INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
Exhibit 4.3
This INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT (as amended, restated, renewed, extended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”) is dated as of April 7, 2011, and
entered into by and between JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as U.S. collateral agent
under the Initial ABL Credit Agreement, including its successors and assigns from time to time (the
“Initial ABL Agent”), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association,
as Collateral Agent and Trustee (the “Trustee”), not in its individual capacity, but solely
in its capacity as trustee and collateral agent under the Indenture and (as the case may be) as
collateral agent for and representative hereunder of the holders of the Additional Pari Passu Note
Obligations, including in each case its successors and assigns from time to time (in such
capacities, the “Notes Agent”) and is acknowledged by Liz Claiborne, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”), and the domestic subsidiaries of the Company listed on the
signature pages hereof (together with any subsidiary that becomes a party hereto after the date
hereof, each a “Company Subsidiary,” and, collectively, the “Company
Subsidiaries”). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement have the meanings assigned to them in
Article 1.
RECITALS
The Company, the Company Subsidiaries, the ABL Lenders, the Initial ABL Agent and the other
parties thereto have entered into that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of May 6, 2010 (as amended, restated, supplemented, extended, modified, replaced, refunded or
refinanced from time to time, the “Initial ABL Credit Agreement”);
The Company has issued 10.50% senior secured notes due 2019 in a principal amount of $205.0
million (the “Initial Notes”) under an indenture, dated as of April 7, 2011 (as amended,
restated, supplemented, extended, modified, replaced, refunded or refinanced from time to time, the
“Indenture”) among the Company, each Company Subsidiary and the Notes Agent;
The Company may from time to time following the date hereof incur Additional Pari Passu Note
Obligations to the extent permitted by the ABL Credit Agreement, the Indenture and any then extant
Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement; and
In order to induce the Initial ABL Agent and the ABL Lenders to consent to the Grantors
incurring the Note Obligations and granting the Liens to the Notes Agent and in order to induce the
Notes Agent and the Noteholders to consent to the Grantors incurring the ABL Obligations and
granting the Liens to the ABL Agent, the ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the other ABL
Claimholders, and the Notes Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Note Claimholders, have agreed
to the relative priority of their respective Liens on the Collateral and certain other rights,
priorities and interests as set forth in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
In consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and obligations herein set forth and
for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
I.
DEFINITIONS.
DEFINITIONS.
1.1. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“2006 Synthetic Lease” means the Amended and Restated Master Lease Agreement, dated as
of November 21, 2006 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), between
SunTrust Bank, as Lessor and the Company and Liz Claiborne Accessories, Inc., as Lessees.
“ABL Agent” means the Initial ABL Agent and any successor or other agent under any ABL
Credit Agreement. The Initial ABL Agent shall exercise the rights and have the duties of the ABL
Agent under this Agreement for so long as there is an Initial ABL Agent.
“ABL Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of ABL Obligations at that
time, including, without limitation, the ABL Lenders and the ABL Agent under the ABL Credit
Agreement, the Banking Services Providers and the holders of any Secured Swap Obligations,
Synthetic Lease Obligations and Acceptance Obligations.
“ABL Collateral” means (subject to Section 2.5) all of the assets and property
of any Grantor, now owned or hereafter acquired, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to
which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted as security for any ABL Obligations.
“ABL Credit Agreement” means collectively, (a) the Initial ABL Credit Agreement and
(b) any related Permitted Refinancing Agreement. Any reference to the ABL Credit Agreement
hereunder shall be deemed a reference to any ABL Credit Agreement then in existence.
“ABL Credit Documents” means collectively, the ABL Credit Agreement and the “Loan
Documents” (as defined in the Initial ABL Credit Agreement) or any substantially equivalent term in
any other ABL Credit Agreement.
“ABL Default” means an “Event of Default” (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement).
“ABL Lenders” means the “Lenders” under and as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“ABL Loan Documents” means the ABL Credit Agreement and the “Loan Documents” (as
defined in the ABL Credit Agreement), and the documents governing Banking Services Obligations,
Secured Swap Obligations, Synthetic Lease Obligations and Acceptance Obligations and each of the
other agreements, documents and instruments executed pursuant thereto, and any other document or
instrument executed or delivered at any time in connection with the ABL Credit Agreement, any
Banking Services, any Swap Agreement, any Acceptance Obligation or the 2006 Synthetic Lease
including any intercreditor or joinder agreement among holders of ABL Obligations, to the extent
such are effective at the relevant time, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified,
renewed, extended, refunded or Refinanced from time to time in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement.
“ABL Mortgages” means a collective reference to each mortgage, deed of trust and other
document or instrument under which any Lien on real property owned or leased by any Grantor is
granted to secure any ABL Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to any such
Liens are governed.
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“ABL Obligations” means all Obligations outstanding under the ABL Credit Agreement and
the other ABL Loan Documents, including any Banking Services Obligations, Synthetic Lease
Obligations, Acceptance Obligations and Secured Swap Obligations. “ABL Obligations” shall include
all interest, fees and expenses accrued or accruing (or which would, absent commencement of an
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, accrue) after commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding in accordance with the rate specified in the relevant ABL Loan Document whether or not
the claim for such interest is allowed or allowable as a claim in such Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding.
“ABL Permitted Access Purposes” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section
3.3.
“ABL Permitted Access Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section
3.3.
“ABL Priority Collateral” means all now owned or hereafter acquired ABL Collateral
that constitutes:
(a) Accounts;
(b) Equipment;
(c) Inventory;
(d) Investment Property;
(e) Real Estate Assets;
(f) Other Intellectual Property;
(g) Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts (including all cash, cash equivalents,
Money, checks, Instruments, funds, ACH transfers, wired funds, Investment Property, and
other funds and property held in or on deposit in any of the foregoing);
(h) General Intangibles (other than Notes Trademark Collateral and Designated Notes
Reinvestment Collateral);
(i) Letter of Credit Rights (other than Supporting Obligations);
(j) Supporting Obligations and Commercial Tort Claims (other than Supporting
Obligations and Commercial Tort Claims constituting Notes Priority Collateral);
(k) Documents, Chattel Paper, and Instruments;
(l) books and records relating to the items referred to in the preceding clauses (a)
through (k) (including all books, databases, data processing software, customer lists,
engineer drawings, and records, whether tangible or electronic, which contain any
information relating to any of the items referred to in the preceding clauses (a) through
(k));
(m) all other ABL Collateral other than Notes Priority Collateral; and
(n) all Proceeds of any of the forgoing Collateral described in clauses (a) through (m)
above;
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provided, that ABL Priority Collateral shall exclude (i) all Accounts constituting proceeds
of any sale or Disposition of any Notes Priority Collateral and all insurance policies and
insurance claims, and claims for condemnation or similar awards, in each case, with respect to any
Notes Priority Collateral and (ii) all Proceeds of any Notes Priority Collateral that are otherwise
ABL Priority Collateral hereunder arising after either (A) the commencement of an Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any of the Grantors, (B) the commencement of any Enforcement
with respect to any of the Collateral or (C) the acceleration of any of the ABL Obligations or the
Note Obligations.
For purposes of clarification, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this
Agreement, any of the items set forth in this paragraph that are or become branded, or otherwise
produced through the use or other application of, any Notes Trademark Collateral, shall fully
constitute ABL Priority Collateral, and no Proceeds arising from any Disposition of any such ABL
Priority Collateral shall be, or be deemed to be, attributable to Notes Priority Collateral.
