EXPLANATORY NOTE TO THIS EXHIBIT
EXHIBIT
10.2
EXPLANATORY
NOTE TO THIS EXHIBIT
The
Company’s representations and warranties included in this Security Agreement
were made to the secured party hereunder. These representations and warranties
were made as of specific dates, only for purposes of this Security Agreement and
for the benefit of the parties thereto. These representations and warranties
were subject to important exceptions and limitations agreed upon by the parties,
made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties rather
than establishing these matters as facts and were made subject to a contractual
standard of materiality that may be different from the standard generally
applicable under federal securities laws. This Security Agreement is filed with
this report only to provide investors with information regarding its terms and
conditions, and not to provide any other factual information regarding the
Company or its business. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of
the representations and warranties may have changed, and may continue to change,
after the date of the Security Agreement, and such subsequent information may or
may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public reports. Accordingly,
investors should not rely on the representations and warranties contained in
this Security Agreement or any description thereof as characterizations of the
actual state of facts or condition of the Company or its affiliates. The
information in this Security Agreement should be considered together with the
Company’s public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
[EXECUTION
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COUNTERPART]
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among
SERACARE
LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
as
Borrower
THE
GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
and
MIDDLESEX
SAVINGS BANK
as
Administrative Agent
Dated as
of December 30, 2010
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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Article 1 ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION |
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SECTION
1.1
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Definitions
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1
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SECTION
1.2
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Interpretation
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9
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SECTION
1.3
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Resolution
of Drafting Ambiguities
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9
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SECTION
1.4
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Perfection
Certificates
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9
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Article 2 GRANT OF SECURITY AND FILINGS |
9
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SECTION
2.1
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Grant
of Security Interest
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9
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SECTION
2.2
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Filing
Authorizations
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10
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Article
3
REPRESENTATIONS
AND COVENANTS OF THE GRANTORS; FURTHER ASSURANCES
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11
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SECTION
3.1
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Ownership
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11
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SECTION
3.2
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Chief
Executive Office: Change of Name: Jurisdiction of
Organization
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11
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SECTION
3.3
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Validity
of Security Interest
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12
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SECTION
3.4
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Financing
Statements and Other Filings: Maintenance of Perfected Security
Interest
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12
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SECTION
3.5
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Pledged
Securities; Due Authorization and Issuance
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13
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SECTION
3.6
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Deposit
Accounts
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13
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SECTION
3.7
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Investment
Property
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14
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SECTION
3.8
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Instruments
and Tangible Chattel Paper
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16
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SECTION
3.9
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Electronic
Chattel Paper and Transferable Records
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16
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SECTION
3.10
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Letter-of-Credit
Rights
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17
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SECTION
3.11
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Commercial
Tort Claims
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17
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SECTION 3.12
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Intellectual
Property
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17
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SECTION
3.12
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Collateral
Access Agreements; Inventory
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17
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SECTION
3.14
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Motor
Vehicles
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18
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SECTION
3.15
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Third-Party
Agreements
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18
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SECTION
3.16
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Insurance
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19
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SECTION
3.17
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Contesting
Liens; Claims
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19
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SECTION
3.18
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Joinder
of Additional Grantors
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19
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SECTION
3.19
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Further
Assurances
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20
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Article 4 CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING SECURITIES COLLATERAL |
20
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SECTION
4.1
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Pledge
of Additional Securities Collateral
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20
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SECTION
4.2
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Voting
Rights; Distributions: etc
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20
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SECTION
4.3
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Defaults,
etc
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21
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SECTION
4.4
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Certain
Agreements of Grantors As Issuers and Holders of Equity
Interests
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21
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Article
5
CERTAIN
PROVISIONS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL
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22
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SECTION
5.1
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Grant
of License
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22
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SECTION
5.2
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Protection
of Secured Party’s Security
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22
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SECTION
5.3
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After-Acquired
Property
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23
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SECTION
5.4
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Litigation
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23
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Article 6 CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING ACCOUNTS |
24
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SECTION
6.1
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Maintenance
of Records
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24
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SECTION
6.2
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Legend
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24
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SECTION
6.3
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Modification
of Terms, etc
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24
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SECTION
6.4
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Collection
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24
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Article 7 REMEDIES |
25
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SECTION
7.1
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Remedies
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25
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SECTION
7.2
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Notice
of Sale
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27
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SECTION
7.3
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Waivers
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27
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SECTION
7.4
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Certain
Sales of Pledged Collateral
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27
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SECTION
7.5
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No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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28
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SECTION
7.6
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Intellectual
Property
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28
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SECTION
7.7
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Application
of Proceeds
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29
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SECTION
7.8
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Collateral
Account
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29
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Article 8 MISCELLANEOUS |
29
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SECTION
8.1
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Concerning
Secured Party
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29
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SECTION
8.2
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Secured
Party May Perform; Secured Party Appointed
Attorney-in-Fact
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29
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SECTION
8.3
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Continuing
Security Interest; Assignment
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30
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SECTION
8.4
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Reinstatement;
Termination
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30
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SECTION
8.5
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Amendments
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31
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SECTION
8.6
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Notices
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31
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SECTION
8.7
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Governing
Law, Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process; WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL
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31
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SECTION
8.8
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Severability
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32
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SECTION
8.9
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Counterparts
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32
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SECTION
8.10
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Marshalling
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32
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SECTION
8.11
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No
Credit for Payment of Taxes or Imposition
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32
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SECTION
8.12
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No
Claims Against Secured Party
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32
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SECTION
8.13
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Grantors
Remain Liable
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33
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SECTION
8.14
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Obligations
Absolute
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33
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SECTION
8.15
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ENTIRE
AGREEMENT
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SCHEDULES
Schedule
3.2
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Names;
Incorporation; Chief Executive Offices, etc.
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Schedule
3.3
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Filing
Actions
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Schedule
3.5
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Pledged
Securities
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Schedule
3.6
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Deposit
Accounts
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Schedule
3.7(a)
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Securities
Accounts and Commodities Accounts
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Schedule
3.8
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Instruments
and Tangible Chattel Paper
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Schedule
3.9
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Electronic
Chattel Paper
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Schedule
3.11
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Commercial
Tort Claims
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Schedule
3.12
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Intellectual
Property
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Schedule
3.15
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Third-Party
Agreements
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit
A
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Form
of Copyright Security Agreement
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Exhibit
B
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Form
of Patent Security Agreement
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Exhibit
C
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Form
of Trademark Security Agreement
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Exhibit
D
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Form
of Pledge Supplement
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SECURITY
AGREEMENT
SECURITY
AGREEMENT dated as of December 30, 2010 (as modified, supplemented and in effect
from time to time, the “Agreement”)
among SERACARE LIFE SCIENCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”);
each of the Subsidiaries of the Borrowers listed under the caption “GUARANTORS”
on the signature pages hereto and each Subsidiary of any Borrower that becomes a
“Guarantor” after the date hereof pursuant to Section 3.18 hereof
(each, a “Guarantor”,
and collectively, the “Guarantors”,
and together with the Borrowers, the “Grantors,”
and each, a “Grantor”);
and MIDDLESEX SAVINGS BANK, as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative
Agent”), for the benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties (as such
term is defined in the Loan Agreement referred to below) (in such capacity, and
together with its successors in such capacity, the “Secured
Party”).
RECITALS:
A. The
Borrower, Guarantors, Lenders, LC Bank and Administrative Agent are parties to a
Loan Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as modified, supplemented and in
effect from time to time, the “Loan
Agreement”), providing, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, for
extensions of credit to be made by the Lenders to the
Borrower. Capitalized terms used herein are defined as provided in
Section 1.1 hereof.
B. Each
Guarantor has, pursuant to the Loan Agreement, unconditionally guaranteed the
Secured Obligations. The Grantors will receive substantial benefits
from the execution, delivery and performance of the obligations under the Loan
Agreement and the other Financing Documents and therefore, each Grantor is
willing to enter into this Agreement.
D. It
is a condition to the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans under the Loan
Agreement that each Grantor execute and deliver this Agreement in favor of the
Secured Party for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
AGREEMENT:
NOW
THEREFORE, to induce the Lender to enter into the Loan Agreement and to extend
credit thereunder, and in consideration of the foregoing premises and other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, each Grantor and the Secured Party hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
1
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
SECTION
1.1 Definitions. Terms
defined in the Loan Agreement are used herein as defined in the Loan
Agreement. Unless otherwise defined herein or in the Loan Agreement,
capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the UCC shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the UCC. The following terms shall have
the following meanings:
“Additional Pledged
Interests” means, collectively, with respect to each Grantor, (i) all
Equity Interests of whatever class of any issuer of Initial Pledged Interests or
any interest in any such issuer, together with all rights, privileges, authority
and powers of such Grantor relating to such Equity Interests in each such issuer
or under any Constitutive document of any such issuer, and the certificates,
instruments and agreements representing such Equity Interests and any and all
interest of such Grantor in the entries on the books of any financial
intermediary pertaining to such Equity Interests from time to time acquired by
such Grantor in any manner and (ii) all Equity Interests of each limited
liability company, partnership or other entity (other than a corporation)
hereafter acquired or formed by such Grantor (including all successor Equity
Interests thereto) and all options, warrants, rights, agreements, additional
Equity Interests of whatever class of such limited liability company,
partnership or other entity, together with all rights, privileges, authority and
powers of such Grantor relating to such Equity Interests or under any
constitutive document of any such issuer, and the certificates, instruments and
agreements representing such Equity Interests and any and all interest of such
Grantor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to
such Equity Interests, from time to time acquired by such Grantor in any
manner.
“Additional Pledged
Shares” means, collectively, with respect to each Grantor, (i) all Equity
Interests of whatever class of any issuer of the Initial Pledged Shares or any
other Equity Interests in any such issuer, together with all rights, privileges,
authority and powers of such Grantor relating to such Equity Interests issued by
any such issuer under any constitutive document of any such issuer, and the
certificates, instruments and agreements representing such interests and any and
all interest of such Grantor in the entries on the books of any financial
intermediary pertaining to such interests, from time to time acquired by such
Grantor in any manner and (ii) all the issued and outstanding shares of capital
stock of each corporation hereafter acquired or formed by such Grantor
(including all successor Equity Interests thereto) and all options, warrants,
rights, agreements or additional shares of capital stock of whatever class of
such corporation, together with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of
such Grantor relating to such shares or under any constitutive document of such
corporation, and the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such
shares and any and all interest of such Grantor in the entries on the books of
any financial intermediary pertaining to such shares, from time to time acquired
by such Grantor in any manner.
“Agreement” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Borrower” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“CFC” means a Person
that is a controlled foreign corporation under Section 957 of the
Code.
“Claims” means any and
all property and other taxes, assessments and special assessments, levies, fees
and all governmental charges imposed upon or assessed against, and landlords’,
carriers’, mechanics’, workmen’s, repairmen’s, laborers’, materialmen’s,
suppliers’, warehousemen’s and other similar Liens and other claims arising by
operation of law against, all or any portion of the Pledged
Collateral.
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“Collateral Account”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
7.8.
“Collateral Access
Agreement” means a landlord waiver, bailee letter, or acknowledgement
agreement of any lessor, warehouseman, processor, consignee, or other Person in
possession of, having a Lien upon, or having rights or interests in the
equipment, inventory or other Property of a Loan Party, in each case, in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party.
“Contested Liens”
means, collectively, any Liens incurred in respect of any Claims to the extent
that the amounts owing in respect thereof are not yet delinquent or are being
contested in accordance and otherwise comply with the Loan Agreement and Section 3.17; provided, that such
Liens shall in all respects be subject and subordinate in priority to the Lien
created by this Agreement, except if and to the extent that the law or
regulation creating, permitting or authorizing such Lien mandates that such Lien
must be superior to the Lien created and evidenced hereby.
