SECURITY TRUST AGREEMENT Dated as of April 5, 2007 among GENESIS ACQUISITION LIMITED and THE ADDITIONAL GRANTORS REFERRED TO HEREIN as the Grantors, and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS as Security...
EXECUTION
VERSION
Dated as
of April 5, 2007
among
GENESIS
ACQUISITION LIMITED
and
THE
ADDITIONAL GRANTORS REFERRED TO HEREIN
as the
Grantors,
and
CITIBANK,
N.A.,
as
Administrative Agent,
and
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
as
Security Trustee and Account Bank
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS |
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Section
1.01 |
Definitions
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2
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Section
1.02 |
Construction
and Usage |
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ARTICLE
II SECURITY |
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Section
2.01 |
Grant of
Security |
9
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Section
2.02 |
Security
for Obligations |
13
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Section
2.03 |
Representations
and Warranties of the Grantors |
13
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Section
2.04 |
Grantors
Remain Liable |
16
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Section
2.05 |
Delivery
of Collateral |
16
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Section
2.06 |
Maintenance
of Bank Accounts |
18
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Section
2.07 |
Non-Trustee
Accounts |
19
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Section
2.08 |
Covenants
Regarding Assigned Documents |
19
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Section
2.09 |
Covenants
Regarding Security Collateral, Beneficial Interest Collateral, Membership
Interest Collateral and Investment Collateral |
21
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Section
2.10 |
Covenants
Regarding Commercial Tort Claims |
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Section
2.11 |
Further
Assurances |
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Section
2.12 |
Place of
Perfection; Records |
25
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Section
2.13 |
Voting
Rights; Dividends; Etc. |
25
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Section
2.14 |
Transfers
and Other Encumbrances; Additional Shares or Interests |
26
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Section
2.15 |
Security
Trustee Appointed Attorney-in-Fact |
27
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Section
2.16 |
Security
Trustee May Perform |
27
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Section
2.17 |
Covenant
to Pay |
28
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Section
2.18 |
Delivery
of Collateral Supplements |
28
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Section
2.19 |
Annual
Opinion |
28
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Section
2.20 |
Covenants
Regarding Control |
28
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Section
2.21 |
Share
Mortgage; etc. |
29
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Section
2.22 |
Irish
Account Charges |
29
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Section
2.23 |
Subordination
of Intercompany Obligations |
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ARTICLE
III REMEDIES |
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Section
3.01 |
Remedies
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30
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Section
3.02 |
Irish
Conveyancing Acts |
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ARTICLE
IV SECURITY INTEREST ABSOLUTE |
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Section
4.01 |
Security
Interest Absolute |
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ARTICLE
V THE SECURITY TRUSTEE AND THE ACCOUNT BANK |
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Section
5.01 |
Authorization
and Action |
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Section
5.02 |
Limitation
of Duties |
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Section
5.03 |
Representations
or Warranties |
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Section
5.04 |
Reliance;
Agents; Advice of Counsel |
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Section
5.05 |
Cape
Town Convention |
36
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Section
5.06 |
No
Individual Liability |
36
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Section
5.07 |
The
Account Bank |
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ARTICLE
VI SUCCESSOR SECURITY TRUSTEES AND ACCOUNT BANK |
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Section
6.01 |
Resignation
and Removal of Security Trustee |
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Section
6.02 |
Appointment
of Successor |
36
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Section
6.03 |
The
Account Bank |
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ARTICLE
VII EXPENSES |
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Section
7.01 |
In
General |
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Section
7.02 |
Reserved
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Section
7.03 |
No
Compensation from Secured Parties |
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Section
7.04 |
Security
Trustee and Account Bank Fees |
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ARTICLE
VIII MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section
8.01 |
Amendments;
Waivers; Etc. |
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Section
8.02 |
Addresses
for Notices |
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Section
8.03 |
No
Waiver; Remedies |
39
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Section
8.04 |
Severability;
Enforcement |
40
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Section
8.05 |
Continuing
Security Interest; Assignments |
40
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Section
8.06 |
Release
and Termination |
40
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Section
8.07 |
Limited
Recourse |
40
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Section
8.08 |
Governing
Law |
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Section
8.09 |
Jurisdiction
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Section
8.10 |
Counterparts
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Section
8.11 |
Table of
Contents, Headings, Etc. |
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Section
8.12 |
Effectiveness
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule
I |
Pledged
Stock, Pledged Beneficial Interest, Pledged Membership Interest and Pledged
Debt |
Schedule
II |
Non-Trustee
Account Information |
Schedule
III |
Trade
Names |
Schedule
IV |
Jurisdiction
of Organization, Chief Place of Business and Chief Executive or Registered
Office |
Schedule
V |
Trust
Agreements |
EXHIBITS
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Exhibit
A-1 |
Form of
Collateral Supplement |
Exhibit
A-2 |
Form of
Grantor Supplement |
Exhibit
B |
Form of
Notice and Acknowledgment |
Exhibit
C |
Form of
Deed of Charge over the Irish VAT Refund Account |
Exhibit
D-1 |
Form of
Aircraft Mortgage |
Exhibit
D-2 |
Form of
Aircraft Mortgage and Lease Assignment |
Exhibit
D-3 |
Form of
FAA Lease Security Assignment |
Exhibit
E |
Form of
Consent and Agreement |
ii
This
SECURITY TRUST AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of April 5,
2007, is made among GENESIS ACQUISITION LIMITED, an exempt company organized
and existing under the laws of Bermuda (the “Borrower”), the Aircraft
Owning Entities, the Owner Trusts, the Applicable Intermediaries and other
direct or indirect Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on the signature pages
of, or who otherwise become grantors under, this Agreement (each, a
“Borrower Subsidiary”), the Owner Trustees listed on the signature
pages of, or who otherwise become grantors under, this Agreement (such Owner
Trustees, together with the Borrower Subsidiaries and the Borrower, each a
“Grantor” and collectively the “Grantors”), CITIBANK, N.A.
(“CNA”), as administrative agent (the “Administrative
Agent”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking
corporation (“DBTCA”), as security trustee (in such capacity, the
“Security Trustee”) and account bank (in such capacity, the
“Account Bank”).
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS:
(1)
The
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Security Trustee, inter
alia, have
entered into that certain Credit Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”),
made and entered into as of the date hereof among the Borrower, Genesis Lease
Limited, as manager (the “Manager”), the financial institutions set
forth on Schedule IV thereto, as lenders (the “Lenders”), the
Administrative Agent, the Security Trustee and the Account Bank.
(2)
Pursuant
to the Credit Agreement, the Borrower may from time to time borrow one or more
Advances from the Lenders.
(3)
The
Borrower is the owner, directly or indirectly, of all of the beneficial
interests in certain Borrower Subsidiaries, all of the membership interests in
certain Borrower Subsidiaries and all of the outstanding shares of capital
stock or other Equity Interest of the other Borrower Subsidiaries, all as
described in Schedule
I, as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with the terms hereof, and in any Collateral Supplement or Grantor
Supplement.
(4)
The
Borrower Subsidiaries are, or may from time to time be, parties to lease and
sub-lease contracts and servicing agreements with respect to the Financed
Aircraft.
(5)
The
Borrower and the Borrower Subsidiaries may from time to time grant additional
security for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(6)
It is a
condition precedent to the borrowing of any Advance by the Borrower that each
Grantor grant the security interests required by this Agreement.
(7)
Each
Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit and value from the
Borrower’s borrowing of the Advances and from entering into the
Transaction Documents.
(8)
DBTCA is
willing to act as the Security Trustee and Account Bank under the Credit
Agreement and under this Agreement.
(9) CNA
is willing to act as the Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement and
under this Agreement.
(10)
The
Borrower, its Subsidiaries and the Servicer have entered into that certain
Servicing Agreement.
(11) It is a
condition precedent to the Servicer acting as Servicer under the Servicing
Agreement that each Grantor grant the security interests granted by this
Agreement.
(12) Each
Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the
Servicer’s acting as Servicer under the Servicing Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, each Grantor hereby agrees with
the Security Trustee for its benefit and the benefit of the Secured Parties as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01 Definitions.
(a) Certain
Defined Terms. For
the purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated
below:
“Account
Bank” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Accounts
Receivable” means, with respect to each Grantor, all of such
Grantor’s now owned or hereafter acquired or arising accounts, as defined
in the UCC, including any rights to payment for the sale or lease of goods or
rendition of services, whether or not they have been earned by
performance.
“Additional
Grantor” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(b).
“Administrative
Agent” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Agreement”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Aircraft
Mortgage” means a Mortgage and Security Agreement substantially in the
form attached as Exhibit D-1.
“Aircraft
Mortgage and Lease Assignment” means a Mortgage and Security Agreement
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D-2.
“Aircraft
Purchase Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(i).
“Annual
Opinion Jurisdiction” means each of (i) New York, (ii) Ireland,
(iii) Bermuda, and (iv) with respect only to the perfection of
security interests that may be perfected by filing a financing statement in
such jurisdiction, the District of Columbia.
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“Applicable
Aviation Authority” means any Government Entity that has responsibility
for the supervision of civil aviation and/or the registration and operations of
civil aircraft.
“Applicable
Law” means, with respect to any Person, all laws, rules, regulations and
orders of governmental or regulatory authorities applicable to such Person,
including, without limitation, the regulations of each Applicable Aviation
Authority applicable to such Person or, with respect to a lessee under a Lease,
to the Financed Aircraft operated by it.
“Assigned
Agreement Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(f).
“Assigned
Agreements” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(f).
“Assigned
Documents” means, collectively, the Assigned Agreements, the Assigned
Leases, the Secured Service Provider Documents included in the Servicing
Collateral, the Asset Purchase Agreements, and the Hedge
Agreements.
“Assigned
Leases” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(g).
“Bank
Account” means any of the Collection Account, the Supplemental Rent
Account, the Security Deposit Account, and all other bank and similar accounts
established with DBTCA relating to Collections with respect to the Aircraft and
the Leases (whether now existing or hereafter established).
“Bank
Account Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(d).
“Beneficial
Interest Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(b).
“Blockage
Notice” means a written notice from the Security Trustee to the Account
Bank informing the Account Bank that an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and that from the date of delivery of such notice until otherwise
instructed by the Security Trustee, the Account Bank is to follow the written
directions and instructions of the Security Trustee with respect to any Bank
Account or Deposit Account maintained by any Grantor with the Account Bank.
“Borrower”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Borrower
Group Member” means the Borrower or a Borrower Subsidiary.
“Borrower
Subsidiary” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Cape
Town Lease” means any Lease that has been entered into, extended, assigned
or novated after March 1, 2006 (A) with a Cape Town Lessee or (B) where the
related Aircraft is registered in a Contracting State.
“Cape
Town Lessee” means a Lessee under a Lease that is “situated in”
a Contracting State pursuant to the Cape Town Convention.
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“Certificated
Security” means a certificated security as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(4) of the UCC other than a Government
Security.
“Closing
Date” means April 5, 2007.
“CNA”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Collateral”
has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.
“Collateral
Supplement” means a supplement to this Agreement in substantially the form
attached as Exhibit A-1 executed and delivered by a Grantor.
“Commercial
Tort Claim” means any “commercial tort claim” as defined in
Section 9-102(a)(13) of the UCC.
“Control”
has the meaning specified in Section 2.20.
“Control
Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(b)(i).
“Credit
Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary
Statements.
“DBTCA”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Deposit
Account” means a deposit account as defined in Section 9-102(a)(29) of the
UCC.
“Eligible
Institution” means (a) DBTCA in its capacity as Security Trustee, so
long as it (i) has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of
AA- (or the equivalent) or better by each Rating Agency or (B) a
short-term unsecured debt rating of A-1 by Standard & Poor’s and P-1
by Moody’s and (ii) can act as a securities intermediary under the
New York Uniform Commercial Code; (b) any bank organized under the laws of
the United States of America or any state thereof, or the District of Columbia
(or any branch of a foreign bank licensed under any such laws), so long as it
(i) has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of AA (or the
equivalent) or better by each Rating Agency or (B) a short-term unsecured
debt rating of A-1+ by Standard & Poor’s and P-1 by Moody’s and
(ii) can act as a securities intermediary under the New York Uniform
Commercial Code; and (c) any other bank or financial institution
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Excluded
Payments” means, with respect to any Aircraft, its related Lease and the
Related Security, (i) indemnity or similar payments (whether or not
payable as supplemental rent) paid or payable by the Lessee under such Lease to
the indemnitee or other payee entitled thereto pursuant to such Lease or any
related agreements (unless such indemnitee or other payee is a Borrower Group
Member or had previously been reimbursed pursuant to Section 7.1(e) of the
Credit Agreement for any expense or loss related to such indemnity or similar
payments), (ii) proceeds of public liability insurance in respect of such
Aircraft payable as a result of insurance claims made, or losses suffered, by
the indemnitee or payee entitled thereto (unless the recipient of such proceeds
is a Borrower Group Member or had previously been reimbursed pursuant to
Section 7.1(e) of the Credit Agreement for any expense or loss related to
the payment
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of such
proceeds), (iii) proceeds of hull insurance maintained with respect to
such Aircraft by the relevant Aircraft Owning Entity or any Affiliate of such
Aircraft Owning Entity (including a Service Provider) and not required under
the then-current Lease or under this Agreement or any other Transaction
Documents for such Aircraft (it being agreed that only liability related
insurance proceeds under the Contingent Policy shall be Excluded Payments),
(iv) any interest paid or payable on any amounts described in
clauses (i) through (iii) of this definition, and (v) the proceeds
from the enforcement by the relevant Aircraft Owning Entity or other indemnitee
or payee of the payment of any amount described in clauses (i) through
(iv) of this definition.
“Excluded
Property” means, collectively, (i) any Excluded Payment, (ii) any permit
or license held by any Grantor to the extent that any Applicable Law applicable
thereto prohibits the creation of a Lien thereon, but only, in each case, to
the extent, and for so long as, such prohibition is not terminated or rendered
unenforceable or otherwise deemed ineffective by the UCC or any other
Applicable Law.
“FAA”
means the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of
America.
“FAA
Lease Security Assignment” means a Lease Security Assignment substantially
in the form attached as Exhibit D-3.
“Federal
Aviation Code” means Title 49 of the United States Code, which, among
other things, recorded and replaced the U.S. Federal Aviation Act of 1958 and
the regulation promulgated thereunder, or any subsequent legislation that
amends, supplements or supersedes such provisions.
“Government
Security” means any security that is issued or guaranteed by the United
States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof and that is
maintained in book-entry on the records of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(or any other Federal Reserve Bank Branch) and is subject to the Revised
Book-Entry Rules.
“Grantor”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Grantor
Supplement” means a supplement to this Agreement in substantially the form
attached as Exhibit A-2 executed and delivered by a Grantor.
“Hedge
Agreement Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(j).
“Hedge
Provider” means the counterparty to the Borrower under any Hedge
Agreement.
“Instrument”
means any “instrument” as defined in Section 9-102(a)(47) of the
UCC.
“Intercompany
Obligations” means the obligations of any Borrower Subsidiary to the
Borrower.
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“Investment
Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(e).
“Irish
Account Charge” means an Irish law governed account charge in
substantially the form attached as Exhibit C, to be executed and delivered by
the Borrower as further described in Section 2.22.
“Irish
Share Mortgage” means an Irish law governed mortgage over shares in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Security Trustee.
“Lease
Assignment Documents” means, in respect of any Assigned Lease,
(a) any agreement providing for the novation thereof to substitute, or the
assignment thereof to, a Borrower Group Member as the Lessor, (b) any
agreement or instrument supplemental to this Agreement for the purpose of
effecting and/or perfecting the assignment of, and the grant of a lien upon,
such Assigned Lease in favor of the Security Trustee under any Applicable Law,
(c) any notice provided to the Lessee thereof of the assignment thereof
pursuant to this Agreement and/or such supplement, (d) any acknowledgment
of such assignment by such Lessee and (e) any undertaking of quiet
enjoyment given by the Security Trustee in respect thereof, in each case as
such may be amended, restated and/or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“Lease
Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(g).
“Lenders”
has the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statements.
“Letter
of Credit” means any “letter of credit” as defined in
Section 5-102 of the UCC.
“Letter
of Credit Right” means any “letter of credit right” as defined
in Section 9-102(a)(51) of the UCC.
“Membership
Interest Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(c).
“Non-Trustee
Account” means bank or similar account maintained with a Non-Trustee
Bank.
“Non-Trustee
Account Banks” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.07.
“Non-Trustee
Account Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(q).
“Officer’s
Certificate” means a certificate signed by, with respect to any Person,
any authorized officer, director, trustee or equivalent representative of such
Person.
“Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the
Borrower, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Security Trustee and
the Administrative Agent.
“Pledged
Beneficial Interests” means the beneficial interests identified in any of
Schedule I, any
Collateral Supplement or any Grantor Supplement.
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“Pledged
Debt” means the Intercompany Obligations and the indebtedness identified
in any of Schedule I, any
Collateral Supplement or any Grantor Supplement.
“Pledged
Membership Interests” means the membership interests identified in any of
Schedule I, any
Collateral Supplement or any Grantor Supplement.
“Pledged
Stock” means the capital stock identified in any of Schedule I, any
Collateral Supplement or any Grantor Supplement.
“Relevant
Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.09(a).
“Rental
Payments” means all rental and lease payments and other amounts equivalent
to a rental or lease payment payable by or on behalf of an Obligor (including,
for the purposes hereof, an Applicable Intermediary) under a Lease, including
any payments pursuant to a contractual option granted by the lessor or owner
(including pursuant to a conditional sale agreement) as to the purchase of the
applicable Aircraft.
“Required
Cape Town Registrations” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.11(g).
“Revised
Book-Entry Rules” means 31 C.F.R. § 357 (Treasury bills, notes
and bonds); 12 C.F.R. § 615 (book-entry securities of the Farm
Credit Administration); 12 C.F.R. §§ 910 and 912
(book-entry securities of the Federal Home Loan Banks); 24 C.F.R.
§ 81 (book-entry securities of the Federal National Mortgage
Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation); 12 C.F.R.
§ 1511 (book-entry securities of the Resolution Funding Corporation
or any successor thereto); 31 C.F.R. § 354 (book-entry securities of
the Student Loan Marketing Association); and any substantially comparable
book-entry rules of any other Federal agency or instrumentality of the United
States.
“Secured
Hedge Agreement” means a Hedge Agreement in respect of which the Hedge
Provider has executed and delivered to the Security Trustee a Secured Party
Supplement.
“Secured
Hedge Provider” means the Hedge Provider of a Secured Hedge
Agreement.
“Secured
Obligations” means the Obligations under, and as defined in, the Credit
Agreement, the Secured Service Provider Obligations, and the Secured Hedge
Provider Obligations.
“Secured
Party” means any of or, in the plural form, all of the Security Trustee,
each Secured Service Provider, each Secured Hedge Provider, the Administrative
Agent and each Lender.
“Secured
Party Supplement” means a supplement to this Agreement in substantially
the form attached as Exhibit A executed and delivered between the Security
Trustee and a Service Provider or a Secured Hedge Provider.
“Secured
Service Provider” means any of the Servicer and each other provider of
services under a Secured Service Provider Document.
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“Secured
Service Provider Document” means (a) each Service Provider Agreement
and (b) any other service agreement with respect to the Aircraft entered
into by a Borrower Group Member in accordance with the Credit
Agreement.
“Secured
Service Provider Obligations” means, collectively, the obligations now or
hereafter existing of any Borrower Group Member to a Service Provider under a
Secured Service Provider Document.
“Securities
Account” means a securities account as defined in Section 8-501(a) of
the UCC maintained in the name of the Security Trustee as “entitlement
holder” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(7) of the UCC) on the books
and records of any Securities Intermediary who has agreed that its securities
intermediary jurisdiction (within the meaning of Section 8-110(e) of the
UCC) is the State of New York; provided,
however, that
such securities account is governed by documentation (if required by the
Administrative Agent) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
“Securities
Intermediary” means any “securities intermediary” of the
Security Trustee as defined in 31 C.F.R. Section 357.2 or
Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC; provided,
however, that
such securities intermediary is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
“Security
Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(a).
“Service
Provider” means the service providers with respect to any Secured Service
Provider Document described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition
thereof.
“Servicing
Collateral” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(h).
“Supporting
Obligation” means any “supporting obligation” as defined in
Section 9-102(a)(77) of the UCC.
“UCC”
means, as of any date, the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on such date in
the State of New York; provided,
however, that
if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, the perfection or the effect of
perfection or non-perfection of the security interest in any Collateral is
governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other
than New York, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect
in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions of this Agreement
relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or
non-perfection.
“Uncertificated
Security” means an uncertificated security as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC other than a Government
Security.
(b) Terms
Defined in the Cape Town Convention. The
following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Cape
Town Convention: “Administrator”, “Aircraft Object”,
“Contracting State”, “Contract of Sale”,
“International Interest”, “International Registry”,
“power to dispose”, “Professional User”, “Prospective
International Interest”, “situated in” and “Transacting
User”.
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(c)
Terms
Defined in the Credit Agreement. For
all purposes of this Agreement, all capitalized terms used, but not defined, in
this Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the
Credit Agreement.
Section 1.02
Construction and Usage. The
conventions of construction and usage set forth in Section 1.2 of the
Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference in this
Agreement.
Section 1.03 References
to Agreements.
References to this Agreement and each other agreement defined in this Agreement
shall include all appendices, exhibits and schedules thereto. If (i) the prior
written consent of the Security Trustee is required hereunder for an amendment,
restatement, supplement or other modification to any such agreement and such
consent is obtained, or (ii) the prior written consent of the Security Trustee
is not required hereunder for an amendment, restatement, supplement or other
modification to any such agreement and such consent is not obtained, in each
case, references in this Agreement to such agreement shall be to such agreement
as so amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified.
