INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT by and between BARCLAYS BANK PLC as April 2012 First Lien Agent and BARCLAYS BANK PLC as March 2018 Second Lien Agent Dated as of March 9, 2018
Exhibit 10.6
EXECUTION VERSION
by and between
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as April 2012 First Lien Agent
and
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as March 2018 Second Lien Agent
Dated as of March 9, 2018
Article I | ||||||
DEFINITIONS | ||||||
Section 1.1 |
UCC Definitions | 2 | ||||
Section 1.2 |
Other Definitions | 2 | ||||
Section 1.3 |
Rules of Construction | 20 | ||||
Article II | ||||||
LIEN PRIORITY | ||||||
Section 2.1 |
Agreement to Subordinate | 21 | ||||
Section 2.2 |
Waiver of Right to Contest Liens | 24 | ||||
Section 2.3 |
Remedies Standstill | 25 | ||||
Section 2.4 |
Exercise of Rights | 28 | ||||
Section 2.5 |
No New Liens | 30 | ||||
Section 2.6 |
Waiver of Marshalling | 31 | ||||
Article III | ||||||
ACTIONS OF THE PARTIES | ||||||
Section 3.1 |
Certain Actions Permitted | 31 | ||||
Section 3.2 |
Agent for Perfection | 32 | ||||
Section 3.3 |
Sharing of Information and Access | 32 | ||||
Section 3.4 |
Insurance | 33 | ||||
Section 3.5 |
No Additional Rights for the Credit Parties Hereunder | 33 | ||||
Section 3.6 |
Actions upon Breach | 33 | ||||
Article IV | ||||||
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS | ||||||
Section 4.1 |
Application of Proceeds | 34 | ||||
Section 4.2 |
Specific Performance | 36 | ||||
Article V | ||||||
INTERCREDITOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND WAIVERS | ||||||
Section 5.1 |
Notice of Acceptance and Other Waivers | 36 | ||||
Section 5.2 |
Modifications to Senior Priority Documents and Junior Priority Documents | 37 |
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Article VI | ||||||
INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS | ||||||
Section 6.1 |
DIP Financing | 42 | ||||
Section 6.2 |
Relief from Stay | 42 | ||||
Section 6.3 |
No Contest | 43 | ||||
Section 6.4 |
Asset Sales | 43 | ||||
Section 6.5 |
Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classification | 44 | ||||
Section 6.6 |
Enforceability | 44 | ||||
Section 6.7 |
Senior Priority Obligations Unconditional | 44 | ||||
Section 6.8 |
Junior Priority Obligations Unconditional | 45 | ||||
Section 6.9 |
Adequate Protection | 45 | ||||
Section 6.10 |
Reorganization Securities and Other Plan-Related Issues | 46 | ||||
Section 6.11 |
Certain Waivers | 47 | ||||
Article VII | ||||||
MISCELLANEOUS | ||||||
Section 7.1 |
Rights of Subrogation | 47 | ||||
Section 7.2 |
Further Assurances | 48 | ||||
Section 7.3 |
Representations | 48 | ||||
Section 7.4 |
Amendments | 48 | ||||
Section 7.5 |
Addresses for Notices | 49 | ||||
Section 7.6 |
No Waiver, Remedies | 50 | ||||
Section 7.7 |
Continuing Agreement, Transfer of Secured Obligations | 50 | ||||
Section 7.8 |
Governing Law; Entire Agreement | 51 | ||||
Section 7.9 |
Counterparts | 51 | ||||
Section 7.10 |
No Third-Party Beneficiaries | 51 | ||||
Section 7.11 |
Designation of Additional Indebtedness; Joinder of Additional Agents | 51 | ||||
Section 7.12 |
Headings | 53 | ||||
Section 7.13 |
Severability | 53 | ||||
Section 7.14 |
Attorneys’ Fees | 53 | ||||
Section 7.15 |
VENUE; JURY TRIAL WAIVER | 53 | ||||
Section 7.16 |
Intercreditor Agreement | 54 | ||||
Section 7.17 |
No Warranties or Liability | 54 | ||||
Section 7.18 |
Conflicts | 54 | ||||
Section 7.19 |
Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Credit Parties | 54 |
EXHIBITS:
Exhibit A |
Additional Indebtedness Designation | |
Exhibit B |
Additional Indebtedness Joinder | |
Exhibit C |
Credit Agreement Joinder |
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This INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT (as amended, restated, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof, this “Agreement”) is entered into as of March 9, 2018, by and between BARCLAYS BANK PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, and as further defined herein, the “April 2012 First Lien Agent”) for the April 2012 First Lien Lenders referred to below party from time to time to the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement referred to below, and BARCLAYS BANK PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, and as further defined herein, the “March 2018 Second Lien Agent”) for the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders referred to below party from time to time to the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement referred to below. Capitalized terms used herein without other definition are used as defined in Article I hereof.
RECITALS
A. Pursuant to the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, the April 2012 First Lien Creditors made certain loans and other financial accommodations to or for the benefit of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower.
B. Pursuant to the April 2012 First Lien Guaranties, the April 2012 First Lien Guarantors agreed to unconditionally guarantee jointly and severally the payment and performance of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower’s obligations under the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, as more particularly provided therein.
C. To secure the obligations of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower and the April 2012 First Lien Guarantors and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower that is now or hereafter becomes a April 2012 First Lien Credit Party, the April 2012 First Lien Credit Parties have granted or will grant to the April 2012 First Lien Agent (for the benefit of the April 2012 First Lien Creditors) Liens on the Collateral, as more particularly provided in the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation.
D. Pursuant to that March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders have agreed to make certain loans to or for the benefit of the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower, as more particularly provided therein.
E. Pursuant to the March 2018 Second Lien Guaranties, the March 2018 Second Lien Guarantors have agreed to unconditionally guarantee jointly and severally the payment and performance of the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower’s obligations under the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation, as more particularly provided therein.
F. As a condition to the effectiveness of the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement and to secure the obligations of the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower and the March 2018 Second Lien Guarantors and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower that is now or hereafter becomes a March 2018 Second Lien Credit Party, the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Parties have granted or will grant to the March 2018 Second Lien Agent (for the benefit of the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders) Liens on the Collateral, as more particularly provided in the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation.
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G. Pursuant to this Agreement, the April 2012 First Lien Borrower may, from time to time, designate certain additional Indebtedness of any Credit Party as “Additional Indebtedness” by executing and delivering an Additional Indebtedness Designation, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A, and by complying with the procedures set forth in Section 7.11, and the holders of such Additional Indebtedness and any other applicable Additional Creditors shall thereafter constitute Senior Priority Creditors or Junior Priority Creditors (as so designated by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower), as the case may be, and any Additional Agent therefor shall thereafter constitute a Senior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Agent (as so designated by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower), as the case may be, for all purposes under this Agreement.
H. Each of the April 2012 First Lien Agent (on behalf of the April 2012 First Lien Creditors) and the March 2018 Second Lien Agent (on behalf of the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders) and, by their acknowledgment hereof, the April 2012 First Lien Credit Parties and the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Parties, desire to agree to the relative priority of Liens on the Collateral and certain other rights, priorities and interests as provided herein.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 UCC Definitions. The following terms which are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code are used herein as so defined: Deposit Accounts, Financial Asset, Instruments, Investment Property, Money and Security.
Section 1.2 Other Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“Additional Agent” shall mean any one or more agents, trustees or other representatives for or of any one or more Additional Credit Facility Creditors, and shall include any successor thereto, as well as any Person designated as an “Agent” under any Additional Credit Facility.
“Additional Bank Products Affiliate” shall mean any Person that has entered into a Bank Products Agreement with an Additional Credit Party with the obligations of such Credit Party thereunder being secured by one or more Additional Collateral Documents.
“Additional Borrower” shall mean any Additional Credit Party that incurs or issues Additional Indebtedness.
“Additional Collateral Documents” shall mean all “Collateral Documents” as defined in any Additional Credit Facility, and in any event shall include all security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, pledges and other collateral documents executed and delivered in connection with any Additional Credit Facility, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
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“Additional Credit Facilities” shall mean (a) any one or more agreements, instruments and documents under which all Indebtedness that is incurred thereunder constitutes Additional Indebtedness, including without limitation any credit agreements, loan agreements, indentures or other financing agreements, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time, together (b) if designated by the Borrower, with any other agreement (including any credit agreement, loan agreement, indenture or other financing agreement) extending the maturity of, consolidating, restructuring, refunding, replacing or refinancing all or any portion of the Additional Obligations, whether by the same or any other lender, debt holder or group of lenders or debt holders, or the same or any other agent, trustee or representative therefor, and whether or not increasing the amount of any Indebtedness that may be incurred thereunder provided that all Indebtedness that is incurred under such other agreement constitutes Additional Indebtedness. As used in this definition of “Additional Credit Facilities”, the term “Indebtedness” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement whether in effect or not.
“Additional Credit Facility Creditors” shall mean one or more holders of Additional Indebtedness (or commitments therefor) that is or may be incurred under one or more Additional Credit Facilities.
“Additional Credit Party” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Borrower, Holdings (so long as it is a guarantor under any of the Additional Guaranties) and each Affiliate of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower that is or becomes a party to any Additional Document.
“Additional Creditors” shall mean one or more Additional Credit Facility Creditors and shall include all Additional Bank Products Affiliates and Additional Hedging Affiliates and all successors, assigns, transferees and replacements thereof, as well as any Person designated as an “Additional Creditor” under any Additional Credit Facility; and with respect to any Additional Agent, shall mean the Additional Creditors represented by such Additional Agent.
“Additional Documents” shall mean any Additional Credit Facilities, any Additional Guaranties, any Additional Collateral Documents, any Bank Product Agreements between any Credit Party and any Additional Bank Products Affiliate, any Hedging Agreements between any Credit Party and any Additional Hedging Affiliate, those other ancillary agreements as to which any Additional Secured Party is a party or a beneficiary and all other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates, now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any of its respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates and delivered to any Additional Agent in connection with any of the foregoing or any Additional Credit Facility, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
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“Additional Effective Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.11(b).
“Additional Guaranties” shall mean any one or more guarantees of any Additional Obligations of any Additional Credit Party by any other Additional Credit Party in favor of any Additional Secured Party, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“Additional Guarantor” shall mean any Additional Credit Party that at any time has provided an Additional Guaranty.
“Additional Hedging Affiliate” shall mean any Person that has entered into a Hedging Agreement with any Additional Credit Party with the obligations of such Credit Party thereunder being secured by one or more Additional Collateral Documents.
“Additional Indebtedness” shall mean any Additional Specified Indebtedness that (1) is permitted to be secured by a Lien (as defined below) on Collateral by:
(a) prior to the Discharge of April 2012 First Lien Obligations, Section 7.01 of the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect) or the corresponding negative covenant restricting Liens contained in any other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement then in effect if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is not then in effect (which covenant is designated in such April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement as applicable for purposes of this definition);
(b) prior to the Discharge of March 2018 Second Lien Obligations, Section 7.01 of the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect) or the corresponding negative covenant restricting Liens contained in any other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement then in effect (which covenant is designated in such March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement as applicable for purposes of this definition); and
(c) prior to the Discharge of Additional Obligations, any negative covenant restricting Liens contained in any applicable Additional Credit Facility then in effect (which covenant is designated in such Additional Credit Facility as applicable for purposes of this definition); and
(2) is designated as “Additional Indebtedness” by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower pursuant to an Additional Indebtedness Designation and in compliance with the procedures set forth in Section 7.11.
As used in this definition of “Additional Indebtedness”, the term “Lien” shall have the meaning set forth (x) for purposes of the preceding clause (1)(a), prior to the Discharge of First Lien Obligations, in Section 1.01 of the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect), or in any other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement then in effect (if the Initial April
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2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is not then in effect), (y) for purposes of the preceding clause (1)(b), prior to the Discharge of March 2018 Second Lien Obligations, in Section 1.01 of the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect), or in any other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement then in effect (if the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is not then in effect), and (z) for purposes of the preceding clause (1)(c), prior to the Discharge of Additional Obligations, in the applicable Additional Credit Facility then in effect.
“Additional Indebtedness Designation” shall mean a certificate of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower with respect to Additional Indebtedness, substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Additional Indebtedness Joinder” shall mean a joinder agreement executed by one or more Additional Agents in respect of any Additional Indebtedness subject to an Additional Indebtedness Designation on behalf of one or more Additional Creditors in respect of such Additional Indebtedness, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Additional Obligations” shall mean all obligations of every nature of each Additional Credit Party from time to time owed to any Additional Agent, any Additional Creditors or any of them, including any Additional Bank Products Affiliates or Additional Hedging Affiliates, under any Additional Document, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such Additional Credit Party, would have accrued on any Additional Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Additional Credit Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), reimbursement of amounts drawn under letters of credit, payments for early termination of Hedging Agreements, fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise, and all other amounts owing or due under the terms of any Additional Documents, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time.
“Additional Secured Parties” shall mean any Additional Agents and any Additional Creditors.
“Additional Specified Indebtedness” shall mean any Indebtedness that is or may from time to time be incurred by any Credit Party in compliance with:
(a) prior to the Discharge of April 2012 First Lien Obligations, Section 7.03 of the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect) or the corresponding negative covenant restricting Indebtedness contained in any other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement then in effect if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is not then in effect (which covenant is designated in such April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement as applicable for purposes of this definition);
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(b) prior to the Discharge of March 2018 Second Lien Obligations, Section 7.03 of the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect) or the corresponding negative covenant restricting Indebtedness contained in any other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement then in effect (which covenant is designated in such March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement as applicable for purposes of this definition); and
(c) prior to the Discharge of Additional Obligations, any negative covenant restricting Indebtedness contained in any Additional Credit Facility then in effect (which covenant is designated in such Additional Credit Facility as applicable for purposes of this definition).
As used in this definition of “Additional Specified Indebtedness”, the term “Indebtedness” shall have the meaning set forth (x) for purposes of the preceding clause (a), prior to the Discharge of April 2012 First Lien Obligations, in Section 1.01 of the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect), or in any other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement then in effect (if the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is not then in effect), (y) for purposes of the preceding clause (b), prior to the Discharge of March 2018 Second Lien Obligations, in Section 1.01 of the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement (if the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is then in effect), or in any other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement then in effect (if the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is not then in effect), and (z) for purposes of the preceding clause (c), prior to the Discharge of Additional Obligations, in the applicable Additional Credit Facility then in effect.
“Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. “Control” means, with respect to any Person (and not with respect to any Collateral), the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise; provided, however, that when used in connection with any Collateral, “control” shall have the meaning specified in the UCC with respect to such Collateral. “Controls” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Agent” shall mean any Senior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Agent.
“Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Preamble hereto.
“Approved Domestic Bank” shall have the meaning given such term in clause (c) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents”.
“April 2012 First Lien Agent” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Preamble hereto and shall include any successor thereto as well as any Person designated as the “Agent” or “Administrative Agent” under the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement.
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“April 2012 First Lien Bank Products Affiliate” shall mean any Person that is a party to a Bank Products Agreement with a Credit Party with the obligations of such Credit Party thereunder being secured by one or more April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents.
