof), (ii) any General Intangibles arising under any contract or agreement for the construction or purchase of such Satellite, to the extent such General Intangibles are excluded from the Article 9 Collateral pursuant to clause (G) of the first proviso to Section 4.01(a), and (iii) any Proceeds of the foregoing, in each case if and for so long as the grant of a security interest therein to secure the Term Loan Obligations shall constitute or result in a breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or a default under, the Loral Credit Agreement or the agreements governing or evidencing such other Replacement Satellite Vender Indebtedness, as applicable; provided that such security interest shall attach immediately at such time as the condition causing such breach, termination or default shall cease to be applicable and, to the extent severable, shall attach immediately to any portion of such “Collateral”, Satellite, General Intangibles or the Proceeds thereof that does not result in any of the consequences specified in this definition.
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“Federal Securities Laws” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.04.
“General Intangibles” means all choses in action and causes of action and all other intangible personal property of every kind and nature (other than Accounts) now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party, including corporate or other business records, indemnification claims, contract rights (including rights under leases, whether entered into as lessor or lessee, Hedging Agreements and other agreements), Intellectual Property, goodwill, registrations, franchises, tax refund claims and any letter of credit, guarantee, claim, security interest or other security held by or granted to any Loan Party to secure or support payment by an Account Debtor of any of the Accounts.
“Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property of every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party, including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Licenses, Trademarks, trade secrets, confidential or proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how or other data or information, software and databases and all embodiments or fixations thereof and related documentation, registrations and franchises, and all additions, improvements and accessions to, and books and records describing or used in connection with, any of the foregoing.
“License” means any Patent License, Trademark License, Copyright License or other license or sublicense agreement relating to intellectual property to which any Loan Party is a party, including those listed on Schedule III.
“LMC” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary statement of this Agreement.
“Loan Parties” means the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“MSSFI” means Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent under the MSSFI Credit Agreement.
“MSSFI Collateral Agreement” means that certain Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of June 20, 2007 among MSSFI, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“MSSFI Credit Agreement” means that certain Term Credit Agreement dated as of June 20, 2007 among MSSFI, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, without giving effect to any amendments, restatements or other modifications thereof.
“New York UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.
“Patent License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting to any third party any right to make, use or sell any invention on which a patent, now or hereafter owned by any Loan Party or that any Loan Party otherwise has the right to license, is in existence, or granting to any Loan Party any right to make, use or sell any invention on which a patent, now or hereafter owned by any third party, is in existence, and all rights of any Loan Party under any such agreement.
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“Patents” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party: (a) all letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications for letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country, including registrations, recordings and pending applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in any other country, including those listed on Schedule III, and (b) all reissues, continuations, divisions, continuations-in-part, renewals or extensions thereof, and the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, including the right to make, use and/or sell the inventions disclosed or claimed therein.
“Pledged Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Pledged Debt Securities” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Pledged Equity Interests” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.01.
“Pledged Securities” means any promissory notes, stock certificates or other securities now or hereafter included in the Pledged Collateral, including all certificates, instruments or other documents representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral.
“Purchase Money Obligations” means (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrower of (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Purchase Money Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, and (ii) all other monetary obligations of the Borrower to any of the Purchase Money Lenders under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, including obligations to pay fees, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), and (b) the due and punctual payment or performance of all other obligations of any Loan Party to any Purchase Money Lender under or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document
“Satellite Codes” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.03(f).
“Satellite Vendor” means, with respect to any satellite, the prime contractor and manufacturer of such satellite.
“Security Interest” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.
“Subsidiary Guarantors” means (a) the Subsidiaries identified on Schedule I and (b) each other Subsidiary that becomes a party to this Agreement as a Subsidiary Guarantor after the Effective Date.
“Term Loan Obligations” means all Obligations other than the Purchase Money Obligations.
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“Term Loan Lenders” means the Lenders having Term Loans (or, prior to the borrowings under the Credit Agreement, Term Loan Commitments).
“Term Loan Secured Parties” means (a) the Term Loan Lenders (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) the Collateral Agent, (d) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (e) each other Person to whom any of the Term Loan Obligations is owed and (f) the permitted successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.
“Trademark License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting to any third party any right to use any trademark now or hereafter owned by any Loan Party or that any Loan Party otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any Loan Party any right to use any trademark now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Loan Party under any such agreement.
“Trademarks” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party: (a) all trademarks, service marks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, trade dress, logos, other source or business identifiers, designs and general intangibles of like nature, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all registration and recording applications filed in connection therewith, including registrations and registration applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in any State of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, and all extensions or renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule III, (b) all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized thereby and (c) all other assets, rights and interests that uniquely reflect or embody such goodwill.
ARTICLE II
Guarantee
SECTION 2.01. Guarantee. (a) Each Subsidiary Guarantor unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the other Subsidiary Guarantors and severally, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment of the Term Loan Obligations. Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that the Term Loan Obligations may be extended, increased or renewed, in whole or in part, or amended or modified without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any extension, increase or renewal, or amendment or modification, of any Term Loan Obligation. Each Subsidiary Guarantor does hereby (i) waive notice of acceptance of this guarantee; (ii) waive any notices or demands that are not required by this Agreement or the Credit Agreement, as well as any other notices or demands that may otherwise be imposed by law; (iii) waive any and all rights that such Subsidiary Guarantor may have under any anti deficiency statute or similar protections; (iv) agree not to assert any defense, right of set off or other claim which such Subsidiary Guarantor may have against the Borrower; and (v) waive presentment, demand for performance, notice of nonperformance or dishonor, protest and notice of protest, promptness, diligence in collection and any and all formalities which otherwise might be legally required to charge such Subsidiary Guarantor with liability.
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(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Subsidiary Guarantor’s liability shall be extended to all amounts that constitute part of the Term Loan Obligations and would be owed by any other Loan Party to any Agent or Term Loan Lender under or in respect of the Loan Documents but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving such other Loan Party.
(c) Each Subsidiary Guarantor, and by its acceptance of this guarantee, each Agent and each Term Loan Lender, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that this guarantee and the Term Loan Obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Title 11 U.S. Code, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this guarantee and the Term Loan Obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Term Loan Lenders, and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the Term Loan Obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor under this guarantee at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the Term Loan Obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under this guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or transfer.
SECTION 2.02. Guarantee of Payment. Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due and not of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to any security held for the payment of the Term Loan Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party in favor of the Borrower or any other Person.