“ABL Security Documents” means any agreement, document or instrument pursuant to which
a Lien is granted securing any ABL Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to
such Liens are governed.
“ABL Standstill Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a)(i).
“Acceptance Obligations” means, as to any Grantor, any and all obligations of such
Grantor, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or
acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof), arising under or evidenced
by any bills of exchange, drafts or similar instruments drawn on any Grantor and accepted by such
Grantor (whether payable at sight, on demand or at any specified time) that are purchased or
otherwise assigned or payable to (whether by endorsement or otherwise) or held by any ABL Lender or
any Affiliate of any ABL Lender, in each case to the extent such obligations constitute “Secured
Obligations” under the Initial ABL Credit Agreement or any such comparable term under any other ABL
Credit Agreement.
“Account Agreements” means any lockbox account agreement, pledged account agreement,
blocked account agreement, deposit account control agreement, securities account control agreement,
or any similar deposit or securities account agreements among the Notes Agent and/or the ABL Agent,
one or more Grantors and the relevant financial institution depository or securities intermediary.
“Accounts” means “accounts” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Additional Notes” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture but only to the extent
that at the time such Additional Notes are issued such Additional Notes are permitted by the terms
of the ABL Credit Agreement, the Indenture and each then extant Additional Pari Passu Note
Agreement to be incurred and to be secured by Liens on the Collateral ranking pari
passu with the Liens securing the Note Obligations
“Additional Pari Passu Note Agent” means the Person appointed to act as trustee, agent
or representative for the holders of Additional Pari Passu Note Obligations pursuant to any
Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement.
“Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement” means the indenture, credit agreement or other
agreement under which any Additional Pari Passu Note Obligations are incurred.
“Additional Pari Passu Note Obligations” means Indebtedness (other than Additional
Notes) of the Grantors incurred following the date of this Agreement to the extent that (a) at the
time such
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Indebtedness in incurred, such Indebtedness is permitted by the terms of the ABL Credit Agreement,
the Indenture and each then extant Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement to be incurred and secured
by Liens on the Collateral ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Note
Obligations, (b) the Grantors have granted Liens on the Collateral ranking pari
passu with the Liens securing the Note Obligations to secure the obligations in respect of
such Indebtedness, and (c) the Additional Pari Passu Note Agent, for the holders of such
Indebtedness, has executed a joinder agreement to the Note Security Agreement in the form attached
thereto (or other form reasonably satisfactory to the Notes Agent) agreeing on behalf of itself and
such holders to (i) be bound by the terms of this Agreement applicable to them, (ii) appoint the
Notes Agent to act as their collateral agent and representative hereunder and (iii) agree to be
bound by the intercreditor provisions contained in the Note Security Agreement (which provisions
are binding on the Note Claimholders only).
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common
control with the Person specified. For purposes of this definition, a Person shall be deemed to
“control” or be “controlled by” a Person if such Person possesses, directly or
indirectly, power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person
whether through ownership of equity interests, by contract or otherwise.
“Agents” means the ABL Agent and the Notes Agent.
“Agreement” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble hereto.
“Banking Services” means “Banking Services” as such term is defined in the Initial ABL
Credit Agreement and any substantially equivalent terms under any other ABL Credit Agreement.
“Banking Services Obligations” means “Banking Services Obligations” as such term is
defined in the Initial ABL Credit Agreement and any substantially equivalent terms under any other
ABL Credit Agreement.
“Banking Services Provider” means any Person that provides any Banking Services to any
Grantor at a time when such Person is an ABL Lender or an Affiliate of an ABL Lender (even if such
Person subsequently ceases to be an ABL Lender or an Affiliate of an ABL Lender).
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as
now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.
“Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any similar federal, state or foreign
law for the relief of debtors.
“Business Day” means a day that is a “Business Day” under both the Indenture and the
ABL Credit Agreement.
“Capital Stock” means (a) in the case of a corporation, capital stock, (b) in the case
of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or
other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock, (c) in the case of a partnership,
partnership interests (whether general or limited), (d) in the case of a limited liability company,
membership interests and (e) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right
to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person
and all rights, warrants or options exchangeable for or convertible into any of the items described
in clauses (a) through (e) above; provided that with respect to the foregoing,
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Capital Stock shall exclude any debt securities convertible into Capital Stock, whether or not
such debt securities include any right of vote or participation with Capital Stock.
“Chattel Paper” means “chattel paper” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Claimholder” means any Note Claimholder or ABL Claimholder, as applicable.
“Collateral” means any and all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether
real, personal or mixed, which constitute ABL Collateral or Note Collateral.
“Commercial Tort Claims” means “commercial tort claims” (as defined in Article 9 of
the UCC).
“Company” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble to this Agreement.
“Company Subsidiary” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble to this
Agreement.
“Conforming Plan of Reorganization” means any Plan of Reorganization whose provisions
are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement.
“Deposit Accounts” means “deposit accounts” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Designated Notes Reinvestment Collateral” means all Note Collateral consisting solely
of Trademarks of the Grantors that is (i) acquired with the Proceeds of Notes Priority Collateral
and (ii) designated by the Grantors to the Notes Agent and the ABL Agent as “Designated Notes
Reinvestment Collateral”.
“DIP Financing” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.1.
“Discharge of ABL Obligations” means:
(a) payment in full in cash of all ABL Obligations (other than contingent obligations
or contingent indemnification obligations except as provided in clause (e) below and other
than ABL Obligations constituting Obligations in respect of Banking Services except as
provided in clause (d) below);
(b) termination or expiration of all commitments, if any, to extend credit under the
ABL Loan Documents;
(c) termination, cash collateralization or backstop of all letters of credit issued
under the ABL Credit Agreement in compliance with the terms of the ABL Credit Agreement and
all Acceptance Obligations;
(d) the provision of credit support (which may include cash collateralization or
support by a letter of credit therefor) for any ABL Obligations constituting Obligations in
respect of Banking Services (in an amount and manner and, if other than pursuant to cash
collateralization, of a kind reasonably satisfactory to the providers of such Banking
Services); and
(e) the provision of credit support (which may include cash collateralization or
support by a letter of credit) for any costs, expenses and contingent indemnification
obligations consisting of ABL Obligations not yet due and payable but with respect to which
a claim has been
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threatened or asserted under any ABL Loan Documents (in an amount and manner and, if
other than pursuant to cash collateralization, of a kind reasonably satisfactory to the ABL
Agent).
It is understood that no Discharge of ABL Obligations shall be deemed to have occurred to the
extent that the conditions specified in (a) through (e) above occur in connection with a Permitted
Refinancing of the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Discharge of Note Obligations” means payment in full in cash of all Note Obligations,
satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement or legal
or covenant defeasance of the Indenture and any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement (other than
obligations that expressly survive such satisfaction and discharge or legal or covenant
defeasance). It is understood that no Discharge of Note Obligations shall be deemed to have
occurred in the event the foregoing conditions occur in connection with a Permitted Refinancing of
the Notes and Additional Pari Passu Note Obligations.
“Disposition” means any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of any
Collateral.