“April 2012 First Lien Borrower” shall mean Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, together with its successors and assigns.
“April 2012 First Lien Collateral” shall mean all “Collateral” as defined in the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement.
“April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents” shall mean all “Collateral Documents” as defined in the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, and all other security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust and other collateral documents executed and delivered in connection with the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement” shall mean (a) that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of April 23, 2012, among the April 2012 First Lien Borrower, Holdings, the April 2012 First Lien Lenders and the April 2012 First Lien Agent, as such agreement may be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement”), together with (b) if designated by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower, any other agreement (including any credit agreement, loan agreement, indenture or other financing agreement) extending the maturity of, consolidating, restructuring, refunding, replacing or refinancing all or any portion of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations, whether by the same or any other lender, debt holder or group of lenders or debt holders or the same or any other agent, trustee or representative therefor and whether or not increasing the amount of any Indebtedness that may be incurred thereunder (an “Other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement”); provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Lien securing the Senior Priority Obligations, and (ii) the requisite creditors party to such Other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement (or their agent or other representative on their behalf) shall agree, by a joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Senior Priority Representative (other than any Senior Priority Representative being replaced in connection with such joinder) (or, if there is no continuing Senior Priority Representative other than any Designated Agent, the Borrower) and the Junior Priority Representative (or, if there is no continuing Junior Priority Representative other than any Designated Agent, the Borrower) that the obligations under such Other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement are subject to the terms and provisions of this Agreement. Any reference to the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement shall be deemed a reference to the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement and any Other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, in each case then in existence.
“April 2012 First Lien Credit Parties” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Borrower, the April 2012 First Lien Guarantors and each other Affiliate of the Borrower that is now or hereafter becomes a party to any April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation.
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“April 2012 First Lien Creditors” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Lenders together with all April 2012 First Lien Bank Products Affiliates and April 2012 First Lien Hedging Affiliates and all successors, assigns, transferees and replacements thereof, as well as any Person designated as a “Lender” or “First Lien Creditor” under any April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement.
“April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, the April 2012 First Lien Guaranties, the April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents, any Bank Product Agreements between any April 2012 First Lien Credit Party and any April 2012 First Lien Bank Products Affiliate, any Hedging Agreements between any April 2012 First Lien Credit Party and any April 2012 First Lien Hedging Affiliate, those other ancillary agreements as to which the April 2012 First Lien Agent or any April 2012 First Lien Creditor is a party or a beneficiary and all other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates, now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of any April 2012 First Lien Credit Party or any of its respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates, and delivered to the April 2012 First Lien Agent, in connection with any of the foregoing or any April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“April 2012 First Lien Guaranties” shall mean the Holdings Guaranty and the Subsidiary Guaranty, each as defined in the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, and all other guaranties executed under or in connection with any April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“April 2012 First Lien Guarantors” shall mean, collectively, Holdings and each direct and indirect Subsidiary of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower that at any time is a guarantor under any of the April 2012 First Lien Guaranties.
“April 2012 First Lien Hedging Affiliate” shall mean any Person that is a party to a Hedging Agreement with a Credit Party with the obligations of such Credit Party thereunder being secured by one or more April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents.
“April 2012 First Lien Lenders” shall mean the financial institutions and other lenders party from time to time to the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, together with their successors, assigns, transferees and replacements thereof.
“April 2012 First Lien Obligations” shall mean all obligations of every nature of each April 2012 First Lien Credit Party from time to time owed to the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the April 2012 First Lien Lenders or any of them, any April 2012 First Lien Bank Products Affiliates or any April 2012 First Lien Hedging Affiliates or any other April 2012 First Lien Secured Party, under any April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, including the “Secured Obligations” as defined in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but
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for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such April 2012 First Lien Credit Party, would have accrued on any April 2012 First Lien Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such April 2012 First Lien Credit Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), reimbursement of amounts drawn under letters of credit, payments for early termination of Hedging Agreements, fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise, and all other amounts owing or due under the terms of the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time.
“April 2012 First Lien Secured Parties” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Agent and the April 2012 First Lien Creditors and any other “Secured Party” as defined in any April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement.
“Bank Products Agreement” means any agreement pursuant to which a bank or other financial institution agrees to provide (a) treasury services, (b) credit card, merchant card, purchasing card or stored value card services (including, without limitation, the processing of payments and other administrative services with respect thereto), (c) cash management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursements, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, netting, overdrafts, depository, lockbox, stop payment, electronic funds transfer, information reporting, wire transfer and interstate depository network services) and (d) other banking products or services as may be requested by any Credit Party (other than letters of credit and other than loans except indebtedness arising from services described in clauses (a) through (c) of this definition).
“Bankruptcy Code” shall mean title 11 of the United States Code.
“Bankruptcy Law” shall mean the Bankruptcy Code and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Borrower” shall mean any of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower, the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower and any Additional Borrower.
“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day.
“Capital Stock” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities).
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“Capitalized Leases” shall mean all leases that have been or are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases.
“Cash Collateral” shall mean any Collateral consisting of Money, Cash Equivalents and any Financial Assets.
“Cash Equivalents” shall mean any of the following:
(a) Dollars, pounds sterling, euros or the national currency of any participating member state of the European Union;
(b) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the government of the United States or any country that is a member of the European Union or any agency or instrumentality thereof in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition;
(c) certificates of deposit, time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances, in each case with maturities not exceeding one year, and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500 million, or the foreign currency equivalent thereof, and whose long-term debt is rated “A” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency);
(d) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (b) and (c) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (c) above;
(e) commercial paper issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the April 2012 First Lien Borrower) rated at least “A-1” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency) and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;
(f) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision thereof having one of the two highest rating categories obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings agency) in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition;
(g) Indebtedness issued by Persons (other than the Sponsor) with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A-2” or higher from Moody’s in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition;
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(h) investment funds investing at least 95% of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (a) through (g) above; and
(i) in the case of Investments by any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary, (x) such local currencies in those countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary transacts business from time to time in the ordinary course of business and (y) Investments of comparable tenor and credit quality to those described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (h) customarily utilized in countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary operates for short-term cash management purposes.
“Collateral” shall mean all Property, whether now existing or hereafter arising, of any Borrower or any Guarantor in or upon which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted to any Agent under any of the April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents, the March 2018 Second Lien Collateral Documents or the Additional Collateral Documents, together with all rents, issues, profits, products, and Proceeds thereof (including any Property subject to Liens granted pursuant to Section 6.1 to secure the Senior Priority Obligations and Junior Priority Obligations).
“Control Collateral” shall mean any Collateral consisting of any certificated Security, Investment Property, Instruments and any other Collateral as to which a Lien may be perfected through possession or control by the secured party or any agent therefor.
“Credit Documents” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation and any Additional Documents.
“Credit Parties” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Credit Parties, the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Parties and any Additional Credit Parties.
“Creditor” shall mean any Senior Priority Creditor or Junior Priority Creditor.
“Designated Agent” shall mean any Party that the Borrower designates as a Designated Agent (as confirmed in writing by such Party if such designation is made after the execution of this Agreement by such Party or the joinder of such Party to this Agreement), in each case as and to the extent so designated. Such designation may be for all purposes of this Agreement, or may be for one or more specified purposes hereunder or provisions hereof.
“DIP Financing” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.1(a).
“Discharge of Additional Obligations” shall mean, if any Indebtedness shall at any time have been incurred under any Additional Credit Facility, (a) the payment in full in cash of the applicable Additional Obligations that are outstanding and unpaid (including interest accruing on and after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding at the rate set forth in the applicable Additional Credit Facility) at the time all Additional Indebtedness under such Additional Credit Facility is paid in full in cash,
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including (if applicable), with respect to amounts available to be drawn under outstanding letters of credit issued thereunder (or indemnities or other undertakings issued pursuant thereto in respect of outstanding letters of credit), delivery or provision of cash or backstop letters of credit in respect thereof in compliance with the terms of any such Additional Credit Facility (which shall not exceed an amount equal to 103% of the aggregate undrawn amount of such letters of credit) and (b) the termination of all then outstanding commitments to extend credit under the applicable Additional Credit Facility.
“Discharge of April 2012 First Lien Obligations” shall mean (a) the payment in full in cash of the applicable April 2012 First Lien Obligations that are outstanding and unpaid (including interest accruing on and after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding at the rate set forth in the applicable April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement) at the time all Indebtedness under the applicable April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement is paid in full in cash, including (if applicable), with respect to amounts available to be drawn under outstanding letters of credit issued thereunder (or indemnities or other undertakings issued pursuant thereto in respect of outstanding letters of credit), delivery or provision of cash or backstop letters of credit in respect thereof in compliance with the terms of any such April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement (which shall not exceed an amount equal to 103% of the aggregate undrawn amount of such letters of credit) and (b) the termination of all then outstanding commitments to extend credit under the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation.
“Discharge of Junior Priority Obligations” shall mean the occurrence of all of the Discharge of March 2018 Second Lien Obligations and the Discharge of Additional Obligations in respect of Junior Priority Debt.
“Discharge of March 2018 Second Lien Obligations” shall mean (a) the payment in full in cash of the applicable March 2018 Second Lien Obligations that are outstanding and unpaid (including interest accruing on and after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding at the rate set forth in the applicable March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement) at the time all Indebtedness under the applicable March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement is paid in full in cash, including (if applicable), with respect to amounts available to be drawn under outstanding letters of credit issued thereunder (or indemnities or other undertakings issued pursuant thereto in respect of outstanding letters of credit), delivery or provision of cash or backstop letters of credit in respect thereof in compliance with the terms of any such March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement (which shall not exceed an amount equal to 103% of the aggregate undrawn amount of such letters of credit) and (b) the termination of all then outstanding commitments to extend credit under the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation.
“Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations” shall mean the occurrence of all of the Discharge of April 2012 First Lien Obligations and the Discharge of Additional Obligations in respect of Senior Priority Debt.
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“Event of Default” shall mean an Event of Default under any April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement or any Additional Credit Facility.
“Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies” or “Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies” shall mean:
(a) the taking of any action to enforce or realize upon any Lien, including the institution of any foreclosure proceedings or the noticing of any public or private sale pursuant to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code;
(b) the exercise of any right or remedy provided to a secured creditor on account of a Lien under any of the Credit Documents, under applicable law, in an Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, including the election to retain any of the Collateral in satisfaction of a Lien;
(c) the taking of any action or the exercise of any right or remedy in respect of the collection on, set off or recoup against, marshaling of, injunction respecting or foreclosure on the Collateral or the Proceeds thereof;
(d) the appointment of a receiver, receiver and manager or interim receiver of all or part of the Collateral;
(e) the sale, lease, license, or other disposition of all or any portion of the Collateral by private or public sale or any other means permissible under applicable law;
(f) the exercise of any other right of a secured creditor under Part 6 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code;
(g) the exercise of any voting rights relating to any Capital Stock included in the Collateral; and
(h) the delivery of any notice, claim or demand relating to the Collateral to any Person (including any securities intermediary, depository bank or landlord) in possession or control of, or maintaining any Collateral.
For the avoidance of doubt, filing a proof of claim in bankruptcy court or seeking adequate protection shall not be deemed to be an Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies.
“Foreign Subsidiary” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement whether in effect or not.
“GAAP” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement whether in effect or not.
“Governmental Authority” shall mean any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
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“Grantor” shall mean any Grantor as defined in the in April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation or any Additional Documents.
“Guarantor” shall mean any of the April 2012 First Lien Guarantors, the March 2018 Second Lien Guarantors or the Additional Guarantors..
“Hedging Agreement” shall mean (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward contracts, futures contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements, sell buy backs and buy sell back agreements, and securities lending and borrowing agreements or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement or related schedules, including any such obligations or liabilities arising therefrom.
“Holdings” shall mean Buccaneer Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, together with its successors and assigns.
“Impairment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.1(e).
“Indebtedness” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement or the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement or any Additional Credit Facility, respectively, as applicable.
“Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning given such term in the definition of “April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement.”
“Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning given such term in the definition of “March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement.”
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“Insolvency Proceeding” shall mean (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other governmental authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshalling of assets for creditors or other similar arrangement in respect of its creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors; in each case covered by clauses (a) and (b) undertaken under United States Federal, State or foreign law, including the Bankruptcy Code.
“Intervening Creditor” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.1(e).
“Investments” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement whether in effect or not.
“Junior Priority Agent” shall mean any of the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and any Additional Agent under any Junior Priority Documents.
“Junior Priority Collateral Documents” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Collateral Documents and any Additional Collateral Documents in respect of any Junior Priority Obligations.
“Junior Priority Credit Agreement” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement and any Additional Credit Facility in respect of any Junior Priority Obligations.
“Junior Priority Creditors” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders and any Additional Creditor in respect of any Junior Priority Obligations.
“Junior Priority Debt” shall mean:
(1) all March 2018 Second Lien Obligations; and
(2) any Additional Obligations of any Credit Party so long as on or before the date on which the relevant Additional Indebtedness is incurred, such Indebtedness is designated by the First Lien Borrower as “Junior Priority Debt” in the relevant Additional Indebtedness Designation delivered pursuant to Section 7.11(a)(iii).
“Junior Priority Documents” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation and any Additional Documents in respect of any Junior Priority Obligations.
“Junior Priority Lien” shall mean a Lien granted (a) by a March 2018 Second Lien Collateral Document to the March 2018 Second Lien Agent or (b) by an Additional Collateral Document to any Additional Agent for the purpose of securing Junior Priority Obligations.
“Junior Priority Obligations” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Obligations and any Additional Obligations constituting Junior Priority Debt.
“Junior Priority Representative” shall mean the Junior Priority Agent designated by the Junior Priority Agents to act on behalf of the Junior Priority Agents hereunder, acting in such capacity. The Junior Priority Representative shall initially be the March 2018 Second Lien Agent.
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“Junior Priority Secured Parties” shall mean, at any time, all of the Junior Priority Agents and all of the Junior Priority Creditors.
“Junior Standstill Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a).
“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Lien Priority” shall mean, with respect to any Lien of the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders, any Additional Agent or any Additional Creditors in the Collateral, the order of priority of such Lien as specified in Section 2.1.
“March 2018 Second Lien Agent” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Preamble hereto and shall include any successor thereto as well as any Person designated as the “Agent” or “Administrative Agent” under any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement.
“March 2018 Second Lien Borrower” shall mean shall mean Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, together with its successors and assigns.