SECTION 2.03. No Limitations. (a) Except for termination of a Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in Section 7.13, the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise of any of the Term Loan Obligations, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Term Loan Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (i) the failure of the Collateral Agent or any other Term Loan Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, any Loan Document or any other agreement, including with respect to any other Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement; (iii) the release of, or any impairment of or failure to perfect any Lien on or security interest in, any security held by the Collateral Agent or any other Term Loan Secured Party for the Term Loan Obligations or any of them; (iv) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Term Loan Obligations; or (v) any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Subsidiary Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Subsidiary Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Term Loan Obligations). Each Subsidiary Guarantor expressly authorizes the Secured Parties to take and hold security for the payment and performance of the Term Loan Obligations, to exchange, waive or release any or all such
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security (with or without consideration), to enforce or apply such security and direct the order and manner of any sale thereof in their sole discretion or to release or substitute any one or more other Subsidiary Guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of the Term Loan Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder.
(b) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Subsidiary Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor or the unenforceability of the Term Loan Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Term Loan Obligations. The Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Term Loan Obligations, make any other accommodation with the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Term Loan Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in full in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Subsidiary Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Subsidiary Guarantor against the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, or any security. Each Subsidiary Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive substantial direct benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Loan Documents and that the waivers set forth in this Section 2.03 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION 2.04. Reinstatement. Each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that its guarantee hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Term Loan Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by the Collateral Agent or any other Term Loan Secured Party upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor or otherwise.
SECTION 2.05. Agreement to Pay; Subrogation. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Collateral Agent or any other Term Loan Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Subsidiary Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor to pay any Term Loan Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Collateral Agent for distribution to the applicable Term Loan Secured Parties in cash the amount of such unpaid Term Loan Obligation. Upon payment by any Subsidiary Guarantor of any sums to the Collateral Agent as provided above, all rights of such Subsidiary Guarantor against the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to Article VI.
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SECTION 2.06. Information. Each Subsidiary Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Borrower’s and each other Subsidiary Guarantor’s financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Term Loan Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Subsidiary Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that none of the Collateral Agent or the other Term Loan Secured Parties will have any duty to advise such Subsidiary Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
ARTICLE III
Pledge of Securities
SECTION 3.01. Pledge. As security for the payment in full of the Term Loan Obligations, each Loan Party hereby pledges to the Collateral Agent, its permitted successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, a security interest in, all of such Loan Party’s right, title and interest in, to and under (a)(i) the shares of capital stock and other Equity Interests owned by it on the date hereof (including all such shares and other Equity Interests listed on Schedule II), (ii) any other Equity Interests obtained in the future by such Loan Party and (iii) the certificates representing all such Equity Interests (all the foregoing being called the “Pledged Equity Interests”); provided that the Pledged Equity Interests shall not include more than 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary (the Equity Interests so excluded being called the “Excluded Equity Interests”); (b)(i) the debt securities owned by such Loan Party on the date hereof (including all such debt securities listed on Schedule II), (ii) any debt securities in the future issued to such Loan Party and (iii) the promissory notes and any other instruments evidencing such debt securities (all the foregoing being called the “Pledged Debt Securities”); provided that the Pledged Debt Securities shall not include Temporary Cash Investments; (c) all other property that may be delivered to and held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of this Section 3.01; (d) subject to Section 3.06, all payments of principal or interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other Proceeds received in respect of, the securities referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above; (e) subject to Section 3.06, all rights and privileges of such Loan Party with respect to the securities and other property referred to in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) above; and (f) all Proceeds of any of the foregoing (the items referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above being collectively referred to as the “Pledged Collateral”).
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Pledged Collateral, together with all right, title, interest, powers, privileges and preferences pertaining or incidental thereto, unto the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, forever; subject, however, to the terms, covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 3.02. Delivery of the Pledged Collateral. (a) Each Loan Party agrees promptly to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent any and all Pledged Securities except to the extent that such Pledged Securities are required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement.
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(b) Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent, (i) all Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by undated stock powers duly executed in blank or other undated instruments of transfer satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and duly executed in blank and by such other instruments and documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request and (ii) all other property comprising part of the Pledged Collateral shall be accompanied by proper instruments of assignment duly executed by the applicable Loan Party and such other instruments or documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request. Each delivery of Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by a schedule describing such securities, which schedule shall be attached hereto as a supplement to Schedule II and made a part hereof; provided that failure to attach any such schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such pledge of such Pledged Securities.
SECTION 3.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants. The Loan Parties jointly and severally represent, warrant and covenant to and with the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, that:
(a) Schedule II correctly sets forth the percentage of the issued and outstanding units of each class of the Equity Interests of the issuer thereof represented by the Pledged Equity Interests and includes all Equity Interests, debt securities and promissory notes required to be pledged hereunder in order to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement;
(b) the Pledged Equity Interests and Pledged Debt Securities have been duly and validly authorized and issued by the issuers thereof and (i) in the case of Pledged Equity Interests (other than interests in any limited liability company), are fully paid and nonassessable and (ii) in the case of Pledged Debt Securities, are legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuers thereof, and there exists no defense, offset or counterclaim to any obligation of the maker or issuer of any Pledged Debt Securities;
(c) except for restrictions and limitations imposed by the Loan Documents, the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder or securities laws generally, the Pledged Collateral is and will continue to be freely transferable and assignable, and none of the Pledged Collateral is or will be subject to any option, right of first refusal, shareholders agreement or charter or by-law provisions that might prohibit, impair or delay the pledge of such Pledged Collateral hereunder, the sale or disposition thereof pursuant hereto or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of rights and remedies hereunder;
(d) each Loan Party has the power and authority to pledge the Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder in the manner hereby done or contemplated;
(e) no consent or approval of any Governmental Authority, any securities exchange or any other Person was or is necessary to the validity of the pledge effected hereby (other than such as have been obtained and are in full force and effect);
(f) by virtue of the execution and delivery by the Loan Parties of this Agreement, when any Pledged Securities are delivered to the Collateral Agent in accordance with this Agreement, the Collateral Agent will obtain, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, a legal, valid and perfected first priority lien upon and security interest in such Pledged Securities as security for the payment of the Term Loan Obligations; and
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(g) each pledge effected hereby is effective to vest in the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, the rights of the Collateral Agent in the Pledged Collateral as set forth herein.
SECTION 3.04. Certification of Limited Liability Company and Limited Partnership Interests. Each of the Loan Parties (a) represents and warrants that none of the interests in any limited liability company or limited partnership controlled by such Loan Party and pledged hereunder are represented by a certificate or are “securities” within the meaning of Article 8 of the New York UCC and (b) covenants and agrees that it shall at no time elect to treat any such interest as a “security” within the meaning of Article 8 of the New York UCC or issue any certificate representing such interest unless, in each case, it provides prior written notice to the Collateral Agent of such election and immediately pledges and, except to the extent that such Pledged Securities are required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement, delivers any such certificate to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms hereof.