“Documents” means “documents” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Enforcement” means, collectively or individually for one or both of the ABL Agent and
the Notes Agent, when an ABL Default or Note Default, as applicable, has occurred and is
continuing, to enforce or attempt to enforce any right or power to repossess, replevy, attach,
garnish, levy upon, collect the Proceeds of, foreclose or realize in any manner whatsoever its Lien
upon, sell, liquidate or otherwise dispose of, or otherwise restrict or interfere with the use of,
or exercise any remedies with respect to, or conduct any Going Out of Business Sale with respect
to, any Collateral, whether by judicial enforcement of any of the rights and remedies under the ABL
Loan Documents, the Note Documents and/or under any applicable law, by self-help repossession, by
non-judicial foreclosure sale, lease, or other Disposition, by set-off, by notification to account
obligors of any Grantor, by any sale, lease, or other Disposition implemented by any Grantor
following an ABL Default or a Note Default, as applicable, in connection with which the ABL Agent
or the Notes Agent, as applicable, has agreed to release its Liens on the subject property, or
otherwise, but in all cases excluding (i) the establishment of borrowing base reserves, collateral
ineligibles, or other conditions for advances, (ii) the changing of advance rates or advance
sublimits, (iii) the imposition of a default rate or late fee, (iv) the collection and application
of Accounts or other monies deposited from time to time in Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts,
in each case, to the extent constituting ABL Priority Collateral, against the ABL Obligations
pursuant to the provisions of the ABL Loan Documents (including, without limitation, the
notification of account debtors, depositary institutions or any other Person to deliver proceeds of
Collateral to the ABL Agent or any “cash dominion event” or mandatory prepayment event under the
ABL Loan Documents), (v) the cessation of lending pursuant to the provisions of the ABL Loan
Documents, including upon the occurrence of a default on the existence of an over-advance, (vi) the
filing of a proof of claim in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (vii) the consent by the
ABL Agent to Disposition by any Grantor of any of the ABL Priority Collateral, and (viii) the
acceleration of the Note Obligations or the ABL Obligations.
“Enforcement Notice” means a written notice delivered, at a time when an ABL Default
or Note Default has occurred and is continuing, by either the ABL Agent or the Notes Agent to the
other announcing that an Enforcement Period has commenced, specifying the relevant event of
default, stating the current balance of the ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations, as applicable,
and requesting the current balance of the ABL Obligations or Note Obligations, as applicable, owing
to the noticed party.
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“Enforcement Period” means the period of time following the receipt by either the ABL
Agent or the Notes Agent of an Enforcement Notice from the other until the earliest of (a) in the
case of an Enforcement Period commenced by the Notes Agent, the Discharge of Note Obligations, (b)
in the case of an Enforcement Period commenced by the ABL Agent, the Discharge of ABL Obligations,
(c) the ABL Agent or the Notes Agent (as applicable) agreeing in writing to terminate the
Enforcement Period, or (d) the date on which the ABL Default or the Note Default that was the
subject of the Enforcement Notice relating to such Enforcement Period has been cured to the
satisfaction of the ABL Agent or the Notes Agent, as applicable, or waived in writing.
“Equipment” means “equipment” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“General Intangibles” means “general intangibles” (as defined in Article 9 of the
UCC).
“Going Out of Business Sale” means, following the occurrence and during the
continuance of any ABL Default, any sale or liquidation of the ABL Priority Collateral consented to
by the ABL Agent for purposes of permitting the Grantors to obtain funds to permanently repay the
ABL Obligations in whole or in part.
“Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, national or other
government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or
political subdivision thereof or any entity or officer exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government or any court, in each
case whether associated with a state of the United States, the United States, or a foreign entity
or government.
“Grantors” means (subject to Section 2.5) the Company, each Company Subsidiary
and each other Person that is organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof
(including the District of Columbia) and that has or may from time to time hereafter execute and
deliver an ABL Security Document or a Note Security Document as a grantor of a security interest
(or the equivalent thereof).
“Indebtedness” means and includes all Obligations that constitute “Debt,”
“Indebtedness,” “Obligations,” “Liabilities” or any similar term within the meaning of the ABL
Credit Agreement or the Indenture, as applicable.
“Indenture” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this Agreement.
“Initial ABL Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble of this
Agreement.
“Initial ABL Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals
to this Agreement.
“Initial Notes” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals and shall
include any Notes issued in exchange for all or any of such Initial Notes pursuant to any Exchange
Offer (as defined in the Indenture).
“Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding” means:
(a) any voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with
respect to any Grantor;
(b) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization or bankruptcy case or
proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding
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with respect to any Grantor or with respect to a material portion of their respective
assets, in each case, except as permitted under the ABL Credit Agreement, the Indenture and
any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement;
(c) any composition of liabilities or similar arrangement relating to any Grantor,
whether or not under a court’s jurisdiction or supervision;
(d) any liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or winding up of any Grantor, whether
voluntary or involuntary, whether or not under a court’s jurisdiction or supervision, and
whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, except as permitted under the ABL Credit
Agreement, the Indenture and any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement; or
(e) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of
assets and liabilities of any Grantor.
“Instruments” means “instruments” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Intellectual Property” means all of the following in any jurisdiction throughout the
world: (a) patents, patent applications and inventions, including all renewals, extensions,
combinations, divisions, or reissues thereof; (b) trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade
dress, logos, internet domain names and other business identifiers, together with the goodwill
symbolized by any of the foregoing, and all applications, registrations, renewals and extensions
thereof; (c) copyrights and all works of authorship including all registrations, applications,
renewals, extensions and reversions thereof; (d) all computer software, source code, executable
code, data, databases and documentation thereof; (e) all trade secret rights in information,
including trade secret rights in any formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method,
technique, or process, that (1) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not
being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other Persons who
can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and (2) is the subject of efforts that are
reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy; (f) all other intellectual property or
proprietary rights in any discoveries, concepts, ideas, research and development, know-how,
formulae, patterns, inventions, compilations, compositions, manufacturing and production processes
and techniques, program, device, method, technique, technical data, procedures, designs,
recordings, graphs, drawings, reports, analyses, specifications, databases, and other proprietary
or confidential information, including customer lists, supplier lists, pricing and cost
information, business and marketing plans and proposals and advertising and promotional materials;
and (g) all rights to xxx at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment or violation
thereof and all products and proceeds of the foregoing.
“Intellectual Property License” means an exclusive license or other agreement related
to any Trademark granting a right to use such Trademark, to which a Grantor is a party, whether as
a licensee or a licensor, and the right to use any such Trademark (to the extent permitted by such
license).
“Inventory” means “inventory” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Investment Property” means “investment property” (as defined in Article 9 of the
UCC), including, without limitation, all Capital Stock held by each of the Grantors.
“Letter of Credit Rights” means “letter of credit rights” (as defined in Article 9 of
the UCC).
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothec, hypothecation, assignment, deposit
arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any other
security agreement
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(including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and
any capitalized lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Money” means all present and future “money” (as defined in Article 1 of the UCC).
“Note Collateral Account” means each Deposit Account or Securities Account required to
be established pursuant to the Note Documents for purposes of holding Notes Priority Collateral
pending application in accordance with the Note Documents (it being understood that ABL Priority
Collateral deposited in the Note Collateral Account shall continue to be ABL Priority Collateral).