“Contracts” means,
collectively, with respect to each Grantor, all sale, service, performance,
equipment or property lease contracts, licenses, agreements and grants and all
other contracts, agreements or grants (in each case, whether written or oral, or
third party or intercompany), between such Grantor and third parties, and all
assignments, amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, renewals,
replacements or modifications thereof.
“Control” means (i) in
the case of each Deposit Account, “control,” as such term is defined in Section
9-104 of the UCC, and (ii) in the case of any Security Entitlement, “control,”
as such term is defined in Section 8-106 of the UCC and (iii) in the case of any
Commodity Contract, “control,” as such term is defined in Section 9-106 of the
UCC.
“Copyrights” means,
collectively, all copyrights (whether statutory or common law, whether
established or registered in the United States or any other country or any
political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered and whether
published or unpublished) and all copyright registrations and applications,
together with any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable law
with respect to the use of such copyrights, (ii) renewals and extensions thereof
and reversionary interests and terminations rights with respect thereto, (iii)
income, fees, royalties, damages, claims and payments now or hereafter due
and/or payable with respect thereto, including damages and payments for past,
present or future infringements thereof, (iv) rights corresponding thereto
throughout the world and (v) rights to xxx for past, present or future
infringements thereof and accountings with respect thereto.
“Copyright Security
Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Exhibit
A.
“Deposit Accounts”
means, collectively, with respect to each Grantor, (i) all “deposit accounts” as
such term is defined in the UCC and in any event shall include the Collateral
Account and all accounts and sub-accounts relating to any of the foregoing
accounts and (ii) all cash, funds, checks, notes and instruments from time to
time on deposit in any of the accounts or sub-accounts described in clause (i)
of this definition.
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“Discharge of
Obligations” means satisfaction of each of the following:
(a) the
indefeasible payment in full in cash of all principal of and interest (including
interest accruing on or after the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, whether or not such interest would be allowed in such proceeding) on
all Loans outstanding;
(b)
the indefeasible payment
in full in cash of all other Secured Obligations (other than inchoate,
unasserted indemnity obligations that expressly survive termination of the
Financing Documents); and
(c) the
permanent termination or expiration of all Commitments.
“Distributions” means,
collectively and with respect to each Grantor, all dividends, cash, options,
warrants, rights, instruments, distributions, returns of capital or principal,
income, interest, profits and other property, interests (debt or equity) or
proceeds, including as a result of a split, revision, reclassification or other
like change of the Pledged Securities, from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed to such Grantor in respect of or in exchange for any or
all of the Pledged Securities or Intercompany Notes.
“Excluded Property”
means:
(a) Any
lease, license, contract, property right or agreement to which any Grantor is a
party, or any license, consent, permit, variance, certification, authorization
or approval of any Governmental Authority (or any person acting on behalf of a
Governmental Authority) of which any Grantor is the owner or beneficiary, or any
of its rights or interest thereunder, if and for so long as the grant of such
security interest shall constitute or result in (i) the abandonment,
invalidation or unenforceability of any right, title or interest of any Grantor
therein or (ii) a breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or a default
under, any such lease, license, contract, property right or agreement or such
license, consent, permit, variance, certification, authorization or approval
(other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective
pursuant to Sections 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC of any relevant
jurisdiction or any other applicable law or principles of equity);
(b) Equipment
owned by any Grantor on the date hereof or hereafter acquired that is subject to
a Lien securing a purchase money obligation or a Capital Lease Obligation
permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 8.01(d) of the Loan Agreement if
the contract or other agreement in which such Lien is granted (or the
documentation providing for such purchase money obligation or Capital Lease
Obligation) validly prohibits the creation of any other Lien on such
Equipment;
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(c) Any
Investment Property or Pledged Securities consisting of Equity Interests in any
foreign Subsidiary that is a CFC; provided that this exception shall not apply
to (1) voting Equity Interests of any Subsidiary which is a first-tier CFC
representing up to 66-2/3% of the total voting power of all outstanding voting
Equity Interests of such Subsidiary and (2) any portion of the Equity Interests
not constituting voting Equity Interests of any such Subsidiary, except that any
such Equity Interests constituting “stock entitled to vote” within the meaning
of Treasury Regulation Section 1.956-2(c)(2) shall be treated as voting Equity
Interests for purposes of this clause (c);
(d) Solely
to the extent permitted under Section 8.02(j) of the Loan Agreement to secure
Indebtedness permitted under Section 8.01(h) of the Loan Agreement, cash and
Permitted Investments in an aggregate amount not exceeding $1,000,000 at any
time and the Deposit Account and/or Securities Account to which such cash and
Permitted Investments are credited, so long as such Deposit and/or Securities
Account do not have any Property on deposit therein or credited thereto in
excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate at any time;
(e) Cash
security deposits, solely to the extent such deposits are permitted under
Section 8.02(f) of the Loan Agreement, up to but not exceeding $500,000 in the
aggregate at any time; and
(f) Intent-to-use
trademark applications;
provided, that the
Property described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c) shall cease to
constitute Excluded Property immediately at such time as the condition causing
such abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability, or breach or termination,
shall be remedied and, to the extent severable, any portion of such lease,
license, contract, property right, agreement, Equipment, Investment Property or
Pledged Securities that does not result in any of the consequences specified in
clause (a), (b) or (c) shall not constitute Excluded Property including, without
limitation, any Proceeds of such lease, license, contract, property right,
agreement, Equipment, Investment Property or Pledged Securities; and provided, further, that any and
all Proceeds of any of the foregoing shall not constitute Excluded Property but
shall constitute Collateral.
“General Intangibles”
means, collectively, with respect to each Grantor, all “general intangibles,” as
such term is defined in the UCC, of such Grantor and, in any event, shall
include (i) all of such Grantor’s rights, title and interest in, to and under
all insurance policies and Contracts, (ii) all know-how and warranties relating
to any Pledged Collateral or any other Collateral, (iii) any and all other
rights, claims, choses-in-action and causes of action of such Grantor against
any other person and the benefits of any and all collateral or other security
given by any other person in connection therewith, (iv) all guarantees,
endorsements and indemnifications on, or of, any Pledged Collateral or any other
Collateral, (v) all lists, books, records, correspondence, ledgers, printouts,
files (whether in printed form or stored electronically), tapes and other papers
or materials containing information relating to any Pledged Collateral or any
other Collateral, including all customer or tenant lists, identification of
suppliers, data, plans, blueprints, specifications, designs, drawings,
appraisals, recorded knowledge, surveys, studies, reports, manuals, standards,
catalogs, research data, computer and automatic machinery software and programs
and the like, accounting information pertaining to such Grantor’s operations or
any Pledged Collateral or any other Collateral and all media in which or on
which any of the information or knowledge or data or records may be recorded or
stored and all computer programs used for the compilation or printout of such
information, knowledge, records or data, (vi) all licenses, consents, permits,
variances, certifications, authorizations and approvals, however characterized,
of any Governmental Authority (or any person acting on behalf of a Governmental
Authority) now or hereafter acquired or held by such Grantor and (vii) all
rights to reserves, deferred payments, deposits, refunds, indemnification of
claims to the extent the foregoing relate to any Pledged Collateral or other
Collateral and claims for tax or other refunds against any Governmental
Authority relating to any Pledged Collateral or any other
Collateral.
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“Goodwill” means,
collectively, with respect to each Grantor, the goodwill connected with such
Grantor’s business including all goodwill connected with the use of and
symbolized by (i) any Trademark or Trademark License in which such Grantor has
any interest and (ii) all lines of such Grantor’s business.
“Grantor” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Guarantors” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Initial Pledged
Interests” means, with respect to each Grantor, all Equity Interests
(other than in a corporation), as applicable, of each issuer described in Schedule 3.5,
together with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Grantor
relating thereto in and to each such issuer or under any Constitutive document
of each such issuer, and the certificates, instruments and agreements
representing such Equity Interests and any and all interest of such Grantor in
the entries on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such Equity
Interests.
“Initial Pledged
Shares” means, collectively, with respect to each Grantor, the issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock of each issuer described in Schedule 3.5 together
with all rights, privileges, authority and powers of such Grantor relating to
such interests in each such issuer or under any Constitutive document of each
such issuer, and the certificates, instruments and agreements representing such
shares of capital stock and any and all interest of such Grantor in the entries
on the books of any financial intermediary pertaining to the Initial Pledged
Shares.
“Instruments” means,
collectively, with respect to each Grantor, all “instruments,” as such term is
defined in Article 9, rather than Article 3, of the UCC, and shall include all
promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange or acceptances.
“Intellectual
Property” means, collectively, all patents, patent applications, rights
and interests in patents, trademarks, trade names, service marks, names and
likenesses, copyrights and rights under copyright, technology, trade secrets,
proprietary information, confidential information, domain names, data, software,
know-how and processes, including, without limitation, all Patents, Trade
Secrets, Trademarks, Copyrights, Licenses and Goodwill.
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“Intellectual Property
Collateral” means all Intellectual Property that constitutes Pledged
Collateral.
“Intercompany Notes”
means, with respect to each Grantor, all intercompany notes owned or acquired by
such Grantor and all certificates, instruments or agreements evidencing such
intercompany notes, and all assignments, amendments, restatements, supplements,
extensions, renewals, replacements or modifications thereof.
“Investment Property”
means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, Security Entitlement,
Securities Account, Commodity Contract or Commodity Account.
“IP Security Agreement
Supplement” means each supplement to a Copyright Security Agreement,
Patent Security Agreement or Trademark Security Agreement executed and delivered
by any Grantor in favor of the Secured Party, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Secured Party.
“Lender” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Licenses” means,
collectively, all license and distribution agreements with, and covenants not to
xxx, any other party with respect to any Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark or
Copyright or any other patent, trade secret, trademark or copyright, whether a
Grantor is a licensor or licensee, distributor or distributee under any such
license or distribution agreement, together with any and all (i) renewals,
extensions, supplements and continuations thereof, (ii) income, fees, royalties,
damages, claims and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and
with respect thereto including damages and payments for past, present or future
infringements or violations thereof, (iii) rights to xxx for past, present and
future infringements or violations thereof and (iv) other rights to use, exploit
or practice any or all of the Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademarks or Copyrights
or any other patent, trade secret, trademark or copyright.
“Loan Agreement” has
the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.
“Patents” means,
collectively, all patents issued or assigned to and all patent applications and
registrations (whether established or registered or recorded in the United
States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), together with
any and all (i) rights and privileges arising under applicable law with respect
to the use of any patents, (ii) inventions and improvements described and
claimed therein, (iii) reissues, divisions, continuations, renewals, extensions
and continuations-in-part thereof, (iv) income, fees, royalties, damages, claims
and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable thereunder and with respect
thereto including damages and payments for past, present or future infringements
thereof, (v) rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (vi) rights
to xxx for past, present or future infringements thereof
“Patent Security
Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Exhibit B.
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“Perfection
Certificate” means, with respect to any Grantor, that certain perfection
certificate dated the date hereof executed and delivered by such Grantor to
Secured Party, and each other Perfection Certificate (which shall be in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Secured Party) executed and delivered by
such Grantor to the Secured Party pursuant Section
3.18.
“Permitted Collateral
Liens” means Liens permitted under Sections 8.02(a) through (k) of the
Loan Agreement.
“Pledge Supplement”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.1.
“Pledged Collateral”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.1.
“Pledged Interests”
means, collectively, the Initial Pledged Interests and the Additional Pledged
Interests.
“Pledged Securities”
means, collectively, the Pledged Interests and the Pledged Shares.
“Pledged Shares”
means, collectively, the Initial Pledged Shares and the Additional Pledged
Shares.
“Secured Party” has
the meaning assigned to such term in the Preamble hereof.
“Securities
Collateral” means, collectively, the Pledged Securities, the Intercompany
Notes and the Distributions.