SECTION 3.05. Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations. At any time that the Pledged Securities are not required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement, the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Term Loan Secured Parties, shall have the right (in its sole and absolute discretion) to hold the Pledged Securities in its own name as pledgee, the name of its nominee (as pledgee or as sub-agent) or the name of the applicable Loan Party, endorsed or assigned in blank or in favor of the Collateral Agent. Each Loan Party will promptly give to the Collateral Agent copies of any notices or other communications received by it with respect to Pledged Securities registered in the name of such Loan Party. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default at any time that the Pledged Securities are not required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall at all times have the right to exchange the certificates representing Pledged Securities for certificates of smaller or larger denominations for any purpose consistent with this Agreement.
SECTION 3.06. Voting Rights; Dividends and Interest. (a) Unless and until an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Loan Parties that their rights under this Section 3.06 are being suspended:
(i) Each Loan Party shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner of Pledged Securities or any part thereof for any purpose consistent with the terms of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents; provided that such rights and powers shall not be exercised in any manner that could materially and adversely affect the rights inuring to a holder of any Pledged Securities or the rights and remedies of any of the Collateral Agent or the other Term Loan Secured Parties under this Agreement or the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or the ability of the Term Loan Secured Parties to exercise the same.
(ii) The Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver to each Loan Party, or cause to be executed and delivered to such Loan Party, all such proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as such Loan Party may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such Loan Party to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) above.
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(iii) Each Loan Party shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest, principal and other distributions paid on or distributed in respect of the Pledged Securities to the extent and only to the extent that such dividends, interest, principal and other distributions are permitted by, and otherwise paid or distributed in accordance with, the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents and applicable laws; provided that any noncash dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that would constitute Pledged Equity Interests or Pledged Debt Securities, whether resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the outstanding Equity Interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities or received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or in redemption thereof, or as a result of any merger, consolidation, acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be a party or otherwise, shall be and become part of the Pledged Collateral, and, if received by any Loan Party, shall not be commingled by such Loan Party with any of its other funds or property but shall be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsements, stock powers and other instruments of transfer).
(b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, after the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Loan Parties of the suspension of their rights under paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06, then all rights of any Loan Party to dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Loan Party is authorized to receive pursuant to paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to receive and retain such dividends, interest, principal or other distributions to the extent such dividends, interest, principal or other distributions are not required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement at such time. All dividends, interest, principal or other distributions received by any Loan Party contrary to the provisions of this Section 3.06 shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties, shall be segregated from other property or funds of such Loan Party and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent upon demand in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement). Any and all money and other property paid over to or received by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph (b) shall be retained by the Collateral Agent in an account to be established by the Collateral Agent upon receipt of such money or other property and shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.02. After all Events of Default have been cured or waived, and the Borrower has delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate to that effect, the Collateral Agent shall promptly repay to each Loan Party (without interest) all dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Loan Party would otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 3.06 and that remain in such account.
(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, after the Collateral Agent shall have notified the Loan Parties of the suspension of their rights under paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 3.06, then all rights of any Loan Party to exercise the voting and
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consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 3.06, and the obligations of the Collateral Agent under paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section 3.06, shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise such voting and consensual rights and powers, subject to any rights of MSSFI to exercise such rights and powers pursuant to the MSSFI Collateral Agreement; provided that, unless otherwise directed by the Required Lenders, the Collateral Agent shall have the right from time to time following and during the continuance of an Event of Default to permit the Loan Parties to exercise such rights. After all Events of Default have been cured or waived, as the case may be, and the Borrower has delivered to the Collateral Agent a certificate to that effect, all rights vested in the Collateral Agent pursuant to this paragraph shall cease, and the Loan Parties shall have the voting and consensual rights and powers they would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 3.06.
(d) Any notice given by the Collateral Agent to the Loan Parties suspending their rights under paragraph (a) of this Section 3.06 (i) may be given by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing, (ii) may be given to one or more of the Loan Parties at the same or different times and (iii) may suspend the rights of the Loan Parties under paragraph (a)(i) or paragraph (a)(iii) in part without suspending all such rights (as specified by the Collateral Agent in its sole and absolute discretion) and without waiving or otherwise affecting the Collateral Agent’s rights to give additional notices from time to time suspending other rights so long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
ARTICLE IV
Security Interests in Personal Property
SECTION 4.01. Security Interest. (a) As security for the payment in full of the Term Loan Obligations, each Loan Party hereby pledges to the Collateral Agent, its permitted successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, a security interest (the “Security Interest”) in, all right, title or interest in or to any and all of the following assets and properties now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Loan Party or in which such Loan Party now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the “Article 9 Collateral”):
(i) all Accounts;
(ii) all Chattel Paper;
(iii) all Documents;
(iv) all Equipment (including (A) the Satellites (including the Satellites commonly referred to as XX-0, XX-0, XX-0 and FM-4) and associated equipment (including all ground segment equipment for tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring of the Satellites located at any TT&C Station) and (B) all software embedded therein and used for tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring of the Satellites located at any TT&C Station);
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(v) all Goods, including Fixtures;
(vi) all Instruments;
(vii) all Investment Property;
(viii) all Software and all other Intellectual Property;
(ix) all rights under or relating to the FCC Licenses, subject to the exclusion in clause (F) of the proviso below;
(x) all other General Intangibles (including any agreements relating to the Satellites or associated equipment referred to in clause (a)(iv) above (including any agreement for the construction or purchase of any Satellite, any agreement relating to the tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring of any Satellite, all rights to the geostationary position of any Satellite and any policy of insurance covering risk of loss or damage to any Satellite));
(xi) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(xii) all Commercial Tort Claims specified on Schedule IV;
(xiii) all books and records pertaining to the Article 9 Collateral; and
(xiv) to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing and all collateral security and guarantees given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing and all Supporting Obligations relating thereto;
provided that the Article 9 Collateral shall not include, (A) any Accounts Receivable, (B) any cash or Temporary Cash Investments, (C) subject to the proviso set forth in the definition thereof, any Excluded Satellite Collateral, (D) any Excluded Inventory, (E) the Excluded Equity Interests, (F) to the extent (but only to the extent) that at any time the Collateral Agent may not validly possess a security interest in any FCC License pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect at such time, such FCC License, provided that the Article 9 Collateral does include, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all rights incident or appurtenant to such FCC License and the right to receive all proceeds derived from or in connection with the sale, assignment or transfer of such FCC Licenses and (G) any General Intangibles arising under any license, contract or agreement (including any such contract or agreement for the construction or purchase of a Satellite) if and for so long as the grant of such security interest shall constitute or result in a breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or a default under, such license, contract or agreement (other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Section 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the New York UCC or any other applicable law or principles of equity), provided, however, that such security interest shall attach
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immediately at such time as the condition causing such breach, termination or default shall cease to be applicable and, to the extent severable, shall attach immediately to any portion of such license, contract or agreement that does not result in any of the consequences specified this clause, including any Proceeds of such contract or agreement.