“March 2018 Second Lien Collateral Documents” shall mean all “Collateral Documents” as defined in the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, and all other security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust and other collateral documents executed and delivered in connection with any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement” shall mean (a) that certain Second Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of March 9, 2018, among the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower, Holdings, the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders and the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement”), together with (b) if designated by the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower, any other agreement (including any credit agreement, loan agreement, indenture or other financing agreement) extending the maturity of, consolidating, restructuring, refunding, replacing or refinancing all or any portion of the March 2018 Second Lien Obligations, whether by the same or any other lender, debt holder or group of lenders or debt holders or the same or any other agent, trustee or representative therefor and whether or not increasing the amount of any Indebtedness that may be incurred thereunder (an “Other March 2018
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Second Lien Credit Agreement”) provided that, (i) such Indebtedness is secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Lien securing the Junior Priority Obligations, and (ii) the requisite creditors party to such Other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement (or their agent or other representative on their behalf) shall agree, by a joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Senior Priority Representative (or, if there is no continuing Senior Priority Representative other than any Designated Agent, the Borrower) and the Junior Priority Representative (other than any Junior Priority Representative being replaced in connection with such joinder) (or, if there is no continuing Junior Priority Representative other than any Designated Agent, the Borrower), that the obligations under such Other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement are subject to the terms and provisions of this Agreement. Any reference to the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement shall be deemed a reference to the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement and any Other March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, in each case then in existence.
“March 2018 Second Lien Credit Parties” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower, the March 2018 Second Lien Guarantors and each other Affiliate of the Borrower that is now or hereafter becomes a party to any March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation.
“March 2018 Second Lien Creditors” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders and all successors, assigns, transferees and replacements thereof, as well as any Person designated as a “Lender” or “Second Lien Creditor” under any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement.
“March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, the March 2018 Second Lien Guaranties, the March 2018 Second Lien Collateral Documents, those other ancillary agreements as to which the March 2018 Second Lien Agent or any March 2018 Second Lien Lender is a party or a beneficiary and all other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates, now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Party or any of its respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates, and delivered to the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, in connection with any of the foregoing or any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“March 2018 Second Lien Guaranties” shall mean the Holdings Guaranty and the Subsidiary Guaranty, each as defined in the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, and all other guaranties executed under or in connection with any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.
“March 2018 Second Lien Guarantors” shall mean the collective reference to Holdings and each direct and indirect Subsidiary of the March 2018 Second Lien Borrower that at any time is a guarantor under any of the March 2018 Second Lien Guaranties.
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“March 2018 Second Lien Lenders” shall mean the financial institutions and other lenders party from time to time to the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, together with their successors, assigns, transferees and replacements thereof.
“March 2018 Second Lien Obligations” shall mean all obligations of every nature of each March 2018 Second Lien Credit Party from time to time owed to the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, or the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders or any of them, or any other March 2018 Second Lien Secured Party, under any March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation, including the “Secured Obligations” as defined in the Initial March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such March 2018 Second Lien Credit Party, would have accrued on any March 2018 Second Lien Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such March 2018 Second Lien Credit Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise, and all other amounts owing or due under the terms of the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation, as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time.
“March 2018 Second Lien Secured Parties” shall mean the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders and any other “Secured Party” as defined in any March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement.
“Moody’s” shall mean Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Obligations” shall mean any of the Senior Priority Obligations , the Junior Priority Obligations or any Additional Obligations.
“Party” shall mean any of the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent or any Additional Agent, and “Parties” shall mean all of the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and any Additional Agent.
“Person” shall mean any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Proceeds” shall mean (a) all “proceeds,” as defined in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, with respect to the Collateral, and (b) whatever is recoverable or recovered when any Collateral is sold, exchanged, collected, or disposed of, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
“Property” shall mean any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible.
“Restricted Subsidiary” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement whether applicable or not.
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“S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Secured Parties” shall mean the Senior Priority Secured Parties and the Junior Priority Secured Parties.
“Senior Priority Agent” shall mean any of the April 2012 First Lien Agent or any Additional Agent under any Senior Priority Documents.
“Senior Priority Collateral Documents” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents and the Additional Collateral Documents relating to any Senior Priority Debt.
“Senior Priority Credit Agreement” shall mean any of the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement and any Additional Credit Facility in respect of any Senior Priority Obligations.
“Senior Priority Creditors” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Creditors and any Additional Creditor in respect of any Senior Priority Obligations.
“Senior Priority Debt” shall mean:
(1) all April 2012 First Lien Obligations; and
(2) any Additional Obligations of any Credit Party so long as on or before the date on which the relevant Additional Indebtedness is incurred, such Indebtedness is designated by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower as “Senior Priority Debt” in the relevant Additional Indebtedness Designation delivered pursuant to Section 7.11(a)(iii).
“Senior Priority Documents” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation and any Additional Documents in respect of any Senior Priority Obligations.
“Senior Priority Lien” shall mean a Lien granted (a) by an April 2012 First Lien Collateral Document to the April 2012 First Lien Agent or (b) by an Additional Collateral Document to any Additional Agent for the purpose of securing Senior Priority Obligations.
“Senior Priority Obligations” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Obligations and any Additional Obligations constituting Senior Priority Debt.
“Senior Priority Representative” shall mean the April 2012 First Lien Agent acting for the Senior Priority Secured Parties, unless the principal amount of Additional Obligations constituting Senior Priority Debt exceeds the principal amount of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations, and in such case (unless otherwise agreed in writing between the April 2012 First Lien Agent and any Additional Agents under any Senior Priority Documents or, after the Discharge of April 2012 First Lien Obligations, between any
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Additional Agents under any Senior Priority Documents), the Additional Agent (if other than a Designated Agent) under any Senior Priority Documents (or, if there is more than one such Senior Priority Documents, the Senior Priority Documents under which the greatest principal amount of Senior Priority Obligations is outstanding at the time) acting for the Senior Priority Secured Parties (in each case, unless otherwise agreed in writing among the Senior Priority Agents then party to this Agreement).
“Senior Priority Secured Parties” shall mean, at any time, all of the Senior Priority Agents and all of the Senior Priority Creditors.
“Senior Standstill Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b).
“Series of Senior Priority Debt” means, severally, (a) the Indebtedness outstanding under the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, (b) the Indebtedness under each Other April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, and (c) the Indebtedness outstanding under each Additional Credit Facility in respect of or constituting Senior Priority Debt.
“Sponsor” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Initial April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement whether in effect or not.
“Subsidiary” of a Person shall mean a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.
“United States” shall mean the United States of America.
Section 1.3 Rules of Construction. Unless the context of this Agreement clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular, references to the singular include the plural, the term “including” is not limiting, and the term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning represented by the phrase “and/or.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder,” and similar terms in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. Article, section, subsection, clause, schedule, and exhibit references herein are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any reference in this Agreement to any agreement, instrument, or document shall include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements,
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substitutions, joinders, and supplements thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject to any restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements set forth herein). Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns. Any reference herein to the repayment in full of an obligation shall mean the payment in full in cash of such obligation, or in such other manner as may be approved in writing by the requisite holders or representatives in respect of such obligation.
ARTICLE II
LIEN PRIORITY
Section 2.1 Agreement to Subordinate.
(a) Notwithstanding (i) the date, time, method, manner, or order of grant, attachment, or perfection (including any defect or deficiency or alleged defect or deficiency in any of the foregoing) of any Liens granted to any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditors in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral, or of any Liens granted to any Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditors in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral, and regardless of how any such Lien was acquired (whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise), (ii) the order or time of filing or recordation of any document or instrument for perfecting the Liens in favor of any Senior Priority Agent and Senior Priority Creditors, any Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditors in any Collateral, (iii) any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable law, or of any Senior Priority Documents or Junior Priority Documents, (iv) whether any Senior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Agent, in each case either directly or through agents, holds possession of, or has control over, all or any part of the Collateral, (v) the fact that any such Liens in favor of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditors securing any of the Senior Priority Obligations, or any such Liens in favor of any Junior Priority Secured Party securing any of the Junior Priority Obligations, are (x) subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of any Credit Party or (y) otherwise subordinated, voided, avoided, invalidated or lapsed or (vi) any other circumstance of any kind or nature whatsoever, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that:
(i) any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Junior Priority Obligations shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all Liens granted to any of the Senior Priority Agents and the Senior Priority Creditors in the Collateral to secure all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations;
(ii) any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations shall be senior and prior in all respects to all Liens granted to any of the Junior Priority Agents and the Junior Priority Creditors in the Collateral to secure all or any portion of the Junior Priority Obligations;
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(iii) except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, and subject to Section 4.1(e) hereof, any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations shall be pari passu and equal in priority in all respects with any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any other Senior Priority Agent or any other Senior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations; and
(iv) except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Junior Priority Obligations shall be pari passu and equal in priority in all respects with any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any other Junior Priority Agent or any other Junior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Junior Priority Obligations.
(b) Notwithstanding (i) the date, time, method, manner, or order of grant, attachment, or perfection (including any defect or deficiency or alleged defect or deficiency in any of the foregoing) of any Liens granted to any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditors in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral and regardless of how any such Lien was acquired (whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise), (ii) the order or time of filing or recordation of any document or instrument for perfecting the Liens in favor of any other Senior Priority Agent or any other Senior Priority Creditors in any Collateral, (iii) any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable law, or of any Senior Priority Documents, (iv) whether any Senior Priority Agent, in each case either directly or through agents, holds possession of, or has control over, all or any part of the Collateral, (v) the fact that any such Liens in favor of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditors securing any of the Senior Priority Obligations are (x) subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of any Credit Party or (y) otherwise subordinated, voided, avoided, invalidated or lapsed or (vi) any other circumstance of any kind or nature whatsoever, each Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, subject to Section 4.1(e) hereof, any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations shall be pari passu and equal in priority in all respects with any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any other Senior Priority Agent or any other Senior Priority Creditor that secures all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations.
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(c) Notwithstanding any failure by any Senior Priority Secured Party to perfect its security interests in the Collateral or any avoidance, invalidation, priming or subordination by any third party or court of competent jurisdiction of the security interests in the Collateral granted to any of the Senior Priority Secured Parties, the priority and rights as (x) between the respective classes of Senior Priority Secured Parties (subject, however, to Section 4.1(e) hereof), and (y) between the Senior Priority Secured Parties, on the one hand, and the Junior Priority Secured Parties, on the other hand, with respect to the Collateral shall be as set forth herein. Notwithstanding any failure by any Junior Priority Secured Party to perfect its security interests in the Collateral or any avoidance, invalidation, priming or subordination by any third party or court of competent jurisdiction of the security interests in the Collateral granted to any of the Junior Priority Secured Parties, the priority and rights as between the respective classes of Junior Priority Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral shall be as set forth herein. Lien priority as among the Senior Priority Obligations and the Junior Priority Obligations with respect to any Collateral will be governed solely by this Agreement, except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by or among any applicable Parties.
(d) The April 2012 First Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, acknowledges and agrees that (x) concurrently herewith, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, for the benefit of itself and the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders, has been granted Junior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which the April 2012 First Lien Agent has been granted Senior Priority Liens, and the April 2012 First Lien Agent hereby consents thereto, and (y) one or more Additional Agents, each on behalf of itself and any Additional Creditors represented thereby, may be granted Senior Priority Liens or Junior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which the April 2012 First Lien Agent has been granted Senior Priority Liens, and the April 2012 First Lien Agent hereby consents thereto.
(e) The March 2018 Second Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders, acknowledges and agrees that (x) the April 2012 First Lien Agent, for the benefit of itself and the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, has been granted Senior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which the March 2018 Second Lien Agent has been granted Junior Priority Liens, and the March 2018 Second Lien Agent hereby consents thereto, and (y) one or more Additional Agents, each on behalf of itself and any Additional Creditors represented thereby, may be granted Senior Priority Liens or Junior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which the March 2018 Second Lien Agent has been granted Junior Priority Liens, and the March 2018 Second Lien Agent hereby consents thereto.
(f) Each Additional Agent, for and on behalf of itself and any Additional Creditors represented thereby, acknowledges and agrees that, (x) the April 2012 First Lien Agent, for the benefit of itself and the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, has been granted Senior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which such Additional Agent is being granted Liens, and such Additional Agent hereby consents thereto, (y) the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, for the benefit of itself and the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders, has been granted Junior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which such Additional Agent is being granted Liens, and such Additional Agent hereby consents thereto, and (z) one or more other Additional Agents, each on behalf of itself and any Additional Creditors represented thereby, have been or may be granted Senior Priority Liens or Junior Priority Liens upon all of the Collateral in which such Additional Agent is being granted Liens, and such Additional Agent hereby consents thereto.
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(g) The subordination of Liens by each Junior Priority Agent in favor of the Senior Priority Agents shall not be deemed to subordinate the Liens of any Junior Priority Agent to the Liens of any other Person. The provision of pari passu and equal priority as between Liens of any Senior Priority Agent and Liens of any other Senior Priority Agent, in each case as set forth herein, shall not be deemed to provide that the Liens of the Senior Priority Agent will be pari passu or of equal priority with the Liens of any other Person, or to subordinate any Liens of any Senior Priority Agent to the Liens of any Person. The provision of pari passu and equal priority as between Liens of any Junior Priority Agent and Liens of any other Junior Priority Agent, in each case as set forth herein, shall not be deemed to provide that the Liens of the Junior Priority Agent will be pari passu or of equal priority with the Liens of any other Person.
Section 2.2 Waiver of Right to Contest Liens.
(a) Each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that it and they shall not (and hereby waives any right to) take any action to contest or challenge (or assist or support any other Person in contesting or challenging), directly or indirectly, whether or not in any proceeding (including in any Insolvency Proceeding), the validity, priority, enforceability, or perfection of the Liens of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor in respect of the Collateral, or the provisions of this Agreement. Except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, each Junior Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that no Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditor will take any action that would interfere with any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies undertaken by any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor under the Senior Priority Documents with respect to the Collateral. Except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, each Junior Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Junior Priority Creditors may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to contest, protest, object to or interfere with the manner in which any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor seeks to enforce its Liens in any Collateral.
(b) Except as may separately otherwise be agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, each Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that it and they shall not (and hereby waives any right to) take any action to contest or challenge (or assist or support any other Person in contesting or challenging), directly or indirectly, whether or not in any proceeding (including in any Insolvency Proceeding), the validity, priority, enforceability, or perfection of the Liens of any other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditors represented by such other Senior Priority Agent, or the provisions of this Agreement. Except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, or as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, each Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that none of such Senior Priority Agent and Senior Priority Creditors will take any action that would interfere with any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies undertaken by, and not prohibited under this Agreement to be undertaken by, any other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor represented
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by such other Senior Priority Agent under any applicable Senior Priority Documents with respect to the Collateral. Except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, or as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, each Senior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Senior Priority Creditors may have as a pari passu lien creditor or otherwise to contest, protest, object to, or interfere with the manner in which any other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor represented by such other Senior Priority Agent seeks to enforce its Liens in any Collateral so long as such other Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor is not prohibited to take such action under this Agreement.
(c) Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that it and they shall not (and hereby waives any right to) take any action to contest or challenge (or assist or support any other Person in contesting or challenging), directly or indirectly, whether or not in any proceeding (including in any Insolvency Proceeding), the validity, parity, enforceability, or perfection of the Liens of any other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditors represented by such other Junior Priority Agent, or the provisions of this Agreement. Except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, or as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that none of such Junior Priority Agent and Junior Priority Creditors will take any action that would interfere with any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies undertaken by any other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor represented by such other Junior Priority Agent under any applicable Junior Priority Documents with respect to the Collateral. Except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement, or as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, any Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby waives any and all rights it or such Junior Priority Creditors may have as a pari passu lien creditor or otherwise to contest, protest, object to, or interfere with the manner in which any other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor represented by such other Junior Priority Agent seeks to enforce its Liens in any Collateral.