“Non-Conforming Plan of Reorganization” means any Plan of Reorganization whose
provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, including any plan of
reorganization that purports to re-order (whether by subordination, invalidation, or otherwise) or
otherwise disregard, in whole or part, the provisions of Article II (including the Lien
priorities of Section 2.1), the provisions of Article IV, or the provisions of
Article VI, unless such Plan of Reorganization has been accepted by the voluntary required
vote of each class of ABL Claimholders and Note Claimholders.
“Note Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of Note Obligations at
that time, including the Noteholders, each Additional Pari Passu Note Agent and the Notes Agent.
“Note Collateral” means any and all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether
real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any Note
Obligations.
“Note Default” means an “Event of Default” as defined in the Indenture or in any
Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement.
“Note Documents” means the Indenture, the Notes, each Additional Pari Passu Note
Agreement, the Note Security Documents and each of the other agreements, documents and instruments
executed pursuant thereto, and any other document or instrument executed or delivered at any time
in connection with any Note Obligations, including any intercreditor or joinder agreement among
holders of Note Obligations to the extent such are effective at the relevant time, as each may be
amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed, extended or Refinanced from time to time in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“Note Mortgages” means a collective reference to each mortgage, deed of trust and any
other document or instrument under which any Lien on real property owned or leased by any Grantor
is granted to secure any Note Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to any
such Liens are governed.
“Note Obligations” means all Obligations outstanding under the Notes and the other
Note Documents, and all Additional Pari Passu Note Obligations. “Note Obligations” shall include
all interest accrued or accruing (or which would, absent commencement of an Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding, accrue) after commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in
accordance with the rate specified in the relevant Note Document or Additional Pari Passu Note
Agreement, whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed or allowable as a claim in such
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
“Note Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof,
by and among the Company, the Company Subsidiaries, the Trustee and the Notes Agent, as the same
may be amended, modified, restated, supplemented or replaced from time to time in accordance with
its terms.
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“Note Security Documents” means any agreement, document or instrument pursuant to
which a Lien is granted securing any Note Obligations or under which rights or remedies with
respect to such Liens are governed.
“Note Standstill Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a)(i).
“Noteholders” means the “Holders” as defined in the Indenture and any holders of
Additional Pari Passu Note Obligations.
“Notes” means, collectively, (a) the Initial Notes, (b) any Additional Notes and (c)
any related Permitted Refinancing Agreement. Any reference to the Notes hereunder shall be deemed
a reference to any Notes then in existence.
“Notes Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble of this Agreement.
“Notes Priority Collateral” means all now owned or hereafter acquired Note Collateral
that constitutes:
(a) Notes Trademark Collateral;
(b) Designated Notes Reinvestment Collateral;
(c) Supporting Obligations and Commercial Tort Claims, in each case, to the extent
arising out of, or related to, or derivative of, the property or interests described clause
(a) or (b) above; and
(d) Proceeds of any of Note Collateral described in clauses (a) through (c) above;
provided, that Notes Priority Collateral shall exclude all Proceeds of any ABL Priority
Collateral that are otherwise Notes Priority Collateral hereunder arising after either (A) the
commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to any of the Grantors, (B)
the commencement of any Enforcement with respect to any of the Collateral or (C) the acceleration
of any of the ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations.
“Notes Trademark Collateral” means all now owned or hereafter acquired Trademark
Collateral relating to the JUICY XXXXXXX, XXXX SPADE or LUCKY BRAND trademarks of any Grantor.
“Obligations” means all present and future loans, advances, liabilities, obligations,
covenants, duties, debts and other amounts from time to time owing by any Grantor to any agent or
trustee (including either Agent), the ABL Claimholders, the Note Claimholders or any of them or
their respective Affiliates, arising from or in connection with the ABL Loan Documents or the Note
Documents, whether for principal, interest, payments for early termination or otherwise, whether or
not evidenced by any note, or other instrument or document, whether arising from an extension of
credit, opening of a letter of credit, acceptance, loan, guaranty, indemnification or otherwise,
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, primary or secondary, as
principal or guarantor, and including all principal, interest, charges, expenses, fees, attorneys’
fees, filing fees and any other sums chargeable to the Grantors, including, without limitation, the
“Secured Obligations,” as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement, and the “Obligations,” as defined in
the Indenture, under the Notes and any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement.
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“Other Intellectual Property” means all Intellectual Property not constituting Notes
Trademark Collateral or Designated Notes Reinvestment Collateral.
“Permitted License Rights” means all rights of the ABL Agent or any affiliate thereof
or any other administrative agent or collateral agent in connection with the ABL Credit Agreement
related to the non-exclusive royalty free license granted to any such agent with respect to the
Notes Priority Collateral.
“Permitted Refinancing” means any Refinancing the governing documentation of which
constitutes a Permitted Refinancing Agreement.
“Permitted Refinancing Agreements” means, with respect to either the ABL Credit
Agreement, the Notes, any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement or any previously established
Permitted Refinancing Agreement, as applicable, any credit agreement, loan agreement, note
agreement, promissory note, indenture or other agreement or instrument evidencing or governing the
terms of any indebtedness or other financial accommodation that has been incurred to increase,
replace (whether upon or after termination or otherwise), Refinance or refund in whole or in part
the ABL Credit Agreement, the Notes, any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement or any previously
established Permitted Refinancing Agreement, whether or not such increase, replacement, Refinancing
or refunding occurs (i) with the original parties thereto, (ii) on one or more separate occasions
or (iii) simultaneously or not with the termination or repayment of the ABL Credit Agreement, the
Notes, any Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement, any Permitted Refinancing Agreement or any other
agreement or instrument referred to in this clause, as such financing documentation may be amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and that would not be prohibited by
Section 5.3(b) or Section 5.3(c), as applicable; provided, that except in
the case of an amendment, restatement, supplement or modification of the Initial ABL Credit
Agreement, the Indenture or an Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement (or any previously designated
Permitted Refinancing Agreement), (x) the Company shall have delivered a notice to the ABL Agent
and the Notes Agent (A) designating such loan agreement, note agreement, promissory note, indenture
or other agreement or instrument as a “Permitted Refinancing Agreement” for purposes of this
Agreement and (B) specifying whether such Permitted Refinancing Agreement shall constitute (1) an
“ABL Credit Agreement,” “Notes” or (2) a “Permitted Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement” for
purposes of this Agreement and (y) a representative for the holders of any such indebtedness shall
have become a party to this agreement and agreed (on behalf of all such holders) to be bound by the
terms hereof.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust,
joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan of Reorganization” means any plan of reorganization, plan of liquidation,
agreement for composition, or other type of plan of arrangement proposed in or in connection with
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
“Pledged Collateral” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(a).
“Proceeds” means all “proceeds” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), including any
payment or property received on account of any claim secured by Collateral in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding.
“Real Estate Asset” means any interest (fee, leasehold or otherwise) then held any
Grantor in any real property or fixtures.
“Recovery” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4.
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“Refinance” means, in respect of any Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew,
defease, amend, restate, modify, supplement, restructure, replace, refund or repay, or to issue
other indebtedness, in exchange or replacement for, such Indebtedness, in any case in whole or in part.
“Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.
“Secured Parties” means the ABL Claimholders and the Note Claimholders.
“Secured Swap Obligations” means Swap Obligations of any Grantor owing to one or more
ABL Lenders or their respective Affiliates, in each case to the extent such obligations constitute
“Secured Obligations” under the Initial ABL Credit Agreement or any such comparable term under any
other ABL Credit Agreement.