ARTICLE
II
SECURITY
Section 2.01
Grant of Security. To
secure the Secured Obligations, each Grantor hereby agrees to assign and pledge
and hereby assigns and pledges to the Security Trustee for its benefit and the
benefit of the other Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Security Trustee
for its benefit and the benefit of the Secured Parties a security interest in,
all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under the
following now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in
which such Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right,
title or interests (provided,
however, that
no such assignment or pledge of, and no security interest in, any Secured
Service Provider Document shall be for the benefit of a Secured Party party to
such Secured Service Provider Document) (collectively, the
“Collateral”):
(a)
With
respect to each Grantor, all of the following (the “Security
Collateral”):
(i)
the
Pledged Stock and the certificates representing such Pledged Stock, and all
dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
of such Pledged Stock;
(ii)
the
Pledged Debt and all instruments evidencing the Pledged Debt, and all interest,
cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such
Pledged Debt;
(iii)
all
additional shares of the capital stock of any Borrower Group Member (whether
now existing or hereafter created) from time to time acquired by such Grantor
in any manner, including the capital stock of any Borrower Group Member that
may be formed from time to time, and all certificates, if any, representing
such additional
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shares
of the capital stock and all dividends, cash, instruments and other property
from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of
or in exchange for any or all such additional shares; and
(iv)
all
additional indebtedness from time to time owed to such Grantor by any Person
and the instruments evidencing such indebtedness, and all interest, cash,
instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such
indebtedness;
(b)
with
respect to each Grantor, all of the following (the “Beneficial Interest
Collateral”):
(i)
the
Pledged Beneficial Interests, all certificates, if any, from time to time
representing all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in the
Pledged Beneficial Interests, any contracts and instruments pursuant to which
any such Pledged Beneficial Interests are created or issued and all
distributions, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
of such Pledged Beneficial Interests; and
(ii)
all
additional beneficial interests in any Borrower Group Member (whether now
existing or hereafter created), from time to time acquired by such Grantor in
any manner, including the beneficial interests in any Borrower Group Member
that may be formed from time to time, and all certificates, if any, from time
to time representing such additional beneficial interests and all
distributions, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
such additional beneficial interests;
(c)
with
respect to each Grantor, all of the following (the “Membership Interest
Collateral”):
(i)
the
Pledged Membership Interests, all certificates, if any, from time to time
representing any of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in the
Pledged Membership Interests, any contracts and instruments pursuant to which
any such Pledged Membership Interests are created or issued and all
distributions, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
of the Pledged Membership Interest; and
(ii)
all
additional membership interests in any Borrower Subsidiary (whether now
existing or hereafter created) from time to time acquired by such Grantor in
any manner, all certificates, if any, from time to time representing such
additional membership interests and all distributions, cash, instruments and
other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed
in respect of or in exchange for any or all such additional membership
interests;
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(d)
with
respect to each Grantor, all of the following (collectively, the “Bank
Account Collateral”):
(i)
each
Bank Account that at any time or from time to time established;
(ii)
all
Deposit Accounts that at any time or from time to time established;
and
(iii)
all
cash, investment property, Eligible Investments, other investments, securities,
instruments or other property (including all “financial assets”
within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC) at any time or from
time to time credited to any such Bank Account or Deposit Account;
(e)
with
respect to each Grantor, all other “investment property” as defined
in Section 9-102(a)(49) of the UCC of such Grantor (the “Investment
Collateral”) including:
(i) all
Eligible Investments made or acquired from or with the proceeds of any
Non-Trustee Account Collateral of such Grantor from time to time and all
certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time representing or
evidencing such Eligible Investments; and
(ii) any
interest, dividends, instruments and other property from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all
of the then existing Investment Collateral;
(f)
with
respect to each Grantor, all of the following (the “Assigned Agreement
Collateral”):
(i)
all
security assignments, cash deposit agreements and other security agreements
executed in its favor with respect to the Aircraft or any of the Leases, in
each case as such agreements may be amended, restated and/or otherwise modified
from time to time (collectively, the “Assigned Agreements”);
and
(ii)
all
other property of whatever nature, in each case pledged, assigned or
transferred to it or mortgaged or charged in its favor pursuant to any Assigned
Document and all Supporting Obligations relating to any Assigned
Agreement;
(g)
with
respect to each Grantor, all Leases to which such Grantor is or may from time
to time be party and any leasing arrangements among Borrower Group Members
(whether now existing or hereafter created) with respect to such Leases
together with all Related Security with respect thereto (all such Leases and
Related Security, the “Assigned Leases”), including, without
limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive Rental Payments and
other moneys due and to become due under or pursuant to such Assigned Leases,
(ii) all rights of such Grantor to receive proceeds of any insurance,
indemnity, warranty or guaranty pursuant to, or with respect to, such Assigned
Leases, (iii) claims of such Grantor for damages arising out of or for
breach or default under such Assigned Leases, (iv) all rights under any
such Assigned Lease with respect to any subleases of the Aircraft subject to
such Assigned Lease and (v) the right of
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such
Grantor to terminate such Assigned Leases and to compel performance of, and
otherwise to exercise all remedies under, any Assigned Lease, whether arising
under such Assigned Leases or by statute, at law or in equity (the “Lease
Collateral”);
(h)
with
respect to each Grantor, each Secured Service Provider Document, including,
without limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive any moneys
due or payable under or pursuant to such Secured Service Provider Document,
(ii) any claims of such Grantor for damages arising out of, or for breach
or default under, such Secured Service Provider Document, (iii) all rights
to indemnification under such Secured Service Provider Document and (iv) all
rights to compel performance under such Secured Service Provider Document, and
otherwise to exercise any and all remedies under such Secured Service Provider
Document, in each case, whether arising under such Secured Service Provider
Document by statute, at law or in equity (the “Servicing
Collateral”);
(i)
with
respect to each Grantor, each Asset Purchase Agreement, including, without
limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive moneys due or to
become due under or pursuant to any Asset Purchase Agreement, (ii) any
claims of such Grantor for damages arising out of, or for breach or default
under, any Asset Purchase Agreement and (iii) all right to compel
performance of the vendors pursuant to any Asset Purchase Agreement and
otherwise to exercise any and all remedies under any Asset Purchase Agreement,
in each case, whether arising under any Asset Purchase Agreement, by statute,
at law or in equity (the “Aircraft Purchase
Collateral”);
(j)
with
respect to the Borrower, each Hedge Agreement, including, without limitation,
(i) all rights of the Borrower to receive moneys due or to become due
under or pursuant to such Hedge Agreement, (ii) any claims of the Borrower
for damages arising out of, or for breach or default under, such Hedge
Agreement and (iii) all rights to compel performance of the counterparty
under such Hedge Agreement, and otherwise to exercise any and all remedies
under such Hedge Agreement, in each case, whether arising under such Hedge
Agreement by statute, at law or in equity (the “Hedge Agreement
Collateral”).
(k)
with
respect to each Grantor, the personal property identified in a Grantor
Supplement or a Collateral Supplement executed and delivered by such Grantor to
the Security Trustee;
(l)
with
respect to each Grantor, all of such Grantor’s Accounts
Receivable;
(m)
with
respect to each Grantor, all Commercial Tort Claims;
(n)
with
respect to each Grantor, all of such Grantor’s Letters of Credit and
Letter of Credit Rights;
(o)
all
books, records and other property related to or referring to any of the
foregoing, including books, records, account ledgers, data processing records,
computer software and other property and general intangibles at any time
evidencing or relating to any of the foregoing;
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(p)
with
respect to each Grantor, (i) the Aircraft Objects and (ii) any money or
non-money proceeds of an Aircraft Object arising from the total or partial loss
or physical destruction of the Aircraft Object or its total or partial
confiscation, condemnation or requisition;
(q)
all of
the following (collectively, the “Non-Trustee Account
Collateral”):
(i)
all of
the Non-Trustee Accounts in such Grantor’s name, all funds or any other
interest held or required by the terms of the Credit Agreement to be held in,
and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time representing or
evidencing, such Non-Trustee Accounts;
(ii)
all
notes, certificates of deposit, Deposit Accounts, checks and other instruments
from time to time hereafter delivered to or otherwise possessed by such Grantor
or by the Security Trustee for or on behalf of such Grantor in substitution for
or in addition to any or all of the then existing Non-Trustee Account
Collateral; and
(iii)
all
interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time
received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for
any or all of the then existing Non-Trustee Account Collateral;
and
(r)
all
proceeds of any and all of the foregoing Collateral (including proceeds that
constitute property of the types described above);
provided,
however, that
Collateral shall not include (a) any Excluded Property and/or (ii) any
distributions, dividends or other payments that are received as a result of a
distribution in accordance with Section 7.1(e) of the Credit Agreement
shall be excluded from the Collateral.
Section
2.02 Security for Obligations. This
Agreement secures the payment and performance by the Grantors of all Secured
Obligations and the security interests and other rights and benefits granted
hereunder shall be held by the Security Trustee in trust for the Secured
Parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Agreement
secures the payment of all amounts that constitute part of the Secured
Obligations and would be owed by any Grantor to any Secured Party but for the
fact that such Secured Obligations are unenforceable or not allowed due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving such
Grantor. The Secured Obligations shall have the priority of payment set forth
in Section 7.1(e) of the Credit Agreement.
Section
2.03 Representations and Warranties of the Grantors. Each
Grantor represents and warrants as of the date of this Agreement, as of each
Advance Date and as of each Payment Date, as follows:
(a)
The
Grantors are the legal and beneficial owners of the Collateral and the
applicable Aircraft (except for those Grantors which do not hold title to an
Aircraft) free and clear of any Adverse Claims. No effective financing
statement or other instrument similar in effect (which, for the avoidance of
doubt, shall not include any Contract of Sale in favor of any Grantor) covering
all or any part of the Collateral or the Aircraft or any International Interest
in respect thereof is on file in any recording office or registered in the
International Registry, except
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such as
may have been filed with respect to the Collateral (i) in favor of the Security
Trustee or (ii) with respect to any Permitted Lien.
(b)
This
Agreement creates a valid and (upon the taking of the actions described in
clauses (iii)(1), (iii)(2), (iii)(3), (iii)(4), (iii)(5), and (iii)(6) of
Section 2.03(d)) perfected security interest in the Collateral as security
for the Secured Obligations, and such security interest is subject in priority
to no other Liens (other than Permitted Liens), and all filings and other
actions necessary to perfect and protect such security interest will be taken.
Other than (i) the security interest granted to the Security Trustee
pursuant to this Agreement, and (ii) as expressly permitted by the Credit
Agreement, the Grantors have not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security
interest or Lien in, or otherwise conveyed, any of the Collateral. The Grantors
have not authorized the filing of, and are not aware of, any financing
statements or other instrument similar in effect or the registration of any
International Interest against any Grantor or any Aircraft that include a
description of collateral covering the Collateral or any Aircraft other than
any financing statement or registration of an International Interest or
prospective International Interest relating to the security interest granted to
the Security Trustee hereunder or in favor of a Borrower Group Member or that
has been terminated, in each case as of the date this representation and
warranty is given as to such Grantor, Aircraft and Collateral. The Grantors are
not aware of any judgment or tax lien (other than Permitted Liens) filings
against any Grantor or with respect to any Collateral or any
Aircraft.
(c)
No
Grantor has any trade names except as set forth on Schedule
III
hereto.
(d)
No
consent of any other Person and no authorization, approval or other action by,
and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body
or other third party (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the International
Registry) is required for (i) the grant by such Grantor of the collateral
assignment and security interest granted hereby, (ii) the execution,
delivery or performance of this Agreement by such Grantor or (iii) the
perfection, priority or maintenance of the pledge, assignment and security
interest created hereby, except for (1) the filing of financing and
continuation statements under the UCC with respect to the security interest
created by this Agreement, (2) with respect to each Aircraft (and any
related Assigned Lease) registered with the FAA, the filing with the FAA, in
due form, for recordation where applicable, pursuant to the Federal Aviation
Code of any and all title, registration and financing documentation necessary
to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including, without limitation, an
Aircraft Mortgage, an Aircraft Mortgage and Lease Assignment and/or an FAA
Lease Security Assignment, as applicable, with respect to such Aircraft and/or
the related Assigned Lease, (3) the Required Cape Town Registrations,
(4) filings where appropriate with the International Registry created
pursuant to the Cape Town Convention, (5) the filing by a Grantor
incorporated in Ireland or a Grantor with a place of business or assets
(including without limitation shares in a company organized under the law of
Ireland) located in Ireland of particulars of this Agreement (and any Grantor
Supplement or Collateral Supplement) and the filing by any Grantor of
particulars of an Irish Share Mortgage or an Irish Account Charge, with the
Irish Companies Registration Office and the Irish Revenue Commissioners within
21 days following the execution and delivery by such Grantor of this
Agreement (and any Grantor Supplement or Collateral Supplement) or of such
Irish Share Mortgage, respectively, (6) the filing by the Borrower and any
other Grantor organized under the law of Bermuda of particulars of this
Agreement (and any Grantor Supplement or Collateral
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Supplement
executed by it) with the Bermuda Registrar of Companies, and (7) where
applicable, the filing of the statutory declaration required by Irish financial
assistance legislation with the Irish Companies Registration Office within 21
days following execution of any Irish incorporated Grantor of this Agreement
(and any Grantor Supplement or Collateral Supplement).
(e)
The
jurisdiction of organization, organizational ID number (for a non-U.S. entity,
to the extent a Government Entity in the jurisdiction of domicile of such
entity issues such ID numbers), the chief place of business and chief executive
or registered office of such Grantor are located at the address specified
opposite the name of such Grantor on Schedule IV hereto,
as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with the terms hereof.
(f)
The
Pledged Stock constitutes the percentage of the issued and outstanding shares
of capital stock of the issuers thereof indicated on Schedule I hereto.
The Pledged Membership Interests constitute the percentage of the membership
interests of the issuers thereof indicated on Schedule I hereto.
The Pledged Beneficial Interests constitute the percentage of the beneficial
interest of the issuers thereof indicated on Schedule I
hereto.
(g)
The
Pledged Stock, the Pledged Membership Interests and the Pledged Beneficial
Interests (i) have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid
and nonassessable (or, in the case of Pledged Membership Interests and Pledged
Beneficial Interests, not subject to any capital call or other additional
capital requirement) and not subject to any preemptive rights, warrants,
options or similar rights or restrictions in favor of third parties or any
contractual or other restrictions upon transfer other than in favor of any
Lessee or otherwise as may be permitted or required under the Credit Agreement
and (ii) constitute all of the outstanding share of capital stock, all of the
beneficial interests and, as applicable, all of the membership interests in all
of the Borrower Group Members as of the date hereof. To such Grantor’s
knowledge, the Pledged Debt has been duly authorized, authenticated or issued
and delivered, is the legal, valid and binding obligation of each obligor
thereunder and is not in default.
(h)
All
certificates or instruments evidencing the Pledged Stock, the Pledged
Beneficial Interests and the Pledged Membership Interests have been delivered
to the Security Trustee. The Pledged Stock, the Pledged Beneficial Interests
and the Pledged Membership Interests either (i) are in bearer form,
(ii) have been endorsed, by an effective endorsement, to the Security
Trustee or in blank or (iii) have been registered in the name of the
Security Trustee. None of the certificates or instruments evidencing Pledged
Stock, the Pledged Beneficial Interests and the Pledged Membership Interests
have any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or
otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Security Trustee.
(i)
A true
and complete copy of each Assigned Document has been delivered to the Security
Trustee. Each Assigned Document has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Grantor party thereto, is in full force and effect and is
binding upon and enforceable against the respective Borrower Group Member in
accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
(i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
laws, and (ii) general principles of equity.
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(j)
Except
as provided in Section 6.2(d)(vi) of the Credit Agreement, a true and
complete original copy (or, if not available, a certified true copy) of each
Lease to which a Borrower Group Member is a party has been delivered to the
Security Trustee. To the knowledge of such Grantor, each such Lease has been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by all parties thereto, is in full
force and effect and is binding upon and enforceable against each Borrower
Group Member which is a party thereto in accordance with its terms. Each Lease
constitutes “tangible chattel paper” within the meaning of
Section 9-102(a)(78) of the UCC. No such Lease has any marks or notations
indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any
Person other than the Security Trustee.
(k)
Each
Bank Account located in the United States constitutes a Deposit Account or a
Securities Account.
(l)
Each of
the Hedge Agreements and the Asset Purchase Agreements constitutes
“general intangibles” within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(42)
of the UCC.
(m)
Each
direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower as of the date hereof is a
signatory of this Agreement.
(n)
The
Pledged Stock, the Pledged Beneficial Interests and the Pledged Membership
Interests listed on Schedule I hereto
constitute all of the outstanding shares of capital stock, all of the
beneficial interests and all of the membership interests in all of the direct
and indirect Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
(o)
If such
Grantor is the lessor under a Cape Town Lease, it has the right to assign the
International Interest provided for in such Cape Town Lease and all associated
rights in respect of such Cape Town Lease that form part of the
Collateral.
Section
2.04 Grantors Remain Liable.
Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) each
Grantor shall remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in the
Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its duties and
obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been
executed, (b) the exercise by the Security Trustee of any of its rights
hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any of its duties or obligations
under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral and (c) subject
to any Applicable Law, no Secured Party shall have any obligation or
liability under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral by
reason of this Agreement, nor shall any Secured Party be obligated to perform
any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor under the contracts and
agreements included in the Collateral or to take any action to collect or
enforce any claim for payment assigned under this Agreement.
Section
2.05 Delivery of Collateral. All
certificates, instruments, documents or tangible chattel paper representing or
evidencing any Collateral shall be delivered to and held by the Security
Trustee in the State of New York and, except in the case of chattel paper,
shall be in suitable form for transfer by delivery, or shall be accompanied by
duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or if the Facility
Termination Date has occurred, subject to any Applicable Law, the Security
Trustee shall have the right at any time and without notice to any Grantor to
transfer to
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or to
register in the name of the Security Trustee or any of its nominees any or all
of the Pledged Stock, Pledged Membership Interest and Pledged Beneficial
Interest, in each case, in accordance with the direction of the Administrative
Agent. In addition, the Security Trustee shall have the right at any time upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or if the
Facility Termination Date has occurred, to exchange certificates or instruments
representing or evidencing any Collateral for certificates or instruments of
smaller or larger denominations in each case, in accordance with the direction
of the Administrative Agent. To the extent provided in Section 6.2(d)(vi)
of the Credit Agreement and to the extent that any Assigned Lease constitutes
“tangible chattel paper” (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(78) of the
UCC), each Grantor shall, if it has an original of such Assigned Lease in its
possession, cause the true and complete original copy or the chattel paper
original of each Lease to which it is a party from time to time to be delivered
to the Security Trustee in the State of New York on or before the applicable
Advance Date; provided,
however, that
if any such Grantor shall require such original of such Assigned Lease for the
purposes of enforcement of the obligations thereunder, the Security Trustee
shall deliver such original of such Assigned Lease to such Grantor or the
Servicer, as applicable, within two Business Days of receipt of any request
from such Grantor or the Servicer, as applicable, and provided,
further,
however, that
if no original copy of such Assigned Lease has been expressly designated as the
original counterpart for purposes of perfection by possession of “tangible
chattel paper” under the UCC, such Grantor’s obligation to deliver
such Assigned Lease to the Security Trustee shall be satisfied by the delivery
of one original copy of such Assigned Lease. Each Grantor undertakes to return
any such original of an Assigned Lease promptly after such Grantor or the
Servicer, as applicable, no longer requires such original for enforcement
purposes. With respect to each Lease with a Lessor that is located within a
State (or the District of Columbia) within the United States (within the
meaning of Article 9 of the UCC), the Grantors, or a Service Provider on
their behalf, shall (a) cause the Lessor and the Lessee of such Lease to
designate one executed copy thereof the original by adding substantially the
following language to the cover page thereof: “To the extent, if any, that
this [Lease Agreement] or any [Lease Supplement] hereunder constitutes chattel
paper (as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in
any applicable jurisdiction), no security interest in this [Lease Agreement] or
such [Lease Supplement] may be created through the transfer or possession of
any counterpart other than the original executed counterpart, which shall be
identified as the counterpart containing the receipt therefor executed by the
Security Trustee under and as defined in the Security Trust Agreement dated as
of April 5, 2007 between GAL, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Security
Trustee, and the various other parties identified on the signature pages
thereof” and no later than 10 days after the execution and delivery
of such Lease by all its parties (but no later than the applicable Advance
Date), deliver such original chattel paper copy (which, by way of
clarification, shall not include the signature or the receipt therefor of the
Security Trustee) to a courier service for delivery by the Security Trustee at
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Structured Finance Services/Trust and
Securities Services, (b) notify the Lessee in writing of the security
assignment of such Lease to the Security Trustee pursuant to the Security Trust
Agreement (which notice may be contained in such Lease or in a separate
document) and (c) obtain from the Lessee a written acknowledgment (which may be
contained in such Lease or in a separate document) addressed to, or for the
benefit of, the Security Trustee (1) acknowledging receipt of notification of
such security assignment and (2) containing the agreement of the Lessee to
continue to make all payments required to be made to the Lessor under such
Lease to the
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account
specified in such Lease unless and until the Security Trustee otherwise directs
(it being understood that the account specified in such Lease will be the
account specified by the Borrower to the Servicer as contemplated by Section
1.1(a) of Schedule 2.02(a) to the Servicing Agreement and subject in each case
to applicable legal or tax constraints).
Section
2.06 Maintenance of Bank Accounts.
(a) DBTCA
hereby agrees to act as Account Bank. Upon the execution of this Agreement, the
Account Bank shall establish (or shall have established) the following
segregated Bank Accounts: the
Collection Account, the Supplemental Rent Account, and the Security Deposit
Account. The Account Bank hereby agrees to establish
and maintain each such account, together with any other Bank Accounts
established from time to time (in each case as a Securities Account), on the
books and records of its office specified in Section 8.02 in the name of
the Security Trustee. If, at any time, the Account Bank ceases to be an
Eligible Institution, the Account Bank agrees to cooperate with any replacement
Account Bank as to the transfer of any property in, and records relating to,
any Bank Account maintained by it to a new Bank Account having the same
characteristics as such other Bank Account and maintained by such replacement
Account Bank, and the Account Bank shall, in any event, use its best efforts to
effect such transfer within 10 Business Days. Except as a Secured Party in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, DBTCA waives any claim or
lien against any Bank Account it may have, by operation of law or otherwise,
for any amount owed to it by any Grantor.
(b)
The
Account Bank hereby agrees that (i) it is a “bank” (as defined
in Section 9-101(a)(8) of the UCC), (ii) each Bank Account is and
will be maintained as a Securities Account of which the Account Bank is the
Securities Intermediary and in respect of which the Security Trustee is the
“entitlement holder” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(7) of the
UCC) of the “security entitlement” (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC) with respect to each “financial
asset” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC) credited to
such Bank Account, (iii) the Account Bank shall comply with all
entitlement orders (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(8) of the UCC)
originated by the Security Trustee without further consent of the Borrower, the
other Grantors or any other person, (iv) all Collections and other cash
required to be deposited in any such Bank Account and Eligible Investments and
all other property acquired with cash credited to any such Bank Account will be
processed and credited to such Bank Account in accordance with the Account
Bank’s customary procedures, (v) all items of property (whether cash,
investment property, Eligible Investments, other investments, securities,
instruments or other property) credited to each Bank Account will be treated as
a “financial asset” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the
UCC) under Article 8 of the UCC, (vi) its “securities
intermediary’s jurisdiction” (as defined in Section 8-110(e) of
the UCC) and the “bank’s jurisdiction” (within the meaning of
Section 9-304 of the UCC) with respect to each Bank Account is the State
of New York and (vii) all securities, instruments and other property in
order or registered from and credited to any Bank Account shall be payable to
or to the order of, or registered in the name of, the Security Trustee or shall
be endorsed to the Security Trustee or in blank, and in no case whatsoever
shall any “financial asset” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9)
of the UCC) credited to any Bank Account be registered in the name of any
Grantor, payable to or to the order of any Grantor or specially indorsed to any
Grantor except to the extent the foregoing have been specially endorsed by the
applicable Grantor to the Security Trustee or in blank.
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(c)
The
Account Bank acknowledges that the Security Trustee has appointed each of the
Manager and the Borrower pursuant to the Management Agreement, as its agents
for, among other things, dealings with respect to the Bank Accounts, the
Deposit Accounts and all cash, investment property, Eligible Investments, other
investments, securities, instruments or other property at any time or from time
to time credited to any Bank Account or Deposit Account. Prior to the delivery
to the Account Bank of a Blockage Notice, the Account Bank agrees that it will
follow the written directions and instructions of the Manager or the Borrower,
any one of whom may act without the joinder of the other, with respect to any
Bank Account or Deposit Account maintained by any Grantor with the Account
Bank, as the agent for the Security Trustee.
(d)
The
Security Trustee agrees that it will hold (and will indicate clearly in the
books and records that it holds) its “security entitlement” to the
“financial assets” credited to each Bank Account in trust for the
benefit of the Secured Parties.