Section 2.3 Remedies Standstill.
(a) Each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that, until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, such Junior Priority Agent and such Junior Priority Creditors:will not Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to the Collateral without the written consent of each Senior Priority Agent; provided that any Junior Priority Agent may Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies (other than any remedies the exercise of which is otherwise prohibited by this Agreement, including, without limitation, Section 6) after a period of 180 consecutive days has elapsed from the date of delivery of written notice by such Junior Priority Agent to each Senior Priority Agent stating that an Event of Default (as defined under the applicable Junior Priority Credit Agreement) has occurred and is continuing thereunder and stating its intention to Exercise
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Any Secured Creditor Remedies (the “Junior Standstill Period”), and then only so long as (1) no Event of Default relating to the payment of interest, principal, fees or other Senior Priority Obligations shall have occurred and be continuing and (2) no Senior Priority Secured Party shall have commenced (or attempted to commence or given notice of its intent to commence) the Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to the Collateral (including seeking relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency Proceeding) and, in each case, such Junior Priority Agent has notice thereof, and
(i) will not take, receive or accept any Proceeds of the Collateral, it being understood and agreed that the temporary deposit of Proceeds of Collateral in a Deposit Account controlled by the Junior Priority Representative shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement so long as such Proceeds are promptly remitted to the Senior Priority Representative in the same form as received with any necessary endorsements.
From and after the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations (or prior thereto upon obtaining the written consent of each Senior Priority Agent), any Junior Priority Agent and any Junior Priority Creditor may Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies under the Junior Priority Documents or applicable law as to any Collateral; provided, however, that any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to any Collateral by any Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor is at all times subject to the provisions of this Agreement, including Section 4.1.
(b) Any Senior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and any Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that such Senior Priority Agent and such Senior Priority Creditors:
(i) will not Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to the Collateral without the written consent of the Senior Priority Representative; provided that any Senior Priority Agent who is not then the Senior Priority Representative may Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies (other than any remedies the exercise of which is otherwise prohibited by this Agreement, including, without limitation, Section 6) after a period of 120 consecutive days has elapsed from the date of delivery of written notice by such Senior Priority Agent to each other Senior Priority Agent stating that an Event of Default (as defined under the applicable Senior Priority Credit Agreement) has occurred and is continuing thereunder and stating its intention to Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies (the “Senior Standstill Period”), and then only so long as the Senior Priority Representative shall not have commenced (or attempted to commence or given notice of its intent to commence) the Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to the Collateral (including seeking relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency Proceeding), and
(ii) will not take, receive or accept any Proceeds of Collateral (except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among all Senior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby and except as provided in Section 4.1 hereof), it being understood and agreed that the temporary deposit of Proceeds of Collateral in a Deposit Account (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) controlled by such Senior Priority Agent shall not constitute a
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breach of this Agreement so long as such Proceeds are promptly remitted to the Senior Priority Representative in the same form as received with any necessary endorsements; provided that nothing in this sentence shall prohibit any Senior Priority Agent from taking such actions in its capacity as Senior Priority Representative, if applicable. The Senior Priority Representative may Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies under the Senior Priority Documents or applicable law as to any Collateral; provided, however, that any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to any Collateral by the Senior Priority Representative is at all times subject to the provisions of this Agreement, including Section 4.1 hereof.
(c) Any Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and any Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that such Junior Priority Agent and such Junior Priority Creditors will not Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to any of the Collateral without the written consent of the Junior Priority Representative and will not take, receive or accept any Proceeds of Collateral (except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among all Junior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby), it being understood and agreed that the temporary deposit of Proceeds of Collateral in a Deposit Account (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) controlled by such Junior Priority Agent shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement so long as such Proceeds are promptly remitted to the Junior Priority Representative; provided that nothing in this sentence shall prohibit any Junior Priority Agent from taking such actions in its capacity as Junior Priority Representative, if applicable, subject to compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, including Section 2.3(a) and Section 4.1 hereof.
(d) Any Senior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and any Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that such Senior Priority Agent and such Senior Priority Creditors will not Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to any of the Collateral without the written consent of the Senior Priority Representative and will not take, receive or accept any Proceeds of Collateral (except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among all Senior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby), it being understood and agreed that the temporary deposit of Proceeds of Collateral in a Deposit Account (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) controlled by such Senior Priority Agent shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement so long as such Proceeds are promptly remitted to the Senior Priority Representative; provided that nothing in this sentence shall prohibit any Senior Priority Agent from taking such actions in its capacity as Senior Priority Representative, if applicable; provided, further, that nothing in this sentence shall prohibit any Senior Priority Agent from the Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies following the expiration of the Senior Standstill Period, if permitted pursuant to the proviso to Section 2.3(b)(i). The Senior Priority Representative may Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies under the Senior Priority Documents or applicable law as to any Collateral; provided, however, that any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to any Collateral by the Senior Priority Representative is at all times subject to the provisions of this Agreement, including Section 4.1 hereof. Each Senior Priority Agent hereby appoints the Senior Priority Representative as its agent and authorizes the Senior Priority Representative to undertake any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies under any Senior Priority Collateral Document so long as the Senior Priority Representative is contemporaneously undertaking the
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same Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies under the Senior Priority Collateral Documents of each Series of Senior Priority Debt and in connection with any sale or other disposition of Collateral the Senior Priority Representative may release the security interest of any other Senior Priority Agent so long as the lien of each Senior Priority Agent is released simultaneously to the same extent and the Senior Priority Representative distributes the proceeds of any such sale or other disposition as provided in Section 4.1 hereof.
Section 2.4 Exercise of Rights.
(a) No Other Restrictions. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, each Agent and each Creditor shall have any and all rights and remedies it may have as a creditor under applicable law, including the right to the Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies (except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Parties, solely as among such Parties and the Creditors represented thereby); provided, however, that the Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies with respect to the Collateral shall be subject to the Lien Priority and to the provisions of this Agreement, including Section 4.1. Each Senior Priority Agent may enforce the provisions of the applicable Senior Priority Documents, each Junior Priority Agent may enforce the provisions of the applicable Junior Priority Documents, and each Agent may Exercise Any Secured Creditor Remedies, all in such order and in such manner as each may determine in the exercise of its sole discretion, consistent with the terms of this Agreement and provisions of applicable law (except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Parties, solely as among such Parties and the Creditors represented thereby); provided, however, that each Agent agrees to provide to each other such Party copies of any notices that it is required under applicable law to deliver to any Credit Party; provided, further, however, that any Senior Priority Agent’s failure to provide any such copies to any other such Party shall not impair any Senior Priority Agent’s rights hereunder or under any of the applicable Senior Priority Documents, and any Junior Priority Agent’s failure to provide any such copies to any other such Party shall not impair any Junior Priority Agent’s rights hereunder or under any of the applicable Junior Priority Documents. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, each Agent and each Creditor shall have any and all rights and remedies it may have as a creditor under applicable law (except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Parties, solely as among such Parties and the Creditors represented thereby). Each Agent agrees for and on behalf of itself and each Creditor represented thereby that such Agent and each such Creditor will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit, Insolvency Proceeding or other proceeding any claim, (x) in the case of any Junior Priority Agent and any Junior Priority Creditor represented thereby, against any Senior Priority Secured Party, and (y) in the case of any Senior Priority Agent and any Senior Priority Creditor represented thereby, against any Junior Priority Secured Party, seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or otherwise, with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by such Person with respect to the Collateral that is consistent with the terms of this Agreement, and none of such Persons shall be liable for any such action taken or omitted to be taken. Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, each Senior Priority Agent agrees for and on behalf of any Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby that such Agent and each such Creditor will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit, Insolvency Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any other Senior Priority
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Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor represented thereby seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or otherwise, with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by such Person with respect to the Collateral that is consistent with the terms of this Agreement, and none of such Persons shall be liable for any such action taken or omitted to be taken. Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any Junior Priority Agents, each Junior Priority Agent agrees for and on behalf of any Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby that such Agent and each such Creditor will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit, Insolvency Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor represented thereby seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or otherwise, with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by such Person with respect to the Collateral that is consistent with the terms of this Agreement, and none of such Persons shall be liable for any such action taken or omitted to be taken.
(b) Release of Liens by Junior Secured Parties. In the event of (A) any private or public sale of all or any portion of the Collateral in connection with any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies by or with the consent of each Senior Priority Agent, (B) any sale, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of the Collateral permitted by the Senior Priority Documents, (C) the release of the Senior Priority Secured Parties’ Liens on all or any portion of the Collateral, so long as such release under this clause (C) shall have been approved by all of the requisite Senior Priority Secured Parties or (D) the release of Senior Priority Secured Parties’ Liens on Collateral upon the the termination and discharge of a guarantee of any Guarantor in accordance with the Senior Priority Documents (in the case of clauses (C) and (D), only to the extent occurring prior to the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations and not in connection with a Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations (and irrespective of whether an Event of Default has occurred)), each Junior Priority Agent agrees, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, that (x) so long as the net cash proceeds of any such sale, if any, described in clause (A) above are applied as provided in Section 4.1, such sale or release will be free and clear of the Liens on such Collateral securing the Junior Priority Obligations and (y) such Junior Priority Secured Parties’ Liens with respect to the Collateral so sold, transferred, disposed or released shall terminate and be automatically released without further action. In furtherance of, and subject to, the foregoing, each Junior Priority Agent agrees that it will execute any and all Lien releases or other documents reasonably requested by any Senior Priority Agent in connection therewith, so long as the net cash proceeds, if any, from such sale described in clause (A) above of such Collateral are applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Each Junior Priority Agent hereby appoints the Senior Priority Representative and any officer or duly authorized person of the Senior Priority Representative, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power of attorney in the place and stead of such Junior Priority Agent and in the name of such Junior Priority Agent or in the Senior Priority Representative’s own name, from time to time, in the Senior Priority Representative’s sole discretion, for the purposes of carrying out the terms of this paragraph, to take any and all appropriate action and to execute and deliver any and all documents and instruments as may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this paragraph, including, without limitation, any financing statements, endorsements, assignments, releases or other documents or instruments of transfer (which appointment, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable).
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Section 2.5 No New Liens. Until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and any Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that:
(i) no Junior Priority Secured Party shall acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Credit Party securing any Junior Priority Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of each Senior Priority Agent under the Senior Priority Documents, subject to the Lien Priority set forth herein; and
(ii) if any such Junior Priority Secured Party shall (nonetheless and in breach hereof) acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Credit Party securing any Junior Priority Obligation, which assets are not also subject to the Lien of each Senior Priority Agent under the Senior Priority Documents, subject to the Lien Priority set forth herein, then such Junior Priority Agent (or the relevant Junior Priority Creditor) shall, without the need for any further consent of any other Junior Priority Secured Party and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Junior Priority Document, be deemed to also hold and have held such lien for the benefit of the Senior Priority Agents as security for the Senior Priority Obligations (subject to the Lien Priority and other terms hereof) and shall promptly notify each Senior Priority Agent in writing of the existence of such Lien.
(b) Until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, each Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that:
(i) no such Senior Priority Secured Party shall acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Credit Party securing any Senior Priority Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of each other Senior Priority Agent under the Senior Priority Documents, subject to the Lien Priority set forth herein; and
(ii) if any such Senior Priority Secured Party shall (nonetheless and in breach hereof) acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Credit Party securing any Senior Priority Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of each other Senior Priority Agent under the Senior Priority Documents, subject to the Lien Priority set forth herein, then such Senior Priority Agent (or the relevant First Priority Creditor) shall, without the need for any further consent of any other Senior Priority Secured Party and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Senior Priority Document, be deemed to also hold and have held such lien for the benefit of each other Senior Priority Agent as security for the other Senior Priority Obligations (subject to the Lien Priority and other terms hereof) and shall promptly notify each Senior Priority Agent in writing of the existence of such Lien.
(c) Until the Discharge of Junior Priority Obligations, except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that:
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(i) no such Junior Priority Secured Party shall acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Credit Party securing any Junior Priority Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of each other Junior Priority Agent under the Junior Priority Documents, subject to the Lien Priority set forth herein; and
(ii) if any such Junior Priority Secured Party shall (nonetheless and in breach hereof) acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Credit Party securing any Junior Priority Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of each other Junior Priority Agent under the Junior Priority Documents, subject to the Lien Priority set forth herein, then such Junior Priority Agent (or the relevant Junior Priority Creditor) shall, without the need for any further consent of any other Junior Priority Secured Party and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Junior Priority Document, be deemed to also hold and have held such lien for the benefit of each other Junior Priority Agent as security for the other Junior Priority Obligations (subject to the Lien Priority and other terms hereof) and shall promptly notify each Junior Priority Agent in writing of the existence of such Lien.
Section 2.6 Waiver of Marshalling. Until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, each Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Secured Parties represented thereby, agrees not to assert and hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any right to demand, request, plead or otherwise assert or otherwise claim the benefit of, any marshalling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may otherwise be available under applicable law with respect to the Collateral or any other similar rights a junior secured creditor may have under applicable law.
ARTICLE III
ACTIONS OF THE PARTIES
Section 3.1 Certain Actions Permitted. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (a) each Agent may make such demands or file such claims in respect of the Senior Priority Obligations or Junior Priority Obligations, as applicable, owed to such Agent and the Creditors represented thereby as are necessary to prevent the waiver or bar of such claims under applicable statutes of limitations or other statutes, court orders, or rules of procedure at any time, so long as such claim is not in contravention of the Lien priority set forth in Section 2.1, (b) in any Insolvency Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Credit Party, the Junior Priority Agent or the Junior Priority Creditors may file a proof of claim or statement of interest with respect to the Junior Priority Obligations, (c) the Junior Priority Creditors shall be entitled to file any responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Junior Priority Creditors, including without limitation any claims secured by the Collateral, if any, in each case if not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, (d) the Junior Priority Creditors shall be entitled to file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Credit Parties arising under either the Bankruptcy Code or applicable non-bankruptcy law (other than initiating or joining in an involuntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to a Grantor, except as otherwise requested or expressly consented
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to in writing by the Senior Priority Agent), in each case if not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement; provided that any judgment Lien obtained by a Junior Priority Creditor as a result of such exercise of rights will be subject to this Agreement, (e) the Junior Priority Creditors shall be entitled to file any proof of claim and other filings and make any arguments and motions in order to preserve or protect its Liens on the Collateral that are, in each case, not otherwise in contravention of the terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Junior Priority Obligations and the Collateral, (f) the Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor may exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Collateral after the termination of the Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section 2.3 above, and (g) in any Insolvency Proceeding, the Junior Priority Creditors shall be entitled to vote on any plan of reorganization, in a manner and to the extent consistent with the provisions of this Agreement.
Section 3.2 Agent for Perfection.