“Trade Secrets” means,
collectively, with respect to each Grantor, all know-how, trade secrets,
customer and supplier lists, proprietary information, inventions, methods,
procedures, formulae, descriptions, compositions, technical data, drawings,
specifications, name plates, catalogs, confidential information and the right to
limit the use or disclosure thereof by any person, pricing and cost information,
business and marketing plans and proposals, consulting agreements, engineering
contracts and such other assets which relate to the goodwill connected with such
Grantor’s business.
“Trademarks” means,
collectively, with respect to each Grantor, all trademarks (including service
marks), slogans, logos, certification marks, trade dress, uniform resource
locations (URL’s), domain names, corporate names and trade names, whether
registered or unregistered, owned by or assigned and all registrations and
applications for the foregoing (whether statutory or common law and whether
established or registered in the United States or any other country or any
political subdivision thereof), together with any and all (i) rights and
privileges arising under applicable law with respect to the use of any
trademarks, (ii) reinstatements, revivals, reissues, continuations, extensions
and renewals thereof and oppositions with respect thereto, (iii) income, fees,
royalties, damages and payments now and hereafter due and/or payable thereunder
and with respect thereto, including damages, claims and payments for past,
present or future infringements, misappropriation or dilution thereof, (iv)
rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and (v) rights to xxx for
past, present and future infringements, misappropriation or dilution
thereof.
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“Trademark Security
Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Exhibit
C.
“Voting Stock” means,
with respect to any Person, any class of Equity Interests pursuant to which the
holders thereof have the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to
elect at least a majority of the board of directors (or equivalent governing
body) of such Person.
SECTION
1.2 Interpretation. The
rules of interpretation specified in the Loan Agreement (including Section 1.02 thereof)
shall be applicable to this Agreement. All references in this
Agreement to “Grantors” shall mean the Grantors jointly and
severally.
SECTION
1.3 Resolution of Drafting
Ambiguities. Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that it was
represented by counsel in connection with the execution and delivery hereof,
that it and its counsel reviewed and participated in the preparation and
negotiation hereof and that any rule of construction to the effect that
ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party (i.e., the Secured
Party) shall not be employed in the interpretation hereof.
SECTION
1.4 Perfection
Certificates. The Secured Party and each Secured Party agree
that the Perfection Certificates and all schedules, amendments and supplements
thereto are and shall at all times remain a part of this Agreement.
ARTICLE
2
GRANT OF
SECURITY AND FILINGS
SECTION
2.1 Grant of Security
Interest. As collateral security for the prompt payment and
performance in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise) of all the Secured Obligations, each Grantor hereby pledges and
grants to the Secured Party, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a lien on
and security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in, to
and under the following property, wherever located, whether now owned by such
Grantor or hereafter acquired and whether now existing or hereafter coming into
existence (collectively, the “Pledged
Collateral”):
(i)
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all
Accounts;
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(ii)
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all
Equipment, Goods, Inventory and
Fixtures;
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(iii)
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all
Documents, Instruments and Chattel
Paper;
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(iv)
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all
Letters of Credit and Letter-of-Credit
Rights;
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(v)
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all
Securities Collateral;
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(vi)
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all
Collateral Accounts;
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(vii)
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all
Investment Property;
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(viii)
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all
Intellectual Property;
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(ix)
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the
Commercial Tort Claims described on Schedule 3.11
hereto;
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(x)
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all
General Intangibles;
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(xi)
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all
Deposit Accounts;
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(xii)
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all
Supporting Obligations;
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(xiii)
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all
books and records relating to the Pledged Collateral;
and
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(xiv)
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to
the extent not covered by clauses (i) through (xiii) of this sentence, all
other personal property of such Grantor, whether tangible or intangible,
and all Proceeds and products of each of the foregoing and all accessions
to, substitutions and replacements for, and rents, profits and products
of, each of the foregoing, and any and all Proceeds of any insurance,
indemnity, warranty or guaranty payable to such Grantor from time to time
with respect to any of the
foregoing.
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Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in clauses (i) through (xiv) above, the
security interest created by this Agreement shall not extend to, and the term
“Pledged Collateral” shall not include, any Excluded Property and (i) the
Grantors shall from time to time, at the reasonable request of the
Administrative Agent, give written notice to the Administrative Agent
identifying in reasonable detail the Excluded Property and shall provide to the
Administrative Agent such other information regarding the Excluded Property as
the Administrative Agent may reasonably request and (ii) from and after the
Closing Date, no Grantor shall permit to become effective in any document
creating, governing or providing for any contract, permit, lease or license, a
provision that would prohibit the creation of a Lien on such permit, lease or
license in favor of the Administrative Agent unless such Grantor believes, in
its reasonable judgment, that such prohibition is usual and customary in
transactions of such type.
SECTION
2.2 Filing
Authorizations.
(a) Each
Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Secured Party at any time to file in
any relevant jurisdiction any financing statements (including fixture filings)
and amendments thereto relating to the Pledged Collateral, including (i) any
financing or continuation statements or other documents without the signature of
such Grantor where permitted by law, (ii) financing statements describing the
Pledged Collateral as “all assets in which the Grantor now owns or hereafter
acquires rights” or similar descriptions and (iii) in the case of a financing
statement filed as a fixture filing, a sufficient description of the real
property to which such Pledged Collateral relates.
(b) Each
Grantor hereby ratifies its authorization for the Secured Party to file in any
relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto
relating to the Pledged Collateral if filed prior to the date
hereof.
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(c) Each
Grantor hereby further authorizes the Secured Party to file filings with the US
PTO or US Copyright Office (or any successor office or, if a Default has
occurred and is continuing, any similar office in any other country), including
this Agreement and any IP Security Agreement Supplements; or other documents for
the purpose of creating, perfecting, confirming, continuing, enforcing,
protecting or putting third parties on notice of the security interest granted
by such Grantor hereunder, without the signature of such Grantor, and naming
such Grantor, as debtor, and the Secured Party, as secured party.
ARTICLE
3
REPRESENTATIONS
AND COVENANTS OF THE GRANTORS; FURTHER ASSURANCES
Each
Grantor represents, warrants and covenants to and with the Secured Party for the
benefit of the Secured Parties as follows:
SECTION
3.1 Ownership. Such
Grantor is and, as to Pledged Collateral acquired by it after the date hereof,
will be, the sole beneficial owner of, and has and will have good and marketable
title to, the Pledged Collateral in which it purports to grant a security
interest pursuant to Section 2.1, and no
Lien exists or will exist upon such Pledged Collateral at any time, except for
Liens in favor of the Secured Party and other Permitted Collateral
Liens. No Person other than the Secured Party has control or
possession of all or any part of the Pledged Collateral, except as permitted by
the Loan Agreement or this Agreement.
SECTION
3.2 Chief Executive Office:
Change of Name: Jurisdiction of Organization.
(a) Schedule 3.2 hereto
sets forth, as of the date hereof, (i) such Grantor’s exact legal name, (ii) its
state of incorporation or organization and (iii) the addresses of the chief
executive offices, principal places of business and any other place of business
of such Grantor and the locations of any Pledged Collateral (including Pledged
Collateral located at warehouses and the like) and of all records concerning
that portion of Pledged Collateral consisting of accounts receivable and other
general intangibles. Except as set forth in Section 1(g) of the
Perfection Certificate, from May 17, 2007 to the date hereof, neither the
Borrower nor any of its predecessors-in-interest has conducted any business or
sold any goods under any name (including any fictitious business or trade name)
other than its legal name.
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(b) Until
termination of this Agreement: (i) such Grantor will not change the jurisdiction
of its incorporation or organization or move its chief executive office,
principal place of business or principal office at which is kept its books and
records (including computer printouts and programs) from the locations existing
on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 3.2 hereto;
(ii) such Grantor will not establish any offices or other places of business at
any other location, except in compliance with and to the extent permitted by
Articles VII and VIII of the Loan Agreement; (iii) such Grantor will not move
any of the tangible Pledged Collateral (other than Pledged Collateral in-transit
or out for repair) to any location other than those locations existing on the
date hereof and listed on Schedule 3.2 hereto
and other locations established in compliance with this paragraph (b), except in
compliance with and to the extent permitted by Articles VII and VIII of the Loan
Agreement; (iv) such Grantor will not change its name or do business under any
other fictitious business names or trade names; unless, in each case of clauses
(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, (x) such Grantor shall have given
the Secured Party at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of its
intention to do so, identifying the new location and providing such other
information as the Secured Party deems necessary or reasonably advisable, and
(y) such Grantor shall have delivered to the Secured Party such documentation
(including Collateral Access Agreements), in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Secured Party and as required by the Secured Party, to
preserve the perfection and priority of Secured Party’s security interest in the
Pledged Collateral.
SECTION
3.3 Validity of Security
Interest. Such Grantor confirms that value has been given to
it by the Secured Party, and that it has rights in the Pledged
Collateral. The security interest in and Lien on the Pledged
Collateral granted to the Secured Party hereunder constitutes and will
constitute (i) a legal and valid security interest in all the Pledged Collateral
securing the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, and (ii)
subject to the filings and other actions described in Schedule 3.3 hereto,
a first-priority, perfected security interest in and Lien on the Pledged
Collateral, subject only to Permitted Collateral Liens.
SECTION
3.4 Financing Statements and
Other Filings: Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest.
(a) All
filings in the United States under the UCC and in the USPTO and US Copyright
Office, and all other filings in the United States to the extent required under
the Financing Documents (and, to the extent required under Section 7.10(b) of
the Loan Agreement, outside the United States), necessary to perfect the
security interest granted by such Grantor to the Secured Party in respect of the
Pledged Collateral have been delivered to the Secured Party in completed and, to
the extent necessary or appropriate, duly executed form for filing in each
governmental or other office specified in Schedule 3.3
hereto.
(b) Without
the prior written consent of the Secured Party, no Grantor shall file or suffer
to be on file, or authorize or permit to be filed or to be on file, in any
jurisdiction, any financing statement or like instrument with respect to the
Pledged Collateral in which the Secured Party is not named as the sole secured
party for the benefit of the Secured Parties, except to the extent expressly
permitted under Section 8.02 of the Loan Agreement.
(c) At
the sole cost and expense of the Grantors, (i) such Grantor will maintain the
security interest created by this Agreement in the Pledged Collateral as a
perfected, first-priority security interest in favor of the Secured Party,
subject only to Permitted Collateral Liens, and (ii) such Grantor shall furnish
to the Secured Party from time to time statements and schedules further
identifying and describing the Pledged Collateral and such other reports in
connection with the Pledged Collateral as the Secured Party may reasonably
request, all in reasonable detail.
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SECTION
3.5 Pledged Securities; Due
Authorization and Issuance. All of the Initial Pledged Shares
have been, and to the extent any Pledged Shares are hereafter issued, such
Pledged Shares will be, duly authorized, validly issued and fully paid and
non-assessable. All of the Initial Pledged Interests have been fully
paid for, and such Grantor does not owe any amount or other obligation to any
issuer of the Initial Pledged Interests in exchange for or in connection with
the issuance of the Initial Pledged Interests or such Grantor’s status as a
partner or a member of any issuer of the Initial Pledged Interests. All
Additional Pledged Interests when issued or acquired will be fully paid for, and
such Grantor will not owe any amount or other obligation to any issuer of such
Additional Pledged Interests in exchange for or in connection with the issuance
of such Additional Pledged Interests or such Grantor’s status as a partner or a
member of any issuer of such Additional Pledged Interests.