Section
2.07 Non-Trustee Accounts.
(a) No
Grantor shall establish any Non-Trustee Account except in compliance with this
Section 2.07. Except to the extent that the payee of any amount requires such
payment to be deposited in a Non-Trustee Account (and such deposit is permitted
by the Credit Agreement), each Grantor shall instruct each Person obligated at
any time to make any payment to such Grantor for any reason to make such
payment to the Collection Account.
(b) With
respect to each Non-Trustee Account to be established or established by any
Grantor:
(i)
Such
Grantor shall maintain such Non-Trustee Account in its name only with an
Eligible Institution (each such institution, a “Non-Trustee Account
Bank”) that has entered into a control agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (a “Control
Agreement”).
(ii)
Each
Grantor shall immediately instruct each Obligor to make any payment not
required to be made to a Bank Account to a Non-Trustee Account meeting the
requirements of Section 2.07(b)(i).
(iii)
Upon any
termination of any Control Agreement or other agreement with respect to the
maintenance of a Non-Trustee Account by any Grantor or any Non-Trustee Account
Bank, such Grantor shall immediately notify all Obligors that were making
payments to such Non-Trustee Account to make all future payments to another
Non-Trustee Account meeting the requirements of Section 2.07(b)(i).
Subject to the terms of any Lease, upon request by the Security Trustee or the
Administrative Agent, each Grantor shall, and if prohibited from so doing by
the terms of any Lease, shall use its best efforts to, seek the consent of the
relevant Lessee to, terminate any or all of its Non-Trustee Accounts, in which
case Section 2.07(a) shall apply.
Section
2.08 Covenants Regarding Assigned Documents.
(a) Upon
the inclusion of any Assigned Document (other than an Assigned Lease, an
Assigned Agreement, or an Asset
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Purchase
Agreement, or the Management Agreement) in the Collateral, the relevant Grantor
will either (x) deliver to the Security Trustee a consent, in substantially the
form of Exhibit E, executed by each party to such Assigned Document (other
than any Grantor) or (y) if the terms of such Assigned Document expressly
provide for a consent to its assignment for security purposes to substantially
the same effect as Exhibit B, give due notice to each other party to such
Assigned Document of its assignment pursuant to this Agreement.
(b)
Subject
to the provisions of Article VII of the Credit Agreement, upon the
inclusion of any Assigned Lease in the Collateral, the relevant Grantor will
deliver to the Security Trustee a fully executed Notice and Acknowledgment, in
substantially the form of Exhibit B, and all other such consents,
acknowledgments and/or notices as are (i) necessary or customary under the
terms of such Assigned Lease, (ii) necessary or customary under the
Applicable Law of the jurisdiction governing such Assigned Lease and the
jurisdiction in which the relevant lessee is organized or principally located
in order to effect and perfect the assignment of, and grant of a security
interest in, such Assigned Lease pursuant to this Agreement and/or
(iii) necessary to assure the payment of all Obligations and other
payments under such Assigned Lease to the appropriate Bank Accounts or
Non-Trustee Account in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. The
Security Trustee covenants and agrees that (i) subject to the provisions of
this agreement and the other Credit Documents, the Grantors’ use and quiet
enjoyment of any Aircraft shall not be interrupted by the Security Trustee (or
any Person lawfully claiming through the Security Trustee) and (ii) upon the
written request of any Grantor, the Security Trustee (solely in its capacity as
such) will execute such undertakings of use and quiet enjoyment in favor of the
Lessee under any Assigned Lease as are substantially to the same effect as such
Grantor’s undertakings of use and quiet enjoyment under such Assigned
Lease.
(c)
Upon
(i) the inclusion of any Assigned Document in the Collateral (other than
an Assigned Lease) or (ii) the amendment or replacement of any Assigned
Document or (iii) the entering into of any new Assigned Document, the
relevant Grantor will deliver a copy thereof to the Security Trustee and will
take such other action as may be necessary to perfect the Lien created by this
Agreement as to such Assigned Document.
(d)
Each
Grantor shall, at its expense but subject to Section 2.08(e) hereof, the
Credit Agreement and (in the case of any Assigned Lease) the Service Provider
Agreements:
(i)
perform
and observe all the material terms and provisions of the Assigned Documents to
be performed or observed by it, enforce the Assigned Documents in accordance
with their terms and take all such action to such end as may be from time to
time reasonably requested by the Security Trustee or the Administrative Agent;
and
(ii)
furnish
to the Security Trustee promptly upon receipt copies of all notices, requests
and other documents received by such Grantor under or pursuant to the Assigned
Documents, and from time to time, (A) furnish to the Security Trustee and
the Administrative Agent such information and reports regarding the Collateral
as the Security Trustee and/or the Administrative Agent may reasonably request
and (B) upon request of the Security Trustee and/or the
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Administrative
Agent, make to each other party to any Assigned Document such demands and
requests for information and reports or for action as such Grantor is entitled
to make thereunder.
(e)
Each
Grantor will, at its expense and upon the request of any Secured Service
Provider, pursue for the benefit of such Secured Service Provider any claim
that such Secured Service Provider has under any Assigned Document for
indemnity.
(f)
So long
as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Facility
Termination Date has not occurred, and notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary in this Agreement, each Grantor shall be entitled, to the exclusion of
the Security Trustee, but subject always to the terms of the Credit Agreement
(x) to exercise and receive, directly or indirectly through one or more
agents, including a Service Provider, any of the claims, rights, powers,
privileges, remedies and other benefits under, pursuant to, with respect to or
arising out of the Assigned Documents and (y) to take any action or not to
take any action, directly or indirectly through one or more agents, including a
Service Provider, related to the Assigned Documents and the lessees or
counterparties thereunder, including entering into, amending, supplementing,
terminating, performing, enforcing, compelling performance of, exercising all
remedies (whether arising under any Assigned Document or by statute or at law
or in equity or otherwise) under, exercising rights, elections or options or
taking any other action under or in respect of, granting or withholding
notices, waivers, approvals and consents in respect of, receiving all payments
under, dealing with any credit support or collateral security in respect of, or
taking any other action in respect of, the Assigned Documents and contacting or
otherwise having any dealings with any lessee or counterparty thereunder;
provided, however, (i) whether or not an Event of Default has occurred
and/or is continuing or the Facility Termination Date has occurred, all amounts
payable under each Assigned Document (including all Rental Payments under each
Assigned Lease) shall be paid directly to the appropriate Bank Account or
Non-Trustee Account in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Credit
Agreement and the applicable Lease, and (ii) so long as any Assigned Lease
remains in effect (and without limiting the authority of the Service Providers
under the express terms of the Service Provider Agreements), no Grantor will
abrogate any right, power or privilege granted expressly in favor of the
Security Trustee, the Administrative Agent or a Secured Party under any Lease
Assignment Document. So long as any Assigned Lease remains in effect (and
without limiting the authority of the Servicer under the express terms of the
Servicing Agreement), upon or after the occurrence of an Event of Default which
is continuing or the occurrence of the Facility Termination Date and delivery
of a written direction to the Borrower from the Administrative Agent, all such
rights of each Grantor shall cease, and all such rights shall become vested in
the Security Trustee and the Administrative Agent, which shall thereupon have
the sole right to exercise or refrain from exercising such rights. Neither the
Account Bank nor the Security Trustee shall have any obligation to verify
whether an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, but shall be
entitled to rely, and protected in relying, on the Administrative Agent’s
notice thereof notwithstanding any contrary instructions of any
Grantor.
Section
2.09 Covenants Regarding Security Collateral, Beneficial Interest
Collateral, Membership Interest Collateral and Investment
Collateral.
(a) All
Security Collateral, Beneficial Interest Collateral, Membership Interest
Collateral and Investment Collateral (the “Relevant Collateral”)
shall be delivered to the Security Trustee as follows:
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(i)
in the
case of each Certificated Security or Instrument, by (A) causing the delivery
of such Certificated Security or Instrument to the Security Trustee in the
State of New York, registered in the name of the Security Trustee or duly
endorsed by an appropriate person to the Security Trustee or in blank and, in
each case, to be held by the Security Trustee in the State of New York, or (B)
if such Certificated Security or Instrument is registered in the name of any
Securities Intermediary on the books of the issuer thereof or on the books of
any securities intermediary of any Securities Intermediary, by causing such
Securities Intermediary to continuously credit by book entry such Certificated
Security or Instrument to a Securities Account maintained by such Securities
Intermediary in the name of the Security Trustee and confirming to the Security
Trustee and the Administrative Agent that it has been so credited;
(ii)
in the
case of each Uncertificated Security, by (A) causing such Uncertificated
Security to be continuously registered on the books of the issuer thereof in
the name of the Security Trustee or (B) if such Uncertificated Security is
registered in the name of a Securities Intermediary on the books of the issuer
thereof or on the books of any securities intermediary of a Securities
Intermediary, by causing such Securities Intermediary to continuously credit by
book entry such Uncertificated Security to a Securities Account maintained by
such Securities Intermediary in the name of the Security Trustee and confirming
to the Security Trustee and the Administrative Agent that it has been so
credited;
(iii)
in the
case of each Government Security registered in the name of any Securities
Intermediary on the books of any applicable Federal Reserve Bank Branch or on
the books of any securities intermediary of such Securities Intermediary, by
causing such Securities Intermediary to continuously credit by book entry such
security to the Securities Account maintained by such Securities Intermediary
in the name of the Security Trustee and confirming to the Security Trustee and
the Administrative Agent that it has been so credited; and
(iv)
in the
case of any Beneficial Interest Collateral or Membership Interest Collateral by
(A) to the extent that the grant of the security interest to the Security
Trustee in any Beneficial Interest Collateral or Membership Interest Collateral
or the transfer of any Beneficial Interest Collateral or Membership Interest
Collateral upon exercise of remedies by the Security Trustee is subject to any
restrictions on transfer or any consent requirements, by obtaining all
necessary consents and approvals thereof and (B) (1) if any Beneficial
Interest Collateral or Membership Interest Collateral constitutes a
Certificated Security, Instrument or Uncertificated Security, complying with
clauses (i) or (ii) above, as applicable or (2) if any Beneficial Interest
Collateral or Membership Interest Collateral constitutes a general intangible,
by causing an appropriate financing statement covering each such Beneficial
Interest Collateral or Membership Interest Collateral to be filed in the
appropriate office necessary to perfect the security interest of the Security
Trustee therein.
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(b) Each
Borrower Group Member and the Security Trustee hereby represents and warrants,
with respect to the Relevant Collateral, that it has not entered into, and
hereby agrees that it will not enter into, any agreement (i) with any of
the other parties hereto or any Securities Intermediary specifying any
jurisdiction other than the State of New York as any Securities
Intermediary’s jurisdiction in connection with any Securities Account with
any Securities Intermediary referred to in Section 2.09(a) for purposes of
31 C.F.R. Section 357.11(b), Section 8-110(e) of the UCC or any
similar state or Federal law, or (ii) with any other person relating to
such account pursuant to which it has agreed that any Securities Intermediary
may comply with entitlement orders made by such person. The Security Trustee
represents that it will, by express agreement with each Securities
Intermediary, provide for each item of property constituting Relevant
Collateral held in and credited to the applicable Securities Account, including
cash, to be treated as a “financial asset” within the meaning of
Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC for the purposes of Article 8 of the
UCC.
(c)
Without limiting the foregoing, each Borrower Group Member and the Security
Trustee agree, and the Security Trustee shall cause each Securities
Intermediary to take such different or additional action as may be required
based upon any Opinion of Counsel received pursuant to Section 2.19 or any
reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, in order to maintain the
perfection and priority of the security interest of the Security Trustee in the
Relevant Collateral in the event of any change in applicable law or regulation,
including Article 8 or 9 of the UCC and regulations of the U.S. Department
of the Treasury governing transfers of interests in Government
Securities.
(d) In
addition to the foregoing, each applicable Grantor shall take all steps
required under the laws of Ireland and Bermuda in order to ensure the validity,
perfection, priority and enforceability of the security interests and charge
granted hereunder.
Section
2.10
Covenants Regarding Commercial Tort Claims. If any
Grantor shall at any time acquire a Commercial Tort Claim, such Grantor shall
immediately notify the Security Trustee and the Administrative Agent in writing
signed by such Grantor of the details thereof (including specific case captions
or description per Official Comment 5 to Section 9-108 of the UCC)
and grant to the Security Trustee 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
Administrative Agent.
Section
2.11
Further Assurances.
a) Each
Grantor agrees that, from time to time, at the expense of such Grantor, such
Grantor shall promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and
documents, and take all further action (including under the laws of any foreign
jurisdiction), that may be necessary, or that the Security Trustee or the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, in order to perfect and protect
any pledge, assignment or security interest granted or purported to be granted
hereby or to enable the Security Trustee to exercise and enforce its rights and
remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, each Grantor shall: (i) if any Collateral
shall be evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument or “tangible
chattel paper” (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(78) of the UCC),
deliver and pledge to the Security Trustee hereunder such note or instrument or
tangible chattel paper, each such note or instrument to be duly endorsed and
accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank;
(ii) execute and
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file
such financing or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, and such
other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the
Security Trustee or the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, in order
to perfect and preserve the pledge, assignment and security interest granted or
purported to be granted hereby and (iii) execute, file, record, or
register such additional documents and supplements to this Agreement, including
any further assignments, security agreements, pledges, grants and transfers, as
may be required by or desirable under the laws of any foreign jurisdiction, or
as the Security Trustee or the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, to
create, attach, perfect, validate, render enforceable, protect or establish the
priority of the security interest and lien created by this
Agreement;
provided,
however, that
the Grantors will not be required to execute and deliver or file any Aircraft
Mortgage on the Collateral or any equipment of the Grantors with any aviation
and or Lien registry other than pursuant to clause (e) or clause (f)
below.
(b) Each
Grantor hereby authorizes the Security Trustee to file one or more financing or
continuation statements, and amendments thereto, relating to all or any part of
the Collateral without the signature of such Grantor where permitted by law,
but only to the extent that such Grantor is required to file such financing
statements pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. A photocopy or other
reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement covering the
Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a financing statement
where permitted by law.
(c) Each
Grantor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Security Trustee from
time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the
Collateral and such other reports in connection with the Collateral as the
Security Trustee or the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, all in
reasonable detail; provided,
however, that,
to the extent that (in the case of any Assigned Lease) such statements,
schedules or reports (or the data needed to prepare them) can be obtained only
from the Servicer, no Grantor shall be required to obtain any such statements,
schedules, reports or data beyond those to which it is entitled under the
Servicing Agreement.
(d) Each
Grantor shall, immediately upon the organization or acquisition by such Grantor
of any Borrower Subsidiary, cause such Borrower Subsidiary to enter into a
Grantor Supplement. Such Grantor shall promptly take such actions as are
necessary to perfect the security interest granted under such Grantor
Supplement including without limitation, if such Borrower Subsidiary is
organized under the law of Ireland, or has a place of business or assets
(including without limitation shares in a company organized under the law of
Ireland) located in Ireland, by causing such Grantor Supplement to be duly
recorded with the Irish Registrar of Companies and the Irish Revenue
Commissioners within 21 days after the execution of such Collateral
Supplement, or such lesser period as may be applicable under Requirements of
Law.
(e) To
the extent required in order for such Grantor to comply with clause (g) below
with respect to each Aircraft that is registered in the United States of
America, such Grantor shall, so long as such Aircraft is so registered, enter
into an Aircraft Mortgage with respect to such Mortgage, register and record
with the FAA such Aircraft Mortgage and, in the case of an Aircraft that is
subject to an Assigned Lease, register and record with the FAA an FAA Lease
Security Assignment with respect to such Assigned Lease.
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(f) To
the extent required in order for such Grantor to comply with clause (g) below
with respect to each Aircraft that is registered in Ireland, such Grantor
shall, so long as such Aircraft is so registered, enter into an Aircraft
Mortgage with respect to such Aircraft.
(g) Each
Grantor shall register or cause to be registered or consent to the registration
with the International Registry of (collectively, the “Required Cape Town
Registrations”): (i) the International Interest constituted by the
Mortgage with respect to each Aircraft Object where the relevant Grantor is
situated in a Contracting State or, in the case of the Airframe only, if such
Aircraft is registered in a Contracting State; (ii) the International Interest
constituted by any Cape Town Lease to which such Grantor is a lessor; (iii) the
assignment to the Security Trustee of each International Interest described in
clause (ii) and assigned to the Security Trustee hereunder; and (iv) the
Contract of Sale with respect to any Aircraft by which title to such Aircraft
is conveyed by or to such Grantor, but only if the seller under such Contract
of Sale is situated in a Contracting State. To the extent that (A) the Security
Trustee’s consent is required for any such registration, or (B) the
Security Trustee is required to initiate any such registrations, the Security
Trustee shall ensure that such consent or that such initiation of such
registration is effected.
Section
2.12
Place of Perfection; Records. (a)
Each Grantor shall keep its jurisdiction of organization, chief place of
business and chief executive office at the location specified in Schedule IV or,
upon 30 days’ prior written notice to the Security Trustee and the
Administrative Agent, at such other locations in a jurisdiction where all
actions required by Section 9.2(a) of the Credit Agreement shall have been
taken with respect to the Collateral.
(b) The
Borrower hereby represents and warrants that is has no place of business within
the United States and that it shall not establish any place of business within
the United States unless it shall have given the Security Trustee thirty (30)
days’ prior written notice thereof and shall have taken such action, if
any, reasonably requested by the Security Trustee to ensure the perfection and
priority of the security interest granted hereunder.
(c) Each
Borrower Subsidiary that is a trust represents and warrants that the trust
agreement pursuant to which such Borrower Subsidiary was established specifies
a name for the trust and such name is the name specified on the signature page
hereof or of the applicable Grantor Supplement.
Section
2.13
Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc. (a) So
long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the
Facility Termination Date has not occurred:
(i) Each
of the Grantors shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and other
consensual rights pertaining to all or any part of the Security Collateral,
Membership Interest Collateral and Beneficial Interest Collateral pledged by
such Grantor for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement,
the charter documents of such Grantor or the Credit Agreement; provided,
however, that such Grantor shall not exercise or shall refrain from exercising
any such right if in its judgment such action would have a material adverse
effect on the value of the Security Collateral, Membership Interest Collateral
or the Beneficial Interest Collateral; and
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(ii) The
Security Trustee shall execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and
delivered) to such Grantor all such proxies and other instruments as such
Grantor may reasonably request in writing and provide for the purpose of
enabling such Grantor to exercise the voting and other rights that it is
entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 2.13(a)(i).
(b)
Whether or not any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and
whether or not the Facility Termination Date has occurred, any and all
distributions, dividends and interest paid in respect of the Security
Collateral, Membership Interest Collateral and Beneficial Interest Collateral
pledged by such Grantor, including any and all (i) distributions,
dividends and interest paid or payable other than in cash in respect of, and
instruments and other property received, receivable or otherwise distributed in
respect of, or in exchange for, such Security Collateral, Membership Interest
Collateral or Beneficial Interest Collateral; (ii) distributions,
dividends and other distributions paid or payable in cash in respect of such
Security Collateral, Membership Interest Collateral or Beneficial Interest
Collateral in connection with a partial or total liquidation or dissolution or
in connection with a reduction of capital, capital surplus or paid-in surplus;
and (iii) cash paid, payable or otherwise distributed in respect of
principal of, or in redemption of, or in exchange for, such Security
Collateral, Membership Interest Collateral or Beneficial Interest Collateral
shall be paid into the Collection Account and, if received by such Grantor,
shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties, be
segregated from the other property or funds of such Grantor and be forthwith
paid to the Collection Account in the same form as so received (with any
necessary endorsement).
(c)
During the continuance of an Event of Default or if the Facility Termination
Date has occurred, all rights of each Grantor to exercise or refrain from
exercising the voting and other consensual rights that it would otherwise be
entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 2.13(a)(i) and 2.13(a)(ii) shall
cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Security
Trustee, who, subject to Section 5.04(d), shall thereupon have the sole
right to exercise or refrain from exercising such voting and other consensual
rights (including, but not limited to, the right, subject to the restrictions
set forth in the applicable organizational documents, to remove or appoint any
trustee, directors and officers of any direct or indirect subsidiary of the
Borrower), provided, however, that the Security Trustee shall exercise such
voting or consensual right only upon receipt of instruction from the
Administrative Agent.
Section
2.14
Transfers and Other Encumbrances; Additional Shares or
Interests.
(a) Except
to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement, no Grantor shall
(i) sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or otherwise dispose
of, or grant any option with respect to, any of the Collateral or
(ii) create or suffer to exist any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon
or with respect to any of the Collateral of such Grantor, other than the
pledge, assignment, lien and security interest created by this Agreement and as
otherwise provided herein or in the Credit Agreement.
(b)
Except to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement, the Borrower
Subsidiaries shall not, and the Borrower shall not permit the Borrower
Subsidiaries to, issue, substitute, deliver or sell any shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents in any Borrower Subsidiary. Any beneficial
interest or capital stock or other securities or interests issued in respect
of, or in substitution for, the Pledged Stock, Pledged Membership Interest or
the
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Pledged
Beneficial Interest shall be pledged and delivered (with any necessary
endorsement) to the Security Trustee.
(c) All
distributions, dividends and interest payments that are received by such
Grantor contrary to the provisions of this Agreement shall be received in trust
for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall be segregated from other funds of
such Grantor and shall be forthwith paid over to the Security Trustee as
Security Collateral or Beneficial Interest Collateral, as the case may be, in
the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement).
Section
2.15
Security Trustee Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. Each
Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Security Trustee such Grantor’s
attorney-in-fact (in the case of any Grantor incorporated in Ireland such
appointment shall be by way of security), with full authority in the place and
stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or otherwise, from time
to time in the Security Trustee’s discretion, upon advice and written
instruction of the Administrative Agent (except for item (d) below, upon
the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing or if the Facility
Termination Date has occurred), to take any action and to execute any
instrument that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable for
the Security Trustee to take to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement or to
take any action and to execute any instrument as directed by the Administrative
Agent in writing in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Credit
Agreement, including, but not limited to:
(a) to
ask for, demand, collect, xxx for, recover, compromise, receive and give
acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect
of any of the Collateral;
(b) to
receive, endorse and collect any Accounts Receivable, drafts or other
instruments and documents included in the Collateral;
(c) to
file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings that the
Security Trustee may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any of
the Collateral or otherwise to enforce the rights of the Security Trustee with
respect to any of the Collateral;
(d) to
execute and file any financing or continuation statements, or amendments
thereto, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or
desirable, including as identified to the Security Trustee pursuant to the
Opinion of Counsel described in Section 2.19 hereof in order to perfect
and preserve the pledge, assignment and security interest granted hereby;
provided,
however, that
the Security Trustee’s exercise of any such power shall be subject to
Section 2.09(c); and
(e) upon
prior notice to the Borrower on behalf of the Grantors, notify account debtors
that the Accounts Receivable and the right, title and interest of any Grantor
in and under such Accounts Receivable have been assigned to Security Trustee,
and that payments thereunder shall be made directly to the Security Trustee,
for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Section
2.16
Security Trustee May Perform. If any
Grantor fails to perform any agreement contained in this Agreement, the
Administrative Agent or the Security Trustee (at the direction of the
Administrative Agent) may (but shall not be obligated to) itself perform, or
cause
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performance
of, such agreement, and the expenses of the Security Trustee or the
Administrative Agent incurred in connection with doing so shall be payable by
the Grantors.