“Security” means all present and future “Securities” (as defined in Article 9 of the
UCC).
“Securities Accounts” means all present and future “securities accounts” (as defined
in Article 8 of the UCC), including all monies and “securities entitlements” (as defined in Article
8 of the UCC) contained therein.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, association, joint venture or other business entity of which more than 50% of
the total voting power of shares of stock or other ownership interests entitled (without regard to
the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of the Person or Persons (whether
directors, managers, trustees or other Persons performing similar functions) having the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that
Person or a combination thereof.
“Supporting Obligations” means all present and future “supporting obligations” (as
defined in Article 9 of the UCC).
“Swap Agreements” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or
derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or
more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic,
financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any
similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom
stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or
former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Company or the Company Subsidiaries
shall be a Swap Agreement.
“Swap Obligations” of a Person means any and all obligations of such Person, whether
absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired
(including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under
(a) any and all Swap Agreements, and (b) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals,
terminations or assignments of any Swap Agreement transaction.
“Synthetic Lease Documentation” means the 2006 Synthetic Lease and all other
“Operative Documents” (as such term is defined in Appendix A to the 2006 Synthetic Lease), in each
case as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms
hereof
“Synthetic Lease Obligations” means all “Obligations” (as defined in Appendix A to the
2006 Synthetic Lease) and any other obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
outstanding pursuant to the Synthetic Lease Documentation.
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“Trademark Collateral” means, collectively, all Trademarks and Intellectual Property
Licenses.
“Trademarks” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and
interest in and to the following: (a) all trademarks (including service marks), trade names,
corporate names, domain names, logos, trade dress, trade styles and other source or business
identifiers, and the registrations and applications for registration thereof, all common law rights
related thereto and the goodwill of the business symbolized by the foregoing; (b) all renewals of
the foregoing; (c) all income, royalties, damages, and payments now or hereafter due or payable
with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages, claims, and payments for past and
future infringements thereof; (d) all rights to xxx for past, present, and future infringements of
the foregoing, including the right to settle suits involving claims and demands for royalties
owing; and (e) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.
“Trustee” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble of this Agreement.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code (or any similar equivalent legislation) as in
effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that, at any
time, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the perfection or priority of the
Agents’ security interest in any item or portion of the Collateral is governed by the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC”
shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, at such time, in such other jurisdiction for
purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or priority and for purposes of
definitions relating to such provisions.
1.2. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms in this Agreement shall apply equally
to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any
pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,”
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the
context requires otherwise:
(a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document
herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as
from time to time amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed or extended;
(b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
permitted successors and assigns;
(c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be
construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision
hereof;
(d) all references herein to Sections or Articles shall be construed to refer to
Sections or Articles of this Agreement;
(e) all uncapitalized terms have the meanings, if any, given to them in the UCC, as now
or hereafter enacted in the State of New York (unless otherwise specifically defined
herein);
(f) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and
effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including
cash, securities, accounts and contract rights;
(g) any reference herein to a Person in a particular capacity or capacities excludes
such Person in any other capacity or individually;
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(h) any reference herein to any law shall be construed to refer to such law as amended,
modified, codified, replaced, or re-enacted, in whole or in part, and in effect on the
pertinent date; and
(i) in the compilation of periods of time hereunder from a specified date to a later
specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until”
each means “to, but not through or including.”
II.
LIEN PRIORITIES.
LIEN PRIORITIES.
2.1. Relative Priorities. Irrespective of the date, time, method, manner or order of
grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens securing the Note Obligations granted on the
Collateral or of any Liens securing the ABL Obligations granted on the Collateral (including, in
each case, irrespective of whether any such Lien is granted (or secures Obligations relating to the
period) before or after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) and
notwithstanding any provision of any UCC, or any other applicable law, or the ABL Loan Documents or
the Note Documents, the ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, and the Notes Agent, on
behalf of the Note Claimholders, hereby agree that:
(a) any Lien of the ABL Agent on the ABL Priority Collateral securing the ABL
Obligations, whether such Lien is now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the ABL Agent or
any other ABL Claimholder or any other agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how or when
acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise,
shall be senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral
securing any Note Obligations; and
(b) any Lien of the Notes Agent on the Notes Priority Collateral securing the Note
Obligations, whether such Lien is now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the Notes Agent,
any other Note Claimholder or any other agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how or when
acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise,
shall be senior in all respects to all Liens on the Notes Priority Collateral securing any
ABL Obligations.
2.2. Prohibition on Contesting Liens. Each of the Notes Agent, on behalf of each Note
Claimholder, and the ABL Agent, on behalf of each ABL Claimholder, consents to the granting of
Liens on the Collateral in favor of the other to secure the ABL Obligations and the Note
Obligations, as applicable, and agrees that no Claimholder will be entitled to, and it will not
(and shall be deemed to have irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waived any right to),
contest (directly or indirectly) or support (directly or indirectly) any other Person in
contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding): (a) the
attachment, perfection, priority, validity or enforceability of any Lien in the Collateral held by
or on behalf of any of the ABL Claimholders to secure the payment of the ABL Obligations or any of
the Note Claimholders to secure the payment of the Note Obligations, (b) the priority, validity or
enforceability of the ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations, including the allowability or
priority of the Note Obligations or the ABL Obligations, as applicable, in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding, or (c) the validity or enforceability of the provisions of this Agreement;
provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights
of the ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, or the Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note
Claimholders, to enforce this Agreement, including the provisions of this Agreement relating to the
priority of the Liens securing the Obligations as provided in Sections 2.1, 3.1,
3.2 and 6.1.
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2.3. No New Liens. So long as neither the Discharge of ABL Obligations nor the
Discharge of Note Obligations, as applicable, has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the parties hereto agree,
subject to Article VI:
(a) no Note Claimholder shall acquire or hold any additional Liens on any asset or
property of any Grantor to secure any Note Obligations unless such Grantor has granted or
concurrently grants a Lien on such asset or property to secure the ABL Obligations; or
(b) no ABL Claimholder shall acquire or hold any additional Liens on any
asset or property of any Grantor to secure any ABL Obligations unless such Grantor has
granted or concurrently grants a Lien on such asset or property to secure the Note
Obligations (other than any Collateral of any Grantor that is explicitly excluded pursuant
to any Note Security Document).
(c) To the extent any additional Liens are granted on any asset or property
(except as contemplated by Section 2.4) pursuant to this Section 2.3, the
priority of such additional Liens shall be determined in accordance with Section
2.1. In addition, to the extent that the foregoing provisions are not complied with for
any reason, without limiting any other rights or remedies available hereunder, the ABL
Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, and the Notes Agent, on behalf of Note
Claimholders, agree that any amounts received by or distributed to any of them pursuant to
or as a result of Liens granted in contravention of this Section 2.3 shall be
subject to Section 4.2.
2.4. Similar Liens and Agreements. The parties hereto agree that it is their
intention that the ABL Collateral of the Grantors and the Note Collateral of the Grantors be
identical except as provided in Article VI and as otherwise provided herein. In
furtherance of the foregoing and of Section 8.8, the parties hereto agree, subject to the
other provisions of this Agreement, upon request by the ABL Agent or the Notes Agent, to cooperate
in good faith (and to direct their counsel to cooperate in good faith) from time to time in order
to determine the specific items included in the ABL Collateral and the Note Collateral and the
steps taken to perfect their respective Liens thereon and the identity of the respective parties
obligated under the ABL Loan Documents and the Note Documents.