SECTION
3.6 Deposit
Accounts. Such Grantor does not maintain any Deposit Accounts
other than (a) as of the date hereof, the accounts listed in Schedule 3.6 and (b)
from and after the date hereof, accounts in compliance with this Section 3.6 and
Section 7.13 of the Loan Agreement and the Post-Closing
Agreement. The Secured Party has a perfected, first-priority security
interest in each Deposit Account listed in Schedule 3.6 by
Control, other than those designated therein as “Not Subject to an Account
Control Agreement as of the Closing Date”. The Grantors shall
maintain their primary Deposit Accounts with Middlesex, except to the extent
expressly permitted under Section 7.13 of the Loan Agreement and the
Post-Closing Agreement; provided that the
Borrower may maintain up to but not exceeding at any time $1,000,000 in the
aggregate on deposit in or credited to Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts
that are not at Middlesex, so long as (except as provided in the following
further proviso) such non-Middlesex accounts are subject to an Account Control
Agreement; provided, further, that the
aggregate amount on deposit in or credited to Deposit Accounts that are not
subject to an Account Control Agreement shall not exceed (i) $50,000 for any single Deposit
Account at any time or (ii) $200,000 in the aggregate for all Deposit Accounts
at any time. No Grantor shall hereafter establish or maintain any
Deposit Account except in compliance with the Loan Agreement and this Agreement
and unless the applicable Grantor shall have given the Secured Party at least
five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may
approve in its sole discretion) prior written notice of its intention to
establish such new Deposit Account with a bank. The Secured Party
agrees with each Grantor that the Secured Party shall not give any instructions
directing the disposition of funds from time to time credited to any Deposit
Account or withhold any withdrawal rights from such Grantor with respect to
funds from time to time credited to any Deposit Account unless an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing. No Grantor shall grant
Control of any Deposit Account to any Person other than the Secured Party,
except for control arising by operation of law to the account banks for
non-Middlesex Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts of the Borrower
established and maintained in compliance with the third sentence of this
paragraph and for which Account Control Agreements are not required under such
third sentence and the sentence immediately preceding it.
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SECTION
3.7 Investment
Property.
(a) Such
Grantor (1) has no Securities Accounts or Commodity Accounts as of the date
hereof other than those listed in Schedule 3.7(a)
hereto and the Secured Party has a perfected, first-priority security interest
in such Securities Accounts and Commodity Accounts by Control; (2) as of the
date hereof, does not hold, own or have any interest in any certificated
securities or uncertificated securities other than those constituting Pledged
Securities and those maintained in Securities Accounts or Commodity Accounts
listed in Schedule
3.7(a) hereto and (3) as of the date hereof, has entered into a duly
authorized, executed and delivered Account Control Agreement with respect to
each Securities Account or Commodity Account listed in Schedule 3.7(a)
hereto, as applicable.
(b) Such
Grantor shall not hereafter establish or maintain any Securities Account or
Commodity Account with any Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary
unless (1) the applicable Grantor shall have given the Secured Party at least
five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may
approve in its sole discretion) prior written notice of its intention to
establish such new Securities Account or Commodity Account, (2) the applicable
Grantor shall have offered the Secured Party a right of first refusal with
respect to such new Securities Account or Commodity Account, (3) such Securities
Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary shall be reasonably acceptable to the
Secured Party and (4) such Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary, as
the case may be, and such Grantor shall have duly executed and delivered an
Account Control Agreement with respect to such Securities Account or Commodity
Account, as the case may be. Such Grantor shall accept any cash and
Investment Property in trust for the benefit of the Secured Party and promptly
after actual receipt thereof, deposit any cash or such Investment Property and
any new securities, instruments, documents or other property by reason of
ownership of such Investment Property which constitute Pledged Collateral (other
than payments of a kind described in Section 6.4, and
except to the extent an Account Control Agreement is expressly not required
under Section
3.6) received by it into an account over which the Secured Party has
Control. The Secured Party agrees with each Grantor that the Secured
Party shall not give any Entitlement Orders or instructions or directions to any
issuer of uncertificated securities, Securities Intermediary or Commodity
Intermediary unless an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing. No Grantor shall grant control over any Investment
Property to any Person other than the Secured Party.
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(c) All
certificates, agreements or instruments representing or evidencing the
Securities Collateral owned by such Grantor and in existence on the date hereof
have been delivered to the Secured Party in suitable form for transfer by
delivery or accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment
in blank, and the Secured Party has a perfected, first-priority security
interest therein, subject to no other Liens. If such Grantor shall at
any time hold or acquire any certificated securities constituting Investment
Property, such Grantor shall promptly (a) endorse, assign and deliver the same
to the Secured Party, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment
duly executed in blank, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Secured Party, or (b) deliver such securities into a Securities Account with
respect to which an Account Control Agreement is in effect in favor of the
Secured Party. The Secured Party may, at any time upon the occurrence
and during the continuance of any Event of Default, endorse, assign or otherwise
transfer to or register in the name of the Secured Party or any of its nominees
or endorse for negotiation any or all of the Securities Collateral, without any
indication that such Securities Collateral is subject to the security interest
hereunder. In addition, upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default, the Secured Party may at any time exchange
certificates representing or evidencing Securities Collateral for certificates
of smaller or larger denominations.
(d) The
Secured Party has a perfected, first-priority security interest in all
uncertificated Pledged Securities pledged by such Grantor hereunder that are in
existence on the date hereof, subject to no other Liens. If any
securities (as defined in Article 8 of the UCC) now or hereafter acquired by
such Grantor constituting Investment Property are uncertificated and are issued
to such Grantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Grantor
shall promptly notify the Secured Party thereof and pursuant to an agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party, either (i)
cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Secured Party as
to such securities, without further consent of any Grantor or such nominee, (ii)
cause a Security Entitlement with respect to such uncertificated security to be
held in a Securities Account with respect to which the Secured Party has
Control, (iii) arrange for the Secured Party to become the registered owner of
the securities or (iv) at the Secured Party’s request, cause such Pledged
Securities to become certificated and delivered to the Secured Party in
accordance with Section 3.7(c).
(e) As
between the Secured Party and the Grantors, the Grantors shall bear the
investment risk with respect to the Investment Property and Pledged Securities,
and the risk of loss of, damage to, or the destruction of the Investment
Property and Pledged Securities, whether in the possession of, or maintained as
a security entitlement or deposit by, or subject to the control of, the Secured
Party, a Securities Intermediary, Commodity Intermediary, any Grantor or any
other Person; provided, that
nothing contained in this paragraph shall release or relieve any Securities
Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary of its duties and obligations to the
Grantors or any other person under any Account Control Agreement or under
applicable law. Each Grantor shall promptly pay all Claims and fees
with respect to the Investment Property and Pledged Securities pledged by it
under this Agreement. In the event any Grantor shall fail to make
such payment contemplated in the immediately preceding sentence, the Secured
Party may do so for the account of such Grantor, and the Grantors shall promptly
reimburse and indemnify the Secured Party from all costs and expenses incurred
by the Secured Party under this paragraph in accordance with the Loan
Agreement.
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SECTION
3.8 Instruments and Tangible
Chattel Paper. (i) No amounts payable in excess of $100,000,
individually or in the aggregate, under or in connection with any of the Pledged
Collateral are evidenced by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper, other than
such Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper listed in Schedule 3.8 hereto
or which have been endorsed, assigned and delivered to the Secured Party
(accompanied by instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank),
and (ii) each Instrument and each item of Tangible Chattel Paper listed in Schedule 3.8 hereto
has been properly endorsed, assigned and delivered to the Secured Party,
accompanied by instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in
blank. If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the
Pledged Collateral shall be evidenced by any Instrument or Tangible Chattel
Paper, and such amount, together with all amounts payable evidenced by any
Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper not previously delivered to the Secured
Party, exceeds $100,000 in the aggregate for all
Grantors, the Grantor acquiring such Instrument or Tangible Chattel Paper shall
forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Secured Party, accompanied
by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the
Secured Party may from time to time specify.
SECTION
3.9 Electronic Chattel Paper and
Transferable Records. No amount in excess of $100,000,
individually or in the aggregate, under or in connection with any of the Pledged
Collateral is evidenced by any Electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable
record” (as that term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic
Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or in Section 16 of the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), other
than such Electronic Chattel Paper and transferable records listed in Schedule 3.9 or as to
which the Grantors have complied with the following provisions of this Section
3.9. If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the
Pledged Collateral shall be evidenced by any Electronic Chattel Paper or any
transferable record, the Grantor acquiring such Electronic Chattel Paper or
transferable record shall promptly notify the Secured Party thereof and shall
take such action as the Secured Party may reasonably request to vest in the
Secured Party control under UCC Section 9-105 of such Electronic Chattel Paper
or control under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and
National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act, as so in effect in such jurisdiction, of such
transferable record. The requirement in the preceding sentence shall
apply to the extent that such amount, together with all amounts payable
evidenced by Electronic Chattel Paper or any transferable record in which the
Secured Party has not been vested control within the meaning of the statutes
described in this sentence exceeds $100,000 in the aggregate for all
Grantors. The Secured Party agrees with such Grantor that the Secured
Party will arrange, pursuant to procedures satisfactory to the Secured Party and
so long as such procedures will not result in the Secured Party’s loss of
control, for the Grantor to make alterations to the Electronic Chattel Paper or
transferable record permitted under UCC Section 9-105 or, as the case may be,
Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce
Act or Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act for a party in
control to allow without loss of control, unless an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would occur after taking into account any action
by such Grantor with respect to such Electronic Chattel Paper or transferable
record.
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SECTION
3.10 Letter-of-Credit
Rights. If such Grantor is at any time a beneficiary under a
letter of credit now or hereafter issued in favor of such Grantor, such Grantor
shall promptly notify the Secured Party thereof and such Grantor shall, at the
request of the Secured Party, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party, either (i) arrange for the issuer
and any confirmer of such letter of credit to consent to an assignment to the
Secured Party of the proceeds of any drawing under the letter of credit or (ii)
arrange for the Secured Party to become the transferee beneficiary of such
letter of credit, with the Secured Party agreeing, in each case, that the
proceeds of any drawing under the letter of credit are to be applied as provided
in the Loan Agreement. The actions in the preceding sentence shall be
taken to the extent that the amount under such letter of credit, together with
all amounts under letters of credit for which the actions described above in
clause (i) and (ii) have not been taken, exceeds $50,000 in the aggregate for
all Grantors.
SECTION
3.11 Commercial Tort
Claims. As of the date hereof, such Grantor hereby represents
and warrants that it holds no Commercial Tort Claims other than those listed in
Schedule
3.11. If any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire a
Commercial Tort Claim having a value, together with all other Commercial Tort
Claims of all Grantors in which the Secured Party does not have a security
interest, in excess of $50,000 in the aggregate, such Grantor shall immediately
notify the Secured Party in writing signed by such Grantor of the brief details
thereof and grant to the Secured Party in such writing a security interest
therein and in the Proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with
such writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Secured
Party.
SECTION
3.12 Intellectual
Property. As of the Closing Date, annexed as Schedule 3.12 is a
complete list of all of such Grantor’s trade names, trade name rights, issued
patents and applications therefor, domain names, registered trademarks,
registered copyrights and applications therefor. To the best
knowledge of such Grantor, there are no assertions or claims challenging the
validity of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral that could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the best knowledge of
such Grantor, the business of such Grantor as now conducted and proposed to be
conducted does not conflict with any issued patents, patent rights, licenses,
registered trademarks, trademark rights, trade names, trade name rights or
registered copyrights of others, and there is no infringement of any
Intellectual Property Collateral of such Grantor, in each case, which could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION
3.13 Collateral Access
Agreements; Inventory .
(a) It
is the intention of the parties hereto that none of the Pledged Collateral shall
become fixtures and such Grantor shall take all reasonable action or actions as
may be necessary to prevent any of the Pledged Collateral from becoming
fixtures. Each Grantor shall use its best efforts not to
affix any of the Pledged Collateral to real property in any manner which would
change its nature from that of personal property to real property or to a
fixture. If, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Pledged Collateral
shall become a fixture or real property, the Grantors shall take such actions as
the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or reasonably advisable to perfect
its security interest in such Pledged Collateral.
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(b) Such
Grantor will obtain a Collateral Access Agreement from all bailees and
landlords, as applicable, who from time to time have possession of tangible
Pledged Collateral in the ordinary course of such Grantor’s business, as the
Secured Party may reasonably request; provided that the
foregoing shall not be required if the value of the Pledged Collateral held by
such bailee or landlord is less than $250,000; provided, further, that the
aggregate value of the Pledged Collateral held by all such bailees and landlords
who have not delivered a Collateral Access Agreement is less than
$500,000.