(b) Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to file in the proper jurisdictions any initial financing statements (including fixture filings) with respect to the Article 9 Collateral or any part thereof and amendments thereto and continuations thereof that contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement or amendment, including (i) statements as to whether such Loan Party is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Loan Party and (ii) in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing, a sufficient description of the real property to which such Article 9 Collateral relates. Each Loan Party agrees to provide such information to the Collateral Agent promptly upon request.
Each Loan Party also ratifies its authorization for the Collateral Agent to file in any proper jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof.
The Collateral Agent is further authorized to file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) such documents as may be necessary or advisable for the purpose of perfecting, confirming, continuing, enforcing or protecting the Security Interest granted by each Loan Party, without the signature of any Loan Party, and naming any Loan Party or the Loan Parties as debtors and the Collateral Agent as secured party.
(c) The Security Interest is granted as security only and shall not subject the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Loan Party with respect to or arising out of the Article 9 Collateral (other than the duties expressly created hereunder).
SECTION 4.02. Representations and Warranties. The Loan Parties jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties that:
(a) Each Loan Party has good and valid rights in and title to the Article 9 Collateral with respect to which it has purported to grant a Security Interest hereunder and has full power and authority to grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties, the Security Interest in such Article 9 Collateral pursuant hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without the consent or approval of any other Person other than any consent or approval that has been obtained.
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(b) The Perfection Certificate has been duly prepared, completed and executed and the information set forth therein, including the exact legal name and place of organization of each Loan Party, is correct and complete as of the Effective Date. The Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (including fixture filings, as applicable) or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations prepared by the Collateral Agent based upon the information provided to the Collateral Agent in the Perfection Certificate for filing in each governmental, municipal or other office specified in Schedule 6 to the Perfection Certificate (or specified by notice from the Borrower to the Collateral Agent after the Effective Date in the case of filings, recordings or registrations required by Section 5.11 or 5.12 of the Credit Agreement), are all the filings, recordings and registrations (other than filings required to be made in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office in order to perfect the Security Interest in Article 0 Xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights) that are necessary to publish notice of, perfect and protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties) in respect of all Article 9 Collateral in which the Security Interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary in any such jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable law with respect to the filing of continuation statements.
(c) The Article 9 Collateral is owned by the Loan Parties free and clear of any Lien, except for Liens created under the Loan Documents and the Permitted Liens. None of the Loan Parties has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing statement or analogous document under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable laws covering any Article 9 Collateral, (ii) any assignment in which any Loan Party assigns any Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office or (iii) any assignment in which any Loan Party assigns any Article 9 Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or other office, which financing statement or analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument is still in effect, except, in each case, for Liens created under the Loan Documents and the Permitted Liens.
SECTION 4.03. Covenants. (a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Loan Party shall, upon reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, promptly prepare and deliver to the Collateral Agent a duly certified schedule or schedules in form and detail satisfactory to the Collateral Agent showing the identity, amount and location of any and all Article 9 Collateral.
(b) Each Loan Party agrees, at its own expense, to execute, acknowledge, deliver and cause to be duly filed all such further instruments and documents and take all such actions as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request to better assure, preserve, protect and perfect the Security Interest and the rights and remedies created hereby, including the payment of any fees and taxes required in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the granting of the Security Interest and the filing of any financing statements (including fixture filings) or other documents in connection herewith or therewith.
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Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Party hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent, with prompt notice thereof to the Loan Parties, to supplement this Agreement by supplementing Schedule III or adding additional schedules hereto to specifically identify any asset or item that may constitute Copyrights, Licenses, Patents or Trademarks; provided that any Loan Party shall have the right, exercisable within 10 days after it has been notified by the Collateral Agent of the specific identification of such Collateral, to advise the Collateral Agent in writing of any inaccuracy (i) with respect to such supplement or additional schedule or (ii) of the representations and warranties made by such Loan Party hereunder with respect to such Collateral. Each Loan Party agrees that it will use its commercially reasonable efforts to take such action as shall be necessary in order that all representations and warranties hereunder shall be true and correct with respect to such Collateral within 30 days after the date it has been notified by the Collateral Agent of the specific identification of such Collateral.
(c) At its option, the Collateral Agent may, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees and Liens at any time levied or placed on the Article 9 Collateral and not permitted pursuant to Section 5.07 or 6.08 of the Credit Agreement, and may pay for the maintenance and preservation of the Article 9 Collateral to the extent any Loan Party fails to do so as required by the Credit Agreement or this Agreement, and each Loan Party jointly and severally agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent on demand for any payment made or any expense incurred by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the foregoing authorization; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be interpreted as excusing any Loan Party from the performance of, or imposing any obligation on the Collateral Agent or any Term Loan Secured Party to cure or perform, any covenants or other promises of any Loan Party with respect to taxes, assessments, charges, fees or Liens and maintenance as set forth herein or in the other Loan Documents.
(d) Each Loan Party shall remain liable to observe and perform all the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it under each contract, agreement or instrument relating to the Article 9 Collateral, all in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof.
(e) Each Loan Party irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Collateral Agent) as such Loan Party’s true and lawful agent (and attorney-in-fact) for the purpose, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, of making, settling and adjusting claims in respect of Article 9 Collateral under policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Loan Party on any check, draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with respect thereto. In the event that any Loan Party at any time or times shall fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required by the Credit Agreement or to pay any premium in whole or part relating thereto, the Collateral Agent may, without waiving or releasing any obligation or liability of the Loan Parties hereunder or any Event of Default, in its sole discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premium and take any other actions with respect thereto as the Collateral Agent deems advisable. All sums disbursed by the Collateral Agent in connection with this paragraph, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall be payable, upon demand, by the Loan Parties to the Collateral Agent and shall be additional Term Loan Obligations secured hereby.
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(f) Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, at the Loan Parties’ expense, promptly following the request of the Collateral Agent (which may only be made following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), (i) deliver to the Collateral Agent, subject to having obtained any consent or approval of, or registration or filing with, any Governmental Authority for such delivery, all access codes, command codes and command encryption necessary to establish access to and perform tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring of any Satellite, including activation and control of any spacecraft subsystems and payload components and the transponders thereon (such access codes, command codes and command encryption being collectively referred to as the “Satellite Codes”), in each case where such Satellite Codes are in possession, or subject to the control, of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain any consent or approval of, or registration or filing with, any Governmental Authority referred to in clause (i) above or otherwise required to effect any transfer of operational control over any Satellite and related technical data (including any license approving the export or re-export of such Satellite to any Person as designated by the Collateral Agent) and (iii) deliver to the Collateral Agent written evidence of the issuance of any such consent, approval, registration or filing once such consent, approval, registration or filing has been obtained.