(a) Each Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties represented thereby, agrees to hold all Cash Collateral and Control Collateral in its possession, custody, or control (or in the possession, custody, or control of agents or bailees therefor) for the benefit of, on behalf of and as agent for the other Secured Parties solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted to each other Agent or Secured Party in such Cash Collateral and Control Collateral, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 3.2. Such Agent shall not have any obligation whatsoever to the other Secured Parties to assure that such Cash Collateral and Control Collateral is genuine or owned by any Credit Party or any other Person or to preserve rights or benefits of any Person therein. The duties or responsibilities of such Agent under this Section 3.2 are and shall be limited solely to holding or maintaining control of such Cash Collateral and Control Collateral as agent for the other Parties for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by the Secured Parties. Such Agent is not and shall not be deemed to be a fiduciary of any kind for any Secured Party or any other Person. Each Credit Party shall deliver all Control Collateral when required to be delivered pursuant to the Credit Documents to (x) until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, the Senior Priority Representative and (y) thereafter, the Junior Priority Representative.
(b) In the event that any Secured Party receives any Collateral or Proceeds of the Collateral in violation of the terms of this Agreement, then such Secured Party shall promptly pay over such Proceeds or Collateral to (x) until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, the Senior Priority Representative, in the same form as received with any necessary endorsements, for application in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.1, and (y) thereafter, the Junior Priority Representative, in the same form as received with any necessary endorsements, for application in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.1.
Section 3.3 Sharing of Information and Access. In the event that any Junior Priority Agent shall, in the exercise of its rights under the applicable Junior Priority Collateral Documents or otherwise, receive possession or control of any books and records of any Credit Party that contain information identifying or pertaining to the Collateral, such Junior Priority Agent shall, upon request from any other Agent, and as promptly as practicable thereafter, either make available to such Party such books and records for inspection and duplication or provide to such Party copies thereof. In the event that any Senior Priority Agent shall, in the exercise of its rights under the applicable Senior Priority Collateral Documents or otherwise, receive possession
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or control of any books and records of any Senior Priority Credit Party that contain information identifying or pertaining to the Senior Priority Collateral, such Senior Priority Agent shall, upon request from any other Senior Priority Agent, and as promptly as practicable thereafter, either make available to such Party such books and records for inspection and duplication or provide to such Party copies thereof.
Section 3.4 Insurance. Proceeds of Collateral include insurance proceeds and, therefore, the Lien Priority shall govern the ultimate disposition of casualty insurance proceeds. Until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, the Senior Priority Representative shall be named as additional insured or loss payee, as applicable, with respect to all insurance policies relating to Collateral and the Senior Priority Representative shall have the sole and exclusive right, as against any Secured Party, to adjust settlement of insurance claims in the event of any covered loss, theft or destruction of Collateral. All proceeds of such insurance shall be remitted to (x) until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, the Senior Priority Representative and (y) thereafter, the Junior Priority Representative, and each other Agent shall cooperate (if necessary) in a reasonable manner in effecting the payment of insurance proceeds in accordance with Section 4.1.
Section 3.5 No Additional Rights for the Credit Parties Hereunder. Except as provided in Section 3.6, if any Secured Party shall enforce its rights or remedies in violation of the terms of this Agreement, the Credit Parties shall not be entitled to use such violation as a defense to any action by any Secured Party, nor to assert such violation as a counterclaim or basis for set off or recoupment against any Secured Party.
Section 3.6 Actions upon Breach. If any Junior Priority Secured Party, contrary to this Agreement, commences or participates in any action or proceeding against the Credit Parties or the Collateral, the Credit Parties, with the prior written consent of the Senior Priority Representative, may interpose as a defense or dilatory plea the making of this Agreement, and any Senior Priority Secured Party may intervene and interpose such defense or plea in its own name or in the name of the Credit Parties. Should any Junior Priority Secured Party, contrary to this Agreement, in any way take, or attempt or threaten to take, any action with respect to the Collateral (including, without limitation, any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with respect to this Agreement), or fail to take any action required by this Agreement, any Senior Priority Agent (in its own name or in the name of the Credit Parties) may obtain relief against such Junior Priority Secured Party by injunction, specific performance and/or other appropriate equitable relief, it being understood and agreed by each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and each Junior Priority Creditor represented thereby, that the Senior Priority Secured Parties’ damages from such actions may be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable, and each Junior Priority Agent on behalf of itself and each Junior Priority Creditor represented thereby, waives any defense that the Senior Priority Secured Parties cannot demonstrate damage or be made whole by the awarding of damages.
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ARTICLE IV
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS
Section 4.1 Application of Proceeds.
(a) Revolving Nature of Certain First Lien Obligations. Each Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties represented thereby, expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement includes (and future Additional Credit Facilities may include) a revolving commitment, that in the ordinary course of business the April 2012 First Lien Agent and certain April 2012 First Lien Lenders will (and any Additional Agent and Additional Creditors may) apply payments and make advances thereunder; (ii) the amount of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations or Additional Obligations that may be outstanding at any time or from time to time may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed, and that the terms of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations or Additional Obligations may be modified, extended or amended from time to time, and that the aggregate amount of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations or Additional Obligations may be increased, replaced or refinanced, in each event, without notice to or consent by any other Secured Parties and without affecting the provisions hereof; provided, however, that from and after the date on which any Agent or Secured Party commences the Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies, all amounts received by such Agent or Secured Party shall be applied as specified in this Section 4.1. The Lien Priority shall not be altered or otherwise affected by any amendment, modification, supplement, extension, repayment, reborrowing, increase, renewal or restatement of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations, the March 2018 Second Lien Obligations, or any Additional Obligations, or any portion thereof.
(b) Application of Proceeds of Collateral. Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Agents, each Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties represented thereby, hereby agrees that all Collateral, and all Proceeds thereof, received by any Agent in connection with any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies shall be applied subject to clause (e) of this Section 4.1,
first, to the payment, on a pro rata basis, of costs and expenses of each Agent, as applicable, in connection with such Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies (other than any costs and expenses of any Junior Priority Agent in connection with any Exercise of Secured Creditor Remedies by it in willful violation of this Agreement),
second, to the payment, on a pro rata basis, of the Senior Priority Obligations in accordance with the Senior Priority Documents until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations shall have occurred,
third, to the payment, on a pro rata basis, of the Junior Priority Obligations in accordance with the Junior Priority Documents until the Discharge of Junior Priority Obligations shall have occurred; and
fourth, the balance, if any, to the Credit Parties or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
(c) Limited Obligation or Liability. In exercising remedies, whether as a secured creditor or otherwise, no Senior Priority Agent shall have any obligation or liability to any Junior Priority Secured Party, or (except as may be separately agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby) to any other Senior Priority Secured Party, in each
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case regarding the adequacy of any Proceeds or for any action or omission, save and except solely for an action or omission that breaches the express obligations undertaken by such Senior Priority Agent under the terms of this Agreement. In exercising remedies, whether as a secured creditor or otherwise, no Junior Priority Agent shall have any obligation or liability (except as may be separately agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, in each case on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby) to any other Junior Priority Secured Party, in each case regarding the adequacy of any Proceeds or for any action or omission, save and except solely for an action or omission that breaches the express obligations undertaken by such Junior Priority Agent under the terms of this Agreement.
(d) Turnover of Cash Collateral After Discharge. Upon the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, each Senior Priority Agent shall deliver to the Junior Priority Representative or shall execute such documents as the April 2012 First Lien Borrower or as the Junior Priority Representative may reasonably request to enable it to have control over any Cash Collateral or Control Collateral still in such Senior Priority Agent’s possession, custody or control in the same form as received with any necessary endorsements, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. As between any Junior Priority Agent and any other Junior Priority Agent, any such Cash Collateral or Control Collateral held by any such Party shall be held by it subject to the terms and conditions of Section 3.2.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Senior Priority Creditors hereby agree that solely as among the Senior Priority Creditors, (i) with respect to any Collateral for which a third party (other than a Senior Priority Creditor) has a lien or security interest that is junior in priority to the security interest of any Series of Senior Priority Debt but senior (as determined by appropriate legal proceedings in the case of any dispute) to the security interest of any other Series of Senior Priority Debt (such third party an “Intervening Creditor”), the value of any Collateral or Proceeds which are allocated to such Intervening Creditor shall be deducted on a ratable basis solely from the Collateral or Proceeds to be distributed in respect of the Series of Senior Priority Debt with respect to which such Impairment (as defined below) exists and (ii) the holders of each Series of Senior Priority Debt (and not any other Series of Senior Priority Debt) shall bear the risk of (A) any determination by a court of competent jurisdiction that (x) such Series of Senior Priority Debt is unenforceable under applicable law or is subordinated to any other obligations (other than another Series of Senior Priority Debt), (y) such Series of Senior Priority Debt does not have an enforceable security interest in any of the Collateral securing any other Series of Senior Priority Debt and/or (z) any intervening security interest exists securing any other obligations (other than another Series of Senior Priority Debt) on a basis ranking prior to the security interest of such Series of Senior Priority Debt but junior to the security interest of any other Series of Senior Priority Debt or (B) the existence at any time of any Collateral for any other Series of Senior Priority Debt with respect to which the holders of such Series of Senior Priority Debt do not hold a valid and perfected security interest or Lien at such time (any such condition referred to in the foregoing clauses (A) or (B) with respect to any Series of Senior Priority Debt, an “Impairment” of such Series of Senior Priority Debt); provided that the existence of a maximum claim with respect to any real property subject to a mortgage which applies to all Senior Priority Obligations shall not be deemed to be an Impairment of any Series of Senior Priority Debt. In the event of any Impairment with respect to any Series of Senior Priority Debt, the results of such Impairment
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shall be borne solely by the holders of such Series of Senior Priority Debt, and the rights of the holders of such Series of Senior Priority Debt (including, without limitation, the right to receive distributions in respect of such Series of Senior Priority Debt pursuant to Section 4.01(b) on a pari passu basis with the other Series of Senior Priority Debt) set forth herein shall be modified to the extent necessary so that the effects of such Impairment are borne solely by the holders of the Series of Senior Priority Debt subject to such Impairment.
Section 4.2 Specific Performance. Each Agent is hereby authorized to demand specific performance of this Agreement, whether or not any Credit Party shall have complied with any of the provisions of any of the Credit Documents, at any time when any other Party shall have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it. Each Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties represented thereby, hereby irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law that might be asserted as a bar to such remedy of specific performance.
ARTICLE V
INTERCREDITOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND WAIVERS
Section 5.1 Notice of Acceptance and Other Waivers.
(a) All Senior Priority Obligations at any time made or incurred by any Credit Party shall be deemed to have been made or incurred in reliance upon this Agreement, and each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby waives notice of acceptance of, or proof of reliance by any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditors on, this Agreement, and notice of the existence, increase, renewal, extension, accrual, creation, or nonpayment of all or any part of the Senior Priority Obligations.
(b) None of the Senior Priority Agents, the Senior Priority Creditors, or any of their respective Affiliates, or any of the respective directors, officers, employees, or agents of any of the foregoing, shall be liable for failure to demand, collect, or realize upon any of the Collateral or any Proceeds, or for any delay in doing so, or shall be under any obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral or Proceeds thereof or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the Collateral or any part or Proceeds thereof, except as specifically provided in this Agreement. If any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor honors (or fails to honor) a request by any Borrower for an extension of credit pursuant to any Senior Priority Credit Agreement or any other Senior Priority Document, whether or not such Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor has knowledge that the honoring of (or failure to honor) any such request would constitute a default under the terms of any Junior Priority Credit Agreement or any other Junior Priority Document (but not a default under this Agreement) or would constitute an act, condition, or event that, with the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would constitute such a default, or if any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor otherwise should exercise any of its contractual rights or remedies under any Senior Priority Documents (subject to the express terms and conditions hereof), no Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor shall have any liability whatsoever to any Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditor as a result of such action, omission, or exercise, in each case so long as any
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such exercise does not breach the express terms and provisions of this Agreement. Each Senior Priority Secured Party shall be entitled to manage and supervise its loans and extensions of credit under the relevant Senior Priority Credit Agreement and other Senior Priority Documents as it may, in its sole discretion, deem appropriate, and may manage its loans and extensions of credit without regard to any rights or interests that the Junior Priority Agents or Junior Priority Creditors have in the Collateral, except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement. Each Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that no Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor shall incur any liability as a result of a sale, lease, license, application, or other disposition of all or any portion of the Collateral or Proceeds thereof pursuant to the Senior Priority Documents, in each case so long as such disposition is conducted in accordance with provisions of applicable law and does not breach the provisions of this Agreement.
Section 5.2 Modifications to Senior Priority Documents and Junior Priority Documents.
(a) Each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that, without affecting the obligations of such Junior Priority Secured Parties hereunder, each Senior Priority Agent and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby may, at any time and from time to time, in their sole discretion without the consent of or notice to any such Junior Priority Secured Party (except to the extent such notice or consent is required pursuant to the express provisions of this Agreement), and without incurring any liability to any such Junior Priority Secured Party or impairing or releasing the subordination provided for herein, amend, restate, supplement, replace, refinance, extend, consolidate, restructure, or otherwise modify any of the Senior Priority Documents in any manner whatsoever, including, to:
(i) change the manner, place, time, or terms of payment or renew, alter or increase, all or any of the Senior Priority Obligations or otherwise amend, restate, supplement, or otherwise modify in any manner, or grant any waiver or release with respect to, all or any part of the Senior Priority Obligations or any of the Senior Priority Documents;
(ii) retain or obtain a Lien on any Property of any Person to secure any of the Senior Priority Obligations, and in connection therewith to enter into any additional Senior Priority Documents;
(iii) amend, or grant any waiver, compromise, or release with respect to, or consent to any departure from, any guaranty or other obligations of any Person obligated in any manner under or in respect of the Senior Priority Obligations;
(iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Credit Party or any other Person;
(v) retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligation of any other Person with respect to any of the Senior Priority Obligations; and
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(vi) otherwise manage and supervise the Senior Priority Obligations as the applicable Senior Priority Agent shall deem appropriate.
(b) Each Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that, without affecting the obligations of such Senior Priority Secured Parties hereunder, each Junior Priority Agent and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby may, at any time and from time to time, in their sole discretion without the consent of or notice to any such Senior Priority Secured Party (except to the extent such notice or consent is required pursuant to the express provisions of this Agreement), and without incurring any liability to any such Senior Priority Secured Party or impairing or releasing the priority provided for herein, amend, restate, supplement, replace, refinance, extend, consolidate, restructure, or otherwise modify any of the Junior Priority Documents in any manner whatsoever, including, to:
(i) change the manner, place, time, or terms of payment or renew, alter or increase, all or any of the Junior Priority Obligations or otherwise amend, restate, supplement, or otherwise modify in any manner, or grant any waiver or release with respect to, all or any part of the Junior Priority Obligations or any of the Junior Priority Documents;
(ii) retain or obtain a Lien on any Property of any Person to secure any of the Junior Priority Obligations, and in connection therewith to enter into any additional Junior Priority Documents;
(iii) amend, or grant any waiver, compromise, or release with respect to, or consent to any departure from, any guaranty or other obligations of any Person obligated in any manner under or in respect of the Junior Priority Obligations;
(iv) release its Lien on any Collateral or other Property;
(v) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Credit Party or any other Person;
(vi) retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligation of any other Person with respect to any of the Junior Priority Obligations; and
(vii) otherwise manage and supervise the Junior Priority Obligations as the Junior Priority Agent shall deem appropriate.