(c) As
of the date hereof, such Grantor’s inventory with an aggregate value in excess
of $50,000 is not
maintained with any bailee that issues negotiable warehouse receipts or other
negotiable instruments therefor. From and after the date hereof, such
Grantor will use its reasonable efforts to not maintain its inventory with an
aggregate value in excess of $50,000 with any bailee that
issues negotiable warehouse receipts or other negotiable instruments
therefor. Such Grantor agrees that if, notwithstanding the foregoing,
any warehouse receipt or receipt in the nature of a warehouse receipt is issued
with respect to any of its inventory (or any other Pledged Collateral), such
receipt shall not be “negotiable” (as such term is used in the UCC or under
other relevant law). If, notwithstanding the foregoing, any
negotiable warehouse receipts or other negotiable documents are issued with
respect to any of the inventory (or other Pledged Collateral) with an aggregate
value in excess of $100,000, all such instruments
shall be held for the benefit of the Secured Party and shall be immediately
endorsed to the order of the Secured Party and delivered by Grantor to the
Secured Party to be held by the Secured Party as Pledged Collateral
hereunder. In addition, at the request of the Secured Party (and each
Grantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that such request shall be deemed to be
made in respect of any Grantor’s inventory with a value in excess of the dollar
thresholds for individual locations and locations in the aggregate specified in
clause (b) above), such Grantor will notify all warehousemen, bailees, agents,
processors and other similar Persons of the Lien created pursuant to the
Security Documents.
SECTION
3.14 Motor
Vehicles. At the request of the Secured Party, such Grantor
shall deliver to the Secured Party originals of the certificates of title or
ownership for the motor vehicles (and any other Equipment covered by
certificates of title or ownership) owned by it with the Secured Party listed as
lienholder therein.
SECTION
3.15 Third-Party
Agreements.
(a) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15,
neither the granting of the Liens on the Pledged Collateral in favor of the
Secured Party hereunder nor the exercise of remedies in respect thereof will
constitute or result in the abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability of any
right, title or interest of any Grantor under, or constitute or result in a
default, breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or otherwise permit the
termination of, any Material Contract or any other indenture, material agreement
or other material instrument or property right in respect of which such Grantor
has granted a Lien on the Pledged Collateral hereunder or that provides that the
collateral assignment of or granting of a Lien on any Material Contract or any
such other indenture, material agreement or other material instrument or
property right is prohibited or would be null and void without the consent of
the applicable counterparty thereto (other than to the extent that any such
limitation or restriction would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections
9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC).
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(b) Such
Grantor will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, and at the request of
the Secured Party, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
specifically assign to the Secured Party all federal government contracts and
will (upon request of the Secured Party) cooperate with the Secured Party in
giving notice of such assignment pursuant to the Federal Assignment of Claims
Act. Such Grantor will cooperate with the Secured Party in providing
such further information with respect to contracts with any governmental
authority as the Secured Party may reasonably request and will provide such
instruments of further assurance with respect to such contracts as the Secured
Party may reasonably request.
SECTION
3.16 Insurance. In
the event that the proceeds of any insurance claim are paid after the Secured
Party has exercised its right to foreclose during the continuance of an Event of
Default, such Net Cash Proceeds shall be paid to the Secured Party to satisfy
any deficiency remaining after such foreclosure.
SECTION
3.17 Contesting Liens;
Claims. All Claims imposed upon or assessed against the
Pledged Collateral have been paid and discharged except to the extent such
Claims constitute a Lien which is a Permitted Collateral
Lien. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.17, (i) no
contest of any such obligation may be pursued by such Grantor if such contest
would expose the Secured Party or any other Secured Party to (A) any possible
criminal liability or (B) any additional civil liability for failure to comply
with such obligations unless such Grantor shall have furnished a bond or other
security therefor satisfactory to the Secured Party or such Secured Party, and
(ii) if at any time payment or performance of any obligation contested by such
Grantor pursuant to this Section 3.17 shall
become necessary to prevent the imposition of remedies because of non-payment,
such Grantor shall pay or perform the same in sufficient time to prevent the
imposition of remedies in respect of such default or prospective
default. Each Grantor shall, at its own cost and expense, defend
title to the Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder and defend the Lien
thereon granted to the Secured Party and the priority thereof against all claims
and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any interest therein adverse to
the Secured Party or any other Secured Party, other than Permitted Collateral
Liens (other than Contested Liens).
SECTION
3.18 Joinder of Additional
Grantors. The Grantors shall cause each Subsidiary of the
Borrower which, from time to time, after the date hereof shall be required to
pledge any property to the Secured Party pursuant to Section 7.10 of the Loan
Agreement, (a) to execute and deliver to the Secured Party (i) any applicable
supplements to the Security Documents and (ii) a Perfection Certificate, in each
case, within thirty (30) days of the date on which such Subsidiary was acquired
or created and (b) in the case of a Subsidiary organized outside of the United
States whose Equity Interests are to be pledged in accordance with Section 7.10
of the Loan Agreement, to execute and deliver such documentation as the Secured
Party may reasonably request (consistent with such Section
7.10).
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SECTION
3.19 Further
Assurances. Subject to the specific exceptions, thresholds and
time schedules expressly set forth in this Agreement, each Grantor shall take
such further actions, provide such information, and execute and deliver to the
Secured Party such additional documents as the Secured Party deems necessary or
reasonably advisable to perfect, preserve and protect its security interest in
the Pledged Collateral and the rights and interests granted to the Secured Party
hereunder, to fully effect the purposes hereof or permit the Secured Party to
exercise and enforce its rights, powers and remedies with respect to any Pledged
Collateral. In the event that the Secured Party desires to exercise
any remedies, voting or consensual rights or attorney-in-fact powers set forth
in this Agreement and determines it necessary to obtain any approvals or
consents of any Governmental Authority or any other Person therefor, then, upon
the reasonable request of the Secured Party, such Grantor agrees to use its best
efforts to assist and aid the Secured Party to obtain as soon as practicable any
necessary approvals or consents for the exercise of any such remedies, rights
and powers. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
the Secured Party may institute and maintain, in its own name or in the name of
any Grantor, such suits and proceedings as the Secured Party may be advised by
counsel are necessary or expedient to prevent any impairment of the security
interest in (or the perfection thereof) the Pledged Collateral. All
of the foregoing shall be at the sole cost and expense of the
Grantors.
ARTICLE
4
CERTAIN
PROVISIONS CONCERNING SECURITIES COLLATERAL
SECTION
4.1 Pledge of Additional
Securities Collateral. Each Grantor shall, upon obtaining any
Pledged Securities or Intercompany Notes of any Person, accept the same in trust
for the benefit of the Secured Party and forthwith deliver to the Secured Party
a Pledge Supplement, duly executed by such Grantor, in substantially the form of
Exhibit D
hereto (each, a “Pledge Supplement”),
and the certificates and other documents required under Section 3.7 in
respect of the additional Pledged Securities or Intercompany Notes which are to
be pledged pursuant to this Agreement, and confirming the attachment of the Lien
hereby created on and in respect of such additional Pledged Securities or
Intercompany Notes. Each Grantor hereby authorizes the Secured Party
to attach each Pledge Supplement to this Agreement and agrees that all Pledged
Securities or Intercompany Notes listed on any Pledge Supplement shall
constitute Pledged Collateral for all purposes of the Financing
Documents.
SECTION
4.2 Voting Rights;
Distributions: etc.
(a) So
long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Grantor
may exercise any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the
Securities Collateral or any part thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with
the terms or purposes hereof, the Loan Agreement or any other Financing
Document; provided, that no
Grantor shall in any event exercise such rights in any manner that is
inconsistent with the terms of any Financing Document or which could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Unless and until an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Grantors shall be entitled
to receive and retain any cash Distributions on the Pledged Securities in
accordance with applicable law. For avoidance of doubt, any and all
Distributions on the Pledged Securities in the form of securities, and all
Distributions which are received or retained by any Grantor contrary to the
immediately preceding sentence, shall be forthwith delivered to the Secured
Party to hold as Pledged Collateral and shall, if received by any Grantor, be
received in trust for the benefit of the Secured Party, be segregated from the
other property or funds of such Grantor and be forthwith delivered to the
Secured Party as Pledged Collateral in the same form as so received (with any
necessary endorsement).
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(b) If
any Event of Default shall have occurred, then so long as such Event of Default
shall continue, and whether or not the Secured Party or any other Secured Party
exercises any available right to declare any Obligations due and payable or
seeks or pursues any other relief or remedy available to it under applicable law
or any Financing Document, (i) all rights of each Grantor to exercise the voting
and other consensual rights it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant
to Section
4.2(a) shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in
the Secured Party, which shall thereupon have the sole right to exercise such
voting and other consensual rights, (ii) all rights of each Grantor to receive
Distributions which it would otherwise be authorized to receive and retain
pursuant to the Loan Agreement shall cease, and all dividends and other
Distributions shall be paid directly to the Secured Party and retained by the
Secured Party in the Collateral Account as part of the Pledged Collateral, and
(iii) if the Secured Party shall so request in writing, the Grantors jointly and
severally agree to execute and deliver to the Secured Party appropriate
additional instruments, dividend, distribution and other orders and documents to
that end.
SECTION
4.3 Defaults,
etc. Each Grantor represents and warrants to the Secured Party
for the benefit of the Secured Parties that: (i) such Grantor is not
in default in the payment of any portion of any mandatory capital contribution,
if any, required to be made under any agreement to which such Grantor is a party
relating to the Pledged Securities pledged by such Grantor, (ii) such Grantor is
not in violation of any other provisions of any such agreement to which such
Grantor is a party, or otherwise in default or violation thereunder, (iii) no
Securities Collateral pledged by such Grantor is subject to any defense, offset
or counterclaim, nor have any of the foregoing been asserted or alleged against
such Grantor by any Person with respect thereto, and (iv) as of the date hereof,
there are no certificates, instruments, documents or other writings (other than
the Constitutive documents and certificates, if any, delivered to the Secured
Party) which evidence any Pledged Securities of such Grantor.
SECTION
4.4 Certain Agreements of
Grantors As Issuers and Holders of Equity Interests. In the
case of each Grantor which is an issuer of Securities Collateral, such Grantor
agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement relating to the Securities
Collateral issued by it and will comply with such terms insofar as such terms
are applicable to it. In the case of each Grantor which is a partner
in a partnership, limited liability company or other entity, such Grantor hereby
consents, to the extent required by the applicable Constitutive document, to the
pledge by each other Grantor, pursuant to the terms hereof, of the Pledged
Interests in such partnership, limited liability company or other entity and,
upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to the
transfer of such Pledged Interests to the Secured Party or its nominee and to
the substitution of the Secured Party or its nominee as a substituted partner or
member in such partnership, limited liability company or other entity with all
the rights, powers and duties of a general partner or a limited partner or
member, as the case may be.
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ARTICLE
5
CERTAIN
PROVISIONS CONCERNING INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
COLLATERAL
SECTION
5.1 Grant of
License. Each Grantor hereby grants to the Secured Party an
irrevocable, non-exclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or
other compensation to such Grantor) to use, assign, license or sublicense any
and all of the Intellectual Property Collateral now owned or licensed or
hereafter acquired or licensed by such Grantor, wherever the same may be
located, in each case, for the purpose of enabling the Secured Party, during the
continuance of an Event of Default, to exercise rights and remedies under Article 7 hereof at
such time as the Secured Party shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such
rights and remedies, and for no other purpose. Such license shall
include access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded
or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout
thereof.