(g) Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, at the Loan Parties’ expense, promptly following the request of the Collateral Agent (which may only be made following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), use its reasonable best efforts to obtain from each provider (other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) of tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring services for any Satellite, an agreement of such provider with the Collateral Agent (i) to deliver to the Collateral Agent, promptly following notification by the Collateral Agent that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, subject to having obtained any consent or approval of, or registration or filing with, any Governmental Authority for such delivery, all Satellite Codes in possession, or subject to the control, of such provider and, following delivery thereof, not change any such Satellite Codes without promptly furnishing to the Collateral Agent the new Satellite Codes, (ii) to use its reasonable best efforts, upon notification by the Collateral Agent that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to obtain any consent or approval of, or registration or filing with, any Governmental Authority referred to in clause (i) above or otherwise required to effect any transfer of operational control over any Satellite for which such provider is providing any of the abovementioned services and related technical data and (iii) to deliver to the Collateral Agent written evidence of the issuance of any such consent, approval, registration or filing once such consent, approval, registration or filing has been obtained. If, notwithstanding the Loan Parties’ and the Restricted Subsidiaries’ having used their reasonable best efforts to obtain the agreements referred to in this paragraph, any such agreement shall not have been so obtained, each Loan Party shall, and shall cause the Restricted Subsidiaries to, instruct each such provider of tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring services (and each manufacturer of any Satellite that has not yet been launched) to cooperate in providing the Satellite Codes, consents, approvals, registrations and filings referred to in this paragraph.
(h) In the event that the United States signs and ratifies the Protocol on Space Assets to the Capetown Convention on Mobile Equipment, then each Loan Party shall ensure that any international interests (as defined in such Convention) with respect to space assets (as defined in such Protocol) are properly registered with the international registry referred to therein
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and shall otherwise take all actions reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to ensure that the security interest of the Collateral Agent is fully perfected and protected under such Protocol and such Convention.
SECTION 4.04. Other Actions. In order to further insure the attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Collateral Agent to enforce, the Security Interest, each Loan Party agrees, in each case at such Loan Party’s own expense, to take the following actions with respect to the following Article 9 Collateral:
(a) Instruments. If any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire any Instruments constituting Collateral, such Loan Party shall, to the extent that such Instruments are not required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement), forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by such undated instruments of endorsement, transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
(b) Investment Property. Except to the extent otherwise provided in Article III or IV, if any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire any certificated securities, such Loan Party shall, to the extent that such certificated securities are not required to be delivered to MSSFI under the MSSFI Collateral Agreement, forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, accompanied by such undated instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to time specify. If any securities now or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party are uncertificated and are issued to such Loan Party or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Loan Party shall immediately notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at the Collateral Agent’s request and option, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either, subject to any prior rights of MSSFI in connection with the MSSFI Collateral Agreement, (i) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Collateral Agent as to such securities, without further consent of any Loan Party or such nominee, or (ii) arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the registered owner of the securities. If any securities, whether certificated or uncertificated, or other Investment Property now or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party are held by such Loan Party or its nominee through a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Loan Party shall immediately notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at the Collateral Agent’s request and option, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either, subject to any prior rights of MSSFI in connection with the MSSFI Collateral Agreement, (i) cause such securities intermediary or (as the case may be) commodity intermediary to agree to comply with entitlement orders or other instructions from the Collateral Agent to such securities intermediary as to such security entitlements, or to apply any value distributed on account of any commodity contract as directed by the Collateral Agent to such commodity intermediary, in each case without further consent of any Loan Party or such nominee, or (ii) in the case of Financial Assets or other Investment Property held through a securities intermediary, arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such Investment Property, with the Loan Party being permitted, only with the consent of the Collateral Agent, to exercise rights to withdraw or otherwise deal with such Investment Property. The Collateral Agent agrees with each of the Loan Parties that the Collateral Agent shall not give any such entitlement orders or instructions or directions to any such issuer, securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, and shall not
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withhold its consent to the exercise of any withdrawal or dealing rights by any Loan Party, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or, after giving effect to any such investment and withdrawal rights would occur. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any Financial Assets credited to a securities account for which the Collateral Agent is the securities intermediary.
(c) Commercial Tort Claims. If any Loan Party shall at any time hold or acquire a commercial tort claim in an amount reasonably estimated to exceed $500,000, the Loan Party shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof in a writing signed by such Loan Party including a summary description of such claim and grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Term Loan 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 reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
SECTION 4.05. Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral. (a) Each Loan Party agrees that it will not do any act or omit to do any act (and will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to prevent its licensees from doing any act or omitting to do any act) whereby any Patent that is material to the conduct of such Loan Party’s business may become invalidated or dedicated to the public, and agrees that it shall continue to xxxx any products covered by such a Patent with the relevant patent number as required under applicable law and as is necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable patent laws.
(b) Each Loan Party will, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees or its sublicensees to, for each Trademark material to the conduct of such Loan Party’s business, (i) maintain such Trademark in full force, free from any adjudication of abandonment or invalidity for non-use, (ii) maintain the quality of products and services offered under such Trademark, (iii) if registered, display such Trademark with notice of Federal or foreign registration as required by applicable law to the extent necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable law and (iv) not knowingly use or knowingly permit the use of such Trademark in violation of any third party rights.
(c) Each Loan Party will, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees or sublicensees to, for each work covered by a Copyright material to the conduct of such Loan Party’s business, continue to publish, reproduce, display, adopt and distribute the work with appropriate copyright notice as required under applicable law and as is necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable copyright laws.
(d) Each Loan Party shall notify the Collateral Agent promptly if it knows or has reason to know that any Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the conduct of its business may become abandoned, lapsed or dedicated to the public, or of any materially adverse determination or development (including the institution of, or any such determination or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any court or similar office of any country) regarding such Loan Party’s ownership of any such Patent, Trademark or Copyright, its right to register the same, or its right to keep and maintain the same.
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(e) In the event that any Loan Party, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, file an application for the registration of any Patent, Trademark or Copyright with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States or in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, it shall inform the Collateral Agent within 15 Business Days of such application and, upon request of the Collateral Agent, execute and deliver any and all agreements (including any IP Security Agreements), instruments, documents and papers as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request (and provide) to evidence the Collateral Agent’s security interest in such Patent, Trademark or Copyright, and each Loan Party hereby appoints the Collateral Agent as its attorney-in-fact to execute and file such writings for the foregoing purposes, all acts of such attorney being hereby ratified and confirmed; such power, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable.
(f) Each Loan Party will take all necessary steps that are consistent with the practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States or in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue each application relating to the Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights (and to obtain the relevant grant or registration) material to the conduct of such Loan Party’s business and to maintain each issued Patent and each registration of the Trademarks and Copyrights that is material to the conduct of any Loan Party’s business, including, when applicable, timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if consistent with reasonable business judgment of such Loan Party, to initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties.