(c) Each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Secured Parties represented thereby, agrees that each Junior Priority Collateral Document shall include the following language (or language to similar effect):
“Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the lien and security interest granted to [name of Junior Priority Agent] pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of any right or remedy by [name of Junior Priority Agent] hereunder are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of March 9, 2018 (as amended, restated,
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supplemented or otherwise modified, replaced or refinanced from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), initially among Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent for the April 2012 First Lien Lenders to the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent for the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders to the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement, and certain other persons party or that may become party thereto from time to time. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.”
In addition, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Secured Parties represented thereby, agrees that each Junior Priority Collateral Document consisting of a mortgage covering any Collateral consisting of real estate shall contain language appropriate to reflect the subordination of such Junior Priority Collateral Documents to the Senior Priority Documents covering such Collateral.
(d) Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, each Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that, without affecting the obligations of such Senior Priority Secured Parties hereunder, any other Senior Priority Agent and any Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby may, at any time and from time to time, in their sole discretion without the consent of or notice to any such Senior Priority Secured Party (except to the extent such notice or consent is required pursuant to the express provisions of this Agreement), and without incurring any liability to any such Senior Priority Secured Party, amend, restate, supplement, replace, refinance, extend, consolidate, restructure, or otherwise modify any of the Senior Priority Documents to which such other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor represented thereby is party or beneficiary in any manner whatsoever, including, to:
(i) change the manner, place, time, or terms of payment or renew, alter or increase, all or any of the Senior Priority Obligations or otherwise amend, restate, supplement, or otherwise modify in any manner, or grant any waiver or release with respect to, all or any part of the Senior Priority Obligations or any of the Senior Priority Documents;
(ii) retain or obtain a Lien on any Property of any Person to secure any of the Senior Priority Obligations, and in connection therewith to enter into any Senior Priority Documents;
(iii) amend, or grant any waiver, compromise, or release with respect to, or consent to any departure from, any guaranty or other obligations of any Person obligated in any manner under or in respect of the Senior Priority Obligations;
(iv) release its Lien on any Collateral or other Property;
(v) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Credit Party or any other Person;
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(vi) retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligation of any other Person with respect to any of the Senior Priority Obligations; and
(vii) otherwise manage and supervise the Senior Priority Obligations as such other Senior Priority Agent shall deem appropriate.
(e) Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, hereby agrees that, without affecting the obligations of such Junior Priority Secured Parties hereunder, any other Junior Priority Agent and any Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby may, at any time and from time to time, in their sole discretion without the consent of or notice to any such Junior Priority Secured Party (except to the extent such notice or consent is required pursuant to the express provisions of this Agreement), and without incurring any liability to any such Junior Priority Secured Party, amend, restate, supplement, replace, refinance, extend, consolidate, restructure, or otherwise modify any of the Junior Priority Documents to which such other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor represented thereby is party or beneficiary in any manner whatsoever, including, to:
(i) change the manner, place, time, or terms of payment or renew, alter or increase, all or any of the Junior Priority Obligations or otherwise amend, restate, supplement, or otherwise modify in any manner, or grant any waiver or release with respect to, all or any part of the Junior Priority Obligations or any of the Junior Priority Documents;
(ii) retain or obtain a Lien on any Property of any Person to secure any of the Junior Priority Obligations, and in connection therewith to enter into any Junior Priority Documents;
(iii) amend, or grant any waiver, compromise, or release with respect to, or consent to any departure from, any guaranty or other obligations of any Person obligated in any manner under or in respect of the Junior Priority Obligations;
(iv) release its Lien on any Collateral or other Property;
(v) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Credit Party or any other Person;
(vi) retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligation of any other Person with respect to any of the Junior Priority Obligations; and
(vii) otherwise manage and supervise the Junior Priority Obligations as such other Junior Priority Agent shall deem appropriate.
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(f) The Senior Priority Obligations and the Junior Priority Obligations may be refunded, replaced or refinanced, in whole or in part, in each case, without notice to, or the consent (except to the extent a consent is required to permit the refunding, replacement or refinancing transaction under any Senior Priority Document or any Junior Priority Document) of any Senior Priority Agent, Senior Priority Creditors, Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditors, as the case may be, all without affecting the Lien Priorities provided for herein or the other provisions hereof; provided, however, that (x) if the indebtedness refunding, replacing or refinancing any such Senior Priority Obligations or Junior Priority Obligations is to constitute Senior Priority Obligations or Junior Priority Obligations hereunder (as designated by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower), as the case may be, the holders of such indebtedness (or an authorized agent or trustee on their behalf) shall bind themselves in writing to the terms of this Agreement pursuant to an Additional Indebtedness Joinder and any such refunding, replacement or refinancing transaction shall be in accordance with any applicable provisions of the Senior Priority Documents and the Junior Priority Documents and (y) for the avoidance of doubt, the Senior Priority Obligations and Junior Priority Obligations may be refunded, replaced or refinanced, in whole or in part, in each case, without notice to, or the consent (except to the extent a consent is required to permit the refunding, replacement or refinancing transaction under any Senior Priority Document or any Junior Priority Document) of any Senior Priority Agent, Senior Priority Creditors, Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditors, as the case may be, through the incurrence of Additional Indebtedness, subject to Section 7.11.
(g) Reinstatement and Continuation of Agreement. If any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor is required in any Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of any Credit Party or any other Person any payment made in satisfaction of all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations (a “Senior Priority Recovery”), then the Senior Priority Obligations shall be reinstated to the extent of such Senior Priority Recovery. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Senior Priority Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect in the event of such Senior Priority Recovery, and such prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair, or otherwise affect the obligations of the Parties from such date of reinstatement. All rights, interests, agreements, and obligations of each Agent, each Senior Priority Creditor, and each Junior Priority Creditor under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall continue irrespective of the commencement of, or any discharge, confirmation, conversion, or dismissal of, any Insolvency Proceeding by or against any Credit Party or any other circumstance which otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Credit Party in respect of the Senior Priority Obligations or the Junior Priority Obligations. No priority or right of any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor shall at any time be prejudiced or impaired in any way by any act or failure to act on the part of any Borrower or any Guarantor or by the noncompliance by any Person with the terms, provisions, or covenants of any of the Senior Priority Documents, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor may have.
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ARTICLE VI
INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS
Section 6.1 DIP Financing.
(a) If any Credit Party shall be subject to any Insolvency Proceeding in the United States at any time prior to the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, and any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditors shall seek to provide any Credit Party with, or consent to a third party providing, any financing under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or consent to any order for the use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code (“DIP Financing”), with such DIP Financing to be secured by all or any portion of the Collateral (including assets that, but for the application of Section 552 of the Bankruptcy Code would be Collateral), then each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.9 hereof) it will raise no objection and will not directly or indirectly support any objection to such DIP Financing or to the Liens securing the same on the grounds of a failure to provide “adequate protection” for the Liens of such Junior Priority Agent securing the applicable Junior Priority Obligations or on any other grounds (and will not request any adequate protection solely as a result of such DIP Financing, except as otherwise set forth herein), and, to the extent the Liens securing the Senior Priority Obligations are subordinated or pari passu with such DIP Financing, will subordinate its Liens in the Collateral to (i) such DIP Financing (and all obligations relating thereto), (ii) any adequate protection liens provided to the Senior Priority Creditors, and (iii) any “carve-out” for professional or United States Trustee fees agreed to by the Senior Priority Agent, so long as (i) such Junior Priority Agent retains its Lien on the Collateral to secure the applicable Junior Priority Obligations (in each case, including Proceeds thereof arising after the commencement of the case under the Bankruptcy Code), (ii) all Liens on Collateral securing any such DIP Financing shall be senior to or on a parity with the Liens of the Senior Priority Agents and the Senior Priority Creditors securing the Senior Priority Obligations on the Collateral and (iii) if any Senior Priority Agent receives an adequate protection Lien on post-petition assets of the debtor to secure the Senior Priority Obligations, each Junior Priority Agent also receives an adequate protection Lien on such post-petition assets of the debtor to secure the Junior Priority Obligations (which Lien shall be subject to the provisions of Section 6.1(b)), provided that the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.1(a) shall not prevent any Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditor from objecting to any provision in any DIP Financing relating to any provision or content of a plan of reorganization.
(b) All Liens granted to any Senior Priority Secured Party or Junior Priority Secured Party in any Insolvency Proceeding, whether as adequate protection or otherwise, are intended by the Parties to be and shall be deemed to be subject to the Lien Priority and the other terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Section 6.2 Relief from Stay. Until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees not to (i) seek relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency Proceeding in respect of any portion of the Collateral without each Senior Priority Agent’s express written consent, or (ii) raise any objection and or directly or indirectly support any objection to any motion for relief from the automatic stay or from any injunction against foreclosure or enforcement in respect of claims made by any Senior Priority Agent or any holder of Senior Priority Obligations; provided, however, that no Senior Priority Agent shall seek any relief from the automatic stay with respect to any Collateral without providing 30 days’ prior written notice to each other Party, unless such period is agreed by each Senior Priority Agent to be modified.
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Section 6.3 No Contest. Each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that, prior to the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, none of them shall contest (or directly or indirectly support any other Person contesting) (i) any request by any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor for adequate protection of its interest in the Collateral (unless in contravention of Section 6.1(a)), or (ii) any objection by any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor to any motion, relief, action or proceeding based on a claim by such Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor that its interests in the Collateral (unless in contravention of Section 6.1(a)) are not adequately protected (or any other similar request under any law applicable to an Insolvency Proceeding), so long as any Liens granted to such Senior Priority Agent as adequate protection of its interests are subject to this Agreement. Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Senior Priority Agents, any Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and any Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that, prior to the applicable Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, none of them shall contest (or directly or indirectly support any other Person contesting) (a) any request by any other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor represented by such other Senior Priority Agent for adequate protection of its interest in the Collateral, or (b) any objection by such other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor to any motion, relief, action, or proceeding based on a claim by such other Senior Priority Agent or any Senior Priority Creditor represented by such other Senior Priority Agent that its interests in the Collateral are not adequately protected (or any other similar request under any law applicable to an Insolvency Proceeding), so long as any Liens granted to such other Senior Priority Agent as adequate protection of its interests are subject to this Agreement. Except as may be separately otherwise agreed in writing by and between or among any applicable Junior Priority Agents, any Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and any Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that, prior to the applicable Discharge of Junior Priority Obligations, none of them shall contest (or directly or indirectly support any other Person contesting) (a) any request by any other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor represented by such other Junior Priority Agent for adequate protection of its interest in the Collateral, or (b) any objection by such other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor to any motion, relief, action, or proceeding based on a claim by such other Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditor represented by such other Junior Priority Agent that its interests in the Collateral are not adequately protected (or any other similar request under any law applicable to an Insolvency Proceeding), so long as any Liens granted to such other Junior Priority Agent as adequate protection of its interests are subject to this Agreement.
Section 6.4 Asset Sales. Except as otherwise set forth in this Section 6.4, each Junior Priority Agent agrees, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, that it will not oppose any sale consented to or not otherwise opposed by the Senior Priority Agents of any Collateral pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision under the law applicable to any Insolvency Proceeding) so long as (i) the Senior Priority Agent or the Senior Priority Creditors do not request in the applicable motion to approve such sale a waiver of the rights of the Junior Priority Creditors under Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the Collateral and (ii) the proceeds of such sale are applied in accordance with this Agreement, or if not so applied, the Liens of the Junior Priority Agent in such Collateral shall attach to the proceeds of such disposition relative to the Liens of the Senior Priority Creditors as its Liens in such Collateral.
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Section 6.5 Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classification. Each Secured Party acknowledges and agrees that (i) the grants of Liens pursuant to the Senior Priority Collateral Documents and the Junior Priority Collateral Documents constitute separate and distinct grants of Liens and (ii) because of, among other things, their differing rights in the Collateral, the Senior Priority Obligations are fundamentally different from the Junior Priority Obligations and must be separately classified in any plan of reorganization proposed or adopted in an Insolvency Proceeding. To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that the claims of the Senior Priority Secured Parties, on the one hand, and the Junior Priority Secured Parties, on the other hand, in respect of the Collateral constitute only one secured claim (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then the Secured Parties hereby acknowledge and agree that all distributions shall be made as if there were separate classes of Senior Priority Obligation claims and Junior Priority Obligation claims against the Credit Parties, with the effect being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Junior Priority Secured Parties), the Senior Priority Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of principal, prepetition interest and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of postpetition interest, fees, and expenses, that is available from the Collateral for each of the Senior Priority Secured Parties (irrespective of whether a claim for such amounts is allowed or allowable in such Insolvency Proceeding), before any distribution is made in respect of the claims held by the Junior Priority Secured Parties, with the Junior Priority Secured Parties hereby acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the Senior Priority Secured Parties amounts otherwise received or receivable by them to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of reducing the aggregate recoveries. The foregoing sentence is subject to any separate agreement by and between any Additional Agent, on behalf of itself and the Additional Credit Facility Creditors represented thereby, and any other Agent, on behalf of itself and the Creditors represented thereby, with respect to the Obligations owing to any such Additional Agent and Additional Credit Facility Creditors.
Section 6.6 Enforceability. The provisions of this Agreement are intended to be and shall be enforceable as “subordination agreement” under Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.
Section 6.7 Senior Priority Obligations Unconditional. All rights of any Senior Priority Agent hereunder, and all agreements and obligations of the other Senior Priority Agents, the Junior Priority Agents and the Credit Parties (to the extent applicable) hereunder, shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Senior Priority Document;
(b) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, or any refinancing, replacement, refunding or restatement of any Senior Priority Document;
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(c) any exchange, release, voiding, avoidance or non perfection of any security interest in any Collateral or any other collateral, or any release, amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, or any refinancing, replacement, refunding, restatement or increase of all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations or any guarantee or guaranty thereof;
(d) the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding in respect of the Borrower or any other Credit Party; or
(e) any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Credit Party in respect of the Senior Priority Obligations, or of any of the Junior Priority Agent or any Credit Party, to the extent applicable, in respect of this Agreement.
Section 6.8 Junior Priority Obligations Unconditional. All rights of any Junior Priority Agent hereunder, and all agreements and obligations of the Senior Priority Agents, the other Junior Priority Agents and the Credit Parties (to the extent applicable) hereunder, shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Junior Priority Document;
(b) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any portion of the Junior Priority Obligations, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, or any refinancing, replacement, refunding or restatement of any Junior Priority Document;
(c) any exchange, release, voiding, avoidance or non perfection of any security interest in any Collateral, or any other collateral, or any release, amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, or any refinancing, replacement, refunding, restatement or increase of all or any portion of the Junior Priority Obligations or any guarantee or guaranty thereof;
(d) the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding in respect of any Credit Party; or
(e) any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Credit Party in respect of the Junior Priority Obligations, or of any of the Senior Priority Agent or any Credit Party, to the extent applicable, in respect of this Agreement.