SECTION
5.2 Protection of Secured
Party’s Security. On a continuing basis, each Grantor shall,
at such Grantor’s cost and expense, (i) promptly following its becoming aware
thereof, notify the Secured Party of (A) any materially adverse determination in
any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United
States Copyright Office (or equivalent foreign office) with respect to any
material Intellectual Property Collateral or (B) the institution of any
proceeding or any materially adverse determination in any federal, state, local
or foreign court or administrative body regarding such Grantor’s claim of
ownership in or right to use any material Intellectual Property Collateral, its
right to register such Intellectual Property Collateral or its right to keep and
maintain such registration in full force and effect, (ii) maintain and protect
material Intellectual Property Collateral in compliance with the Loan Agreement,
(iii) not permit to lapse or become abandoned any material Intellectual Property
Collateral, and not settle or compromise any pending or future litigation or
administrative proceeding with respect to such Intellectual Property Collateral,
in each case except as determined by such Grantor in its commercially reasonable
business judgment, (iv) upon such Grantor obtaining knowledge thereof, promptly
notify the Secured Party in writing of any event in respect of any Intellectual
Property Collateral which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, (v) not license any material Intellectual Property Collateral
other than licenses entered into by such Grantor in, or incidental to, the
ordinary course of business, or amend or permit the amendment of any of the
licenses in a manner that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, (vi) diligently keep adequate records respecting the
Intellectual Property Collateral and (vii) furnish to the Secured Party from
time to time at the Secured Party’s request reasonably detailed statements and
amended schedules further identifying and describing the Intellectual Property
Collateral and such other materials evidencing or reports pertaining to the
Intellectual Property Collateral as the Secured Party may from time to time
reasonably request.
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SECTION
5.3 After-Acquired
Property. If any Grantor shall (i) obtain any rights to any
additional Intellectual Property or (ii) become entitled to the benefit of any
additional Intellectual Property or any renewal or extension thereof, including
any reissue, division, continuation, or continuation-in-part of any Intellectual
Property, or any improvement on any Intellectual Property, the provisions hereof
shall automatically apply thereto and any such item enumerated in clause (i) or
(ii) of this Section
5.3 with respect to such Grantor shall automatically constitute
Intellectual Property Collateral and be subject to the Lien and security
interest created by this Agreement without further action by any
party. Each Grantor shall promptly (and in any event (A) by June 30
and December 31 of each year if no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and (B) more frequently as the Administrative Agent may request if an
Event of Default has occurred is continuing) provide to the Secured Party
written notice of any of the foregoing and confirm the attachment of the Lien
and security interest created by this Agreement to any rights described in
clauses (i) and (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 5.3 by
delivering and filing such IP Security Agreement Supplements, instruments or
other documents as the Secured Party may request to preserve, protect or perfect
the Secured Party’s security interest in such Intellectual
Property. Further, each Grantor authorizes the Secured Party to
modify this Agreement by amending Schedule 3.12 to
include any Intellectual Property of such Grantor acquired or arising after the
date hereof.
SECTION
5.4 Litigation. Each
Grantor may commence and prosecute in its own name, as the party in interest,
for its own benefit and at the sole cost and expense of the Grantors, such
applications for protection of the Intellectual Property Collateral and suits,
proceedings or other actions to prevent the infringement, misappropriation,
invalidation, abandonment, counterfeiting, unfair competition, dilution,
diminution in value or other damage as are necessary to preserve and protect the
Intellectual Property Collateral; provided, that if an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, and at the Administrative Agent’s request, such
Grantor may only take such actions with the Administrative Agent’s prior written
consent. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event
of Default, the Secured Party may, but shall in no way be obligated to, file
applications for preservation and protection of the Intellectual Property
Collateral and/or bring suit in the name of any Grantor or any Secured Party to
enforce the Intellectual Property Collateral. In the event of such
suit, each Grantor shall, at the reasonable request of the Secured Party, do any
and all lawful acts and execute any and all documents requested by the Secured
Party in aid of such enforcement and the Grantors shall promptly reimburse and
indemnify the Secured Party for all costs and expenses incurred by the Secured
Party in the exercise of its rights under this Section 5.4 in
accordance with the Loan Agreement.
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ARTICLE
6
CERTAIN
PROVISIONS CONCERNING ACCOUNTS
SECTION
6.1 Maintenance of
Records. Each Grantor shall keep and maintain at its own cost
and expense complete records of each Account, in a manner consistent with
prudent business practice, including records of all payments received, all
credits granted thereon, all merchandise returned and all other documentation
relating thereto. Each Grantor shall, at such Grantor’s cost and
expense, upon the Secured Party’s demand made at any time after the occurrence
and during the continuance of any Critical Default, deliver all tangible
evidence of Accounts, including all documents evidencing Accounts and any books
and records relating thereto to the Secured Party or to its representatives
(copies of which evidence and books and records may be retained by such
Grantor). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event
of Default, the Secured Party may transfer a full and complete copy of any
Grantor’s books, records, credit information, reports, memoranda and all other
writings relating to the Accounts to and for the use by any person that has
acquired or is contemplating acquisition of an interest in the Accounts or the
Secured Party’s security interest therein without the consent of any
Grantor.
SECTION
6.2 Legend. Each
Grantor shall legend, at the request of the Secured Party and in form and manner
reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party, the Accounts and the other books,
records and documents of such Grantor evidencing or pertaining to the Accounts
with an appropriate reference to the fact that the Accounts have been
collaterally assigned to the Secured Party and that the Secured Party has a
security interest therein.
SECTION
6.3 Modification of Terms,
etc. No Grantor shall (i) rescind or cancel any obligations
evidenced by any Account, (ii) modify any term thereof or make any adjustment
with respect thereto, (iii) extend or renew any such obligations, (iv)
compromise or settle any dispute, claim, suit or legal proceeding relating
thereto or (v) sell any Account or interest therein, except, in each case, in
the ordinary course of business consistent with prudent business
practice.
SECTION
6.4 Collection. Each
Grantor shall cause to be collected from the account debtor of each of the
Accounts, as and when due in the ordinary course of business and consistent with
prudent business practice, any and all amounts owing under or on account of such
Account, and apply forthwith upon receipt thereof all such amounts as are so
collected to the outstanding balance of such Account, except that any Grantor
may, with respect to an Account, allow in the ordinary course of business (i) a
refund or credit due as a result of returned or damaged or defective merchandise
and (ii) such extensions of time to pay amounts due in respect of Accounts and
such other modifications of payment terms or settlements in respect of Accounts
as are commercially reasonable in the circumstances, all in accordance with such
Grantor’s ordinary course of business consistent with its collection practices
as in effect from time to time. The costs and expenses (including
attorneys’ fees) of collection, in any case, whether incurred by any Grantor or
any Secured Party, shall be paid by the Grantors.
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SECTION
6.5 Eligible
Accounts. Borrower represents and warrants to the Secured
Party for the benefit of the Secured Parties that (i) each Account listed on a
Borrowing Base Certificate is an Eligible Account Receivable and (ii) the
Eligible Accounts are bona fide, existing obligations of the Account
Debtors.
ARTICLE
7
REMEDIES
SECTION
7.1 Remedies. Upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default the Secured
Party may (but shall not be obligated to) from time to time exercise in respect
of the Pledged Collateral, in addition to the other rights and remedies provided
for herein or otherwise available to it, the following remedies, in accordance
with applicable law:
(a) personally,
or by agents or attorneys, immediately take possession of the Pledged Collateral
or any part thereof, from any Grantor or any other person who then has
possession of any part thereof with or without notice or process of law, and for
that purpose may enter upon any Grantor’s premises where any of the Pledged
Collateral is located, remove such Pledged Collateral, remain present at such
premises to receive copies of all communications and remittances relating to the
Pledged Collateral and use in connection with such removal and possession any
and all services, supplies, aids and other facilities of any
Grantor;
(b) demand,
xxx for, collect or receive any money or property at any time payable or
receivable in respect of the Pledged Collateral, including instructing the
account debtors or obligors on any Account, agreement, instrument or other
obligation constituting part of the Pledged Collateral to make any payment
required by the terms of such Account, agreement, instrument or other obligation
directly to the Secured Party, and in connection with any of the foregoing,
compromise, settle, extend the time for payment and make other modifications
with respect thereto; provided, that if any
such payments are made directly to any Grantor, prior to receipt by any such
account debtor or obligor of such instruction, such Grantor shall segregate all
amounts received pursuant thereto in trust for the benefit of the Secured Party
and shall promptly (but in no event later than one (1) Business Day after
receipt thereof) pay such amounts to the Secured Party;
(c) sell,
assign, grant a license to use or otherwise liquidate, or direct any Grantor to
sell, assign, grant a license to use or otherwise liquidate, any and all
investments made in whole or in part with the Pledged Collateral or any part
thereof, and take possession of the proceeds of any such sale, assignment,
license or liquidation;
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(d) take
possession of the Pledged Collateral or any part thereof, by directing any
Grantor in writing to deliver the same to the Secured Party at any place or
places so designated by the Secured Party, in which event such Grantor shall at
its own expense: (i) forthwith cause the same to be moved to the place or places
designated by the Secured Party and therewith delivered to the Secured Party,
(ii) store and keep any Pledged Collateral so delivered to the Secured Party at
such place or places pending further action by the Secured Party and (iii) while
the Pledged Collateral shall be so stored and kept, provide such security and
maintenance services as shall be necessary to protect the same and to preserve
and maintain them in good condition. Each Grantor’s obligation to
deliver the Pledged Collateral as contemplated in this Section 7.1(d) is of
the essence hereof. Upon application to a court of equity having
jurisdiction, the Secured Party shall be entitled to a decree requiring specific
performance by any Grantor of such obligation;
(e) withdraw
all moneys, instruments, securities and other property in any bank, financial
securities, deposit or other account of any Grantor constituting Pledged
Collateral for application to the Obligations as provided in Section 7.7
hereof;
(f)
retain and apply the Distributions to the Obligations as
provided in Section
7.7 hereof;
(g) exercise
any and all rights as beneficial and legal owner of the Pledged Collateral,
including perfecting assignment of and exercising any and all voting, consensual
and other rights and powers with respect to any Pledged Collateral;
and
(h) exercise
any and all rights and remedies of a secured party under the UCC and under all
applicable laws, and the Secured Party may also in its sole discretion, without
notice except as specified in Section 7.2 hereof,
sell, assign or grant a license to use the Pledged Collateral or any part
thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any exchange,
broker’s board or at any of the Secured Party’s offices or elsewhere, for cash,
on credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices and upon such
other terms as the Secured Party may deem commercially
reasonable. The Secured Party or any other Secured Party or any of
their respective Affiliates may be the purchaser, licensee, assignee or
recipient of any or all of the Pledged Collateral at any such sale and shall be
entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the
purchase price for all or any portion of the Pledged Collateral sold, assigned
or licensed at such sale, to use and apply any of the Obligations owed to such
person as a credit on account of the purchase price of any Pledged Collateral
payable by such person at such sale. Each purchaser, assignee,
licensee or recipient at any such sale shall acquire the property sold, assigned
or licensed absolutely free from any claim or right on the part of any Grantor,
and each Grantor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all
rights of redemption, stay and/or appraisal which it now has or may at any time
in the future have under any rule of law or statute now existing or hereafter
enacted. The Secured Party shall not be obligated to make any sale of
Pledged Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been
given. The Secured Party may adjourn any public or private sale from
time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale
may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so
adjourned. Each Grantor hereby waives any claims against the Secured
Party arising by reason of the fact that the price at which any Pledged
Collateral may have been sold, assigned or licensed at such a private sale was
less than the price which might have been obtained at a public sale, even if the
Secured Party accepts the first offer received and does not offer such Pledged
Collateral to more than one offeree.
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SECTION
7.2 Notice of
Sale. Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent
notice of sale or other disposition of Pledged Collateral shall be required by
law, ten (10) days’ prior notice to such Grantor of the time and place of any
public sale or of the time after which any private sale or other intended
disposition is to take place shall be commercially reasonable notification of
such matters. No notification need be given to any Grantor if it has
signed, in accordance with applicable law, after the occurrence of an Event of
Default, a statement renouncing or modifying any right to notification of sale
or other intended disposition.