2.5. Separate Collateral. It is understood and agreed that (i) the obligations of
certain Subsidiaries of the Company under the ABL Credit Agreement, which Subsidiaries are
organized under the laws of Canada or another jurisdiction outside the United States and are not
Grantors, are or may be secured from time to time by liens on their assets and assets of other
Subsidiaries of the Company organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States,
(ii) certain letters of credit, Banking Services, Acceptance Obligations and Secured Swap
Obligations constituting ABL Obligations may be cash collateralized (including cash collateral held
in Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts or invested in Investment Property) and/or subject to
set-off or netting arrangements that are solely for the benefit of the issuer of such letter of
credit, the provider of such Banking Services or the holder of such Secured Swap Obligations or
Acceptance Obligations and not for the benefit of all ABL Claimholders generally and (iii) that
certain property that constitutes “Leased Property” as defined in the Synthetic Lease Documentation
is solely for the benefit of the holders of the Synthetic Lease Obligations and not for the benefit
of all ABL Claimholders generally. Collateral held pursuant to the foregoing arrangements is not
Collateral subject to the provisions of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall neither restrict
the rights of any Claimholder as to such separate collateral nor give the any Claimholder any
rights with respect thereto.
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III.
EXERCISE OF REMEDIES; ENFORCEMENT.
EXERCISE OF REMEDIES; ENFORCEMENT.
3.1. Restrictions on the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders.
(a) Until the Discharge of ABL Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Notes Agent and the other
Note Claimholders:
(i) will not exercise or seek to exercise (but instead shall be deemed to have hereby
irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally waived for the duration of the Note Standstill
Period), any rights, powers, or remedies with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral
(including (A) any right of set-off or any right under any Account Agreement, landlord
waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the Notes Agent or
any Note Claimholder is a party, (B) any right to undertake self-help re-possession or
non-judicial disposition of any ABL Priority Collateral (including any partial or complete
strict foreclosure), and/or (C) any right to institute, prosecute, or otherwise maintain any
action or proceeding with respect to such rights, powers or remedies (including any action
of foreclosure)); provided, however, that, subject to Section 4.1,
the Notes Agent may exercise any or all of such rights, powers, or remedies after a period
of at least 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which the Notes Agent
declared the existence of a Note Default, accelerated (to the extent such amount was not
already due and owing) the payment of the principal amount of all Note Obligations under the
Indenture, and demanded payment thereof and (ii) the date on which the ABL Agent received
the Enforcement Notice from the Notes Agent relating to such action; provided,
further, however, that neither the Notes Agent nor any other Note
Claimholder shall exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the ABL Priority
Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of such 180-day period, the ABL Agent or the
other ABL Claimholders (A) shall have commenced, whether before or after the expiration of
such 180-day period, and be diligently pursuing the exercise of their rights, powers, or
remedies with respect to all or any material portion of such Collateral (prompt written
notice of such exercise to be given to the Notes Agent), or (B) shall have been stayed by
operation of law or any court order from pursuing any such exercise of remedies (the period
during which the Notes Agent and the other Note Claimholders may not pursuant to this
Section 3.1(a)(i) exercise any rights, powers, or remedies with respect to the ABL
Priority Collateral, the “Note Standstill Period”);
(ii) will not, directly or indirectly, contest, protest or object to or hinder any
judicial or non-judicial foreclosure proceeding or action (including any partial or complete
strict foreclosure) brought by the ABL Agent or any other ABL Claimholder relating to the
ABL Priority Collateral or any other exercise by the ABL Agent or any other ABL Claimholder
of any other rights, powers and remedies relating to the ABL Priority Collateral, including
any sale, lease, exchange, transfer, or other Disposition of the ABL Priority Collateral,
whether under the ABL Loan Documents, applicable law, or otherwise (and including to the
extent utilizing any license of the Notes Priority Collateral granted to the ABL Agent or
any Affiliate thereof);
(iii) subject to their rights under clause (a)(i) above and under clause (vi) of
Section 3.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the ABL Agent or the ABL
Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any Enforcement with respect to the ABL Priority
Collateral;
(iv) subject to Sections 3.1 (a) and (c), irrevocably, absolutely, and
unconditionally waive any and all rights the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders may have
as a junior lien creditor
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or otherwise to object (and seek or be awarded any relief of any nature whatsoever
based on any such objection) to the manner in which the ABL Agent or the ABL Claimholders
(A) enforce or collect (or attempt to collect) the ABL Obligations or (B) realize or seek to
realize upon or otherwise enforce the Liens in and to the ABL Priority Collateral securing
the ABL Obligations, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of
the ABL Agent or ABL Claimholders is adverse to the interest of the Notes Agent or the Note
Claimholders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Note Claimholders shall
be deemed to have hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waived any right to
object (and seek or be awarded any relief of any nature whatsoever based on any such
objection), at any time prior or subsequent to any Disposition of any of the ABL Priority
Collateral, on the ground(s) that any such Disposition of ABL Priority Collateral (x) would
not be or was not “commercially reasonable” within the meaning of any applicable UCC and/or
(y) would not or did not comply with any other requirement under any applicable UCC or under
any other applicable law governing the manner in which a secured creditor (including one
with a Lien on real property) is to realize on its collateral; and
(v) subject to Sections 3.1(a) and (c), acknowledge and agree that no
covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the Note Security Documents or any other
Note Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights
and remedies of the ABL Agent or the ABL Claimholders with respect to the ABL Priority
Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the ABL Loan Documents;
provided, however, that, in the case of (i), (ii) and (iv) above, the Liens granted
to secure the Note Obligations of the Note Claimholders shall attach to any Proceeds resulting from
actions taken by the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholder with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral
in accordance with this Agreement after application of such Proceeds to the extent necessary to
meet the requirements of a Discharge of ABL Obligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of ABL Obligations, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the ABL Agent and the other ABL
Claimholders shall have the right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off and the
right to credit bid their debt) and, in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions of
ABL Priority Collateral by the respective Grantors after an ABL Default) make determinations
regarding the release, Disposition, or restrictions with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral
without any consultation with or the consent of the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholder;
provided, however, that the Lien securing the Note Obligations shall remain on the
Proceeds (other than those properly applied to the ABL Obligations in accordance with Section
4.1) of such Collateral released or Disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in
Section 2.1. In exercising rights, powers, and remedies with respect to the ABL Priority
Collateral, the ABL Agent and the ABL Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the ABL Loan
Documents and exercise rights, powers, and/or remedies thereunder and/or under applicable law or
otherwise, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole
discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them
to sell or otherwise Dispose of the ABL Priority Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in
connection with such sale or Disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured
creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable
jurisdiction.