Section
2.17
Covenant to Pay. Each
Grantor covenants with the Security Trustee (for the benefit of the Security
Trustee and the Secured Parties) that it will pay or discharge any monies and
liabilities whatsoever that are now, or at any time hereafter may be, due,
owing or payable by such Grantor in any currency, actually or contingently,
solely and/or jointly, and/or severally with another or others, as principal or
surety on any account whatsoever pursuant to the Secured Service Provider
Documents, the Credit Agreement, and the Hedge Agreements in accordance with
their terms.
Section
2.18
Delivery of Collateral Supplements. Upon
the acquisition by any Grantor of any Relevant Collateral or establishment of a
Non-Trustee Account, the relevant Grantor shall concurrently execute and
deliver to the Security Trustee a Collateral Supplement duly completed with
respect to such Collateral and shall take such steps with respect to the
perfection of such Collateral as are called for in this section and otherwise
in this Agreement for Collateral of the same type; provided that the foregoing
shall not be construed to impair or otherwise derogate from any restriction on
any such action in any Transaction Document and provided, further that the
failure of any Grantor to deliver any Collateral Supplement as to any such
Collateral shall not impair the lien of this Agreement as to such Collateral.
If such Grantor is organized under the law of Ireland, or has a place of
business or assets (including without limitation shares in a company organized
under the law of Ireland) located in Ireland, the relevant Grantor shall cause
such Collateral Supplement to be duly recorded with the Irish Registrar of
Companies and the Irish Revenue Commissioners within 21 days after the
execution of such Collateral Supplement, or such lesser period as may be
applicable under Requirements of Law. Without limitation of the requirements of
the immediately preceding sentence, if such Grantor is the Borrower or any
other Borrower Group Member organized under the law of Bermuda, such Grantor
shall cause such Grantor Supplement to be duly recorded with the appropriate
register of Bermuda.
Section
2.19
Annual Opinion. Upon
each anniversary of the Closing Date, the Borrower shall cause to be delivered
to the Security Trustee and the Administrative Agent an Opinion of Counsel in
each Annual Opinion Jurisdiction to the effect that (i) during the
preceding year there has not occurred any change of the law of such
jurisdiction that would require the taking of any action in order to maintain
the perfection or priority of the lien of this Agreement on the Collateral or,
if there has been such a change, setting forth the actions so to be taken and
(ii) no additional financing statement, continuation statement or
amendment thereof, or other document or instrument, is required to be filed,
and no other action is required to be taken, under the law in existence on the
date of such opinion, during the next twelve months to maintain the perfected
security interest of the Security Trustee in any part of the Collateral granted
hereunder or under any other Transaction Document, or identifying any such
required financing statement, continuation statement, amendment, instrument,
document or other action. The Borrower agrees to or cause each Grantor to take
all such actions as may be indicated in any such opinion, except that, as
provided in Section 2.09, the Security Trustee shall take any such actions
as may be required with respect to any Securities Intermediary.
Section
2.20
Covenants Regarding Control. No
Grantor shall cause or permit any Person other than the Security Trustee to
have “control” as defined in Section 9-104, 9-105,
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9-106,
or 9-107 of the UCC (“Control”) of any Supporting Obligations or
Letter of Credit Rights, or any Deposit Account, “securities
account,” “electronic chattel paper” or “investment
property” (as such terms are defined in Article 9 or Article 8
of the UCC as applicable), in each case, included in the Collateral or any Bank
Account or Non-Trustee Account.
Section
2.21
Share Mortgage; etc. In the
case of any Borrower Subsidiary that is incorporated under the law of Ireland,
the Borrower shall, and shall cause each other Borrower Group Member (as
applicable) to, enter into an Irish Share Mortgage in respect of the issued
share capital (if any) held by it in such Borrower Subsidiary. Such Irish Share
Mortgage shall be entered into at the time contemplated by the terms of
Section 2.11(d). The Borrower shall cause such Irish Share Mortgage to be
filed with the Irish Registrar of Companies within 21 days following the
execution and delivery by such Grantor of such Irish Share Mortgage, or such
lesser period as may be applicable under Requirements of Law, and shall take
any other actions as may be required or as the Administrative Agent or the
Security Trustee (at the direction of the Administrative Agent) may reasonably
request, in order to cause such Irish Share Mortgage to constitute a perfected
and (to the extent recognized under Applicable Law) first-priority security
interest in the share capital covered thereby. In the case of any Borrower
Subsidiary that is not incorporated under the law of Ireland, the Borrower
shall, and shall cause each other Borrower Group Member (as applicable) to,
enter into an appropriate share mortgage, beneficial interest security
agreement, or other security agreement or instrument as may be reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent or Security Trustee (at the direction of
the Administrative Agent), in respect of the issued share capital or other
ownership or beneficial interest held by it in such Borrower Subsidiary. Such
share mortgage or other agreement or instrument shall be entered into at the
time contemplated by the terms of Section 2.11(d). The Borrower shall
cause such share mortgage or other agreement or instrument to be filed with any
appropriate register and shall take such other actions as may be necessary or
as the Administrative Agent or the Security Trustee (at the direction of the
Administrative Agent) may reasonably request in order to cause such mortgage,
agreement or instrument to constitute a first-priority security interest in the
share capital or other ownership or beneficial interest covered
thereby.
Section
2.22
Irish Account Charges. The
Borrower undertakes with the Security Trustee to enter into an Irish Account
Charge in respect of the Irish VAT Refund Account on the date of the
establishment of such account.
Section
2.23
Subordination of Intercompany Obligations. The
Borrower agrees that all Intercompany Obligations shall be subject and
subordinate and junior in right of payment and performance to all obligations
of the Borrower Subsidiaries to the Security Trustee and the Administrative
Agent hereunder and to the security interests in the Collateral granted to the
Security Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties to secure the payment
and performance of the Secured Obligations. Upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default or if the Facility Termination Date has
occurred, then unless and until all Secured Obligations shall have been paid
and performed in full, (x) no payment on account of the principal of, or
interest on, or any other amount in respect of, the Intercompany Obligations or
any judgment with respect thereto shall be made by or on behalf of any Borrower
Subsidiary to the Borrower and (y) the Borrower shall not (A) ask,
demand, xxx for, take or receive from any Borrower Subsidiary, by set-off or in
any other manner any payment on account of the principal of, or interest on, or
any other amount in respect of, the Intercompany Obligations or (B) seek
any
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other
remedy allowed at law or in equity against any Borrower Subsidiary for a breach
of Intercompany Obligations. If any payment or distribution of any character,
whether in cash, securities or other property, in respect of Intercompany
Obligations shall be received by the Borrower in violation of the terms of this
section, such payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit
of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Secured Parties to the extent necessary to pay all Secured
Obligations in full.
ARTICLE
III
REMEDIES
REMEDIES
Section
3.01
Remedies. Upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or if the
Facility Termination Date has occurred:
(a) The
Security Trustee shall, at the direction of the Administrative Agent, exercise
in respect of the Collateral, in addition to other rights and remedies provided
for herein, but subject to the rights of any Lessee to the extent such exercise
conflicts with rights of quiet enjoyment provided by any Grantor or the
Security Trustee to an applicable Lessee under a Lease, all the rights and
remedies of a secured party upon default under the UCC (whether or not the UCC
applies to the affected Collateral) and (i) take possession of the
Collateral, require any Grantor to, and such Grantor hereby agrees that it
shall at its expense and upon request of the Security Trustee forthwith,
assemble all or part of the Collateral as directed by the Security Trustee and
make it available to the Security Trustee at a place to be designated by the
Security Trustee that is reasonably convenient to the Security Trustee and
(ii) without notice except as specified below, sell or cause the sale of
the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or, private
sale, at any of the Security Trustee’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on
credit or for future delivery, and upon such other terms as the Security
Trustee (upon advice and instruction from the Administrative Agent) may deem
commercially reasonable and (iii) exercise all rights of the applicable
Grantors under any other agreement in respect of any obligations of any
Borrower Group Member with respect to such Grantor or of any Grantor under any
Lease. Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required
by law, at least ten days’ notice to such Grantor of the time and place of
any public sale or the time after which any private sale is to be made shall
constitute reasonable notification. The Security Trustee (upon advice and
instruction from the Administrative Agent) shall not be obligated to make any
sale of Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Security
Trustee may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by
announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without
further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned.
Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, any
aforementioned sale of Collateral shall not be subject to the restrictions
described in Section 9.8 of the Credit Agreement.
(b)
Subject to the provisions hereof, any Secured Party shall be allowed on any
such foreclosure sale to credit against any purchase price bid at such sale by
such Secured Party all or any part of the obligations secured hereby owing to
such Secured Party (but only to the extent that such purchase price would have
been distributed to such Secured Party pursuant to Section 7.1(e) of the Credit
Agreement if such purchase price were paid in cash and the foregoing provisions
of this sentence were not given effect).
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(c) All
cash proceeds received by the Security Trustee in respect of any sale of,
collection from, or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral
shall be deposited into the Collection Account for distribution pursuant to
Section 7.1(e)(ii) of the Credit Agreement. Any surplus of such cash or
cash proceeds held by the Security Trustee and remaining after payment in full
of all the Secured Obligations shall be paid over to the relevant Grantors or
whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus. Any amount
received for any sale or sales conducted in accordance with the terms of this
Section 3.01 shall be deemed conclusive and binding on the Borrower, each
Grantor and the Secured Parties.
(d) If
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or if the Facility
Termination Date has occurred, so long as the Service Providers are acting in
such capacity with respect to any Lease pursuant to the provisions of the
Service Provider Agreements, the Security Trustee agrees not to take any action
constituting Services (as defined in any Service Provider Agreement) and is
otherwise subject to the terms of the Service Provider Agreements when acting
thereunder in place of any Grantor, except (subject to Section 2.08(e)) to
the extent the Borrower would then be entitled to take such action under the
express terms of the Service Provider Agreements.
(e) The
Security Trustee may, in addition to or in connection with any other remedies
available hereunder or under any other Applicable Law and where appropriate,
exercise any and all remedies granted in the Cape Town Convention (subject to
any declaration that has been made by the applicable Contracting State) as it
shall determine in its sole discretion. In connection therewith, the parties
hereby agree to the extent permitted by Applicable Law that (i) Article 9(1)
and Article 9(2) of the Convention, wherein the parties may agree or the court
may order that any Collateral shall vest in the Security Trustee in or towards
satisfaction of the Secured Obligations, shall not preclude the Security
Trustee from obtaining title to any Collateral pursuant to any other remedies
available under Applicable Law (including but not limited to Article 9-620 of
the UCC); (ii) any surplus of cash or cash proceeds held by the Security
Trustee and remaining after payment in full of all of the Secured Obligations
shall be paid over to the relevant Grantors or whomsoever may be lawfully
entitled to receive such surplus; and (iii) the Security Trustee may obtain
from any applicable court, pending final determination of any claim resulting
from an Event of Default, speedy relief in the form of any of the orders
specified in Article 13 of the Convention and Article X of the Protocol as the
Security Trustee shall determine in its sole and absolute discretion, subject
to any procedural requirements prescribed by Applicable Laws.
Section
3.02
Irish Conveyancing Acts.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement and in
addition to and without prejudice to any other rights or power of the Security
Trustee under this Agreement or under general law in any relevant jurisdiction,
at any time that the Collateral shall become enforceable, the Security Trustee
shall be entitled to appoint a receiver under this Agreement or under the
Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 (as amended and as the same may be
amended, modified or replaced from time to time, the “1881 Act”) and
such receiver shall have all such powers, rights and authority conferred under
the 1881 Act, this Agreement and otherwise under the laws of Ireland without
any limitation or restriction imposed by the 1881 Act or otherwise under the
laws of Ireland which may be excluded or removed. Sections 17 and 20 of
the 1881 Act shall not apply to the Collateral or any
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receiver
appointed under this Agreement or under the 1881 Act and section 24(b) of
the Act shall not apply to the Collateral or to any receiver appointed under
this Agreement.
ARTICLE
IV
SECURITY
INTEREST ABSOLUTE
Section
4.01
Security Interest Absolute. A
separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Grantor
to enforce this Agreement, irrespective of whether any action is brought
against any other Grantor or whether any other Grantor is joined in any such
action or actions. All rights of the Security Trustee and the Administrative
Agent and the security interest and Lien granted under, and all obligations of
each Grantor under, this Agreement shall be independent of and additional to
any other collateral, lien or security interest, and absolute and
unconditional, irrespective of:
(a) any
lack of validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, Assigned
Document, Hedge Agreement or any other agreement or instrument relating
thereto;
(b) any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, the security for, or in any
other term of, all or any of the Secured Obligations, or any other amendment or
waiver of or any consent to any departure from any Transaction Document,
Assigned Document, Hedge Agreement or any other agreement or instrument
relating thereto;
(c) any
taking or failure to take, exchange, release or non-perfection of the
Collateral or any other collateral or taking or failure to take, release or
amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any guaranty or security
interest or lien, for all or any of the Secured Obligations;
(d) any
manner of application of collateral, or proceeds thereof, to all or any of the
Secured Obligations, or any manner of sale or other disposition of any
collateral for all or any of the Secured Obligations or any other assets of
such Grantor;
(e) any
change, restructuring or termination of the corporate structure, partnership or
trust or existence as applicable of any Grantor; or
(f) any
other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a
discharge of, any Grantor or a third-party grantor of a security interest or a
Person deemed to be a surety.
ARTICLE
V
THE
SECURITY TRUSTEE AND THE ACCOUNT BANK
Section
5.01
Authorization and Action.
(a) Each
Secured Party by its acceptance of the benefits of this Agreement hereby
appoints and authorizes DBTCA as the initial Security Trustee to take such
action as trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties and to exercise such powers
and discretion under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents as are
specifically delegated to the Security Trustee by the terms of this Agreement
and of the Transaction Documents, and no implied duties and covenants shall be
deemed to arise against the Security Trustee. Each Grantor and the
Administrative Agent acknowledges and agrees that
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the
Security Trustee shall comply with all written instructions and directions of
the Administrative Agent given in accordance with this Agreement and the Credit
Agreement without further consent of any Grantor and notwithstanding any
contrary instructions or directions of any Grantor.
(b) The
Security Trustee accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the same but
only upon the terms of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement and agrees to
receive and disburse all moneys received by it in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement and the Credit Agreement. The Security Trustee in its individual
capacity shall not be answerable or accountable under any circumstances, except
for its own willful misconduct or gross negligence (or simple negligence in the
handling of funds) or breach of any of its representations or warranties set
forth in this Agreement, and the Security Trustee shall not be liable for any
action or inaction of any Grantor or any other parties to any of the
Transaction Documents.
(c) The
Security Trustee shall take all actions permitted hereunder and exercise all
powers granted to it hereunder upon, and at the direction of, the
Administrative Agent. The Security Trustee shall have a reasonable period in
which to act upon any instruction, direction or notice received
hereunder.
(d) The
Security Trustee agrees to promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent copies
of all items delivered to the Security Trustee hereunder.
(e)
Whenever the Security Trustee is required to provide its consent or direction
or otherwise make a determination under this Credit Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, the Security Trustee shall act only upon the written
instructions of the Administrative Agent. The Security Trustee may conclusively
rely on such instructions, and shall be entitled to refrain from providing such
consent or direction or making such determination in the absence of such
instructions.
(f) The
Security Trustee, during the term of this Agreement, shall establish and
maintain a valid account as a transacting user entity with the International
Registry and appoint an administrator and/or a professional user entity (the
transacting user entity, the administrator and the professional user entity, as
defined in the regulations for the Cape Town Convention) to make registrations
in regard to the Collateral as required by this Agreement.
Section
5.02
Limitation of Duties. The
powers conferred on the Security Trustee under this Agreement with respect to
the Collateral shall not impose any duty upon it, except as explicitly set
forth herein, to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any
Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by
it under this Agreement, the Security Trustee shall have no duty, unless
directed by the Administrative Agent, as to ascertaining or taking action with
respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters
relative to any Collateral, whether or not any Secured Party has or is deemed
to have knowledge of such matters, or as to the taking of any necessary steps
to preserve or perfect rights against any parties or any other rights
pertaining to any Collateral. The Security Trustee shall have no duty to
ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any covenants,
conditions or agreements on the part of any Grantor or Lessee. In no event
shall the Security Trustee be liable for any punitive or special damages or for
any damages arising or
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caused
by an act of God, war or any other matter beyond the reasonable control of the
Security Trustee or the Account Bank.
Section
5.03
Representations or Warranties. The
Security Trustee does not make, and shall not be deemed to have made, any
representation or warranty as to the validity, legality or enforceability of
this Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any other document or
instrument or as to the correctness of any statement contained in any thereof,
or as to the validity or sufficiency of any of the pledge and security
interests granted hereby, except that the Security Trustee in its individual
capacity hereby represents and warrants (a) that each such specified
document to which it is a party has been or will be duly executed and delivered
by two of its officers who is and will be duly authorized to execute and
deliver such document on its behalf, and (b) this Agreement is the legal,
valid and binding obligation of DBTCA, enforceable against DBTCA in accordance
with its terms, subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar law affecting creditors’ rights
generally.
Section
5.04
Reliance; Agents; Advice of Counsel.
(a) The
Security Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone as a result of acting upon
any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order,
certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document believed by it to be
genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The
Security Trustee may accept a copy of a resolution of the board or other
governing body of any party to this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary thereof or other
duly authorized Person of such party as duly adopted and in full force and
effect, as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly adopted by
said board or other governing body and that the same is in full force and
effect. As to any fact or matter the manner of ascertainment of which is not
specifically described in this Agreement, the Security Trustee shall be
entitled to receive and may for all purposes hereof conclusively rely on, a
certificate, signed by an officer of any Person, as to such fact or matter, and
such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Security Trustee for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance
thereon. The Security Trustee shall furnish to each Service Provider upon
request such information and copies of such documents as the Security Trustee
may have and as are necessary for such Service Provider to perform its duties
under the applicable Transaction Documents. The Security Trustee shall assume,
and shall be fully protected in assuming, that each other party to this
Agreement is authorized by its constitutional documents to enter into this
Agreement and to take all action permitted to be taken by it pursuant to the
provisions of this Agreement, and shall not inquire into the authorization of
such party with respect thereto.
(b) The
Security Trustee may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform any duties
under this Agreement either directly or by or through agents, or attorneys or a
custodian or nominee; provided,
however, that
the Security Trustee shall be responsible for any actions or inactions of any
such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee.
(c) The
Security Trustee may consult with counsel, and any opinion of counsel or any
advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection
in respect of any action taken or suffered or omitted by it under this
Agreement in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion of
counsel.
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(d) The
Security Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any
litigation under this Agreement or in relation hereto, at the request, order or
direction of any of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the provisions of this
Agreement, unless the Security Trustee shall have received written advice,
instruction or direction from the Administrative Agent with respect to such
matter, and if the funds provided in accordance with Section 7.1(e) of the
Credit Agreement are not available to pay for the costs and expenses incurred
by the Security Trustee, such Secured Party shall have offered to the Security
Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby.
(e) The
Security Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the funds
provided in accordance with Section 7.1(e) of the Credit Agreement are not
available to pay for the costs and expenses incurred by the Security Trustee
and none of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall in any event
require the Security Trustee to perform, or be responsible or liable for the
manner of performance of, any obligations of the Borrower or the Manager under
any of the Transaction Documents.
(f) The
Security Trustee shall not be liable for any liabilities, obligations, damages,
judgments, settlements, penalties, claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses and
disbursements (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements
of legal counsel and costs of investigation), Taxes or the selection of
Eligible Investments or for any investment losses resulting from Eligible
Investments.
(g) When
the Security Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an
exercise of remedies specified in Section 3.01, such expenses (including
the fees and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for such services is
intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law or
law relating to creditors’ rights generally.
(h) The
Security Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of an Event of Default
unless a responsible officer of the Security Trustee obtains actual knowledge
of such event or the Security Trustee receives written notice of such event
from any of the Secured Parties or the Administrative Agent.
(i) The
Security Trustee shall have no duty to monitor the effectiveness or perfection
of any security interest in any Collateral or the performance of the Borrower,
any Service Provider or any other party to the Transaction Documents, nor shall
it have any liability in connection with the appointment of any Service
Provider, or the malfeasance or nonfeasance by such parties. The Security
Trustee shall have no liability in connection with non-compliance by the
Borrower, any Service Provider or any lessee under a Lease with statutory or
regulatory requirements related to the Collateral, any Aircraft or any Lease.
The Security Trustee shall not make or be deemed to have made any
representations or warranties with respect to the Collateral, any Aircraft or
any Lease or the validity or sufficiency of any assignment or other disposition
of the Collateral, any Aircraft, or any Lease.
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Section
5.05 Cape
Town Convention. The
Security Trustee, during the term of this Agreement, shall establish and
maintain a valid and existing account as a Transacting User with the
International Registry and appoint an Administrator and/or a Professional User
to make registrations with respect to the Collateral as required by this
Agreement.
Section
5.06 No
Individual Liability. The
Security Trustee shall have no individual liability in respect of all or any
part of the Secured Obligations, and all shall look, subject to the Lien and
priorities of payment provided in the Credit Agreement, only to the property of
the Grantors for payment or satisfaction of the Secured
Obligations.
Section
5.07 The
Account Bank. The
Account Bank shall be entitled to the immunities and privileges of the Security
Trustee under Sections 5.03 and 5.04(a), (b), (c), (e) and (g). The Account
Bank agrees to perform its duties hereunder in accordance with the requirements
of, and subject to the limitations of the duties of, a Securities Intermediary
under the UCC.
ARTICLE
VI
SUCCESSOR
SECURITY TRUSTEES AND ACCOUNT BANK
Section
6.01
Resignation and Removal of Security Trustee. The
Security Trustee may resign at any time without cause by giving at least
30 days’ prior written notice to the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time remove the Security Trustee
with or without cause by an instrument in writing delivered to the Secured
Parties, the Borrower and the Security Trustee. No resignation or removal of
the Security Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.01 shall become effective
prior to the date of appointment by the Administrative Agent of a successor
Security Trustee and the acceptance of such appointment by such successor
Security Trustee.
Section
6.02
Appointment of Successor.
(a) In
the case of the resignation or removal of the Security Trustee, the
Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, shall promptly appoint
a successor Security Trustee; provided,
however, that,
prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing or the
occurrence or declaration of the Facility Termination Date, such successor
shall be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower. If a successor Security Trustee
shall not have been appointed and accepted its appointment hereunder within
such 30 day period after notice of resignation or removal, the retiring
Security Trustee or the Secured Parties (or Administrative Agent on behalf of
the Secured Parties) may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Security Trustee. Any successor Security Trustee so
appointed by such court shall immediately and without further act be superseded
by any successor Security Trustee appointed as provided in the first sentence
of this paragraph within one year from the date of the appointment by such
court.
(b) Any
successor Security Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Secured Parties an
instrument accepting such appointment. Upon the acceptance of any appointment
as Security Trustee hereunder, a successor Security Trustee, upon the execution
and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto,
and such amendments or supplements to this Agreement, and such other
instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the
Administrative Agent may request, in order to continue the perfection (if any)
of the liens granted or purported to be granted hereby, shall succeed to and
become vested with
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all the
rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Security
Trustee, and the retiring Security Trustee shall be discharged from its duties
and obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. The
retiring Security Trustee shall take all steps necessary to transfer all
Collateral in its possession and all its control over the Collateral to the
successor Security Trustee. After any retiring Security Trustee’s
resignation or removal hereunder as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken
by it while it was Security Trustee, the provisions of all of Article VII
shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it
while it was Security Trustee under this Agreement.