SECTION
7.3 Waivers. Each
Grantor hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, notice
or judicial hearing in connection with the Secured Party’s taking possession or
the Secured Party’s disposition of any of the Pledged Collateral, including any
and all prior notice and hearing for any prejudgment remedy or remedies and any
such right which such Grantor would otherwise have under law, and each Grantor
hereby further waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law: (i)
all damages occasioned by such taking of possession, (ii) all other requirements
as to the time, place and terms of sale or other requirements with respect to
the enforcement of the Secured Party’s rights hereunder and (iii) all rights of
redemption, appraisal, valuation, stay, extension or moratorium now or hereafter
in force under any applicable law. Any sale of, or the grant of
options to purchase, or any other realization upon, any Pledged Collateral shall
operate to divest all right, title, interest, claim and demand, either at law or
in equity, of the applicable Grantor therein and thereto, and shall be a
perpetual bar both at law and in equity against such Grantor and against any and
all persons claiming or attempting to claim the Pledged Collateral so sold,
optioned or realized upon, or any part thereof, from, through or under such
Grantor.
SECTION
7.4 Certain Sales of Pledged
Collateral.
(a) Each
Grantor recognizes that, by reason of certain prohibitions contained in law,
rules, regulations or orders of any Governmental Authority, the Secured Party
maybe compelled, with respect to any sale of all or any part of the Pledged
Collateral, to limit purchasers to those who meet the requirements of such
Governmental Authority. Each Grantor acknowledges that any such sales
may be at prices and on terms less favorable to the Secured Party than those
obtainable through a public sale without such restrictions, and, notwithstanding
such circumstances, agrees that any such restricted sale shall be deemed to have
been made in a commercially reasonable manner and that, except as may be
required by applicable law, the Secured Party shall have no obligation to engage
in public sales in respect of such Pledged Collateral.
(b) Each
Grantor recognizes that, by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and
applicable state securities laws, the Secured Party may be compelled, with
respect to any sale of all or any part of the Securities Collateral and
Investment Property, to limit purchasers to persons who will agree, among other
things, to acquire such Securities Collateral or Investment Property for their
own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale
thereof. Each Grantor acknowledges that any such private sales may be
at prices and on terms less favorable to the Secured Party than those obtainable
through a public sale without such restrictions (including a public offering
made pursuant to a registration statement under the Securities Act) and,
notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that any such private sale shall be
deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner and that the
Secured Party shall have no obligation to engage in public sales and no
obligation to delay the sale of any Pledged Collateral for the period of time
necessary to permit the issuer thereof to register it for public
sale.
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(c) If
the Secured Party determines to exercise its right to sell any or all of the
Securities Collateral or Investment Property, upon written request, the
applicable Grantor shall from time to time furnish to the Secured Party all such
information as the Secured Party may reasonably request in order to determine
the number of securities included in the Securities Collateral or Investment
Property which may be sold by the Secured Party as exempt transactions under the
Securities Act and the rules of the SEC thereunder.
(d) Each
Grantor further agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained in this
Section 7.4
will cause irreparable injury to the Secured Parties, that the Secured Parties
have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breach and, as a consequence,
that each and every covenant contained in this Section 7.4 shall be
specifically enforceable against such Grantor, and such Grantor hereby waives
and agrees not to assert any defenses against an action for specific performance
of such covenants except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing.
SECTION
7.5 No Waiver; Cumulative
Remedies.
(a) No
failure on the part of the Secured Party to exercise, no course of dealing with
respect to, and no delay on the part of the Secured Party in exercising, any
right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall
any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy hereunder
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right, power or remedy; nor shall the Secured Party be required to look first
to, enforce or exhaust any other security, collateral or
guaranties. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and are not
exclusive, of any remedies provided by law.
(b) In
the event that the Secured Party shall have instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right, power or remedy under this Agreement by foreclosure, sale, entry or
otherwise, and such proceeding shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Secured Party, then and in
every such case, the Grantors, each Secured Party shall be restored to their
respective former positions and rights hereunder with respect to the Pledged
Collateral, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Secured Parties shall
continue as if no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION
7.6 Intellectual
Property. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, upon the written demand of the Secured Party, each Grantor shall
execute and deliver to the Secured Party an assignment or further license of the
Intellectual Property Collateral, in whole or in part as the Secured Party
determines, and such other documents as are necessary or appropriate to carry
out the intent and purposes hereof.
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SECTION
7.7 Application of
Proceeds. The proceeds received by the Secured Party in
respect of any sale of, collection from or other realization upon all or any
part of the Collateral pursuant to the exercise by the Secured Party of its
remedies shall be applied, together with any other sums then held by the Secured
Party pursuant to this Agreement, in accordance with Section 9.02 of the Loan
Agreement. In the event that the proceeds of any sale, collection or
other realization of the Pledged Collateral are insufficient to effect the
Discharge of Obligations, the Grantors shall remain jointly and severally liable
for any deficiency.
SECTION
7.8 Collateral
Account. The Secured Party may in its discretion cause to be
established at a banking institution to be selected by the Secured Party a cash
collateral account (the “Collateral Account”)
in the name and under the sole dominion and Control of the Secured Party, into
which there shall be deposited from time to time the cash proceeds of any
Pledged Collateral and other Collateral (including insurance proceeds) required
to be delivered to the Secured Party pursuant to the Financing
Documents. The balance from time to time in any such Collateral
Account shall constitute part of the Pledged Collateral hereunder and shall not
constitute payment of the Secured Obligations until applied as specified in the
Loan Agreement.
ARTICLE
8
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION
8.1 Concerning Secured
Party. The Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised
reasonable care in the custody and preservation of the Pledged Collateral in its
possession if such Pledged Collateral is accorded treatment substantially
equivalent to that which the Secured Party, in its individual capacity, accords
its own property consisting of similar instruments or interests, it being
understood that none of the Secured Parties shall have responsibility for (i)
ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges,
maturities, tenders or other matters relating to any Securities Collateral or
(ii) taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against any person with
respect to any Pledged Collateral.
SECTION
8.2 Secured Party May Perform;
Secured Party Appointed Attorney-in-Fact.
(a) If
any Grantor shall fail to perform any covenants contained in this Agreement
(including such Grantor’s covenants to (i) pay the premiums in respect of all
required insurance policies hereunder, (ii) pay Claims, (iii) make repairs, (iv)
discharge Liens or (v) pay or perform any obligations of such Grantor under any
Pledged Collateral) or if any representation or warranty on the part of any
Grantor contained herein shall be breached, the Secured Party may (but shall not
be obligated to) do the same or cause it to be done or remedy any such breach,
and may expend funds for such purpose; provided, that the
Secured Party shall in no event be bound to inquire into the validity of any
tax, lien, imposition or other obligation which such Grantor fails to pay or
perform as and when required hereby and which such Grantor does not contest in
accordance with Section
3.17. Any and all amounts so expended by the Secured Party
shall be paid by the Grantors in accordance with Section 11.03 of the
Loan Agreement. Neither this Section 8.2 nor any
action taken by the Secured Party pursuant to this Section 8.2 shall
prevent any such failure to observe any covenant contained in this Agreement nor
any breach of any representation or warranty from constituting a
Default.
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(b) Each
Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Secured Party and any officer or agent
thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Grantor
and in the name of such Grantor, or otherwise, from time to time in the Secured
Party’s discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument consistent
with the terms of the Loan Agreement, this Agreement and the other Financing
Documents which the Secured Party may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish
the purposes hereof, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
hereby gives said attorney the power and right, on behalf of such Grantor,
without notice to or assent by such Grantor, (i) upon the occurrence and
continuance of an Event of Default, to endorse the names of such Grantor on any
checks, notes, drafts or other forms of payment or security that may come into
the possession of the Secured Party or any Affiliate of the Secured Party, to
sign such Grantor’s name on invoices or bills-of-lading, drafts against
customers, notices of assignment, verifications and schedules, and (ii) upon the
occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, to sell, transfer, pledge,
make any arrangement with respect to or otherwise dispose of or deal with any of
the Pledged Collateral in accordance with the UCC. The foregoing
grant of authority is a power of attorney coupled with an interest and such
appointment shall be irrevocable for the term hereof. Each Grantor
hereby ratifies all that such attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.
SECTION
8.3 Continuing Security
Interest; Assignment. This Agreement shall create a continuing
security interest in the Pledged Collateral and shall (i) be binding upon the
Grantors, their respective successors and assigns and (ii) inure, together with
the rights and remedies of the Secured Party hereunder, to the benefit of the
Secured Party and the other Secured Parties and each of their respective
successors, transferees and assigns. No other persons (including any
other creditor of any Grantor) shall have any interest herein or any right or
benefit with respect hereto.
SECTION
8.4 Reinstatement;
Termination.
(a) Notwithstanding
any provision to the contrary contained herein, this Agreement shall continue to
be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any amount
received by the Secured Party in respect of the Pledged Collateral, any other
Collateral or the Secured Obligations is rescinded, or must otherwise be
restored or returned by the Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy,
dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of any Grantor or any of its
Affiliates or any guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations, or
upon the appointment of any intervenor, receiver or conservator of, or trustee
or similar official for, any Grantor or any such Affiliate or guarantor, or any
substantial part of their respective properties or assets, or otherwise, all as
though such payment had not been made.
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(b) Subject
to reinstatement as provided in Section 8.4(a), after
the Discharge of Obligations has occurred, this Agreement shall terminate, and
the Secured Party shall, upon the request and at the sole cost and expense of
the Grantors, (i) cause to be assigned, transferred and delivered to the
applicable Grantors, against receipt and without recourse to or warranty or
representation by the Secured Party, any remaining Pledged Collateral, to or on
the order of the respective Grantor, and (ii) execute and deliver such UCC-3
termination statements, certificates for terminating the Liens on motor vehicles
and such other documents as are necessary to terminate (or reflect or record the
termination of) the Secured Party’s Lien on the Pledged Collateral.
SECTION
8.5 Amendments. No
amendment, modification, supplement, termination or waiver of or to any
provision hereof, nor consent to any departure by any Grantor therefrom, shall
be effective unless the same shall be made in accordance with the Loan Agreement
and unless in writing and signed by the Secured Party. Any amendment,
modification or supplement of or to any provision hereof, any waiver of any
provision hereof and any consent to any departure by any Grantor from the terms
of any provision hereof shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the specific purpose for which made or given. Except where notice is
specifically required by this Agreement or any other document evidencing the
Secured Obligations, no notice to or demand on any Grantor in any case shall
entitle any Grantor to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other
circumstances.
SECTION
8.6 Notices. Unless
otherwise provided herein or in the Loan Agreement, any notice or other
communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be given in the
manner (and at the address) and become effective as provided in the Loan
Agreement.
SECTION
8.7 Governing Law, Consent to
Jurisdiction and Service of Process; WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL.
(a) Section 11.09 of the
Loan Agreement is incorporated herein by reference, as if set forth herein in
full, mutatis mutandis;
provided that,
as incorporated herein, each reference therein to “this Agreement” or the like
shall be deemed to be a reference to this Agreement.
(b) WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT
IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT OR
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT
OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (1) CERTIFIES THAT NO
REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY
OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK
TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (2) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER
PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER
FINANCING DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND
CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
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SECTION
8.8 Severability. Any
provision hereof which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall,
as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or
affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other
jurisdiction.