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(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Notes Agent and any Note
Claimholder may:
(i) file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Note Obligations;
provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or
against any Grantor;
(ii) take any action (not adverse to the Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral securing
the ABL Obligations, the priority status thereof, or the rights of the ABL Agent or any of
the ABL Claimholders to exercise rights, powers, and/or remedies in respect thereof,
including those under Article VI) in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect
(but not enforce) its Lien on any of the ABL Priority Collateral;
(iii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion,
claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise
seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Note Claimholders, including any claims
secured by the ABL Priority Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement;
(iv) file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or
interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not
inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement or applicable law (including the Bankruptcy
Laws of any applicable jurisdiction) and any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements
which assert rights or interests available to secured creditors solely with respect to the
Notes Priority Collateral;
(v) vote on any Plan of Reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other filings and
make any arguments, obligations, and motions (including in support of or opposition to, as
applicable, the confirmation or approval of any Plan of Reorganization) that are, in each
case, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing or of the other provisions of this Agreement, any vote to accept, and any
other act to support the confirmation or approval of, any Non-Conforming Plan of
Reorganization shall be inconsistent with and accordingly, a violation of the terms of this
Agreement, and the ABL Agent shall be entitled to have any such vote to accept a
Non-Conforming Plan of Reorganization changed and any such support of any Non-Conforming
Plan of Reorganization withdrawn (and the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders hereby agree
that under Bankruptcy Rule 9010(c), (i) the ABL Agent may represent the Notes Agent and the
Note Claimholders and (ii) the ABL Agent is hereby granted power of attorney for the purpose
of effectuating the foregoing);
(vi) subject to Section 4.1, exercise any of the rights, powers and/or remedies with
respect to any of the ABL Priority Collateral after the termination of the Note Standstill
Period to the extent permitted by Section 3.1(a)(i); and
(vii) take any action described in clauses (iii), (vi) and (viii) of the definition of
“Enforcement.”
No Note Claimholder will take or receive any ABL Priority Collateral (including Proceeds) in
connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off) with respect to ABL
Priority Collateral in its capacity as a creditor in violation of this Agreement. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of ABL Obligations has occurred,
except as expressly provided in Sections 3.1(a)(i) and clause (vi) of this
Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders with respect to
the ABL Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on such Collateral pursuant to the Note
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Security Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the
Proceeds thereof, if any, in accordance with Section 4.1.
(d) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a), 3.3 and
3.4 and Article VI, the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders may exercise rights
and remedies as unsecured creditors against any Grantor and may exercise rights and remedies with
respect to the Notes Priority Collateral, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Note
Documents and applicable law; provided, however, that in the event that the Notes
Agent or any Note Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of ABL Priority
Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to
the Note Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all
purposes (including in relation to the ABL Obligations) as the other Liens securing the Note
Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(e) Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Notes Agent or any other Note
Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of
the Note Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise
by the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including
set-off) with respect to ABL Priority Collateral or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement
of any Lien held by any of them. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects
any rights or remedies the ABL Agent or the ABL Claimholders may have against the Grantors under
the ABL Loan Documents.
3.2. Restrictions on the ABL Agent and ABL Claimholders.
(a) Until the Discharge of Note Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the ABL Agent and the other
ABL Claimholders:
(i) will not exercise or seek to exercise (but instead shall be deemed to have hereby
irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally waived for the duration of the ABL Standstill
Period) any rights, powers, or remedies with respect to any Notes Priority Collateral
(including (A) any right of set-off or any right under any Account Agreement, landlord
waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the ABL Agent or any
ABL Claimholder is a party, (B) any right to undertake self-help repossession or nonjudicial
disposition of any Notes Priority Collateral (including any partial or complete strict
foreclosure), and/or (C) any right to institute, prosecute or otherwise maintain any action
or proceeding with respect to such rights, powers, or remedies (including any action of
foreclosure but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the exercise of rights in respect of
its license of such Collateral)); provided, however, that the ABL Agent may,
subject to Section 4.1, exercise any or all of such rights, powers, or remedies
after a period of at least 180 days has elapsed since the later of: (i) the date on which
the ABL Agent declared the existence of an ABL Default, accelerated (to the extent such
amount was not already due and owing) the payment of the principal amount of all ABL
Obligations under the ABL Credit Agreement, and demanded payment thereof and (ii) the date
on which the Notes Agent received the Enforcement Notice from the ABL Agent relating to such
action; provided, further, however, that neither the ABL Agent nor
any other ABL Claimholder shall exercise any remedies with respect to the Notes Priority
Collateral (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, exercise of Permitted License Rights)
if, notwithstanding the expiration of such 180-day period, the Notes Agent or the Note
Claimholders (A) shall have commenced, whether before or after the expiration of such
180-day period, and be diligently pursuing the exercise of their rights, powers, or remedies
with respect to all or any material portion of such Collateral (prompt written notice of
such exercise to be given to the ABL Agent), or (B) shall have been stayed by operation of
law or by any
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court order from pursuing any such exercise of remedies (the period during which the
ABL Agent and the other ABL Claimholders may not pursuant to this Section 3.2(a)(i)
exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral, the “ABL
Standstill Period”);
(ii) will not, directly or indirectly, contest, protest or object to or hinder any
judicial or non-judicial foreclosure proceeding or action (including any partial or complete
strict foreclosure) brought by the Notes Agent or any other Note Claimholder relating to the
Notes Priority Collateral or any other exercise by the Notes Agent or any other Note
Claimholder of any rights, powers and remedies relating to the Notes Priority Collateral,
including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer, or other Disposition of the Notes Priority
Collateral, whether under the Note Documents, applicable law, or otherwise;
(iii) subject to their rights under clause (a)(i) above and under clause
(vi) of Section 3.2(c), will not object to the forbearance by the Notes Agent or
the Note Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any Enforcement with respect to the Notes
Priority Collateral;
(iv) subject to Sections 3.2(a) and (c), irrevocably, absolutely and
unconditionally waive any and all rights the ABL Agent or the ABL Claimholders may have as a
junior lien creditor or otherwise to object (and seek or be awarded any relief of any nature
whatsoever based on any such objection) to the manner in which the Notes Agent or the Note
Claimholders (a) enforce or collect (or attempt to collect) the Note Obligations or (b)
realize or seek to realize upon or otherwise enforce the Liens in and to the Notes Priority
Collateral securing the Note Obligations (other than any disposition that is in violation of
Section 3.3 or that is not subject to the Permitted License Rights), regardless of
whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the Notes Agent or Note Claimholders
is adverse to the interest of the ABL Agent or the other ABL Claimholders. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the ABL Claimholders shall be deemed to have hereby
irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally waived any right to object (and seek or be
awarded any relief of any nature whatsoever based on any such objection), at any time prior
to or subsequent to any disposition of any of the Notes Priority Collateral, on the
ground(s) that any such Disposition of Notes Priority Collateral (a) would not be or was not
“commercially reasonable” within the meaning of any applicable UCC and/or (b) would not or
did not comply with any other requirement under any applicable UCC or under any other
applicable law governing the manner in which a secured creditor (including one with a Lien
on real property) is to realize on its collateral; and
(v) subject to Sections 3.2(a) and (c), acknowledge and agree that no
covenant, agreement or restriction contained in the ABL Security Documents or any other ABL
Loan Document (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights
and remedies of the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders with respect to the Notes Priority
Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the Note Documents;
provided, however, that in the case of (i), (ii) and (iv) above, the Liens granted
to secure the ABL Obligations of the ABL Claimholders shall attach to any Proceeds resulting from
actions taken by the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholder with respect to the Notes Priority
Collateral in accordance with this Agreement after application of such Proceeds to the extent
necessary to meet the requirements of a Discharge of Note Obligations.