(c) Each
Security Trustee shall be an Eligible Institution acceptable to the Secured
Parties.
(d) Any
corporation into which the Security Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Security Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation to which substantially all the business of the Security Trustee
may be transferred, shall be the Security Trustee under this Agreement without
further act; provided,
however, that
DBTCA shall
give the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of such merger, conversion,
consolidation or transfer and DBTCA shall cooperate with the Administrative
Agent to maintain the validity and priority of any lien created hereunder or
under any other document.
(e)
Following the resignation or removal of the Security Trustee, and the
appointment and acceptance of such appointment by a successor Security Trustee,
all references to “New York” in Sections 2.05 and 2.09(a) herein
shall be deemed to refer to the state in which the Security Trustee is
physically located.
Section
6.03 The
Account Bank. If at
any time the Person acting as Account Bank is no longer the Security Trustee,
the Security Trustee shall notify the Manager and the Borrower, and the
Security Trustee shall cause the Manager to establish and maintain the Bank
Accounts with the Person then acting as the Security Trustee as provided in the
Management Agreement and the Person then acting as the Security Trustee shall
assume the obligations of the Account Bank under this Agreement.
ARTICLE
VII
EXPENSES
Section
7.01 In
General. The
Borrower shall, upon demand and pursuant to Section 7.1(e) of the Credit
Agreement, pay to the Security Trustee and the Account Bank the amount of any
and all reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of its
counsel and of any experts and agents, that each such party may incur in
connection with (i) the administration of this Agreement, (ii) the
custody, preservation, use or operation of, or the sale of, collection from or
other realization upon, any of the Collateral, (iii) the exercise or
enforcement of any of the rights of the Security Trustee, the Account Bank or
any other Secured Party against any Grantor hereunder, or (iv) the failure
by any Grantor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.
Section
7.02
Reserved.
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Section
7.03 No
Compensation from Secured Parties. The
Security Trustee and the Account Bank each agree that it shall have no right
against the Secured Parties for any fee as compensation for its services in
such capacity.
Section
7.04
Security Trustee and Account Bank Fees. In
consideration of the Security Trustee’s and the Account Bank’s
performance of the services provided for under this Agreement, the Borrower
shall pay to the Security Trustee and the Account Bank, a fee, payable monthly
on each Payment Date together with all expenses and charges as set forth under
a separate agreement among the Borrower, the Security Trustee and the Account
Bank.
ARTICLE
VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
8.01
Amendments; Waivers; Etc. (a) No
amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any
departure by any party from the provisions of this Agreement, shall in any
event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the
parties hereto and, in the event any Service Provider is adversely affected
thereby, the relevant Service Provider, and then such waiver or consent shall
be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for
which given. In executing and delivering any amendment or modification to this
Agreement, unless the terms of Section 5.04(d) shall have been satisfied with
respect to such amendment or modification, the Security Trustee shall be
entitled to (i) an Opinion of Counsel delivered by counsel satisfactory to
the Security Trustee stating that such amendment is authorized and permitted
pursuant to the Credit Agreement and this Agreement and complies with the terms
thereof and hereof or (ii) an Officer’s Certificate of the Borrower
stating that such amendment is authorized and permitted pursuant to the Credit
Agreement and all conditions precedent to the execution, delivery and
performance of such amendment have been satisfied in full. The Security Trustee
may, but shall have no obligation to, execute and deliver any amendment or
modification which would affect its duties, powers, rights, immunities or
indemnities hereunder.
(b) Upon
the execution and delivery by any Person of a Grantor Supplement, (i) such
Person shall be referred to as an “Additional Grantor” and shall be
and become a Grantor hereunder, and each reference in this Agreement to
“Grantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional
Grantor, (ii) Annexes I, III and IV attached to each Grantor
Supplement shall be incorporated into, become a part of and supplement
Schedules I,
III and
IV,
respectively, and the Security Trustee may attach such Annexes as supplements
to such Schedules; and each reference to such Schedules shall be a reference to
such Schedules as so supplemented and (iii) such Additional Grantor shall
be a Grantor for all purposes under this Agreement and shall be bound by the
obligations of the Grantors hereunder.
(c) Upon
the execution and delivery by a Grantor of a Collateral Supplement,
Annex I to each Collateral Supplement shall be incorporated into, become a
part of and supplement Schedule I, and
the Security Trustee may attach such Annex as supplements to such Schedule; and
each reference to such Schedule shall be a reference to such Schedule as so
supplemented.
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Section
8.02
Addresses for Notices. All
notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing
(including telecopier) and mailed, telecopied or delivered to the intended
recipient at its address specified, as follows:
If to
Borrower or any other Borrower Group Member:
Genesis
Acquisition Limited
Clarendon
Xxxxx
0 Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx: Company
Secretary
Facsimile
No.: x0 (000) 000 0000 / 000 0000
For the
Security Trustee and the Account Bank:
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
c/o
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
00
XxXxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 000000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Trust and Securities Services/Structured Finance Services
Facsimile
No.: x0 (000) 000-0000
For the
Administrative Agent:
Citibank,
N.A.
0 Xxxxx
Xxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Facsimile
No.: x0 (000) 000-0000
or, as
to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a
written notice to each other party complying as to delivery with the terms of
this Section 8.02. Each such notice shall be effective (a) upon
receipt when sent through the mails, registered or certified mail, return
receipt requested, postage prepaid, with such receipt to be effective the date
of delivery indicated on the return receipt, or (b) one Business Day after
delivery to an overnight courier, or (c) on the date personally delivered
to an authorized officer of the party to which sent, or (d) on the date
transmitted by legible telecopier transmission with a confirmation of
receipt.
Section
8.03 No
Waiver; Remedies. No
failure on the part of the Security Trustee to exercise, and no delay in
exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall
any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by
law.
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Section
8.04
Severability; Enforcement.
(a) If
any provision of this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall
not in any way be affected or impaired.
(b) Each
Borrower Subsidiary’s grant of a security interest shall be limited so as
to secure the Secured Obligations in an amount equal to the largest amount that
would not render such grant avoidable, invalid or unenforceable on account of
Section 548 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, any applicable provision
of comparable state law or any other state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
Section
8.05
Continuing Security Interest; Assignments.
Subject to Section 8.06(b), this Agreement shall create a continuing
security interest in the Collateral and shall (a) remain in full force and
effect until the earlier of the payment in full in cash of the Secured
Obligations and the circumstances specified in Section 8.06(b),
(b) be binding upon each Grantor, its successors and assigns and
(c) inure, together with the rights and remedies of the Administrative
Agent and the Security Trustee hereunder, to the benefit of the Secured Parties
and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing clause (c), any Secured Party may assign or
otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under any
Transaction Document to which it is a party in accordance with the terms
thereof to any other Person or entity, and such other Person or entity shall
thereupon become vested with all the rights in respect thereof granted to such
Secured Party herein or otherwise. No Borrower Group Member may assign or
otherwise transfer all or any portion of its obligations
hereunder.
Section
8.06
Release and Termination.
(a) Upon
any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of any item of Collateral in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement, the
Security Trustee (at the Administrative Agent’s direction) will, at the
Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the Grantor of such item of
Collateral such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence
the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security
interest granted hereby, including the release of any and all security
deposits, supplemental rent, letters of credit, insurance or other proceeds and
all other items related to the released Collateral.
(b) Upon
the payment in full in cash of the Secured Obligations (and the expiration or
termination of all commitments of the Lenders under the Credit Agreement), the
pledge, assignment and security interest granted hereby shall terminate and all
rights to the Collateral shall revert to the applicable Grantors. Upon receipt
of a written notice from the Administrative Agent specifying any such
termination, the Security Trustee (at the Administrative Agent’s
direction) will, at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to each
relevant Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall prepare and reasonably
request to evidence such termination (and, as appropriate, redeliver
certificates or other instruments representing or evidencing any of the
Collateral).
Section
8.07
Limited Recourse. In the
event that the direct or indirect assets and proceeds thereof of any Grantor
are insufficient, after payment of all other claims, if any, ranking in
priority to the claims of the Security Trustee or any Secured Party hereunder,
to pay in full such claims of the Security Trustee or such Secured Party (as
the case may be), then the Security
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Trustee
or the Secured Party shall have no further claim against the Borrower or the
other Grantors in respect of any such unpaid amounts. No recourse under any
obligation of the Borrower evidenced by this Agreement shall be had against any
shareholder, officer or director of the Borrower, by the enforcement of any
assessment or by any proceeding by virtue of any statute or otherwise; it being
expressly agreed and understood that this Agreement evidences a corporate
obligation of the Borrower and no personal liability shall attach to or be
incurred by the shareholders, officers, agents or directors of the Borrower as
such, or any of them under or by reason of any of the obligations evidenced by
this Agreement, and that any and all personal liability for braches by the
Borrower of any of such obligations, covenants or agreements, either at law or
by statute or constitution, of every such shareholder, officer, agent or
director is hereby expressly waived by the Security Trustee and the
Administrative Agent.
Section
8.08
Governing Law. THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL
OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF THAT
WOULD CALL FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, EXCEPT TO
THE EXTENT THAT THE PERFECTION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE SECURITY TRUSTEE FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE LENDERS AND THE ELIGIBLE COUNTERPARTIES IN THE COLLATERAL, OR
REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT THEREOF, ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A
JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section
8.09
Jurisdiction.
(a) EACH
PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR
HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY SUIT, LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING
ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY UNDER OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT IN ANY COURT
LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK AND HEREBY
FURTHER WAIVES ANY CLAIM THAT A COURT LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, CITY
AND STATE OF NEW YORK IS NOT A CONVENIENT FORUM FOR ANY SUCH SUIT, LEGAL ACTION
OR PROCEEDING.
(b) EACH
GRANTOR AGREES THAT THE PROCESS BY WHICH ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING IS
BEGUN MAY BE SERVED ON IT BY BEING DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUIT,
ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO XXXXXXX & ASSOCIATES, WITH
AN OFFICE ON THE DATE HEREOF AT 000 XXXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXX 000, XXXXXX, XXXXXXXX
00000, AND EACH OF THEM HEREBY APPOINTS XXXXXXX & ASSOCIATES ITS DESIGNEE,
APPOINTEE AND AGENT TO RECEIVE, ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE FOR AND ON ITS BEHALF
SUCH SERVICE OF LEGAL PROCESS.
(c) EACH
GRANTOR HEREBY CONSENTS GENERALLY IN RESPECT OF ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT TO THE GIVING OF ANY RELIEF
OR THE ISSUE OF ANY PROCESS IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING,
INCLUDING THE MAKING, ENFORCEMENT OR EXECUTION AGAINST ANY PROPERTY
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WHATSOEVER
(IRRESPECTIVE OF ITS USE OR INTENDED USE) OF ANY ORDER OR JUDGMENT WHICH MAY BE
MADE OR GIVEN IN SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING.
Section
8.10
Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts by the parties hereto,
and each such counterpart shall be considered an original and all such
counterparts shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an
executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by facsimile or
electronic mail shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Agreement.
Section
8.11
Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The
Table of Contents and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Agreement
have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered
a part hereof and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms and
provisions hereof.
Section
8.12
Effectiveness. This
Agreement shall be effective when executed and delivered by each party
hereto.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed and delivered by its representative or officer thereunto duly
authorized as of the date first above written.
Signed as a Deed,
GENESIS
ACQUISITION LIMITED,
as
Borrower and Grantor |
||
|
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|
By: | /s/ Xxxx XxXxxxx | |
|
||
Name: Xxxx
XxXxxxx
Title:
Director |
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS,
as Security Trustee and Account
Bank
|
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|
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X Xxxxxx | |
|
||
Name: Xxxxxx X
Xxxxxx
Title: Vice
President |
|
|
|
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | |
|
||
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx
Title:
Associate |
CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent | ||
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|
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Hollanan | |
|
||
Name: Xxxxxx
Hollanan
Title: VP |
SCHEDULE
I
PLEDGED
STOCK
Stock
Issuer |
|
|
Par
Value |
|
|
Certificate
No(s). |
|
|
Number
of
Shares
Pledged |
|
|
Percentage
of
Shares
Issued and Outstanding |
|
None
|
PLEDGED
MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS
Borrower
|
Certificate
No. |
Percentage
of
Membership
Interests |
|||||
None
|
PLEDGED
BENEFICIAL INTERESTS
All of
the beneficial interests created in the trusts pursuant to each Trust Agreement
listed on Schedule I-A attached hereto.
SCHEDULE
II
NON-TRUSTEE
ACCOUNT INFORMATION
NAME AND
ADDRESS
OF
BANK |
NAME
AND ADDRESS OF
NON-TRUSTEE
ACCOUNT
HOLDER |
ACCOUNT
NUMBER |
SCHEDULE
III
Security
Trust Agreement
TRADE
NAMES
None
SCHEDULE
IV
Security
Trust Agreement
JURISDICTION
OF ORGANIZATION, CHIEF PLACE OF BUSINESS
AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OR REGISTERED OFFICE
Name of
Grantor |
Registered
Office and
Jurisdiction
|
Chief
Executive Office and
Chief
Place of
Business
|
|||||
Genesis
Acquisition Limited |
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx
0
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 11
Bermuda
|
Roselawn
House
University
Business Complex
National
Technological Park,
Limerick,
Ireland |
SCHEDULE
V
Security
Trust Agreement
TRUST
AGREEMENTS
[None]
EXHIBIT
A-1
Security
Trust Agreement
[FORM
OF COLLATERAL SUPPLEMENT]
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas, as Security Trustee
00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
Trust and Securities Services/Structured Finance Services
[Date]
Attention:
_______________________________
Re:
Security Trust Agreement, dated as of April 5, 2007
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Reference
is made to the Security Trust Agreement (the “Security Trust
Agreement”), dated as of April 5, 2007 among Genesis Acquisition Limited,
an exempted company organized and existing under the laws of Bermuda (the
“Borrower”), the Borrower Subsidiaries listed on the signature pages
of, or who otherwise become grantors under, the Security Trust Agreement
(together with the Borrower, the “Grantors”), Deutsche Bank Trust
Company Americas (“DBTCA”), as Security Trustee and Account Bank, and
Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Security Trust Agreement.
The
undersigned hereby delivers, as of the date first above written, the attached
Annexes I and II pursuant to Section 2.18 of the Security Trust
Agreement.
The
undersigned Grantor hereby confirms that the property listed in the attached
Annexes constitutes part of the Collateral and hereby makes each representation
and warranty set forth in Section 2.03 of the Security Trust Agreement (as
supplemented by the attached Annexes) with respect to such
property.
Attached
are (i) a Control Agreement in substantially the form approved in writing
by the Administrative Agent from each Non-Trustee Account Bank at which each
Non-Trustee Account included in the foregoing Collateral is maintained,
(ii) where required with respect to any Assigned Document (other than an
Assigned Lease) included in the foregoing Collateral, a Notice and
Acknowledgment in substantially the form of Exhibit B to the Security
Trust Agreement from the counterparty thereto or, with respect to any Assigned
Lease included in the foregoing Collateral, such consents, acknowledgements
and/or notices as are called for under Section 2.08(a) of the Security
Trust Agreement and (iii) duly completed copies of Annexes I and II
hereto.
This
Collateral Supplement shall in all respects be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York (without giving effect to
conflicts of law principles thereof), including all matters of construction,
validity and performance.
Very
truly yours,
[NAME OF
GRANTOR]1 |
||
|
|
|
By: | ||
|
||
Name:
Title:
|
Acknowledged
and agreed to as of the date first above written:
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
not in
its individual capacity, but solely
as
Security Trustee and Account Bank
|
||||
By: | ||||
|
||||
Name:
Title:
|
By: | ||||
|
||||
Name:
Title:
|
1
|
If any
Irish incorporated company is a party to this Agreement, use the following
execution block: |
“Signed
Sealed and Delivered
by
_____________________
the duly
appointed attorney of
[ ]
in the
presence of:”
2
ANNEX
I
Collateral
Supplement
PLEDGED
STOCK
Stock
Issuer |
|
|
Par
Value |
|
|
Certificate
No(s). |
|
|
Number
of
Shares
Pledged |
|
|
Percentage
of
Shares
Issued and Outstanding |
|
PLEDGED
BENEFICIAL INTERESTS
Issuer
|
|
|
Certificate
No. |
|
|
Percentage
of
Beneficial
Interests |
|
PLEDGED
MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS1
Issuer
|
|
|
Certificate
No. |
|
|
Percentage
of
Membership
Interests |
|
100% | |||||||
PLEDGED
DEBT
Debt
Issuer |
|
|
Description
of Debt |
|
|
Date
|
ANNEX
II
Collateral
Supplement
NON-TRUSTEE
ACCOUNT INFORMATION
NAME AND
ADDRESS
OF
BANK |
|
|
NAME
AND ADDRESS OF
NON-TRUSTEE
ACCOUNT
HOLDER |
|
|
ACCOUNT
NUMBER |
EXHIBIT
A-2
Security
Trust Agreement
[FORM
OF GRANTOR SUPPLEMENT]
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas, as Security Trustee
00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
Trust and Securities Services/Structured Finance Services
[Date]
Attention:
_____________________________________
Re:
Security Trust Agreement, dated as of April 5, 2007
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Reference
is made to the Security Trust Agreement (the “Security Trust
Agreement”), dated as of April 5, 2007 among Genesis Acquisition Limited,
an exempted company organized and existing under the laws of Bermuda (the
“Borrower”), the Borrower Subsidiaries listed on the signature pages
of, or who otherwise become grantors under, the Security Trust Agreement
(together with the Borrower, the “Grantors”), Deutsche Bank Trust
Company Americas, a national banking association (“DBTCA”) as
Security Trustee and Account Bank, and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the Security Trust Agreement.
The
undersigned hereby agrees, as of the date first above written, to become a
Grantor under the Security Trust Agreement as if it were an original party
thereto and agrees that each reference in the Security Trust Agreement to
“Grantor” shall also mean and be a reference to the
undersigned.
To
secure the Secured Obligations, the undersigned Grantor hereby assigns and
pledges to the Security Trustee for its benefit and the benefit of the Secured
Parties, and hereby grants to the Security Trustee for its benefit and the
benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, all of its right, title
and interest in and to:
[To be
completed as appropriate]
The
undersigned Grantor hereby makes each representation and warranty set forth in
Section 2.03 of the Security Trust Agreement (as supplemented by the
attached Annexes) and hereby agrees to be bound as a Grantor by all of the
terms and provisions of the Security Trust Agreement. Each reference in the
Security Trust Agreement to the Pledged Stock, the Pledged Debt, the Pledged
Beneficial Interests, the Pledged Membership Interests, the Security
Collateral, the Beneficial Interest Collateral, the Membership Interest
Collateral, the Non-Trustee Account Collateral, the Bank Account Collateral,
the Investment Collateral, the Assigned Agreement, the Assigned Agreement
Collateral, the Asset Purchase Agreements, the Aircraft Purchase Collateral,
the Assigned Leases, the Secured Service Provider Documents, the Servicing
Collateral, the Lease Collateral, and the Assigned Documents shall be construed
to include a reference to the corresponding Collateral hereunder.
The
undersigned hereby agrees, together with the Borrower, jointly and severally to
indemnify the Security Trustee, its officers, directors, employees and agents
in the manner set forth in Section 15.1 of the Credit Agreement.
Attached
are (i) a Control Agreement in substantially in the form approved in
writing by the Administrative Agent from each Non-Trustee Account Bank at which
each Non-Trustee Account included in the foregoing Collateral is maintained,
(ii) where required with respect to any Assigned Document (other than an
Assigned Lease) included in the foregoing Collateral, a Notice and
Acknowledgement in substantially the form of Exhibit B to the Security
Trust Agreement from the counterparty thereto or, with respect to any Assigned
Lease included in the foregoing Collateral, such consents, acknowledgements
and/or notices as are called for under Section 2.08(a) of the Security
Trust Agreement, (iii) duly completed copies of Annexes I, II, III
and IV hereto [and (iv) an Irish Share Mortgage] [insert if
applicable].
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This
Grantor Supplement shall in all respects be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York (without giving effect to
conflicts of law principles thereof), including all matters of construction,
validity and performance.
Very
truly yours,
[NAME OF
GRANTOR]1 |
||
|
|
|
By: | ||
|
||
Name:
Title:
|
Acknowledged
and agreed to as of the date first above written:
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
not in
its individual capacity, but solely
as
Security Trustee and Account Bank
|
||||
By: | ||||
|
||||
Name:
Title:
|
By: | ||||
|
||||
Name:
Title:
|
1
|
If any
Irish incorporated company is a party to this Agreement, use the following
execution block: |
“Signed
Sealed and Delivered
by
_____________________
the duly
appointed attorney of
[ ]
in the
presence of:”
3
ANNEX
I
Grantor
Supplement
PLEDGED
STOCK
Stock
Issuer |
|
|
Par
Value |
|
|
Certificate
No(s). |
|
|
Number
of
Shares
|
|
|
Percentage
of
Outstanding
Shares
|
PLEDGED
BENEFICIAL INTERESTS
Issuer
|
|
|
Certificate
No. |
|
|
Percentage
of
Beneficial
Interests |
PLEDGED
MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS
Issuer
|
|
|
Certificate
No. |
|
|
Percentage
of
Membership
Interests |
PLEDGED
DEBT
Debt
Issuer |
|
|
Description
of Debt |
|
|
Date
|
ANNEX
II
Grantor
Supplement
NON-TRUSTEE
ACCOUNT INFORMATION
NAME AND
ADDRESS
OF
BANK |
|
|
NAME
AND ADDRESS OF
NON-TRUSTEE
ACCOUNT
HOLDER |
|
|
ACCOUNT
NUMBER |
ANNEX
III
Grantor
Supplement
TRADE
NAMES
ANNEX
IV
Grantor
Supplement
NAME OF
GRANTOR |
CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
OFFICE
|
|
|
CHIEF
PLACE OF
BUSINESS
|
|
|
REGISTERED
OFFICE
|
|||
EXHIBIT
B
Security
Trust Agreement
FORM
OF NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
NOTICE
AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT3
From: [Name
of Lessor] (the
“Lessor”)
To: [Name
of Lessee] (the
“Lessee”)
____________
__, _____
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We refer
to the lease agreement described on the attached Schedule 1 (as supplemented
and amended from time to time, the “Lease
Agreement”)
relating to one [make
and model of aircraft] with
manufacturer’s serial number _____ (together with the engines described in
the Lease Agreement, the “Aircraft”). All
terms defined in the Lease Agreement shall, unless the context otherwise
requires, have the same meanings in this Notice and Acknowledgment (this
“Notice”).