(g) In the event that any Loan Party believes that any Article 9 Collateral consisting of a Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the conduct of any Loan Party’s business has been or is about to be materially infringed, misappropriated or diluted by a third party, such Loan Party promptly shall notify the Collateral Agent and shall take such actions as may be reasonably appropriate under the circumstances, which may include, if consistent with reasonable business judgment of such Loan Party, suit for infringement, misappropriation or dilution and recovery of any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation or dilution.
(h) Upon and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Loan Party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all requisite consents or approvals by the licensor of each Copyright License, Patent License or Trademark License to effect the assignment or sublicense of all such Loan Party’s right, title and interest thereunder to the Collateral Agent or its designee for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties.
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.01. Remedies Upon Default. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Loan Party agrees to deliver, on demand, each item of Collateral to the Collateral Agent or any Person designated by the Collateral Agent, and it is agreed that the Collateral Agent shall have the right to take any of or all the following actions at
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the same or different times: (a) with respect to any Article 9 Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property, on demand, to cause the Security Interest to become an assignment, transfer and conveyance of any of or all such Article 9 Collateral by the applicable Loan Parties to the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Term Loan Secured Parties), or to license or sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis, any such Article 9 Collateral throughout the world on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Collateral Agent shall determine (other than in violation of any then-existing licensing arrangements to the extent that waivers cannot be obtained), and (b) with or without legal process and with or without prior notice or demand for performance, to take possession of the Article 9 Collateral and without liability for trespass to enter any premises where the Article 9 Collateral may be located for the purpose of taking possession of or removing the Article 9 Collateral and, generally, to exercise any and all rights afforded to a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Party agrees that the Collateral Agent shall have the right, subject to the mandatory requirements of applicable law, to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Collateral at a public or private sale or at any broker’s board or on any securities exchange, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery as the Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate. The Collateral Agent shall be authorized at any such sale of securities (if it deems it advisable to do so) to restrict the prospective bidders or purchasers to Persons who will represent and agree that they are purchasing the Collateral for their own account for investment and not with a view to the distribution or sale thereof, and upon consummation of any such sale the Collateral Agent shall have the right to assign, transfer and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof the Collateral so sold. Each such purchaser at any sale of Collateral shall hold the property sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of any Loan Party, and each Loan Party hereby waives (to the extent permitted by law) all rights of redemption, stay and appraisal which such Loan Party now has or may at any time in the future have under any rule of law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted.
The Collateral Agent shall give the applicable Loan Parties 10 days’ written notice (which each Loan Party agrees is reasonable notice within the meaning of Section 9-611 of the New York UCC or its equivalent in other jurisdictions) of the Collateral Agent’s intention to make any sale of Collateral. Such notice, in the case of a public sale, shall state the time and place for such sale and, in the case of a sale at a broker’s board or on a securities exchange, shall state the board or exchange at which such sale is to be made and the day on which the Collateral, or portion thereof, will first be offered for sale at such board or exchange. Any such public sale shall be held at such time or times within ordinary business hours and at such place or places as the Collateral Agent may fix and state in the notice (if any) of such sale. At any such sale, the Collateral, or portion thereof, to be sold may be sold in one lot as an entirety or in separate parcels, as the Collateral Agent may (in its sole and absolute discretion) determine. The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of any Collateral if it shall determine not to do so, regardless of the fact that notice of sale of such Collateral shall have been given. The Collateral Agent may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed for sale, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which the same was so adjourned. In case any sale of all or any part of the Collateral is made on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Collateral Agent until the sale price is paid by the purchaser or purchasers thereof, but the Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan
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Secured Parties shall not incur any liability in case any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in case of any such failure, such Collateral may be sold again upon like notice. At any public (or, to the extent permitted by law, private) sale made pursuant to this Agreement, any Term Loan Secured Party may bid for or purchase, free (to the extent permitted by law) from any right of redemption, stay, valuation or appraisal on the part of any Loan Party (all said rights being also hereby waived and released to the extent permitted by law), the Collateral or any part thereof offered for sale and may make payment on account thereof by using any claim then due and payable to such Term Loan Secured Party from any Loan Party as a credit against the purchase price, and such Term Loan Secured Party may, upon compliance with the terms of sale, hold, retain and dispose of such property without further accountability to any Loan Party therefor. For purposes hereof, a written agreement to purchase the Collateral or any portion thereof shall be treated as a sale thereof; the Collateral Agent shall be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement and no Loan Party shall be entitled to the return of the Collateral or any portion thereof subject thereto, notwithstanding the fact that after the Collateral Agent shall have entered into such an agreement all Events of Default shall have been remedied and the Term Loan Obligations paid in full. As an alternative to exercising the power of sale herein conferred upon it, the Collateral Agent may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose this Agreement and to sell the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court or courts having competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed receiver. Any sale pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.01 shall be deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable standards as provided in Section 9-610(b) of the New York UCC or its equivalent in other jurisdictions.
The Collateral Agent acknowledges that the exercise of its rights and remedies hereunder, including the rights set forth in Sections 3.06(b) and 3.06(c) and this Section 5.01, may require prior approval of, or notice to, the FCC pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
SECTION 5.02. Application of Proceeds. The Collateral Agent shall apply the proceeds of any collection or sale of Collateral as follows:
FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection with such collection or sale or otherwise in connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the Term Loan Obligations, including all court costs and the reasonable fees and expenses of its agents and legal counsel, the repayment of all advances made by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document on behalf of any Loan Party and any other costs or expenses incurred in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document;
SECOND, to the payment in full of the Term Loan Obligations (the amounts so applied to be distributed among the Term Loan Secured Parties pro rata in accordance with the amounts of the Term Loan Obligations owed to them on the date of any such distribution); and
THIRD, to the Loan Parties, their successors or assigns, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
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The Collateral Agent shall have absolute discretion as to the time of application of any such proceeds, moneys or balances in accordance with this Agreement. Upon any sale of Collateral by the Collateral Agent (including pursuant to a power of sale granted by statute or under a judicial proceeding), the receipt of the Collateral Agent or of the officer making the sale shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the Collateral so sold and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obligated to see to the application of any part of the purchase money paid over to the Collateral Agent or such officer or be answerable in any way for the misapplication thereof.
SECTION 5.03. Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property. Solely for the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise rights and remedies under this Agreement at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each Loan Party hereby grants to the Collateral Agent an irrevocable (except upon the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Term Loan Obligations), nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to the Loan Parties) to use, license or sublicense any of the Article 9 Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property now or hereafter owned by such Loan Party, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license reasonable 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. The use of such license by the Collateral Agent may be exercised, at the option of the Collateral Agent, only upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default as part of the Collateral Agent’s exercise of remedies hereunder.