Section 6.9 Adequate Protection. Except to the extent expressly provided in Section 6.1 and this Section 6.9, nothing in this Agreement shall limit the rights of any Agent and the Secured Parties represented thereby from seeking or requesting adequate protection with respect to their interests in the applicable Collateral in any Insolvency Proceeding, including adequate protection in the form of a cash payment, periodic cash payments, cash payments of interest, fees, or expenses, or additional or replacement collateral, claims, or otherwise; provided that (a) in the event that any Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself or any of the Junior Priority
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Creditors represented thereby, seeks or requests adequate protection in respect of the Junior Priority Obligations and such adequate protection is granted in the form of additional or replacement collateral comprising assets of the type of assets that constitute Collateral, then each Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that each Senior Priority Agent shall also be granted a senior Lien on such collateral as security for the Senior Priority Obligations and that any Lien on such collateral securing the Junior Priority Obligations shall be subordinate to any Lien on such collateral securing the Senior Priority Obligations; (b) in the event that any Senior Priority Agent, for or on behalf of itself or any Senior Priority Creditor represented thereby, seeks or requests adequate protection in respect of the Senior Priority Obligations and such adequate protection is granted in the form of additional or replacement collateral comprising assets of the type of assets that constitute Collateral, then such Senior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that each other Senior Priority Agent shall also be granted a pari passu Lien on such collateral as security for the Senior Priority Obligations owing to such other Senior Priority Agent and the Senior Priority Secured Parties represented thereby, and that any such Lien on such collateral securing such Senior Priority Obligations shall be pari passu to each such other Lien on such collateral securing such other Senior Priority Obligations; and (c) in the event that any Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself or any of the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, seeks or requests adequate protection in respect of the Junior Priority Obligations and such adequate protection is granted in the form of a superpriority administrative expense claim, including a claim arising under Section 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, then each Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that that each Senior Priority Agent shall also be granted a superpriority administrative expense claim, which shall be senior in all respects to any such superpriority administrative expense claim granted to the Junior Priority Agent with respect to the Collateral. Each Senior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that it will not raise or directly or indirectly support any objection to the granting of any adequate protection to any Junior Priority Agent in the form of a junior Lien or superiority administrative expense claim that is consistent with the terms of this Section 6.9.
Section 6.10 Reorganization Securities and Other Plan-Related Issues.
(a) If, in any Insolvency Proceeding, debt obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the reorganized debtor are distributed pursuant to a plan of reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, on account of claims of the Senior Priority Creditors and/or on account of claims of the Junior Priority Creditors, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on account of claims of the Senior Priority Creditors and/or on account of claims of the Junior Priority Creditors are secured by Liens upon the same property, the provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to such plan and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.
(b) Each Junior Priority Agent and the other Junior Priority Creditors (whether in the capacity of a secured creditor or an unsecured creditor) shall not propose, vote in favor of, or otherwise directly or indirectly support any plan of reorganization that is inconsistent with the priorities or other provisions of this Agreement, other than with the prior written consent of the Senior Priority Agent or to the extent any such plan is proposed or supported by the number of Senior Priority Creditors required under Section 1126(d) of the Bankruptcy Code.
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(c) Each Senior Priority Agent and the other Senior Priority Creditors (whether in the capacity of a secured creditor or an unsecured creditor) shall not propose, vote in favor of, or otherwise directly or indirectly support any plan of reorganization that is inconsistent with the priorities or other provisions of this Agreement, other than with the prior written consent of each other Senior Priority Agent.
Section 6.11 Certain Waivers.
(a) Each Junior Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, waives any claim any Junior Priority Creditor may hereafter have against any Senior Priority Creditor arising out of the election by any Senior Priority Creditor of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, or any comparable provision of any other Bankruptcy Law.
(b) Each Junior Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that none of them shall (i) object, contest, or directly or indirectly support any other Person objecting to or contesting, any request by the Senior Priority Agent or any of the other Senior Priority Creditors for the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts to the Senior Priority Agent or any other Senior Priority Creditor under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, or (ii) assert or directly or indirectly support any claim against any Senior Priority Creditor for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any Collateral under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law.
(c) So long as the Senior Priority Agent and holders of the Senior Priority Obligations shall have received and continue to receive all accrued post-petition Interest, default interest, premiums, fees or expenses with respect to the Senior Priority Obligations, neither the Senior Priority Agent nor any other holder of Senior Priority Obligations shall object to, oppose, or challenge any claim by the Junior Priority Agent or any holder of Junior Priority Obligations for allowance in any Insolvency Proceeding of Junior Priority Obligations consisting of postpetition interest, default interest, premiums, fees, or expenses.
ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.1 Rights of Subrogation. Each Junior Priority Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby, agrees that no payment by such Junior Priority Agent or any such Junior Priority Creditor to any Senior Priority Agent or Senior Priority Creditor pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement shall entitle such Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditor to exercise any rights of subrogation in respect thereof until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations shall have occurred. Following the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations, each Senior Priority Agent agrees to execute such documents, agreements, and instruments as any Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditor may reasonably request
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to evidence the transfer by subrogation to any such Person of an interest in the Senior Priority Obligations resulting from payments to such Senior Priority Agent by such Person, so long as all costs and expenses (including all reasonable legal fees and disbursements) incurred in connection therewith by such Senior Priority Agent are paid by such Person upon request for payment thereof.
Section 7.2 Further Assurances. The Parties will, at their own expense and at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents, and take all further action, that may be necessary or desirable, or that any Party may reasonably request, in order to protect any right or interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable such Party to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder; provided, however, that no Party shall be required to pay over any payment or distribution, execute any instruments or documents, or take any other action referred to in this Section 7.2, to the extent that such action would contravene any law, order or other legal requirement or any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement, and in the event of a controversy or dispute, such Party may interplead any payment or distribution in any court of competent jurisdiction, without further responsibility in respect of such payment or distribution under this Section 7.2.
Section 7.3 Representations. The April 2012 First Lien Agent represents and warrants to each other Agent that it has the requisite power and authority under the April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation to enter into, execute, deliver, and carry out the terms of this Agreement on behalf of itself and the April 2012 First Lien Creditors. The March 2018 Second Lien Agent represents and warrants to each other Agent that it has the requisite power and authority under the March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documents to enter into, execute, deliver, and carry out the terms of this Agreement on behalf of itself and the March 2018 Second Lien Creditors. Each Additional Agent represents and warrants to each other Agent that it has the requisite power and authority under the applicable Additional Documents to enter into, execute, deliver, and carry out the terms of this Agreement on behalf of itself and any Additional Creditors represented thereby.
Section 7.4 Amendments. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by any Party hereto, shall be effective unless it is in a written agreement executed by each Party then party hereto except that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Borrower may, without the consent of any Party hereto, amend this Agreement to add an Additional Agent by (x) executing an Additional Indebtedness Joinder as provided in Section 7.11 or (y) executing a joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto or otherwise as provided for in the definition of “April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement” or “March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement”, as applicable. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by any Party hereto, that changes, alters, modifies or otherwise affects any power, privilege, right, remedy, liability or obligation of, or otherwise adversely affects in any manner, any Additional Agent that is not then a Party, or any Additional Creditor not then represented by an Additional Agent that is then a Party (including but not limited to any change, alteration, modification or other effect upon any power, privilege, right, remedy, liability or obligation of or other adverse effect upon any such Additional Agent or Additional Creditor that may at any subsequent time become a Party or beneficiary hereof) shall be effective unless it is consented to in writing by the Borrower (regardless of whether any such Additional Agent or Additional Creditor ever becomes a Party or
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beneficiary hereof). Any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement that would have the effect, directly or indirectly, through any reference in any Credit Document to this Agreement or otherwise, of waiving, amending, supplementing or otherwise modifying such Credit Document, or any term or provision thereof, or any right or obligation of any Credit Party thereunder or in respect thereof shall not be given such effect except pursuant to a written instrument executed by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower and each other affected Credit Party. Any amendment, modification or waiver of clause (b) in any of the definitions of the terms “Additional Credit Facilities,” “April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement” and “March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement” shall not be given effect except pursuant to a written instrument executed by the April 2012 First Lien Borrower.
(b) In the event that any Senior Priority Agent or the requisite Senior Priority Creditors enter into any amendment, waiver or consent in respect of or replace any Senior Priority Collateral Document for the purpose of adding to, or deleting from, or waiving or consenting to any departures from any provisions of, any Senior Priority Collateral Document relating to the Collateral or changing in any manner the rights of any Senior Priority Agent, any Senior Priority Creditors represented thereby, or any Credit Party with respect to the Collateral (including the release of any Liens on Collateral), then such amendment, waiver or consent shall apply automatically to any comparable provision of each Junior Priority Collateral Document without the consent of or any actions by any Junior Priority Agent or any Junior Priority Creditors represented thereby; provided that such amendment, waiver or consent does not materially adversely affect the rights or interests of such Junior Priority Creditors in the Collateral (it being understood that the release of any Liens securing Junior Priority Obligations pursuant to Section 2.4(b), shall not be deemed to materially adversely affect the rights or interests of such Junior Priority Creditors in the Collateral). The applicable Senior Priority Agent shall give written notice of such amendment, waiver or consent to the Junior Priority Agents; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or consent with respect to the provisions of any Junior Priority Collateral Document as set forth in this Section 7.4(b).
Section 7.5 Addresses for Notices. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served, telecopied, or sent by overnight express courier service or United States mail and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt of a telecopy or five (5) days after deposit in the United States mail (certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed). The addresses of the parties hereto (until notice of a change thereof is delivered as provided in this Section 7.5) shall be as set forth below or, as to each party, at such other address as may be designated by such party in a written notice to all of the other parties.
April 2012 First Lien Agent:
Barclays Bank PLC
Bank Debt Management
000 0xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx XX 00000
Telephone No.: (000) 000-0000
Email Address: xxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Attention: Xxx Xxxxx
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March 2018 Second Lien Agent:
Barclays Bank PLC
Bank Debt Management
000 0xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx XX 00000
Telephone No.: (000) 000-0000
Email Address: xxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Attention: Xxx Xxxxx
Any Additional Agent: | As set forth in the Additional Indebtedness Joinder executed and delivered by such Additional Agent pursuant to Section 7.11. |
Section 7.6 No Waiver, Remedies. No failure on the part of any Party 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.
Section 7.7 Continuing Agreement, Transfer of Secured Obligations. This Agreement is a continuing agreement and shall (a) remain in full force and effect (x) with respect to all Senior Priority Secured Parties and Senior Priority Obligations, until the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations shall have occurred, subject to Section 5.3 and (y) with respect to all Junior Priority Secured Parties and Junior Priority Obligations, until the later of the Discharge of Senior Priority Obligations and the Discharge of Junior Priority Obligations, (b) be binding upon the Parties and their successors and assigns, and (c) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Parties and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Nothing herein is intended, or shall be construed to give, any other Person any right, remedy or claim under, to or in respect of this Agreement or any Collateral, subject to Section 7.10. All references to any Credit Party shall include any Credit Party as debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for such Credit Party in any Insolvency Proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c), any Senior Priority Agent, Senior Priority Creditor, Junior Priority Agent or Junior Priority Creditor may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of the Senior Priority Obligations or the Junior Priority Obligations, as applicable, to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the rights and obligations in respect thereof granted to such Senior Priority Agent, Junior Priority Agent, Senior Priority Creditor or Junior Priority Creditor, as the case may be, herein or otherwise. The Senior Priority Secured Parties and the Junior Priority Secured Parties may continue, at any time and without notice to the other Parties hereto, to extend credit and other financial accommodations, lend monies and provide indebtedness to, or for the benefit of, any Credit Party on the faith hereof.
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Section 7.8 Governing Law; Entire Agreement. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ITS PRINCIPLES OR RULES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT SUCH PRINCIPLES OR RULES ARE NOT MANDATORILY APPLICABLE BY STATUTE AND WOULD REQUIRE OR PERMIT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior agreements, written or oral, with respect thereto.
Section 7.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and it is not necessary that the signatures of all Parties be contained on any one counterpart hereof; each counterpart will be deemed to be an original, and all together shall constitute one and the same document.
Section 7.10 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of each of the Senior Priority Agents, the Senior Priority Creditors, the Junior Priority Agents, the Junior Priority Creditors and the Borrower and the other Credit Parties. No other Person shall have or be entitled to assert rights or benefits hereunder.
Section 7.11 Designation of Additional Indebtedness; Joinder of Additional Agents.
(a) The Borrower may designate any Additional Indebtedness complying with the requirements of the definition thereof as Additional Indebtedness for purposes of this Agreement, upon complying with the following conditions:
(i) one or more Additional Agents for one or more Additional Creditors in respect of such Additional Indebtedness shall have executed the Additional Indebtedness Joinder with respect to such Additional Indebtedness, and the April 2012 First Lien Borrower or any such Additional Agent shall have delivered such executed Additional Indebtedness Joinder to each Agent then party to this Agreement;
(ii) at least five Business Days (unless a shorter period is agreed in writing by the Parties (other than any Designated Agent) and the April 2012 First Lien Borrower) prior to delivery of the Additional Indebtedness Joinder, the April 2012 First Lien Borrower shall have delivered to each Agent then party to this Agreement complete and correct copies of any Additional Credit Facility, Additional Guaranties and Additional Collateral Documents that will govern such Additional Indebtedness upon giving effect to such designation (which may be unexecuted copies of Additional Documents to be executed and delivered concurrently with the effectiveness of such designation);
(iii) the April 2012 First Lien Borrower shall have executed and delivered to each Agent then party to this Agreement the Additional Indebtedness Designation (including whether such Additional Indebtedness is designated Senior Priority Debt or Junior Priority Debt) with respect to such Additional Indebtedness;
(iv) all state and local stamp, recording, filing, intangible and similar taxes or fees (if any) that are payable in connection with the inclusion of such Additional Indebtedness under this Agreement shall have been paid and reasonable evidence thereof shall have been given to each Agent then party to this Agreement; and
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(v) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
No Additional Indebtedness may be designated both Senior Priority Debt and Junior Priority Debt.
(b) Upon satisfaction of the conditions specified in the preceding Section 7.11(a), the designated Additional Indebtedness shall constitute “Additional Indebtedness,” any Additional Credit Facility under which such Additional Indebtedness is or may be incurred shall constitute an “Additional Credit Facility”, any holder of such Additional Indebtedness or other applicable Additional Creditor shall constitute an “Additional Creditor,” and any Additional Agent for any such Additional Creditor shall constitute an “Additional Agent” for all purposes under this Agreement. The date on which such conditions specified in clause (a) shall have been satisfied with respect to any Additional Indebtedness is herein called the “Additional Effective Date” with respect to such Additional Indebtedness. Prior to the Additional Effective Date with respect to any Additional Indebtedness, all references herein to Additional Indebtedness shall be deemed not to take into account such Additional Indebtedness, and the rights and obligations of the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and each other Additional Agent then party to this Agreement shall be determined on the basis that such Additional Indebtedness is not then designated. On and after the Additional Effective Date with respect to such Additional Indebtedness, all references herein to Additional Indebtedness shall be deemed to take into account such Additional Indebtedness, and the rights and obligations of the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and each other Additional Agent then party to this Agreement shall be determined on the basis that such Additional Indebtedness is then designated.