SECTION
8.9 Counterparts. This
Agreement and any amendments, waivers, consents or supplements hereto may be
executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be
deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute
one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a
signature page of this Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION
8.10 Marshalling. The
Secured Party shall not be required to marshal any present or future collateral
security (including, but not limited to, this Agreement and the Pledged
Collateral) for, or other assurances of payment of, the Obligations or any of
them or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in
any particular order, and all of the rights of the Secured Party hereunder or in
respect of such collateral security and other assurances of payment shall be
cumulative and in addition to all other rights, however existing or
arising. Each Grantor hereby agrees that it will not invoke any
applicable law relating to the marshalling of collateral which might cause delay
in or impede the enforcement of the Secured Party’s rights under this Agreement
or under any other Instrument creating or evidencing any of the Secured
Obligations or under which any of the Secured Obligations is outstanding or by
which any of the Secured Obligations is secured or payment thereof is otherwise
assured, and each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives the benefits of all such
laws.
SECTION
8.11 No Credit for Payment of
Taxes or Imposition. No Grantor shall be entitled to any
credit against the principal, premium, if any, or interest payable under the
Loan Agreement, and no Grantor shall be entitled to any credit against any other
sums which may become payable under the terms thereof or hereof, by reason of
the payment of any Tax on the Pledged Collateral or any part
thereof.
SECTION
8.12 No Claims Against Secured
Party. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall constitute
any consent or request by the Secured Party, express or implied, for the
performance of any labor or services or the furnishing of any materials or other
property in respect of the Pledged Collateral or any part thereof, nor as giving
any Grantor any right, power or authority to contract for or permit the
performance of any labor or services or the furnishing of any materials or other
property in such fashion as would permit the making of any claim against the
Secured Party in respect thereof or any claim that any Lien based on the
performance of such labor or services or the furnishing of any such materials or
other property is prior to the Lien hereof.
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SECTION
8.13 Grantors Remain
Liable. Nothing set forth in this Agreement shall relieve any
Grantor from the performance of any term, covenant, condition or agreement on
such Grantor’s part to be performed or observed under or in respect of any
agreements or Instruments included in the Pledged Collateral, or any other
Pledged Collateral, at any time prior to the sale, assignment or transfer of
such agreements, Instruments or other Pledged Collateral in accordance with this
Agreement or from any liability to any person under or in respect of any of such
agreements, Instruments or other Pledged Collateral or shall impose any
obligation on any Secured Party to perform or observe any such term, covenant,
condition or agreement on such Grantor’s part to be so performed or observed or
shall impose any liability on any Secured Party for any act or omission on the
part of such Grantor relating thereto or for any breach of any representation or
warranty on the part of such Grantor contained in this Agreement, the Loan
Agreement or the other Financing Documents, or under or in respect of the
Pledged Collateral or made in connection herewith or therewith. The
obligations of each Grantor contained in this Section 8.13 shall
survive the termination hereof and the discharge of such Grantor’s other
obligations under this Agreement, the Loan Agreement and the other Financing
Documents.
SECTION
8.14 Obligations
Absolute. All obligations of each Grantor hereunder shall be
absolute and unconditional irrespective of:
(i)
any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment,
composition, liquidation or the like of any Grantor,
(ii)
any lack of validity or enforceability of the Loan Agreement or any other
Financing Document, or any other agreement or instrument relating
thereto;
(iii) any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all
or any of the any Secured Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or
any consent to any departure from the Loan Agreement or any other Financing
Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(iv) any
pledge, exchange, release or non-perfection of any other collateral, or any
release or amendment or waiver of or consent to any departure from any
guarantee, for all or any of the Secured Obligations;
(v)
any exercise, non-exercise or waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege
under or in respect hereof, the Loan Agreement or any other Financing Document
except as specifically set forth in a waiver granted pursuant to Section 8.5;
or
(vi) any
other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or
a discharge of, any Grantor.
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SECTION
8.15 ENTIRE
AGREEMENT. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE
OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND
MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT
ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL
AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantors and the Secured Party have caused this Agreement
to be duly executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the
date first above written.
BORROWER
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LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
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Title:
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Chief
Financial Officer,
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and Secretary
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GUARANTORS
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[None
on the date
hereof.]
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SECURED PARTY
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MIDDLESEX
SAVINGS BANK,
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as
Secured Party
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EXHIBIT
A
[Form
of] COPYRIGHT SECURITY AGREEMENT
This
Copyright Security Agreement (this “Agreement”),
is entered into as of December 30, 2010 by SERACARE LIFE SCIENCES, INC., a
Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”)
and each Guarantor listed on Schedule II hereto
(collectively, the “Guarantors,”
and together with the Borrowers, the “Grantors”),
in favor of MIDDLESEX SAVINGS BANK as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative
Agent”), for the benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties (as such
term is defined in the Security Agreement referred to below) (in such capacity,
and together with its successors in such capacity, the “Secured
Party”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Grantors are party to a Security Agreement dated as of
December 30, 2010 (as amended from time to time, the “Security
Agreement”) in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to which the Grantors
are required to execute and deliver this Agreement;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and to induce the Secured
Party, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to enter into Loan Agreement, the
Grantors hereby agree with the Secured Party as follows:
SECTION
1. Defined
Terms. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Security Agreement and used herein have the meaning given to them in the
Security Agreement.
SECTION
2. Grant of Security Interest
in Copyright Collateral. Each Grantor hereby pledges and
grants to the Secured Party for the benefit of the Secured Parties a lien on and
security interest in and to all of its right, title and interest in, to and
under all:
(a) Copyrights
for which registrations or applications for registration are listed on Schedule I attached
hereto; and
(b) Proceeds
of any and all of the foregoing.
SECTION
3. Security
Agreement. The security interest granted pursuant to this
Copyright Security Agreement is granted in conjunction with the security
interest granted to the Secured Party pursuant to the Security Agreement, and
Grantors hereby acknowledge and affirm that the rights and remedies of the
Secured Party with respect to the security interest in the Copyrights made and
granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms and
provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth
herein. In the event that any provision of this Copyright Security
Agreement is deemed to conflict with the Security Agreement, the provisions of
the Security Agreement shall control unless the Secured Party shall otherwise
determine.
[Signature
Page Follows]
A-37
Form of
Copyright Security Agreement
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be executed and
delivered by its duly authorized offer as of the date first set forth
above.
GRANTORS
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SERACARE
LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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[LIST
GUARANTORS]
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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[Signature
Page to Copyright Security Agreement]
Schedule
I
A-39
Form of
Copyright Security Agreement
Schedule
II
[LIST
GUARANTORS]
EXHIBIT
B
[Form
of] PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT
This
Patent Security Agreement (this “Agreement”),
is entered into as of December 30, 2010 by SERACARE LIFE SCIENCES,
INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”)
and each Guarantor listed on Schedule II hereto
(collectively, the “Guarantors,”
and together with the Borrowers, the “Grantors”),
in favor of MIDDLESEX SAVINGS BANK as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative
Agent”), for the benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties (as such
term is defined in the Security Agreement referred to below) (in such capacity,
and together with its successors in such capacity, the “Secured
Party”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Grantors are party to a Security Agreement dated as of
December 30, 2010 (as amended from time to time, the “Security
Agreement”) in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to which the Grantors
are required to execute and deliver this Agreement;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and to induce the Secured
Party, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to enter into Loan Agreement, the
Grantors hereby agree with the Secured Party as follows:
SECTION
1. Defined
Terms. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Security Agreement and used herein have the meaning given to them in the
Security Agreement.
SECTION
2. Grant of Security Interest
in Patent Collateral. Each Grantor hereby pledges and grants
to the Secured Party for the benefit of the Lenders a lien on and a security
interest in and to all of its right, title and interest in, to and under
all:
(a) Patents
for which registrations or applications for registration are listed on Schedule I attached
hereto;
(b) Goodwill
associated with such Patents; and
(c) Proceeds
of any and all of the foregoing.
SECTION
3. Security
Agreement. The security interest granted pursuant to this
Agreement is granted in conjunction with the security interest granted to the
Secured Party pursuant to the Security Agreement, and the Grantors hereby
acknowledge and affirm that the rights and remedies of the Secured Party with
respect to the security interest in the Patents made and granted hereby are more
fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are
incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth herein. In the
event that any provision of this Agreement is deemed to conflict with the
Security Agreement, the provisions of the Security Agreement shall
control.
[Signature
Page Follows]
B-1
Form of
Patent Security Agreement
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be executed and
delivered by its duly authorized offer as of the date first set forth
above.
GRANTORS
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SERACARE
LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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[LIST
GUARANTORS]
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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[Signature
Page to Patent Security Agreement]
Schedule
I
Schedule
II
[LIST
GUARANTORS]
EXHIBIT
C
[Form
of] TRADEMARK SECURITY AGREEMENT
This
Trademark Security Agreement (this “Agreement”),
is entered into as of December 30, 2010 by SERACARE LIFE SCIENCES,
INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”)
and each Guarantor listed on Schedule II hereto
(collectively, the “Guarantors,”
and together with the Borrowers, the “Grantors”),
in favor of MIDDLESEX SAVINGS BANK as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative
Agent”), for the benefit of itself and the other Secured Parties (as such
term is defined in the Security Agreement referred to below) (in such capacity,
and together with its successors in such capacity, the “Secured
Party”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Grantors are party to a Security Agreement dated as of
December 30, 2010 (as amended from time to time, the “Security
Agreement”) in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to which the Grantors
are required to execute and deliver this Agreement;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Secured Party, for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, to enter into Loan Agreement, the Grantors
hereby agree with the Secured Party as follows:
SECTION
1. Defined
Terms. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Security Agreement and used herein have the meaning given to them in the
Security Agreement.
SECTION
2. Grant of Security Interest
in Trademark Collateral. Each Grantor hereby pledges and
grants to the Secured Party for the benefit of the Lenders a lien on and a
security interest in and to all of its right, title and interest in, to and
under all:
(a) Trademarks
for which registrations or applications for registration are listed on Schedule I attached
hereto;
(b) Goodwill
associated with such Trademarks; and
(c) Proceeds
of any and all of the foregoing.
SECTION
3. Security
Agreement. The security interest granted pursuant to this
Agreement is granted in conjunction with the security interest granted to the
Secured Party pursuant to the Security Agreement and the Grantors hereby
acknowledge and affirm that the rights and remedies of the Secured Party with
respect to the security interest in the Trademarks made and granted hereby are
more fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of
which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth
herein. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is deemed
to conflict with the Security Agreement, the provisions of the Security
Agreement shall control.
[Signature
Page Follows]
C-1
Form of
Trademark Security Agreement
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be executed and
delivered by its duly authorized offer as of the date first set forth
above.
GRANTORS
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SERACARE
LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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[LIST
GUARANTORS]
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Schedule
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Schedule
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[LIST
GUARANTORS]
EXHIBIT
D
[Form
of] PLEDGE SUPPLEMENT
This
Pledge Supplement, dated as of
[ ],
is delivered pursuant to Section 4.1 of that certain security agreement (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Security Agreement;”
capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings
assigned to such terms in the Security Agreement), dated as of
December 30, 2010, made by SERACARE LIFE SCIENCES, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the “Borrower”), the other
Grantors party thereto and Middlesex Savings Bank, as Secured Party (as such
term is defined in the Security Agreement). The undersigned hereby
agrees that this Pledge Supplement may be attached to the Security Agreement and
that the Pledged Securities and/or Intercompany Notes listed on this Pledge
Supplement shall be deemed to be and shall become part of the Pledged Collateral
and shall secure all Secured Obligations.
PLEDGED
SECURITIES
ISSUER
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CLASS OF
STOCK OR
INTERESTS
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PAR VALUE
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CERTIFICATE
NO(S).
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NUMBER OF
SHARES OR
INTERESTS
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PERCENTAGE OF ALL
ISSUED CAPITAL OR
OTHER EQUITY
INTERESTS OF
ISSUER
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INTERCOMPANY
NOTES
ISSUER
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PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT
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DATE OF
ISSUANCE
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INTEREST
RATE
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MATURITY
DATE
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as
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AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED:
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MIDDLESEX
SAVINGS BANK,
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Secured Party
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