SECTION 5.04. Securities Act. In view of the position of the Loan Parties in relation to the Pledged Collateral, or because of other current or future circumstances, a question may arise under the Securities Act of 1933, as now or hereafter in effect, or any similar statute hereafter enacted analogous in purpose or effect (such Act and any such similar statute as from time to time in effect being called the “Federal Securities Laws”) with respect to any disposition of the Pledged Collateral permitted hereunder. Each Loan Party understands that compliance with the Federal Securities Laws might very strictly limit the course of conduct of the Collateral Agent if the Collateral Agent were to attempt to dispose of all or any part of the Pledged Collateral, and might also limit the extent to which or the manner in which any subsequent transferee of any Pledged Collateral could dispose of the same. Similarly, there may be other legal restrictions or limitations affecting the Collateral Agent in any attempt to dispose of all or part of the Pledged Collateral under applicable Blue Sky or other state securities laws or similar laws analogous in purpose or effect. Each Loan Party recognizes that in light of such restrictions and limitations the Collateral Agent may, with respect to any sale of the Pledged Collateral, limit the purchasers to those who will agree, among other things, to acquire such Pledged Collateral for their own account, for investment, and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that in light of such restrictions and limitations, the Collateral Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion (a) may proceed to make such a sale whether or not a registration statement for the purpose of registering such Pledged Collateral or part thereof shall have been filed under the Federal Securities Laws and (b) may approach and negotiate with a single potential purchaser to effect such sale. Each Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that any such sale might result in prices and other terms less favorable to the seller than if such sale were a public sale without such restrictions. In the event of any such sale, the Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties shall incur no responsibility or
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liability for a sale of all or any part of the Pledged Collateral at a price that the Collateral Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, may in good xxxxx xxxx reasonable under the circumstances, notwithstanding the possibility that a substantially higher price might have been realized if the sale were deferred until after registration as aforesaid or if more than a single purchaser were approached. The provisions of this Section 5.04 will apply notwithstanding the existence of a public or private market upon which the quotations or sales prices may exceed substantially the price at which the Collateral Agent sells.
SECTION 5.05. Registration. Each Loan Party agrees that, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, if for any reason the Collateral Agent desires to sell any of the Pledged Collateral at a public sale, it will, at any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Collateral Agent, use its reasonable best efforts to take or to cause the issuer of such Pledged Collateral to take such action and prepare, distribute and/or file such documents, as are required or advisable in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Collateral Agent to permit the public sale of such Pledged Collateral. Each Loan Party further agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Collateral Agent, each other Term Loan Secured Party, any underwriter and their respective officers, directors, affiliates and controlling persons from and against all loss, liability, expenses, costs of counsel (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses to the Collateral Agent of legal counsel), and claims (including the costs of investigation) that they may incur insofar as such loss, liability, expense or claim arises out of or is based upon any alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or in any notification or offering circular, or arises out of or is based upon any alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements in any thereof not misleading, except insofar as the same may have been caused by any untrue statement or omission based upon information furnished in writing to such Loan Party or the issuer of such Pledged Collateral by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party expressly for use therein. Each Loan Party further agrees, upon such written request referred to above, to use its reasonable best efforts to qualify, file or register, or cause the issuer of such Pledged Collateral to qualify, file or register, any of the Pledged Collateral under the Blue Sky or other securities laws of such states as may be requested by the Collateral Agent and keep effective, or cause to be kept effective, all such qualifications, filings or registrations. Each Loan Party will bear all costs and expenses of carrying out its obligations under this Section 5.05. Each Loan Party acknowledges that there is no adequate remedy at law for failure by it to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.05 and that such failure would not be adequately compensable in damages, and therefore agrees that its agreements contained in this Section 5.05 may be specifically enforced.
ARTICLE VI
Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination
SECTION 6.01. Indemnity and Subrogation. In addition to all such rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Subsidiary Guarantors may have under applicable law (but subject to Section 6.03), the Borrower agrees that (a) in the event a payment of an obligation shall be made by any Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement, the Borrower shall indemnify such Subsidiary Guarantor for the full amount of such payment and such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Person to whom such payment shall have been made to
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the extent of such payment and (b) in the event any assets of any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to this Agreement or any other Security Document to satisfy in whole or in part an obligation owed to any Secured Party, the Borrower shall indemnify such Subsidiary Guarantor in an amount equal to the greater of the book value or the fair market value of the assets so sold.
SECTION 6.02. Contribution and Subrogation. Each Subsidiary Guarantor (a “Contributing Party”) agrees (subject to Section 6.03) that, in the event a payment shall be made by any other Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder in respect of any Obligation or assets of any other Subsidiary Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to any Security Document to satisfy any Obligation (other, in each case, than an Obligation for the incurrence of which such other Subsidiary Guarantor received fair and adequate consideration) and such other Subsidiary Guarantor (the “Claiming Party”) shall not have been fully indemnified by the Borrower as provided in Section 6.01, the Contributing Party shall indemnify the Claiming Party in an amount equal to the amount of such payment or the greater of the book value or the fair market value of such assets, as the case may be, in each case multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the net worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof and the denominator shall be the aggregate net worth of all the Subsidiary Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to Section 7.14, the date of the supplement hereto executed and delivered by such Subsidiary Guarantor). Any Contributing Party making any payment to a Claiming Party pursuant to this Section 6.02 shall be subrogated to the rights of such Claiming Party under Section 6.01 to the extent of such payment.
SECTION 6.03. Subordination. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the Subsidiary Guarantors under Sections 6.01 and 6.02 and all other rights of indemnity, contribution or subrogation under applicable law or otherwise shall be fully subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Term Loan Obligations. No failure on the part of any Subsidiary Guarantor to make the payments required by Sections 6.01 and 6.02 (or any other payments required under applicable law or otherwise) shall in any respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Subsidiary Guarantor with respect to its Term Loan Obligations hereunder, and each Subsidiary Guarantor shall remain liable for the full amount of the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder.
(b) Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees that all Indebtedness and other monetary obligations owed to it by Borrower, any other Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Subsidiary shall be fully subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Term Loan Obligations.
ARTICLE VII
Miscellaneous
SECTION 7.01. Notices. All communications and notices hereunder shall (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein) be in writing and given as provided in Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement. All communications and notices hereunder to any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be given to it in care of the Borrower as provided in Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement.
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SECTION 7.02. Waivers; Amendment. (a) No failure or delay by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 7.02, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Collateral Agent, any Term Loan Lender or any other Person may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time. No notice or demand on any Loan Party in any case shall entitle any Loan Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Collateral Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties with respect to which such waiver, amendment or modification is to apply, subject to any consent required in accordance with Section 9.02 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7.03. Collateral Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification. (a) The parties hereto agree that the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to reimbursement of its expenses incurred hereunder as provided in Section 9.03 of the Credit Agreement.