In
accordance with the provisions of the Lease Agreement, we hereby notify you of
the following:
1. |
By a
Security Trust Agreement dated as of April 5, 2007 (the “Security
Assignment”) by and
among Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Security Trustee (the
“Security
Trustee”) and
ourselves and the other parties named therein, we have, among other things,
assigned and encumbered to the Security Trustee, as security, all of our right,
title and interest in and to (a) the Lease Agreement, the other [Operative
Documents] and all other agreements (including any side letters, guarantees,
subleases or option agreements) entered into in connection with, or relating
to, the Lease Agreement (collectively, the “Security
Assignment Documents”) and
(b) the rent payable under the Lease Agreement and, if any, all letters of
credit, supplemental rent, security deposits, other supporting obligations and
arrangements, and insurance proceeds, and all proceeds of any of the foregoing
(collectively, “Security
Amounts”)
relating to the Aircraft or the Security Assignment Documents. [In connection
with such collateral assignment, the Security Trustee has agreed to execute and
deliver to you a Confirmation of Quiet Enjoyment in the form attached hereto as
Schedule 2.4 ] The
Lessee hereby consents, effective as of the date hereof, to the security
assignment in favor of the Security Trustee described in the preceding
sentence. |
3 |
Subject
to modifications because of terms of particular lease or if title to the
aircraft will be transferred to a new Aircraft Owning Entity, as may be
requested by the Security Trustee. |
4 |
Include
only if Lease requires acknowledgment of quiet enjoyment.
|
2
2. |
GE
Commercial Aviation Services Limited (“GECAS”), in
its capacity as servicer for the Lessor, will act as Lessor’s
attorney-in-fact, servicer and agent for all matters related to the Aircraft,
the Security Assignment Documents and the Security Amounts (in such capacity,
the “Servicer”).
We hereby authorize you, and you agree, to rely upon (and to comply with, where
the context calls for such compliance) communications you receive from GECAS
(or any successor Servicer whose appointment you receive written notice from
the Security Trustee) in connection with the Security Assignment Documents and
the Security Amounts as if received from the Lessor, subject in all cases to
the rights of the Security Trustee as provided in this Notice.
|
3. |
A copy
of all notices you send to the Lessor under the Lease Agreement to GECAS should
be sent to the address set forth below (and to any such successor Servicer at
the address set forth in such notice of appointment): |
GE
Commercial Aviation Services Limited
Aviation
House
Shannon,
County Clare
Ireland
Attention:
Company Secretary
Fax:
(000) 00-000000
Telephone:
(000) 00-000000
with a
copy to:
GE
Commercial Aviation Services LLC
000 Xxxx
Xxxxx Xxxx (Xxxxxx Xxxxx)
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
General Counsel
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
4. |
From and
after your receipt of notice from us in the form attached hereto as
Schedule 4, as to the dating, release from escrow and effectiveness of
this Notice (it being agreed that any period of notice for change of account
details set forth in the Lease Agreement is hereby waived), unless and until
the Security Trustee otherwise directs in writing, (i) all monies (other than
supplemental rent and any security deposit) that are payable by you under the
Lease Agreement or any other Security Assignment Document to which the Lessee
is a party shall be paid to: |
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
ABA No.:
[________________]
Account
No: [________________]
Account
Name: [________________]
Ref: [Name of
Lessee]; MSN [ ]
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and (ii)
all monies in respect of supplemental rent that are payable by you under the
Lease Agreement or any other Security Assignment Document to which the Lessee
is a party shall be paid to:
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
ABA No.:
[________________]
Account
No: [________________]
Account
Name: [________________]
Ref: [Name of
Lessee]; MSN [ ]
and
(iii) all monies in respect of security deposit that are payable by you under
the Lease Agreement or any other Security Assignment Document to which the
Lessee is a party shall be paid to:
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
ABA No.:
[________________]
Account
No: [________________]
Account
Name: [________________]
Ref: [Name of
Lessee]; MSN [ ]
5. |
If the
Security Trustee delivers to you a written notice that it has exercised its
rights under the Security Trust Agreement (a “Relevant
Notice”), then
you shall thereafter perform, observe and comply with all terms of the Lease
Agreement and the other Security Assignment Documents for the benefit of the
Security Trustee as if the Security Trustee were named in place of the Lessor
in the Security Assignment Documents. After the Security Trustee delivers any
Relevant Notice, you shall not recognize the exercise by the Lessor (or GECAS
or any successor Servicer) of any of its rights and powers under the Security
Assignment Documents unless and until requested to do so by the Security
Trustee. |
6. |
You
agree to cause the hull and liability insurance required to be maintained under
the Lease Agreement to be endorsed as specified in the attached Schedule 3 and
to obtain from your insurance/reinsurance brokers revised certificates of
insurance and broker’s letter of undertaking to evidence such
endorsements. |
7. |
You
agree that (i) Genesis Acquisition Limited, (ii) GECAS, as servicer, (iii) the
Security Trustee for the benefit of the Lenders (as defined in the Security
Trust Agreement) and (iv) Genesis Lease Limited are “Indemnitees” for all
purposes of the Lease Agreement. |
8. |
You
represent and warrant as follows:5 |
5 |
If
the Lessee, having been furnished this form Notice and Acknowledgment,
notifies the Servicer that the Lessee is unwilling to provide the
representations set forth in this paragraph 8 as written, the Servicer may,
without having to obtain the consent of the
(continued...)
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(a) |
This
Notice and the Security Assignment Documents to which the Lessee is a party
have each been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and constitute a
legal, valid and binding agreement of, the Lessee, enforceable against the
Lessee in accordance with their respective terms. |
(b) |
No
“Total Loss”, “Event of Loss” or similar event as defined
in the Lease Agreement has occurred as to the Aircraft or the related engines,
and the Certificate of Airworthiness for the Aircraft remains in full force and
effect. |
(c) |
On the
date of this Notice, no “Event of Default” or similar event as
defined in the Lease Agreement, or, to the Lessee’s knowledge, event which
with the giving of notice or the passage of time or both would mature into an
“Event of Default” or similar event, has occurred and is
continuing. |
(d) |
The
Lessee is not entitled to any offset against any amounts payable under the
Security Assignment Documents and, to the best of the Lessee’s knowledge,
the Lessee has no present claim against the Lessor with respect to the
Aircraft, the Security Assignment Documents or the Security
Amounts. |
(e) |
The
representations and warranties of the Lessee contained in Section [__] of the
Lease Agreement are true and correct as of the date hereof. |
9. |
The
identification plates on the Aircraft and the Engines in accordance with
Section [___] of the Lease Agreement shall not include any reference to a
mortgagee or financing party. [You will as promptly as practicable cause the
interest of the Security Trustee in the Lease Agreement to be appropriately
noted in the aircraft registry of the country in which the Aircraft is
registered and send the Servicer confirmation of the same.]6 |
Security
Trustee or any other party, accede to such modifications to the terms of this
paragraph as the Lessee may reasonably request, provided that in
any event the Lessee shall represent that this Notice has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Lessee, that each Security Assignment Document to
which the Lessee is a party is enforceable against the Lessee in accordance
with the terms of such document, that no Total Loss, Event of Loss or similar
event has occurred as to the Aircraft or any of its engines, and that no Event
of Default (or similar event, following any applicable grace or cure periods)
has occurred and is continuing under the Lease Agreement.
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Include
only if the applicable aircraft registry would permit such notation to be
made. |
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This
Notice and the authorizations and instructions contained in this Notice are
irrevocable unless and until you receive written notice to the contrary from
the Security Trustee. The Security Trustee shall not be bound by, nor have any
liability for the performance of, any of the Lessor’s obligations under
the Security Assignment Documents (whether taken by the Lessor, GECAS or any
successor attorney-in-fact and manager) unless expressly agreed to in writing
by the Security Trustee following the exercise by the Security Trustee of
remedies under the Security Assignment.
Yours
faithfully,
For and
on behalf of
[NAME
OF LESSOR]
ACKNOWLEDGED
AND AGREED
this
_____ day of _____, 200_
[NAME
OF LESSEE]
By: | ||
|
||
Name: | ||
Title: |
SCHEDULE
1
Lease
Agreement
[Description
of Lease Agreement]
2
SCHEDULE
2
Confirmation
of Quiet Enjoyment
From: Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas,
as Security Trustee (the “Security Trustee”)
as Security Trustee (the “Security Trustee”)
To: [Name
of Lessee]
[Address
of Lessee]
Attention:
________________________________
__________
__, 20__
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We refer
to the lease agreement described on the attached Schedule 1 (as assigned,
supplemented and amended from time to time, the “Lease
Agreement”),
relating to one [make
and model of aircraft]
bearing manufacturer’s serial number _____ and _____ registration xxxx
______ (the “Aircraft”). Words
and expressions defined in Lease Agreement shall have the same respective
meaning when used herein.
In
consideration of your consent, acknowledgment and agreements to the Notice and
Acknowledgment of Assignment, dated this date, from Lessor to you (the
“Notice”), we
hereby agree that so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, we will not, directly or indirectly, and will not permit any person
claiming by or through us, to take any action that would interfere with
Lessee’s rights to quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the Aircraft under the
Lease Agreement.1
Yours faithfully, | ||
|
|
|
for
and on behalf of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Security Trustee |
1
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Text of
this paragraph to be conformed to quiet enjoyment provision of the Lease
Agreement. |
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SCHEDULE
3
Insurance
(A) |
Without
limiting the requirements of the Lease Agreement, all required hull, spares and
hull war risk insurance shall (i) name each “Indemnitee” referred to
in paragraph 7 of the Notice and Acknowledgment to which this Schedule is
attached as additional insureds and (ii) designate the Security Trustee as the
sole loss payee in relation to any total loss. |
(B) |
All
required liability (including war risk liability) insurance shall include (i)
the Lessor, (ii) Genesis Acquisition Limited, (iii) GE Commercial Aviation
Services Limited, (iv) the Security Trustee, on behalf of the Lenders (as
defined in the Security Trust Agreement, (v) Genesis Leasing Limited, (vi) the
respective successors and assigns of such parties, and (vii) the respective
shareholders, subsidiaries, directors, members, officers, agents, employees and
indemnitees of such parties as additional insureds. |
For
insurance coverage that includes AVN67B (or the substantive equivalent) the
following should be identified in the insurance/reinsurance
certificates.
Contract
Parties:
Genesis
Acquisition Limited
Genesis
Lease Limited
GE
Commercial Aviation Services Limited
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
in each
case, with its successor and assigns
Contracts:
1. Credit
Agreement dated as of April 5, 2007 among Genesis Acquisition Limited, as
Borrower, Genesis Lease Limited, as Manager, the financial institutions set
forth on Schedule IV therein, as Lenders, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative
Agent, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Security Trustee and
Account Bank.
2. Security
Trust Agreement dated as of April 5, 2007 among Genesis Acquisition Limited,
certain additional grantors identified therein, Citibank, N.A., as
Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Security
Trustee and Account Bank.
3. Servicing
Agreement dated as of April 5, 2007 between GE Commercial Aviation Services
Limited, as Servicer, and Genesis Acquisition Limited.
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SCHEDULE
4
Form of
Notice from Lessor that Notice and Acknowledgment is Effective
From:
[Name
of Lessor] (the
“Lessor”)
[Address
of Lessor]
To:
[Name
of Lessee] (the
“Lessee”)
[Address
of Lessee]
Date: __________
__, 200_
Re: Effectiveness
of Notice and Acknowledgment
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We refer
to the Notice and Acknowledgment between the Lessor and the Lessee that is
being held by [Counsel to Genesis Acquisition Limited] on the terms described
in the letter from [Name of Escrow Agent] dated __________ __,
200_.
This
will confirm that the Notice and Acknowledgment (i) has been dated the date
hereof with the account numbers ________ and ________ having been inserted in
paragraph 4, (ii) has been released by [Counsel to Genesis Acquisition
Limited] and (iii) has become effective.
Very
truly yours, |
||
[NAME OF
LESSOR] |
||
By: | ||
|
||
Name: | ||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT
C
Security
Trust Agreement
[FORM
OF DEED OF CHARGE OVER THE IRISH VAT REFUND ACCOUNT]
Draft
Dated
___ April 2007
GENESIS
ACQUISITION LIMITED
and
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
DEED
OF CHARGE
OVER
A BANK ACCOUNT
A
& L Goodbody
THIS
DEED OF CHARGE (the
Deed) is dated
___ April 2007 and made between
(1)
|
GENESIS
ACQUISITION LIMITED a
company formed under the laws of Bermuda and having its registered office at
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx XX 00, Xxxxxxx (xxx
Xxxxxxx);
and |
(2) |
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS in its
capacity as security trustee, having an office at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx,
26th Floor,
MS XXX00-0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000 (the
Chargee).
|
RECITALS
The Chargor is the
beneficial owner of the Account (as hereinafter defined).
The Chargor has
agreed to enter into this Deed for the purposes of securing payment by the
Chargor of the Secured Obligations (as hereinafter defined).
NOW
THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH and it
is hereby agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows:
ARTICLE
IX DEFINITIONS
Section
9.01 In
this Deed:
Account
means the VAT Refund Account bearing account no. [ ]
of the Chargor held with the Bank or any replacement or reinstatement of any
such account whether by current account or deposit account;
Account
Balance means the balance for the time being standing to the credit of
the Account together with all interest thereon and the debt represented
thereby;
Bank
means
[
];
Credit
Agreement means
the credit agreement dated [ ] April 2007 between the Chargor,
Genesis Lease Limited, as manager, the financial institutions set forth in
Schedule IV thereto as lenders, Citibank N.A., as administrative agent, and
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as security trustee and account
bank;
Encumbrance
means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, assignment by way of security,
hypothecation, security interest, title retention, preferential right or trust
arrangement and any other agreement or arrangement having the effect of
security;
Secured
Obligations means the Secured Obligations as defined in the Security
Trust Agreement;
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Security
Period means the period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the
date upon which the Chargee has confirmed in writing that all the Secured
Obligations which have or may arise have been irrevocably paid and discharged;
and
Security
Trust Agreement means
the security trust agreement dated on or about the date hereof and entered into
between, inter alia, the Chargor and the Chargee.
All terms not
specifically defined above shall bear the same meanings as are ascribed to them
in the Security Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE
X INTERPRETATION
Section
10.01
Words and phrases the definition of which is contained or referred to in
Section 2 of the Companies Act, 1963 shall be construed as having the meaning
thereby attributed to them. Words importing the singular shall include the
plural and vice versa and words importing persons shall include
corporations.
Section
10.02
References to statutory provisions shall unless the contrary is clearly stated
be a reference to statutory provisions operative in Ireland and will be
construed as references to those provisions as respectively amended or
re-enacted (whether before or after the date hereof) from time to time and
shall include any provisions of which they are re-enactments (whether with or
without modification) and shall also include any subordinate legislation made
from time to time under those provisions.
Section
10.03 Words
such as hereunder,
hereto,
hereof and
herein shall
unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary refer to the whole of this
Deed and not to any particular section or clause thereof.
Section
10.04 Save
as otherwise provided herein any reference to a section, clause, paragraph or a
sub-paragraph shall be reference to a section, clause, paragraph or a
sub-paragraph (as they may be) of this Deed.
Section
10.05 The
headings are inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction of this Deed.
Section
10.06
Reference to any document includes that document as amended, novated or
supplemented from time to time.
ARTICLE
XI COVENANT
TO PAY AND PERFORM
Section
11.01 The
Chargor hereby covenants and undertakes with the Chargee that it shall pay and
discharge the Secured Obligations as and when the same become due.
Section
11.02 The
Chargor hereby covenants that it shall at all times comply with and observe all
terms and conditions applicable to the Account contained in the Security Trust
Agreement, the Credit Agreement and this Deed.
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ARTICLE
XII CHARGE
Section
12.01 As
security for the Secured Obligations the Chargor as beneficial owner hereby
charges:
(a)
|
by way
of a first fixed charge in favour of the Chargee all of its present and future
right, title and interest in and to the Account and the Account Balance;
and |
(b)
|
by way
of first floating charge in favour of the Chargee all of its present and future
rights, title and interest in and to such of the Account and the Account
Balance as may be deemed not have been charged by way of first fixed charge
pursuant to clause 4.1.1, |
Section
12.02 PROVIDED
THAT upon
irrevocable payment in full of the Secured Obligations or upon the occurrence
of any of the circumstances set out in Section 8.06 of the Security Trust
Agreement, the Chargee will forthwith at the request and expense of the Chargor
release the Account and the Account Balance to the Chargor. During the
continuance of the security created hereby, the Chargor shall not, except with
the prior written consent of the Chargee, be entitled to withdraw the whole or
part of the Account Balance for any purpose save as provided in the Security
Trust Agreement and/or the Credit Agreement.
ARTICLE
XIII CONTINUING
SECURITY
Section
13.01 The
security constituted by this Deed shall be continuing and not satisfied by any
intermediate payment or satisfaction of any part of the Secured Obligations but
shall secure the ultimate balance of the Secured Obligations. The security
hereby given shall be in addition to and shall not be affected by any other
Encumbrance now or hereafter held by the Chargee for all or any of the Secured
Obligations.
Section
13.02 Where
any discharge (whether in respect of the obligations of the Chargor or any
security therefor or otherwise) is made in whole or in part or any arrangement
is made on the faith of any payment, security or other disposition which is
avoided or must be repaid on bankruptcy, liquidation, by virtue of Section 1001
of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 or otherwise without limitation, this Deed
shall continue in force as if there had been no such discharge or
arrangement.
Section
13.03 The
Chargee shall be entitled to concede or compromise in good faith any claim that
any such payment, security or other disposition is liable to avoidance or
repayment.
Section
13.04 This
Deed shall not be affected by any act, omission or circumstance which but for
this provision might operate to release or otherwise diminish this Deed or
affect such obligations including without limitation and whether or not known
to either of the Chargor or the Chargee:
(a)
|
any time
or waiver granted to or composition with any person whatsoever; or
|
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(b)
|
the
taking, variation, compromise, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to
perfect or enforce, any rights, remedies or securities against or granted by
any other person whatsoever; or |
(c)
|
any
variation of, or extension of the due date for performance of, any term of any
agreement or security or any increase in the Secured Obligations to the intent
that this Deed shall apply to such term as varied or in respect of the extended
due date or such increase; or |
(d)
|
any
irregularity, unenforceability, invalidity or frustration of any obligations of
any person whatsoever under any agreement or any other document or security, or
any present or future law or order of any government or authority (whether of
right or in fact) purporting to reduce or otherwise affect any of such
obligations, to the intent that this Deed shall remain in full force and be
construed accordingly as if there were no such irregularity, unenforceability,
invalidity, frustration, law or order; or |
(e)
|
any
legal limitation, disability, incapacity or other circumstances relating to any
such party or any other person. |
Section
13.05 The
Chargor waives any right it may have of first requiring the Chargee to proceed
against or claim payment from anyone else or enforce any guarantee or security
granted by any other person before enforcing this Deed.
Section
13.06
Until all amounts which may be or become payable by the Chargor to the Chargee
shall have been irrevocably paid and discharged in full, the Chargee may
refrain from applying or enforcing any other security, moneys or rights held or
received by the Chargee in respect of such amounts or apply and enforce the
same in such manner and order as the Chargee sees fit (whether against such
amounts or otherwise) and the Chargor shall not be entitled to the benefit of
the same.
Section
13.07 Unless
otherwise agreed the Chargor shall not be entitled to any right of contribution
or subrogation by virtue of any realisation of this security.
Section
13.08
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in its capacity as security trustee
hereunder, shall be afforded all of the rights, powers, immunities and
indemnities set forth in the Security Trust Agreement as if such rights,
powers, immunities and indemnities were specifically set forth
herein.
ARTICLE
XIV PROHIBITION
ON ENCUMBRANCES AND DISPOSALS
The Chargor
undertakes that (except with the prior written consent of the Chargee or as
otherwise provided herein or contemplated by the Security Trust Agreement)
during the Security Period it will not except in favour of the
Chargee:
Section
14.01
create or permit to subsist any Encumbrance upon all or any part of the
Account; or
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Section
14.02 assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the
Account.
ARTICLE
XVMAINTENANCE
OF THE SECURITY
Section
15.01 The
Chargor will (if requested by the Chargee and at the cost of the Chargor)
institute and maintain all such proceedings as may be necessary or expedient to
preserve or protect the interest of the Chargee and the Chargor in the
Account.
Section
15.02 The
Chargor will (except as the Chargee may otherwise have consented in
writing):
(a)
|
duly
perform its obligations under the Security Trust Agreement, the Credit
Agreement and this Deed and notify the Chargee of any default
thereunder; |
(b)
|
not
agree to any variation of any agreement relating to the Account or release any
other party thereto from any of their respective obligations thereunder, waive
any such obligations, give any consent which may be given thereunder or submit
any dispute to arbitration thereunder; |
(c)
|
not
exercise any right or power conferred on it by or available to it under or in
respect of the Account for any purpose unless and until requested to do so by
the Chargee. Upon request by the Chargee, the Chargor will exercise such right
or power as the Chargee may direct; |
(d)
|
not
accept or make any claim that any agreement relating to the Account has been
frustrated or has ceased to be in full force; |
(e)
|
not
assign or otherwise dispose of all or any of its rights under any agreement
relating to the Account. |
ARTICLE
XVI ENFORCEMENT
OF SECURITY
Section
16.01 The
Chargor will not take any action which would result in any sums being paid out
of the Account for any purpose save with the prior written authorization of the
Chargee. In addition, the Chargor will execute such irrevocable mandates and
instructions for payment or otherwise as the Chargee may require in order to
ensure that no monies are paid out of the Account save with the prior written
authorization of the Chargee. In the event of any conflicting instructions,
those of the Chargee shall prevail.
Section
16.02 On
or after any of the Secured Obligations have become due, the security hereby
created shall become immediately enforceable without any need for demand on or
notice to the Chargor and the Chargee may apply the Account Balance in
accordance with this Deed. The parties hereby acknowledge that any proceeds
from the enforcement of the security created by this Deed shall be applied in
accordance with the payment and priority provisions set out in the Credit
Agreement.
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Section
16.03 When
and at any time after this security becomes enforceable in accordance with
clause 8.2, the Chargee shall be entitled without notice immediately to put
into force and exercise all the powers and remedies possessed by it according
to law as Chargee of the Account as and when it may see fit and in
particular:
(a)
|
to take
over or institute all such proceedings in connection with the Account as the
Chargee in its absolute discretion thinks fit and to discharge, compound,
release or compromise all or any of the Account Balance or claims in respect
thereof; |
(b)
|
to take
possession of the Account and the Account Balance; |
(c)
|
to
implement any contracts relating to the Account, or to agree with any other
party thereto to determine the same on such terms and conditions as the Chargee
and such party may agree; and |
(d)
|
to
utilise some or all of the Account Balance in discharge of the Secured
Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement and to perform
or cause to be performed all acts and things requisite or desirable according
to the law of the country in which the Account is situate for the purpose of
giving effect to the exercise of any of the said powers, authorities and
discretions. |
Section
16.04 The
foregoing rights and powers of the Chargee shall be in addition and without
prejudice to all statutory rights and powers of the Chargee under the
Conveyancing and Law of Property Acts, 1881 to 1911 or otherwise but so
that:
(a)
|
Any
statutory power of sale and appointment of a receiver shall be exercisable
without the restrictions contained in Section 20 of the Conveyancing and Law of
Property Act, 1881; |
(b)
|
Any
receiver so appointed shall be agent of the Chargor and the Chargor alone shall
be responsible for his acts, defaults or remuneration; |
(c)
|
The
restriction on the right of consolidating mortgages contained in Section 17 of
the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, 1881 shall not apply to this Deed or
to any other security given; and |
(d)
|
The
Chargee shall not be liable to account as mortgagee in possession.
|
ARTICLE
XVII NOTICE
AND FURTHER ASSURANCE
The Chargee will
give notice to the Bank of the charge contained herein in the form of the
relevant part of the First Schedule hereto or in such other form and will
procure (so far as it is able) that the Bank acknowledges such notice to the
Chargee in the form set out in the Second Schedule or as required by the
Chargee. At any time and from time to time upon the written
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request of the
Chargee, the Chargor shall execute and deliver any and all such further
instruments and documents as the Chargee may require for the purpose of
obtaining the full benefit of the charge over the Account and Account Balance
effected hereby and of the rights and powers hereby granted.