(c) In connection with any designation of Additional Indebtedness pursuant to this Section 7.11, each of the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and each Additional Agent then party hereto agrees (x) to execute and deliver any amendments, amendments and restatements, restatements or waivers of or supplements to or other modifications to, any April 2012 First Lien Collateral Documents, March 2018 Second Lien Collateral Documents or Additional Collateral Documents, as applicable, and any agreements relating to any security interest in Control Collateral, Cash Collateral, Senior Priority Common Mortgaged Collateral and Junior Priority Common Mortgaged Collateral, and to make or consent to any filings or take any other actions, as may be reasonably deemed by the Borrower to be necessary or reasonably desirable for any Lien on any Collateral to secure such Additional Indebtedness to become a valid and perfected Lien (with the priority contemplated by the applicable Additional Indebtedness Designation delivered pursuant to this Section 7.11 and by this Agreement), and (y) otherwise to reasonably cooperate to effectuate a designation of Additional Indebtedness pursuant to this Section 7.11 (including, without limitation, if requested, by executing an acknowledgment of any Additional Indebtedness Joinder or of the occurrence of any Additional Effective Date).
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Section 7.12 Headings. The headings of the articles and sections of this Agreement are inserted for purposes of convenience only and shall not be construed to affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.
Section 7.13 Severability. If any of the provisions in this Agreement shall, for any reason, be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and shall not invalidate the Lien Priority or the application of Proceeds and other priorities set forth in this Agreement.
Section 7.14 Attorneys’ Fees. The Parties agree that if any dispute, arbitration, litigation, or other proceeding is brought with respect to the enforcement of this Agreement or any provision hereof, the prevailing party in such dispute, arbitration, litigation, or other proceeding shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and all other costs and expenses incurred in the enforcement of this Agreement, irrespective of whether suit is brought.
Section 7.15 VENUE; JURY TRIAL WAIVER.
(a) EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT TO THE EXCLUSIVE GENERAL JURISDICTION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK (THE “NEW YORK SUPREME COURT”), AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (THE “FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT,” AND TOGETHER WITH THE NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, THE “NEW YORK COURTS”) AND APPELLATE COURTS FROM EITHER OF THEM; PROVIDED THAT NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED OR OPERATE TO PRECLUDE (I) ANY AGENT FROM BRINGING SUIT OR TAKING OTHER LEGAL ACTION IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION TO REALIZE ON THE COLLATERAL OR ANY OTHER SECURITY FOR THE OBLIGATIONS (IN WHICH CASE ANY PARTY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ASSERT ANY CLAIM OR DEFENSE, INCLUDING ANY CLAIM OR DEFENSE THAT THIS SECTION 7.15(A) WOULD OTHERWISE REQUIRE TO BE ASSERTED IN A LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN A NEW YORK COURT), (II) ANY PARTY FROM BRINGING ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION FOR THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, (III) IF ALL SUCH NEW YORK COURTS DECLINE JURISDICTION OVER ANY PERSON, OR DECLINE (OR IN THE CASE OF THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, LACK) JURISDICTION OVER ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING, A LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE BROUGHT WITH RESPECT THERETO IN ANOTHER COURT HAVING JURISDICTION AND (IV) IN THE EVENT A LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING IS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR INVOLVING ANY OF ITS ASSETS OR PROPERTY IN ANOTHER COURT (WITHOUT ANY COLLUSIVE ASSISTANCE BY SUCH PARTY OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES), SUCH PARTY FROM ASSERTING A CLAIM OR DEFENSE (INCLUDING ANY CLAIM OR DEFENSE THAT THIS SECTION 7.17(A) WOULD OTHERWISE REQUIRE TO BE ASSERTED IN A LEGAL PROCEEDING IN A NEW YORK COURT) IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING.
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(b) EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE; AND EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION 7.15 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE SIGNATORIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.
(c) EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 7.5. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Section 7.16 Intercreditor Agreement. This Agreement is an Intercreditor Agreement referred to in the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement referred to in the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement and each Additional Credit Facility. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to subordinate the right of any Junior Priority Secured Party to receive payment to the right of any Senior Priority Secured Party (whether before or after the occurrence of an Insolvency Proceeding), it being the intent of the Parties that this Agreement shall effectuate a subordination of Liens as between the Senior Priority Secured Parties, on the one hand, and the Junior Priority Secured Parties, on the other hand, but not a subordination of Indebtedness.
Section 7.17 No Warranties or Liability. Each Party acknowledges and agrees that none of the other Parties has made any representation or warranty with respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectability or enforceability of any other April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, any other March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation or any other Additional Document. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each Party will be entitled to manage and supervise its respective extensions of credit to any Credit Party in accordance with law and their usual practices, modified from time to time as they deem appropriate.
Section 7.18 Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of any April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation, any March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation or any Additional Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern.
Section 7.19 Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Credit Parties. Each Party hereby assumes responsibility for keeping itself informed of the financial condition of the Credit Parties and all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations, the March 2018 Second Lien Obligations or any Additional Obligations,
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as applicable. Each Party hereby agrees that no Party shall have any duty to advise any other Party of information known to it regarding such condition or any such circumstances. In the event any Party, in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any information to any other Party to this Agreement, it shall be under no obligation (a) to provide any such information to such other Party or any other Party on any subsequent occasion, (b) to undertake any investigation not a part of its regular business routine, or (c) to disclose any other information.
[Signature pages follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the April 2012 First Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, and the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the March 2018 Second Lien Creditors, have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
BARCLAYS BANK PLC, in its capacity as April 2012 First Lien Agent | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Director | ||
BARCLAYS BANK PLC, in its capacity as | ||
March 2018 Second Lien Agent | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Director |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Each Credit Party hereby acknowledges that it has received a copy of this Agreement and consents thereto, agrees to recognize all rights granted thereby to the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Creditors, any Additional Agent and any Additional Creditors, and will not do any act or perform any obligation which is not in accordance with the agreements set forth in this Agreement. Each Credit Party further acknowledges and agrees that it is not an intended beneficiary or third party beneficiary under this Agreement, except as expressly provided in Section 7.4 or Section 7.10.
CREDIT PARTIES:
BUCCANEER HOLDINGS, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
SYNIVERSE HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
SYNIVERSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
SYNIVERSE ICX CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
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SYNIVERSE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
SYNIVERSE COMMUNICATIONS INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
SYNIVERSE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
SYNIVERSE COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
CIBERNET, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
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EXHIBIT A
ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS DESIGNATION
DESIGNATION dated as of , 20 , by Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement (as amended, restated, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”) entered into as of March 9, 2018, between Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “April 2012 First Lien Agent”) for the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, and Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “March 2018 Second Lien Agent”) for the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders.1 Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Reference is made to that certain [insert name of Additional Credit Facility], dated as of , 20 (the “Additional Credit Facility”), among [list any applicable Credit Party], [list Additional Creditors] [and Additional Agent, as agent (the “Additional Agent”)].2
Section 7.11 of the Intercreditor Agreement permits the Borrower to designate Additional Indebtedness under the Intercreditor Agreement. Accordingly:
Section 1. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, and any Additional Agent that:
(1) The Additional Indebtedness incurred or to be incurred under the Additional Credit Facility constitutes “Additional Indebtedness” which complies with the definition of such term in the Intercreditor Agreement;
(2) all conditions set forth in Section 7.11 of the Intercreditor Agreement with respect to the Additional Indebtedness have been satisfied; and
(3) on the date hereof there does not exist, and after giving effect to the designation of such Additional Indebtedness there will not exist, any Event of Default.
Section 2. Designation of Additional Indebtedness. The Borrower hereby designates such Additional Indebtedness as Additional Indebtedness under the Intercreditor Agreement and such Additional Indebtedness shall constitute [Senior Priority Debt] [Junior Priority Debt].
1 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any successor April 2012 First Lien Agent or March 2018 Second Lien Agent and to add reference to any previously added Additional Agent. |
2 | Revise as appropriate to refer to the relevant Additional Credit Facility, Additional Creditors and any Additional Agent. |
Ex. A-1
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Designation to be duly executed by its duly authorized officer or other representative, all as of the day and year first above written.
SYNIVERSE HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
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Name: | ||
Title: |
Ex. A-2
EXHIBIT B
ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS JOINDER
JOINDER, dated as of , 20 , among Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), those certain Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to time party to the Intercreditor Agreement described below, Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “April 2012 First Lien Agent”)3 for the April 2012 First Lien Creditors, Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “March 2018 Second Lien Agent”)4 for the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders, [list any previously added Additional Agent] [and insert name of each Additional Agent under any Additional Credit Facility being added hereby as party] and any successors or assigns thereof, to the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of March 9, 2018 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”) among the April 2012 First Lien Agent, [and] the March 2018 Second Lien Agent [and (list any previously added Additional Agent)]. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Reference is made to that certain [insert name of Additional Credit Facility], dated as of , 20 (the “Additional Credit Facility”), among [list any applicable Grantor], [list any applicable Additional Creditors (the “Joining Additional Creditors”)] [and insert name of each applicable Additional Agent (the “Joining Additional Agent”)].5
Section 7.11 of the Intercreditor Agreement permits the Borrower to designate Additional Indebtedness under the Intercreditor Agreement. The Borrower has so designated Additional Indebtedness incurred or to be incurred under the Additional Credit Facility as Additional Indebtedness by means of an Additional Indebtedness Designation.
Accordingly, [the Joining Additional Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Joining Additional Creditors,]6 hereby agrees with April 2012 the First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent and any other Additional Agent party to the Intercreditor Agreement as follows:
Section 1. Agreement to be Bound. The [Joining Additional Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Joining Additional Creditors,]7 hereby agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and shall, as of the Additional Effective Date with respect to the Additional Credit Facility, be deemed to be a party to the Intercreditor Agreement.
3 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any successor April 2012 First Lien Agent. |
4 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any successor March 2018 Second Lien Agent. |
5 | Revise as appropriate to refer to the relevant Additional Credit Facility, Additional Creditors and any Additional Agent. |
6 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any Additional Agent being added hereby and any Additional Creditors represented thereby. |
7 | Revise references throughout as appropriate to refer to the party or parties being added. |
Ex. B-1
Section 2. Recognition of Claims. The April 2012 First Lien Agent (for itself and on behalf of the April 2012 First Lien Lenders), the March 2018 Second Lien Agent (for itself and on behalf of the March 2018 Second Lien Lenders) and [each of] the Additional Agent[s](for itself and on behalf of any Additional Creditors represented thereby) hereby agree that the interests of the respective Creditors in the Liens granted to the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, or any Additional Agent, as applicable, under the applicable Credit Documents shall be treated, as among the Creditors, as having the priorities provided for in Section 2.1 of the Intercreditor Agreement, and shall at all times be allocated among the Creditors as provided therein regardless of any claim or defense (including without limitation any claims under the fraudulent transfer, preference or similar avoidance provisions of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other laws affecting the rights of creditors generally) to which the April 2012 First Lien Agent, the March 2018 Second Lien Agent, any Additional Agent or any Creditor may be entitled or subject. The April 2012 First Lien Agent (for itself and on behalf of the April 2012 First Lien Creditors), the March 2018 Second Lien Agent (for itself and on behalf of the March 2018 Second Lien Creditors), and any Additional Agent party to the Intercreditor Agreement (for itself and on behalf of any Additional Creditors represented thereby) (a) recognize the existence and validity of the Additional Obligations represented by the Additional Credit Facility, and (b) agree to refrain from making or asserting any claim that the Additional Credit Facility or other applicable Additional Documents are invalid or not enforceable in accordance with their terms as a result of the circumstances surrounding the incurrence of such obligations. The [Joining Additional Agent (for itself and on behalf of the Joining Additional Creditors] (a) recognize[s] the existence and validity of the April 2012 First Lien Obligations represented by the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement and the existence and validity of the March 2018 Second Lien Obligations represented by the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement8 and (b) agree[s] to refrain from making or asserting any claim that the April 2012 First Lien Credit Agreement, the March 2018 Second Lien Credit Agreement or other April 2012 First Lien Facility Documentation or March 2018 Second Lien Facility Documentation,23 as the case may be, are invalid or not enforceable in accordance with their terms as a result of the circumstances surrounding the incurrence of such obligations.
Section 3. Notices. Notices and other communications provided for under the Intercreditor Agreement to be provided to [the Joining Additional Agent] shall be sent to the address set forth on Annex 1 attached hereto (until notice of a change thereof is delivered as provided in Section 7.5 of the Intercreditor Agreement).
Section 4. Miscellaneous. THIS JOINDER SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SAME ARE NOT MANDATORILY APPLICABLE BY STATUTE AND WOULD PERMIT OR REQUIRE THE APPLICATION OF LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.
[Add Signatures]
8 | Add reference to any previously added Additional Credit Facility and related Additional Obligations as appropriate. |
Ex. B-2
EXHIBIT C
[APRIL 2012 FIRST][[MARCH 2018 SECOND] LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT JOINDER
JOINDER, dated as of , 20 , among Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), those certain Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to time party to the Intercreditor Agreement described below, [Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “April 2012 First Lien Agent”)9 for the April 2012 First Lien Secured Parties] [Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as administrative agent (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “March 2018 Second Lien Agent”)10 for the March 2018 Second Lien Secured Parties], [list any previously added Additional Agent]]11 [and [insert name of additional April 2012 First Lien Secured Parties, April 2012 First Lien Agent, March 2018 Second Lien Secured Parties or March 2018 Second Lien Agent, as applicable, being added hereby as party] and any successors or assigns thereof, to the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of March 9, 2018, (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”) among the April 2012 First Lien Agent, [and] the March 2018 Second Lien Agent [and (list any previously added Additional Agent)]. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Reference is made to that certain [insert name of new facility], dated as of , 20 (the “Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Credit Agreement”), among [list any applicable Grantor], [list any applicable new April 2012 First Lien Secured Parties or new March 2018 Second Lien Secured Parties, as applicable (the “Joining [April 2012 First ][March 2018 Second] Lien Secured Parties]”)] [and insert name of each applicable Agent (the “Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Agent)”)].12
The Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second]13 Lien Secured Parties, hereby agrees with the Borrower and the other Grantors, the [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Agent and any other Additional Agent party to the Intercreditor Agreement as follows:
Section 1. Agreement to be Bound. The Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second]
9 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any successor April 2012 First Lien Agent. |
10 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any successor March 2018 Second Lien Agent. |
11 | List applicable current Parties, other than any party being replaced in connection herewith. |
12 | Revise as appropriate to refer to the new credit facility, Secured Parties and Agents. |
13 | Revise as appropriate to refer to any Agent being added hereby and any Creditors represented thereby. |
Ex. C-1
Lien Secured Parties,]14 hereby agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and shall, as of the date hereof, be deemed to be a party to the Intercreditor Agreement as [the][an] [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Agent. As of the date hereof, the Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Credit Agreement shall be deemed [the][an] [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Credit Agreement] under the Intercreditor Agreement, and the obligations thereunder are subject to the terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 2. Notices. Notices and other communications provided for under the Intercreditor Agreement to be provided to the Joining [April 2012 First][March 2018 Second] Lien Agent shall be sent to the address set forth on Annex 1 attached hereto (until notice of a change thereof is delivered as provided in Section 7.5 of the Intercreditor Agreement).
Section 3. Miscellaneous. THIS JOINDER SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SAME ARE NOT MANDATORILY APPLICABLE BY STATUTE AND WOULD PERMIT OR REQUIRE THE APPLICATION OF LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.
[ADD SIGNATURES]
14 | Revise references throughout as appropriate to refer to the party or parties being added. |
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