(b) Without limitation of its indemnification obligations under the other Loan Documents, each Loan Party jointly and severally agrees to indemnify the Collateral Agent and the other Indemnitees (as defined in Section 9.03(b) of the Credit Agreement) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing or to the Collateral, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto and whether or not such claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates or a third party; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. To the extent permitted by applicable law, none of the Loan Parties shall assert, and each Loan Party hereby waives, any claim against the Collateral Agent or any other Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof.
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(c) Any such amounts payable as provided hereunder shall be additional Term Loan Obligations secured hereby and by the other Security Documents relating to the Term Loan Obligations. The provisions of this Section 7.03 shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document relating to the Term Loan Obligations, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of any of the Term Loan Obligations, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document relating to the Term Loan Obligations, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent or any other Term Loan Secured Party. All amounts due under this Section 7.03 shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.
SECTION 7.04. Successors and Assigns. Whenever in this Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the permitted successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of any Loan Party or the Collateral Agent that are contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.
SECTION 7.05. Survival of Agreement. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties herein or in any other Loan Document or in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto or thereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and any other Loan Document and the making of any Loans, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended under the Credit Agreement, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under any Loan Document is outstanding and unpaid.
SECTION 7.06. Counterparts; Effectiveness; Several Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement shall become effective as to any Loan Party when a counterpart hereof executed on behalf of such Loan Party shall have been delivered to the Collateral Agent and a counterpart hereof shall have been executed on behalf of the Collateral Agent, and thereafter shall be binding upon such Loan Party and the Collateral Agent and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of such Loan Party, the Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns, except that no Loan Party shall have the right to assign or transfer its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein or in the Collateral (and any such assignment or transfer shall be void) except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement or the Credit Agreement. This Agreement shall be construed as a separate agreement with respect to each Loan Party and may be amended, modified, supplemented, waived or released with respect to any Loan Party without the approval of any other Loan Party and without affecting the obligations of any other Loan Party hereunder.
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SECTION 7.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION 7.08. Right of Set-Off. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Agent, each Term Loan Lender and each of their Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final and in whatever currency denominated) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Agent, Term Loan Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Subsidiary Guarantors against any overdue obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document that are held by such Agent or Term Loan Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Agent or Term Loan Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or such other Loan Document. The rights of each Term Loan Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Agent or Term Loan Lender may have.
SECTION 7.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York.
(b) Each of the Loan Parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Collateral Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any Loan Party, or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c) Each of the Loan Parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 7.09. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
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(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 7.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
SECTION 7.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 7.10.
SECTION 7.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 7.12. Security Interest Absolute. All rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder, the Security Interest, the grant of a security interest in the Collateral and all obligations of each Loan Party hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document, any agreement with respect to any of the Term Loan Obligations or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of the foregoing, (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Term Loan Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument, (c) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Lien on other collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent under or departure from any guarantee, securing or guaranteeing all or any of the Term Loan Obligations, or (d) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party in respect of the Obligations or this Agreement.
SECTION 7.13. Termination or Release. (a) This Agreement, the Guarantees made herein, the Security Interest and all other security interests granted hereby shall terminate when all the Term Loan Obligations (other than, with respect to the termination of the Security Interest and all other security interests granted hereby only, any Term Loan Obligations that consists solely of contingent obligations) have been indefeasibly paid in full and the Lenders have no further commitment to lend under the Credit Agreement. In connection with any
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termination pursuant to this paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver to any Subsidiary Guarantor, at such Subsidiary Guarantor’s expense, all Uniform Commercial Code termination statements and any other documents that such Subsidiary Guarantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 7.13 shall be without recourse to, or representation of warranty by, the Collateral Agent or any other Term Loan Secured Party.
(b) Release of any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations hereunder and of the Security Interest in any Collateral shall be governed by Section 9.13 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7.14. Additional Subsidiaries. Pursuant to Section 5.11 of the Credit Agreement, certain Subsidiaries not originally parties hereto may be required from time to time to enter in this Agreement as Subsidiary Guarantors. Upon execution and delivery by the Collateral Agent and a Subsidiary of an instrument in the form of Exhibit I hereto, such Subsidiary shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Subsidiary Guarantor herein. The execution and delivery of any such instrument shall not require the consent of any other Loan Party hereunder. The rights and obligations of each Loan Party hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new Loan Party as a party to this Agreement.
SECTION 7.15. Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. Each Loan Party hereby appoints the Collateral Agent the attorney-in-fact of such Loan Party for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument that the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall have the right, but only upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, with full power of substitution either in the Collateral Agent’s name or in the name of such Loan Party (a) to receive, endorse, assign and/or deliver any and all notes, acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of payment relating to the Collateral or any part thereof; (b) to demand, collect, receive payment of, give receipt for and give discharges and releases of all or any of the Collateral; (c) to sign the name of any Loan Party on any invoice or xxxx of lading relating to any of the Collateral; (d) to send verifications of Accounts to any Account Debtor; (e) to commence and prosecute any and all suits, actions or proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect or otherwise realize on all or any of the Collateral or to enforce any rights in respect of any Collateral; (f) to settle, compromise, compound, adjust or defend any actions, suits or proceedings relating to all or any of the Collateral; (g) to notify, or to require any Loan Party to notify, Account Debtors to make payment directly to the Collateral Agent; and (h) to use, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with all or any of the Collateral, and to do all other acts and things necessary to carry out the purposes of this Agreement, as fully and completely as though the Collateral Agent were the absolute owner of the Collateral for all purposes; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring or obligating the Collateral Agent to make any commitment or to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Collateral Agent, or to present or file any claim or notice, or to take any action with respect to the Collateral or any part thereof or the moneys due or to become due in respect thereof or any property covered thereby. The Collateral Agent and the other Term Loan Secured Parties shall be accountable only for
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amounts actually received as a result of the exercise of the powers granted to them herein, and neither they nor their officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any Loan Party for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for their own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
SECTION 7.16. Specific Performance. The parties agree that irreparable damage would occur and that the Term Loan Secured Parties would not have any adequate remedy at law in the event that any provision of Sections 4.03(f), 4.03(g) and 4.03(h) were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of such Sections by any Loan Party and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in any court referred to in Section 7.09(b), this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity. Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense that might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance referred to in the immediately preceding sentence that may be brought by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
SIRIUS XM RADIO INC., | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||
Name: Title: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary |
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR
SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE
TERM LOAN GUARANTEE
AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
SATELLITE CD RADIO INC. | ||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Title: Secretary |
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SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR
SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE
TERM LOAN GUARANTEE
AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
SIRIUS ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC | ||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Title: Secretary |
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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION, as Collateral Agent, | ||
by | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Title: SVP & Treasurer |
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