ARTICLE
XVIII POWER
OF ATTORNEY
Section
18.01 The
Chargor hereby by way of security irrevocably appoints and constitutes the
Chargee and any receiver appointed hereunder (the Attorney) but
with effect only as and from the date upon which this security becomes
enforceable the attorney of the Chargor on its behalf and in the name of the
Chargor to do all acts and execute all documents which the Chargor could itself
do in relation to the Account or in connection with any of the matters provided
for in this Deed including without limitation the execution of any transfer or
other assurance or any instructions whatsoever in respect of the
Account.
Section
18.02 The
Attorney may:
(a)
|
ask,
require, demand, receive and give acquittance for any sum forming part of or in
connection with the Account; |
(b)
|
endorse
any cheques or other instruments or orders in connection therewith;
and |
(c)
|
make any
claims or take any action or institute any proceedings which may be necessary
or advisable to protect the interest of the Chargee in all or any part of the
Account. |
ARTICLE
XIX PROTECTION
OF THIRD PARTIES
No purchaser or
other person dealing with the Chargee or with its attorneys or agents shall be
concerned to enquire (i) whether any power exercised or purported to be
exercised by it has become exercisable, (ii) whether any money remains due on
the security hereby created, (iii) as to the propriety or regularity of any of
its or their actions, or (iv) as to the application of any money paid to it. In
the absence of malfeasance on the part of such purchaser or other person such
dealings shall be deemed so far as regards the safety and protection of such
purchaser or other person to be within the powers hereby conferred and to be
valid accordingly.
ARTICLE
XX NOTICE
Section
20.01 Any
notice to be given or served hereunder shall be in writing and shall be duly
expressed to be a notice hereunder and shall be deemed duly given or served if
sent by fax at the time of transmission (subject to the correct code or fax
number being received) or if posted 48 hours after the time at which it was
posted or, if delivered by hand, at the time of delivery if such day is a
Business Day or if such day is not a Business Day on the next following
Business Day, to the party to whom it is to be given or served at its address
hereinafter set out or such other addresses or fax numbers as such party shall
have previously communicated for such purpose by notice to the party giving
such first-mentioned notice or demand. The address and fax number for service
on the parties hereto are
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Chargor:
Genesis
Acquisition Limited
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx
0 Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00, Bermuda
Fax: x0
(000) 000-0000
(Attention:
The Company Secretary)
Chargee:
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
00xx
Xxxxx
XX
XXX00-0000 Xxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx
00000-0000
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
(Attention:
Xxx Xxxx)
Section
20.02
Either party giving or serving a notice hereunder by fax shall, but without
prejudice to the validity of the notice given, send a copy of the notice by
pre-paid registered post to the other party to that party’s address
hereinbefore set out or to such other address as such party shall have
previously communicated by notice to the party giving such first mentioned
notice.
Section
20.03 All
notices given or served pursuant to or otherwise relating to this Deed shall be
in the English language.
Section
20.04 Any
notice served hereunder shall be deemed to have been received by the party so
receiving such notice on the Business Day of such receipt only if the notice
has been received during usual business hours on such Business Day, and if the
notice is received outside usual business hours it shall be deemed to have been
received on the next following Business Day.
ARTICLE
XXI ASSIGNMENT
This Deed shall be
binding upon the Chargor, its successors and assigns until the security created
hereunder is released in accordance with this Deed. The Chargee shall, upon
prior written notice to the Chargor, be entitled to assign the benefit of this
Deed or any part thereof to any successor trustee appointed in accordance with
terms of the Security Trust Agreement. In the event of any such assignment by
the Chargee the Chargor shall at the request of the Chargee join in any such
assignment so as to cause full beneficial title to the Charge created hereby to
be passed to the relevant assignee.
ARTICLE
XXII LIMITED
RECOURSE AND NON-PETITION
If, upon the
Security Trustee having realised the Account and the Account Balance, the net
proceeds of realisation are insufficient for the Chargor to discharge the
Secured Obligations, then the claims of the Security Trustee in respect of any
outstanding amounts and obligations shall be extinguished and the Security
Trustee shall not take any further action against the Chargor to
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recover any sum in
respect of such amounts and obligations and no debt shall be owed by the
Chargor to the Security Trustee in respect of such amounts or obligations. In
particular, the Security Trustee or any other party acting on their behalf may
not institute, or join with any other person in bringing, instituting or
joining, insolvency proceedings (whether court based or otherwise) or for the
appointment of an examiner, liquidator or analogous person in relation to the
Chargor. This Clause 14 shall not prohibit the Security Trustee from appointing
a servicer hereunder or preclude the Security Trustee from proving or claiming
in an insolvency of the Chargor.
ARTICLE
XXIII REMEDIES
CUMULATIVE
The provisions of
this Deed and the rights and remedies of the parties under this Deed are
cumulative and are without prejudice and in addition to any rights or remedies
such party may have at law or in equity; no exercise by a party of any one
right or remedy under this Deed, or at law or in equity, shall (save to the
extent, if any, provided expressly in this Deed, or at law or in equity)
operate so as to hinder or prevent the exercise by it of any other such right
or remedy. Each and every right and remedy may be exercised from time to time
as often and in such order as may be deemed expedient by the
Chargee.
ARTICLE
XXIV WAIVER
The rights of each
of the parties hereto shall not be prejudiced or restricted by any indulgence
or forbearance extended to another party or other parties and no waiver by any
party in respect of any breach shall operate as a waiver in respect of any
subsequent breach.
ARTICLE
XXV FURTHER
ASSURANCES
The Chargor shall
from time to time execute such further assurances and do such things and afford
to the Chargee such assistance as the Chargee may reasonably require for the
purpose of vesting in the Chargee or its nominee the full benefit of any
assets, rights and benefits to be transferred to the Chargee under this Deed
(including, so far as consistent with the terms of this Deed, the benefit of
any rights accruing against third parties, whether such rights have or have not
accrued or become enforceable at the date of signature hereof) and the
registration thereof.
ARTICLE
XXVI COUNTERPARTS
This Deed may be
executed in more than one counterpart, each of which shall be deemed to
constitute an original.
ARTICLE
XXVII COSTS
The Chargor shall
pay all reasonable legal costs and expenses, including stamp duty, incurred by
the Chargee in the preparation, execution and enforcement of this
Deed.
ARTICLE
XXVIII VARIATION
This Deed may not
be released, discharged, supplemented, amended, varied or modified in any
manner except by an instrument in writing signed by a duly authorised officer
or representative of each of the parties hereto.
ARTICLE
XXIX FORBEARANCE
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No
failure or delay by the Chargee in exercising any right or remedy shall operate
as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise or waiver of any
right or remedy prevent its further exercise or the exercise of any other right
or remedy. |
ARTICLE
XXXWHOLE
AGREEMENT
This
Deed (including the documents and instruments referred to herein) supersedes
all prior representations, arrangements, understandings and agreements between
the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and sets forth the
entire complete and exclusive agreement and understanding between the parties
hereto relating to the subject matter hereof; no party has relied on any
representation, arrangement, understanding or agreement (whether written or
oral) not expressly set out or referred to in this Deed. |
ARTICLE
XXXISEVERABILITY
If any
term or provision in this Deed shall be held to be illegal or unenforceable, in
whole or in part, such term or provision or part shall to that extent be deemed
not to form part of this Deed and the enforceability of the remainder of this
Deed shall not be affected. |
ARTICLE
XXXIIGOVERNING
LAW AND JURISDICTION
This
Deed shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Irish law and each
party agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Ireland
as regards any claim or matter arising under this Deed. |
ARTICLE
XXXIIILIMITATION
OF LIABILITY
It is expressly
understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this Deed is executed and
delivered by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, not individually or
personally but solely as the Security Trustee in the exercise of the powers and
authority conferred and vested in it, (b) nothing herein contained shall be
construed as creating any liability on the Security Trustee, individually or
personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained
herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the Chargor and
by any person claiming by, through or under such parties and (c) under no
circumstances shall the Security Trustee be personally liable for the payment
of any indebtedness or expenses of or be liable for the breach or failure of
any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the
Chargor under this Deed.
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IN
WITNESS whereof
this Deed has been duly executed on the date first above written.
SIGNED,
SEALED AND DELIVERED
for an
on behalf of
GENESIS
ACQUISITION LIMITED
by its
duly appointed attorney
in the
presence of:-
SIGNED for and
on behalf of
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
in the
presence of:-
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FIRST
SCHEDULE
From: Genesis
Acquisition Limited (the
Chargor)
To: |
[ ]
|
Cc: |
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas (the
Security
Trustee)
|
[ ]
2007
Dear
Sirs,
We
hereby give you notice that by a Deed of Charge (the Deed
of Charge) dated
[
], 2007 as the same may be amended, extended, varied, supplemented or replaced
from time to time (a copy of which is attached hereto) a first fixed and
floating charge was granted by us to the Security Trustee (which shall include
it successors and assigns) over all rights, title and interest in and to all
sums of money which may now or in the future be held by us with you in account
number
[ ]
designated Non-Trustee Account at
[ ]
(as replaced or reinstated from time to time, whether by current or deposit
account) (the Account),
together with all interest from time to time earned thereon and the debts
represented by such sums and interest.
Please
note that the Security Trustee has been irrevocably appointed by us as our true
and lawful attorney to do (inter alia) all acts and things which we could do
and to act in relation to the administration or enforcement or attempted
enforcement of the Deed of Charge and you are required to follow all
instructions that the Security Trustee may give to you in accordance with the
terms of the Deed of Charge. In the event of conflicting instructions, those of
the Security Trustee shall prevail.
We
hereby irrevocably authorise and instruct you in each case subject to the
provisions of paragraph 2:-
(a) |
to
disclose to the Security Trustee without any inquiry by you as to the
justification for such disclosure, such information relating to the Account and
the sums therein as the Security Trustee may at any time and from time to time,
request; |
(b) |
to hold
all sums from time to time standing to the credit of the Account to the order
of the Security Trustee; |
(c) |
to pay
or release all or any part of the sums from time to time standing to the credit
of the Account in accordance with the written instructions of the Security
Trustee at any time or times; |
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(d) |
to
comply with the terms of the written notice or instructions in any way relating
to, or purporting to relate to the Deed of Charge, the sums standing to the
credit of the Account from time to time or the debts represented thereby which
you receive at any time from the Security Trustee without any reference to or
further authority from us and without any enquiry by you as to the
justification for or validity of such notice or instructions;
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(e) |
that all
service charges and fees with respect to the Account shall be payable by the
Chargor, and deposited checks returned for any reason shall not be charged to
such account; |
(f) |
that the
Security Trustee shall be entitled to exercise any and all rights of the
Chargor in respect of the Account in accordance with the terms of the Security
Trust Agreement and that you shall comply in all respects with such exercise.
For the avoidance of doubt, in the event of any conflicting instructions or
exercise of such rights, the instructions of the Security Trustee or the
exercise by the Security Trustee of such rights shall prevail.
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Please
note that no amount may be withdrawn from the Account without the Security
Trustee’s prior written consent.
Please
note that these instructions are not to be revoked or varied without the
Security Trustee’s prior written consent.
This
letter is governed by Irish Law.
Would
you please confirm your agreement to the above by sending the attached
acknowledgement to the Chargor at Clarendon House, 0 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx XX
00, Xxxxxxx (fax: x0 (000) 000-0000) for the attention of the Directors and to
the Security Trustee at 00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx,
XX XXX00-0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000 (fax:
(000) 000-0000) for the attention of Xxx Xxxx.
Yours faithfully, | ||||
By: | ||||
|
||||
for and
on behalf of
Genesis
Acquisition Limited |
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SECOND
SCHEDULE
To:
|
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas |
00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
00xx
Xxxxx
XX
XXX00-0000 Xxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx
00000-0000
Attention:
Xxx Xxxx
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
Cc:
|
Genesis
Acquisition Limited |
Fax: x0
(000) 000-0000
Dear
Sirs,
We
confirm receipt from Genesis Acquisition Limited (the Company) of a
notice (the Notice) dated
[ ] November 2006 of a charge upon the terms
of a Deed of Charge dated
[ ]
2007 (the Deed
of Charge) of all
the Company’s rights, title and interest in and to all sums of money which
may now or in the future be held by the Company by us in our account number
[ ] at
[ ] designated
[ ] (as
replaced or reinstated from time to time whether by current or deposit account)
(the Account).
We confirm
that:-
we accept the
instructions and authorisations contained in the Notice and we undertake to act
in accordance and comply with the terms of that Notice.;
we have not
received notice of the interest of any third party in the Account;
we have neither
claimed nor exercised nor will claim nor exercise any security interest,
set-off, counterclaim, right of combination of accounts or other rights in
respect of the Account the sums therein or the debts represented thereby and
all such rights are hereby irrevocably waived by us; and
we shall not
permit any amount to be withdrawn from the Account without your prior written
consent, save as set out in the terms of the Notice and Deed of
Charge.
Yours faithfully, | ||||
By: | ||||
|
||||
For and
on behalf of
[ ]
|
Date: ___________
2007
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EXHIBIT
D-1
Security
Trust Agreement
[FORM
OF AIRCRAFT MORTGAGE]
MORTGAGE
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (MSN [_____])
THIS
MORTGAGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (MSN [_____]) (this “Agreement”)
dated as of [__________], is made by and between [____________], not in its
individual capacity but solely as trustee under the Trust Agreement (Aircraft
MSN [_____]), dated as of [__________], as grantor (the “Grantor”),
and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation
(“DBTCA”), as Security Trustee (the “Security Trustee”)
under the Security Trust Agreement (the “Security Trust Agreement”),
dated as of April 5, 2007, among the Grantor, Genesis Acquisition Limited (the
“Borrower”), the additional grantors named therein, Citibank, N.A.,
as the Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent”) and the
Security Trustee. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein are used as
defined in Appendix A hereto.
W I T
N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, Genesis Lease Limited, the financial institutions set forth in
Schedule IV therein (the “Lenders”), the Administrative Agent, DBTCA
and certain other parties have entered into the Credit Agreement, dated as of
April 5, 2007 (the “Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the
Borrower may from time to time borrow one or more Advances from the Lenders and
DBTCA has been appointed the Security Trustee and Account Bank;
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Security Trustee, the Grantor and
certain other Borrower Subsidiaries have entered into the Security Trust
Agreement in order to secure the payment and performance of all obligations of
the Borrower, the Grantor and the other Borrower Subsidiaries under the
Transaction Documents;
WHEREAS,
the Grantor has agreed to secure the Secured Obligations under the Transaction
Documents by granting to the Security Trustee for the benefit of the Secured
Parties a Lien on its interest in the Airframe and Engines described in
Schedule 1 hereto (collectively, the “Aircraft”) and on certain other
property and rights relating thereto; and
WHEREAS,
the Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the
Advance to the Borrower and from the execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents, whether or not the Grantor is a party
thereto.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in order to (a) induce the Secured Parties to enter into the
Transaction Documents and (b) secure the prompt payment and performance of all
the Secured Obligations, the Grantor and the Security Trustee hereby agree as
follows:
1. SECURITY
INTEREST. The
Grantor does hereby transfer, convey, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate, assign and
grant a first priority security interest to the Security Trustee, subject to no
prior interests of any Person whatsoever except for a lessee under an Initial
Lease, in the following collateral (collectively, the “Mortgage
Collateral”) attaching on the date of this Agreement:
a. |
the
Aircraft; |
b. |
all
Parts, equipment, attachments, accessories, replacement and added Parts and
components now or hereafter placed thereon, installed therein or attached
thereto, whether or not any of such Parts, equipment, attachments, accessories,
replacements or added parts or components may from time to time no longer be
installed on the Aircraft or may be installed in any other
aircraft; |
c. |
all of
the Grantor’s right, title and interest in the technical data, technical
documents, manuals, log books and all inspection, modification, overhaul,
service, repair, maintenance, technical and other records that relate to the
Aircraft and all the Grantor’s right, title and interest, present and
future, therein and thereto and any sale or other transfer agreement relating
to the Aircraft, any acceptance certificate, and/or xxxx of sale relating to
the Aircraft, any guaranties, letters of credit or other credit support
relating to the Aircraft, and any other certificate, instrument or agreement
relating to the Aircraft or a lessee, user or lessor of the Aircraft
(collectively, the “Aircraft Documents”); |
d. |
all
proceeds from the sale or other disposition of, all proceeds of insurance due
to the Grantor on, and all proceeds of any condemnation due to the Grantor with
respect to, any of the equipment described in clauses (a), (b) and (c)
above; |
e. |
all
rents, issues, profits, revenues and other income of the property intended,
subjected or required to be subjected to the Lien of this Agreement hereby, by
the other Transaction Documents or by any supplement to this Agreement in form
and substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee (a “Mortgage
Supplement”), and all of the estate, right, title and interest of every
nature whatsoever of the Grantor in and to the same and every part thereof;
and |
f. |
all
proceeds, howsoever arising, of the foregoing. |
BUT
EXCLUDING, HOWEVER, the Excluded Payments.
TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD the Mortgage Collateral unto the Security Trustee, and its
successors and assigns, as security for the Secured Obligations.
2. INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE. The
security interest in the Mortgage Collateral created under this Agreement is
granted in accordance with the Security Trust Agreement and all of the terms
and conditions thereof, including but not limited to provisions relating to the
exercise of remedies, shall be incorporated herein by reference.
3. MISCELLANEOUS
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3.1 Successors
and Assigns. All the
terms, provisions, conditions and covenants herein contained shall be binding
upon and shall inure to the benefit of the Grantor, the Security Trustee and
their respective successors, assigns and transferees.
3.2 Severability. Any
provision of this Agreement prohibited by the laws of any jurisdiction or
otherwise held to be invalid by any court of law of any jurisdiction shall, as
to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition, or
modified to conform with such laws, without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof; and any such prohibition in any jurisdiction shall not
invalidate such provisions in any other jurisdiction.
3.3 Governing
Law. THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL, PURSUANT TO NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SECTION 5-1401,
BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ITS
CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS.
3.4 Further
Assurances. At any
time and from time to time, upon the request of the Security Trustee, the
Grantor shall promptly and duly execute and deliver any and all such further
instruments and documents as the Security Trustee may reasonably deem desirable
in obtaining the full benefits of security interests and assignments created or
intended to be created hereby and of the rights and powers granted herein and
in the Security Trust Agreement.
3.5 Notices. All
notices, requests, demands or other communications required hereunder or given
pursuant hereto shall be in writing unless otherwise expressly provided to the
following specified address or to such other address as either party may from
time to time hereafter designate to the other party in writing:
If to
the Grantor:
[____________]
[____________]
[____________]
If to
the Security Trustee:
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
c/o
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
00
XxXxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 000000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Trust and Securities Services/Structured Finance Services
Facsimile
No.: x0 (000) 000-0000
3.6 Trustee.
[____________] is entering into this Agreement solely in its capacity as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, except as
expressly set forth herein. Accordingly, each of the representations,
warranties, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of
[____________], is made and intended not as a personal representation,
warranty, undertaking or agreement by or for the purpose or with the intention
of
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binding
[____________] personally, but is made solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee.
This Agreement is executed and delivered by [____________] solely in the
exercise of the powers expressly conferred upon them as trustees under the
Trust Agreement; and no personal liability or responsibility is assumed
hereunder by or shall at any time be enforceable against [____________] or any
successor in trust on account of any action taken or omitted to be taken or any
representation, warranty, undertaking or agreement hereunder of [____________],
either expressed or implied, all such personal liability, if any, being
expressly waived by the parties hereto, except that the parties hereto, or any
Person acting by, through or under them, making a claim hereunder, may look to
the Trust Estate for satisfaction of the same and [____________] or its
successor in trust, as applicable, shall be personally liable for its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of its duties as Owner
Trustee or otherwise.
3.7 Security
Trustee. The
Security Trustee shall be afforded all of the rights, protections, immunities
and indemnities set forth in the Security Trust Agreement as if such rights,
protections, immunities and indemnities were specifically set forth
herein.
3.8 Execution
in Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be
an original, with the same effect as if the signatures were upon the same
instrument.
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of page intentionally left blank]
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have, by their indicated officers thereunto
duly authorized, caused this Mortgage and Security Agreement to be executed as
of the day and year first above written and to be delivered in the State of New
York.
GRANTOR: | [____________], not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee | |
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Name:
Title:
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SECURITY TRUSTEE: | DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Security Trustee | |
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By: | ||
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Name:
Title:
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Name:
Title:
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APPENDIX
A
MORTGAGE
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
DEFINITIONS
For all
purposes of this Agreement, all capitalized terms used, but not defined, in
this Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the
Credit Agreement, and the following terms have the meanings indicated
below:
“Agreement”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Aircraft”
means the Airframe together with the Engines.
“Aircraft
Documents” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1(c) of this
Agreement.
“Airframe”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Schedule 1 attached hereto.
“Borrower”
has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Borrower
Group Member” means the Borrower or any Borrower Subsidiary.
“Borrower
Subsidiary” means either or both, as the context may require, of (i) each
Subsidiary of the Borrower existing on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule
II to the Credit Agreement, and (ii) each other direct or indirect Subsidiary
of the Borrower.
“Closing
Date” means April 5, 2007.
“Credit
Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements to this
Agreement.
“DBTCA”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Engines”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Schedule 1 attached
hereto.
“Excluded
Payments” means payments in respect of (i) indemnities payable by a Lessee
to [____________] pursuant to a Lease, including any Affiliate, officer,
director, employee or agent thereof and (ii) proceeds of public liability
insurance in respect of the Aircraft payable as a result of insurance claims
paid, or losses suffered, by [____________] (including any Affiliate, officer,
director, employee or agent thereof) or the Lessee (or governmental indemnities
in lieu thereof) and (iii) any right to enforce and collect the same.
“Grantor”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Initial
Lease” has the meaning set forth in the Credit Agreement.
“Lease”
means, with respect to an Aircraft, any aircraft lease agreement, (including,
without limitation, any future Lease), conditional sale agreement, hire
purchase agreement or other similar arrangement, as may be in effect between a
Borrower Group Member that owns or leases-in such Aircraft (as Lessor) and a
Person that is not a Borrower Group Member (as Lessee), as such agreement or
arrangement may be amended, modified, extended, supplemented, assigned or
novated from time to time in accordance with the Transaction Documents;
provided that if, under any sub-leasing arrangement with respect to an Aircraft
permitted by the Lease of such Aircraft and executed by the Lessee and a
sub-lessee, the Lessor
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of such
Aircraft agrees to receive payments or collateral directly from, or is to make
payments directly to, such sub-lessee, in any such case to the exclusion of the
related Lessee, then the relevant sub-lease shall constitute the
“Lease” of such Aircraft, and the sub-lessee shall constitute the
related “Lessee” with respect to such Aircraft, but only to the
extent of the provisions of such sub-lease agreement relevant to such payments
and collateral and to the extent agreed by the relevant Lessor.
“Lessee”
means the Lessee under a Lease.
“Lien”
means any mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, international interest, charge
or security interest, including without limitation any prospective contract of
sale or other prospective international interest.
“Mortgage
Collateral” means the Aircraft, Assigned Leases and other property
described in Section 1 hereof and subject to the security interest created by
this Agreement.
“Mortgage
Supplement” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1 hereof.
“Part”
means any and all parts, avionics, attachments, accessions, appurtenances,
furnishings, components, appliances, accessories, instruments and other
equipment installed in, or attached to (or constituting a spare for any such
item installed in or attached to) the Aircraft.
“Person”
means any natural person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization,
government or any political subdivision thereof or any other legal entity,
including public bodies.
“Secured
Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Security Trust
Agreement.
“Secured
Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Security Trust
Agreement.
“Security
Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements
to this Agreement.
“Security
Trustee” means DBTCA, in its capacity as security trustee under the
Security Trust Agreement.
“Subsidiary”
means, as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company
or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having
ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests
having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a
majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation,
partnership, limited liability company or other entity are at the time owned,
or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly
through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.
“Transaction
Documents” has the meaning set forth in the Credit Agreement.
“Trust
Agreement” means the Trust Agreement (Aircraft MSN [_____]), dated as of
[__________], between the Grantor and the Borrower (as successor to
[__________]).
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SCHEDULE
1
MORTGAGE
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
MORTGAGE
COLLATERAL
“Airframe”
means one (1) [__________] Model [__________] aircraft bearing
manufacturer’s serial no. [_____].
“Engines”
means two (2) [__________] Model [__________] aircraft engines (each of which
engines has 550 or more rated takeoff horsepower or the equivalent thereof)
bearing manufacturer’s serial nos. [_____] and [_____]
respectively.
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EXHIBIT
D-2
Security
Trust Agreement
[FORM
OF AIRCRAFT MORTGAGE AND LEASE ASSIGNMENT]
MORTGAGE
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (MSN [_____])
THIS
MORTGAGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (MSN [_____]) (this “Agreement”)
dated as of [__________], is made by and between [____________], not in its
individual capacity but solely as trustee under the Trust Agreement (Aircraft
MSN [_____]), dated as of [__________], as grantor (the “Grantor”),
and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation
(“DBTCA”), as Security Trustee (the “Security Trustee”)
under the Security Trust Agreement (the “Security Trust Agreement”),
dated as of April 5, 2007, among the Grantor, Genesis Acquisition Limited (the
“Borrower”), the additional grantors named therein, Citibank, N.A.
(the “Administrative Agent”) and the Security Trustee. Capitalized
terms used and not defined herein are used as defined in Appendix A hereto.
W I T
N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, Genesis Acquisition Limited, the financial institutions set forth
in Schedule IV therein (the “Lenders”), the Administrative Agent,
DBTCA and certain other parties have entered into the Credit Agreement, dated
as of April 5, 2007 (the “Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the
Borrower may from time to time borrow one or more Advances from the Lenders and
DBTCA has been appointed the Security Trustee and Account Bank;
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Security Trustee, the Grantor and
certain other Borrower Subsidiaries have entered into the Security Trust
Agreement in order to secure the payment and performance of all obligations of
the Borrower, the Grantor and the other Borrower Subsidiaries under the
Transaction Documents;
WHEREAS,
the Grantor has agreed to secure the Secured Obligations under the Transaction
Documents by granting to the Security Trustee for the benefit of the Secured
Parties a Lien on its interest in the Airframe and Engines described in
Schedule 1 hereto (collectively, the “Aircraft”) and by granting to
the Security Trustee a Lien on and security interest in its rights under the
Initial Lease described in Schedule 1 hereto and on certain other property and
rights relating thereto; and
WHEREAS,
the Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the
Advance to the Borrower and from the execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents, whether or not the Grantor is a party
thereto.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in order to (a) induce the Secured Parties to enter into the
Transaction Documents and (b) secure the prompt payment and performance of all
the Secured Obligations, the Grantor and the Security Trustee hereby agree as
follows:
1. SECURITY
INTEREST. The Grantor does hereby transfer, convey, pledge, mortgage,
hypothecate, assign and grant a first priority security interest to the
Security Trustee, subject to no prior interests of any Person whatsoever except
for a lessee under an Initial Lease, in the following collateral (collectively,
the “Mortgage Collateral”) attaching on the date of this
Agreement:
a. the
Aircraft;
b. all
Parts, equipment, attachments, accessories, replacement and added Parts and
components now or hereafter placed thereon, installed therein or attached
thereto, whether or not any of such Parts, equipment, attachments, accessories,
replacements or added parts or components may from time to time no longer be
installed on the Aircraft or may be installed in any other
aircraft;
c. all of
the Grantor’s right, title and interest in the technical data, technical
documents, manuals, log books and all inspection, modification, overhaul,
service, repair, maintenance, technical and other records that relate to the
Aircraft and all the Grantor’s right, title and interest, present and
future, therein and thereto and any sale or other transfer agreement relating
to the Aircraft or any Assigned Lease or Assigned Head Lease, any lease
assignments, novations or assumption agreements, relating to the Aircraft or
any Assigned Lease or Assigned Head Lease, any acceptance certificate, and/or
xxxx of sale relating to the Aircraft or any Assigned Lease, any guaranties,
letters of credit or other credit support relating to the Aircraft or any
Assigned Lease or Assigned Head Lease, and any other certificate, instrument or
agreement relating to the Aircraft or a lessee, user or lessor of the Aircraft
(collectively, the “Aircraft Documents”);
d. all
proceeds from the sale or other disposition of, all proceeds of insurance due
to the Grantor on, and all proceeds of any condemnation due to the Grantor with
respect to, any of the equipment described in clauses (a), (b) and (c)
above;
e. the
Initial Lease and each other Lease of an Aircraft, whether or not owned by the
Grantor, under which the Grantor is or may from time to time be the Lessor,
together with any and all Aircraft Documents relating to such Lease (any such
Leases and Aircraft Documents being referred to individually as, an
“Assigned Lease,” and collectively as the “Assigned
Leases”) and each Head Lease to which the Grantor is a party as lessor or
lessee and all Aircraft Documents relating to such Head Lease (any such Head
Leases and Aircraft Documents being referred to individually as, an
“Assigned Head Lease,” and collectively as, “Assigned Head
Leases”), including without limitation (A) all rights of the Grantor to
all Lease Payments, however denominated, under such Assigned Leases and
Assigned Head Leases, (B) all rights of the Grantor to receive proceeds of any
insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty pursuant to or with respect to such
Assigned Leases and Assigned Head Leases, (C) claims of the Grant or for
damages arising out of
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or for
breach or default under such Assigned Leases and Assigned Head Leases, (D) all
rights of the Grantor to receive and any and all rights to amend, waive, modify
and give notices, approvals and consents under such Assigned Leases and
Assigned Head Leases, (E) all rights of the Grantor under any such Assigned
Lease with respect to any sublease of any such Aircraft or, in the case of an
Assigned Head Lease, the Lease of the Aircraft subject to such Assigned Head
Lease, (F) all rights of the Grantor to terminate such Assigned Leases or
Assigned Head Leases and to compel performance of, and otherwise to exercise
all remedies under, any such Assigned Lease or Assigned Head Lease, whether
arising under such Assigned Leases or Assigned Head Leases or by statute or at
law or in equity, (G) all rights of the Grantor to possession of any Aircraft
under an Assigned Head Lease and (H) all other rights and property of the
Grantor included therein together with all payments, including without
limitation all rent, damages, expenses, indemnities and other amounts due to
the Grantor (or any person claiming by, through or under the Grantor)
thereunder;
f. all
rents, issues, profits, revenues and other income of the property intended,
subjected or required to be subjected to the Lien of this Agreement hereby, by
the other Transaction Documents or by any supplement to this Agreement in form
and substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee (a “Mortgage
Supplement”), and all of the estate, right, title and interest of every
nature whatsoever of the Grantor in and to the same and every part thereof;
and
g. all
proceeds, howsoever arising, of the foregoing.
BUT
EXCLUDING, HOWEVER, the Excluded Payments.
TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD the Mortgage Collateral unto the Security Trustee, and its
successors and assigns, as security for the Secured Obligations.
2. INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE. The security interest in the Mortgage Collateral created under
this Agreement is granted in accordance with the Security Trust Agreement and
all of the terms and conditions thereof, including but not limited to
provisions relating to the exercise of remedies, shall be incorporated herein
by reference.
3. MISCELLANEOUS
3.1 Successors
and Assigns. All
the terms, provisions, conditions and covenants herein contained shall be
binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the Grantor, the Security
Trustee and their respective successors, assigns and transferees.
3.2 Severability. Any
provision of this Agreement prohibited by the laws of any jurisdiction or
otherwise held to be invalid by any court of law of any jurisdiction shall, as
to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition, or
modified to conform with such laws, without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof; and any such prohibition in any jurisdiction shall not
invalidate such provisions in any other jurisdiction.
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3.3 Governing
Law. THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL, PURSUANT TO NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SECTION 5-1401,
BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ITS
CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS.
3.4 Further
Assurances. At any
time and from time to time, upon the request of the Security Trustee, the
Grantor shall promptly and duly execute and deliver any and all such further
instruments and documents as the Security Trustee may reasonably deem desirable
in obtaining the full benefits of security interests and assignments created or
intended to be created hereby and of the rights and powers granted herein and
in the Security Trust Agreement.
3.5 Notices. All
notices, requests, demands or other communications required hereunder or given
pursuant hereto shall be in writing unless otherwise expressly provided to the
following specified address or to such other address as either party may from
time to time hereafter designate to the other party in writing:
If to
the Grantor:
[____________]
[____________]
[____________]
If to
the Security Trustee:
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas
c/o
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
00
XxXxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 000000
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Trust and Securities Services/Structured Finance Services
Facsimile
No.: x0 (000) 000-0000
3.6 Trustee.
[____________] is entering into this Agreement solely in its capacity as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, except as
expressly set forth herein. Accordingly, each of the representations,
warranties, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of
[____________], is made and intended not as a personal representation,
warranty, undertaking or agreement by or for the purpose or with the intention
of binding [____________] personally, but is made solely in its capacity as
Owner Trustee. This Agreement is executed and delivered by [____________]
solely in the exercise of the powers expressly conferred upon them as trustees
under the Trust Agreement; and no personal liability or responsibility is
assumed hereunder by or shall at any time be enforceable against [____________]
or any successor in trust on account of any action taken or omitted to be taken
or any representation, warranty, undertaking or agreement hereunder of
[____________], either expressed or implied, all such personal liability, if
any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto, except that the parties
hereto, or any Person acting by, through or under them, making a claim
hereunder, may look to the Trust Estate for satisfaction of the same and
[____________] or its successor in trust, as applicable, shall be personally
liable for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of
its duties as Owner Trustee or otherwise.
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3.7 Security
Trustee. The
Security Trustee shall be afforded all of the rights, protections, immunities
and indemnities set forth in the Security Trust Agreement as if such rights,
protections, immunities and indemnities were specifically set forth
herein.
3.8 Execution
in Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be
an original, with the same effect as if the signatures were upon the same
instrument.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have, by their indicated officers thereunto
duly authorized, caused this Mortgage and Security Agreement to be executed as
of the day and year first above written and to be delivered in the State of New
York.
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not in its
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solely as Owner Trustee |
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APPENDIX
A
MORTGAGE
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
DEFINITIONS
For all
purposes of this Agreement, all capitalized terms used, but not defined, in
this Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the
Credit Agreement, and the following terms have the meanings indicated
below:
“Agreement”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Aircraft”
means the Airframe together with the Engines.
“Aircraft
Documents” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1(c) of this
Agreement.
“Airframe”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Schedule 1 attached hereto.
“Assigned
Leases” has the meaning specified in Section 1 of this Agreement.
“Borrower”
has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Borrower
Group Member” means the Borrower or any Borrower Subsidiary.
“Borrower
Subsidiary” means either or both, as the context may require, of (i) each
Subsidiary of the Borrower existing on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule
II to the Credit Agreement, and (ii) each other direct or indirect Subsidiary
of the Borrower.
“Closing
Date” means April __, 2007.
“Credit
Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements to this
Agreement.
“DBTCA”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Engines”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Schedule 1 attached
hereto.
“Excluded
Payments” means payments in respect of (i) indemnities payable by a Lessee
to [____________] pursuant to a Lease, including any Affiliate, officer,
director, employee or agent thereof and (ii) proceeds of public liability
insurance in respect of the Aircraft payable as a result of insurance claims
paid, or losses suffered, by [____________] (including any Affiliate, officer,
director, employee or agent thereof) or the Lessee (or governmental indemnities
in lieu thereof) and (iii) any right to enforce and collect the same.
“Grantor”
has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“Head
Lease” means any lease of an Aircraft from the Grantor to a Leasing
Subsidiary.
“Initial
Lease” has the meaning assigned to such term in Schedule 1 attached
hereto.
“Lease”
means, with respect to an Aircraft, any aircraft lease agreement, (including,
without limitation, any future Lease), conditional sale agreement, hire
purchase agreement or other similar arrangement, as may be in effect between a
Borrower Group Member that owns or leases-in such Aircraft (as Lessor) and a
Person that is not a Borrower Group
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Member
(as Lessee), as such agreement or arrangement may be amended, modified,
extended, supplemented, assigned or novated from time to time in accordance
with the Transaction Documents; provided that if, under any sub-leasing
arrangement with respect to an Aircraft permitted by the Lease of such Aircraft
and executed by the Lessee and a sub-lessee, the Lessor of such Aircraft agrees
to receive payments or collateral directly from, or is to make payments
directly to, such sub-lessee, in any such case to the exclusion of the related
Lessee, then the relevant sub-lease shall constitute the “Lease” of
such Aircraft, and the sub-lessee shall constitute the related
“Lessee” with respect to such Aircraft, but only to the extent of the
provisions of such sub-lease agreement relevant to such payments and collateral
and to the extent agreed by the relevant Lessor.
“Lease
Payments” means all lease payments and other amounts payable by or on
behalf of a Lessee under a Lease or a Head Lease, and all rights of Grantor to
receive moneys due and to become due under or pursuant to such Lease or Head
Lease, including, without limitation, Rent Payments, Supplemental Rent and
Security Deposits.
“Leasing
Subsidiaries” means any special purpose entities (i) to which the Borrower
or the Grantor may lease the Aircraft, (ii) which are lessors under Leases of
the Aircraft to a Lessee and (iii) which are wholly owned directly or
indirectly by the Borrower.
“Lessee”
means the Lessee under a Lease.
“Lien”
means any mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, international interest, charge
or security interest, including without limitation any prospective contract of
sale or other prospective international interest.
“Mortgage
Collateral” means the Aircraft, Assigned Leases and other property
described in Section 1 hereof and subject to the security interest created by
this Agreement.
“Mortgage
Supplement” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1 hereof.
“Part”
means any and all parts, avionics, attachments, accessions, appurtenances,
furnishings, components, appliances, accessories, instruments and other
equipment installed in, or attached to (or constituting a spare for any such
item installed in or attached to) the Aircraft.
“Person”
means any natural person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization,
government or any political subdivision thereof or any other legal entity,
including public bodies.
“Rent
Payments” means all payments of basic rent under a Lease that are payable
in respect of periods specified under such Lease.
“Secured
Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Security Trust
Agreement.
“Secured
Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Security Trust
Agreement.
“Security
Deposits” means any cash deposits and other collateral provided by, or on
behalf of, a Lessee to secure the obligations of such Lessee under a Lease.
“Security
Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements
to this Agreement.
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“Security
Trustee” means DBTCA, in its capacity as security trustee under the
Security Trust Agreement.
“Subsidiary”
means, as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company
or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having
ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests
having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a
majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation,
partnership, limited liability company or other entity are at the time owned,
or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly
through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.
“Supplemental
Rent” means additional rent (whether called additional rent, supplemental
rent, utilization rent, maintenance reserve or any similar term) payable under
a Lease based on hours or cycles of operation of the airframe, engines,
life-limited engine parts, landing gear and/or auxiliary power unit of an
Aircraft, and with respect to maintenance of which the lessor under the Lease
may have a maintenance contribution obligation measured in part by or with
reference to such additional rent.
“Transaction
Documents” has the meaning set forth in the Credit Agreement.
“Trust
Agreement” means the Trust Agreement (Aircraft MSN [_____]), dated as of
[__________], between the Grantor and the Borrower (as successor to
[__________]).
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SCHEDULE
1
MORTGAGE
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
MORTGAGE
COLLATERAL
“Airframe”
means one (1) [__________] Model [__________] aircraft bearing
manufacturer’s serial no. [_____].
“Engines”
means two (2) [__________] Model [__________] aircraft engines (each of which
engines has 550 or more rated takeoff horsepower or the equivalent thereof)
bearing manufacturer’s serial nos. [_____] and [_____]
respectively.
“Initial
Lease” means any now existing or after-acquired lease agreement between
the Grantor, as lessor, and any lessee in force with respect to the Aircraft,
including, but not limited to, the following:
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EXHIBIT
D-3
Security
Trust Agreement
[FORM
OF FAA LEASE SECURITY ASSIGNMENT]
THIS FAA
LEASE SECURITY ASSIGNMENT (MSN [_____]) (this “Assignment”), dated as
of [__________], is made by and between [____________], not in its individual
capacity but solely as trustee under the Trust Agreement (Aircraft MSN
[_____]), dated as of [__________], as grantor (the “Grantor”), and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation
(“DBTCA”), as the Security Trustee (the “Security Trustee”)
under the Security Trust Agreement (the “Security Trust Agreement”),
dated as of April 5, 2007, among the Grantor, Genesis Acquisition Limited (the
“Borrower”), the additional grantors named therein, Citibank N.A. as
administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) and the Security
Trustee. All capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement (the “Credit
Agreement”), dated as of April 5, 2007, among the Borrower, Genesis Lease
Limited as manager (the “Manager”), other financial institutions as
lenders (the “Lenders”), the Administrative Agent, and Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas as Security Trustee and Account Bank
(“DBTCA”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, DBTCA, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Manager have
entered into the Credit Agreement pursuant to which the Borrower may from time
to time borrow one or more Advances from the Lenders and DBTCA has been
appointed the Trustee; and
WHEREAS,
the Borrower indirectly owns all of the beneficial interest in the Grantor;
and
WHEREAS,
it is a condition precedent to the Advance to the Borrower that the Grantor
assign to the Security Trustee the Lease Agreement as more fully described on
Schedule 1 hereto, and all amendments, supplements, schedules, receipts and
acceptance certificates executed or delivered pursuant thereto (the
“Assigned Lease”); and
WHEREAS,
the Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the
Advance and from the Transaction Documents;
NOW
THEREFORE, the Grantor hereby agrees as follows with the Security Trustee for
the benefit of the Secured Parties:
1. The
Grantor hereby bargains, sells, transfers and conveys to the Security Trustee,
for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Security Trustee for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority security interest in and
to the Assigned Lease, and all amendments, supplements, schedules, receipts and
acceptance certificates executed or
delivered
pursuant thereto, together with all of the Grantor’s rights as lessor
thereunder including without limitation: (i) all rights, if any, under §
1110 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or any statute of similar
import (whether of the United States or any other jurisdiction and whether now
in effect or hereinafter enacted); (ii) all rights to receive payment of
insurance proceeds and payments with respect to any manufacturer’s
warranty, in each case payable with respect to the aircraft, the aircraft
engines or other
property which is the subject of the Assigned Lease; and (iii) upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default to demand, collect, receive and retain all
rent and other sums which may from time to time become payable under or in
connection with the Assigned Lease.
2. The
Grantor represents and warrants that:
(a) The
Assigned Lease is in full force and effect;
(b) There
has occurred no event under the Assigned Lease which constitutes a default or
event of default thereunder or which with the giving of notice or lapse of time
or both would constitute a default thereunder;
(c) No rent
or other sum payable under the Assigned Lease has been prepaid;
(d) The
Assigned Lease is the entire agreement of lease with respect to the aircraft,
aircraft engines and other property which are the subject thereof, and the
Assigned Lease has not been amended, supplemented, or modified nor has any
provision thereof been waived by either party thereto;
(e) By this
assignment, the Security Trustee assumes none of the obligations of the lessor
under the Assigned Lease and lessor shall remain solely responsible for the
performance of each and every term and provision of the Assigned Lease on its
part to be performed; and
(f) Upon the
occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default and in addition to any other
rights and remedies provided in the Credit Agreement or arising by operation of
law, the Security Trustee may send notice to the lessee under the Assigned
Lease demanding that such lessee perform all obligations required to be
performed thereunder including, but not limited to, the obligation to pay all
rent and other sums which may thereafter become payable under the Assigned
Lease, solely to and for the benefit of the Security Trustee to the exclusion
of Grantor and any other party who may claim entitlement to the payment
thereof.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed or caused this Assignment to be
executed on the day and year first written above.
GRANTOR: |
[____________], not in its individual
capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee |
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DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
not in
its individual capacity but solely as Security Trustee |
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SCHEDULE
1
FAA
LEASE SECURITY ASSIGNMENT
DESCRIPTION
OF LEASE AGREEMENT
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EXHIBIT
E
Consent
and Agreement
[FORM
OF CONSENT AND AGREEMENT]
CONSENT
AND AGREEMENT
_____________,
200_
[Name of
the Grantor]
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Reference
is made to the agreement between you and the Grantor dated _____________ (the
“Assigned Document”).
Pursuant
to the Security Trust Agreement, dated April 5, 2007 (the “Security Trust
Agreement”), between the Grantor, certain other Grantors, Citibank, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as the
Security Trustee and the Account Bank (the “Security Trustee”), the
Grantor has granted to the Security Trustee a security interest in certain
property of the Grantor, including, among other things, the following (the
“Collateral”): all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest
in and to the Assigned Document, including without limitation all rights of
such Grantor to receive moneys due and to become due under or pursuant to the
Assigned Document, all rights of such Grantor to receive proceeds of any
insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty with respect to the Assigned
Document, claims of such Grantor for damages arising out of or for breach or
default under the Assigned Document and the right of such Grantor to terminate
the Assigned Document, to perform thereunder and to compel performance and
otherwise exercise all remedies thereunder, whether arising under the Assigned
Document or by statute or at law or in equity. Capitalized terms used herein,
unless otherwise defined herein, have the meanings assigned to them in the
Security Trust Agreement.
By
signing this Consent and Agreement, you acknowledge notice of, and consent to
the terms and provisions of, the Security Trust Agreement and confirm to the
Security Trustee that you have received no notice of any other pledge or
assignment of the Assigned Document. Further, you hereby agree with the
Security Trustee that:
(a) You
will make all payments to be made by you under or in connection with the
Assigned Document directly to the Collections Account or otherwise in
accordance with the instructions of the Security Trustee.
(b) The
Security Trustee shall be entitled to exercise any and all rights and remedies
of the Grantor under the Assigned Document in accordance with the terms of the
Security Trust Agreement, and you will comply in all respects with such
exercise.
(c) You
will not, without the prior written consent of the Security Trustee,
(i) cancel or terminate the Assigned Document or consent to or accept any
cancellation or termination thereof or (ii) amend or otherwise modify the
Assigned Document.
This
Consent and Agreement shall be binding upon you and your successors and assigns
and shall inure to the benefit of the Security Trustee, the Secured Parties and
their successors, transferees and assigns.
This
Consent and Agreement shall in all respects, be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, including all matters of
construction, validity and performance.
Very
truly yours,
[NAME OF
GRANTOR] |
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and agreed to
as
of the date first above written:
[NAME OF
OBLIGOR]
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