(b) Until the Discharge of Note Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Notes Agent and the other
Note Claimholders shall have the right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off and
the right
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to credit bid their debt) and make, in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions
of Notes Priority Collateral by the respective Grantors after a Note Default), determinations
regarding the release, Disposition, or restrictions with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral
without any consultation with or the consent of the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholder (so long as
any such Disposition is made subject to the Permitted License Rights); provided,
however, that the Lien securing the ABL Obligations shall remain on the Proceeds (other
than those properly applied to the Note Obligations in accordance with the Section 4.1) of
such Collateral released or Disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in Section
2.1. In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral, the
Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the Note Documents and exercise
rights, powers and/or remedies thereunder and/or under applicable law or otherwise, all in such
order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such
exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or
otherwise Dispose of the Notes Priority Collateral upon foreclosure (so long as any Disposition of
such Notes Priority Collateral is made subject to the Permitted License Rights), to incur expenses
in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a
secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any
applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the ABL Agent and any ABL
Claimholder may:
(i) file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the ABL Obligations;
provided that an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or
against any Grantor;
(ii) take any action (not adverse to the Liens on the Notes Priority Collateral
securing the Note Obligations, the priority status thereof, or the rights of the Notes Agent
or any of the Note Claimholders to exercise rights, powers and/or remedies in respect
thereof, including those under Article VI) in order to create, perfect, preserve or
protect (but not enforce) its Lien on any of the Notes Priority Collateral;
(iii) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion,
claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise
seeking the disallowance of the claims of the ABL Claimholders, including any claims secured
by the Notes Priority Collateral, if any, in each case in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement;
(iv) file any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements which assert rights or
interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law, in each case not
inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement or applicable law (including the Bankruptcy
Laws of any applicable jurisdiction) and any pleadings, objections, motions or agreements
which assert rights or interests available to secured creditors solely with respect to the
ABL Priority Collateral;
(v) vote on any Plan of Reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other filings and
make any arguments and motions (including in support of or opposition to, as applicable, the
confirmation or approval of any Plan of Reorganization) that are, in each case, in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing or of the other provisions of this Agreement, any vote to accept, and any other
act to support the confirmation or approval of, any Non-Conforming Plan of Reorganization
shall be inconsistent with and, accordingly, a violation of the terms of this Agreement, and
the Notes Agent shall be entitled to have any such vote to accept a Non-Conforming Plan of
Reorganization changed and any such support
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of any Non-Conforming Plan of Reorganization withdrawn (and the ABL Agent and the ABL
Claimholders hereby agree that under Bankruptcy Rule 9010(c), (i) the Notes Agent may
represent the ABL Agent and the ABL Claimholders and (ii) the Notes Agent is hereby granted
power of attorney for the purpose of effectuating the foregoing);
(vi) exercise any of its rights, powers, and/or remedies with respect to any of the
Notes Priority Collateral to the extent permitted by Sections 3.2(a)(i); and
(vii) take any action described in clauses (i) through (viii) of the definition of
“Enforcement.”
No ABL Claimholder will take or receive any Notes Priority Collateral (including Proceeds) in
connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off) with respect to any Notes
Priority Collateral in its capacity as a creditor in violation of this Agreement. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of Note Obligations has occurred,
except as expressly provided in Sections 3.2(a)(i) and 3.3 and clause (vi) of this
Section 3.2(c), the sole right of the ABL Agent and the ABL Claimholders with respect to
the Notes Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on such Collateral and a nonexclusive royalty-free
license with respect thereto, in each case pursuant to the ABL Security Documents for the period
and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the Proceeds thereof, if any, in
accordance with Section 4.1.
(d) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in Sections 3.2(a) and 3.3 and
Article VI, the ABL Agent and the ABL Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies as
unsecured creditors against any Grantor and may exercise rights and remedies with respect to the
ABL Priority Collateral, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the ABL Loan Documents and
applicable law; provided, however, that in the event that any the ABL Agent or ABL
Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Notes Priority Collateral as a result of
its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor with respect to the ABL Obligations, such
judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in
relation to the Note Obligations) as the other Liens securing the ABL Obligations are subject to
this Agreement.
(e) Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the ABL Agent or any ABL
Claimholder of the required payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in respect of
the ABL Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by
the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including
set-off) with respect to Notes Priority Collateral or enforcement in contravention of this
Agreement of any Lien held by any of them. Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise
adversely affects any rights or remedies the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders may have against
the Grantors under the Note Documents.
3.3. Access Rights. Without limiting any rights any ABL Agent or any other ABL
Claimholder may otherwise have under applicable law or by agreement, the ABL Agent, the ABL
Claimholders and any representatives designated by the ABL Agent may, at any time (the “ABL
Permitted Access Right”), in the event of any liquidation of any ABL Priority Collateral owned
by any Grantor (or any other Enforcement by the ABL Agent or any representatives designated by the
ABL Agent (including any Grantor) acting with the consent or on behalf of the ABL Agent), use the
Notes Priority Collateral until the liquidation of such ABL Priority Collateral is completed,
non-exclusively and royalty free, (x) for the limited purposes of completing a production run of
inventory involving, advertising for sale, selling, liquidating or otherwise dealing with, or with
respect to any Enforcement with respect to, the ABL Priority Collateral owned by any ABL Credit
Party (collectively, “ABL Permitted Access Purposes”) and (y) without notice to or the
involvement of or interference by any Note Claimholder or liability to any Note
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Claimholder. In the event that any ABL Claimholder has commenced and is continuing to
liquidate any ABL Priority Collateral owned by any Grantor (or such other Enforcement with respect
to any such ABL Priority Collateral), neither the Notes Agent nor any other Note Claimholder may
sell, assign or otherwise transfer the related Notes Priority Collateral prior to the date that is
150 days after the date such ABL Claimholder begins such Enforcement, unless the purchaser,
assignee or transferee thereof agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 3.3.
If any stay or other order that prohibits the ABL Agent or other ABL Claimholders from commencing
and continuing any Enforcement with respect to ABL Priority Collateral owned by any Grantor has
been entered by a court of competent jurisdiction, such 150-day period shall be tolled during the
pendency of any such stay or other order. Neither the ABL Agent nor any other ABL Claimholder
shall be obligated to pay any amounts to the Notes Agent or the other Note Claimholders (or any
Person claiming by, through or under the Note Claimholders, including any purchaser of the Notes
Priority Collateral) or to any Grantor, for or in respect of the use by the ABL Agent or such other
ABL Claimholder of the Notes Priority Collateral in accordance with this Section and the ABL Agent
or the other ABL Claimholders shall be obligated to secure, protect, insure or maintain any such
Notes Priority Collateral.
3.4. Set-Off and Tracing of and Priorities in Proceeds. The Notes Agent, on behalf of
the Note Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent the Notes Agent or any Note
Claimholder exercises any rights of set-off against any ABL Priority Collateral, the amount of such
set-off shall be held and distributed pursuant to Section 4.1. The ABL Agent, on behalf of
the ABL Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent the ABL Agent or any ABL
Claimholder exercises any rights of set-off against any Notes Priority Collateral, the amount of
such set-off shall be held and distributed pursuant to Section 4.1. The ABL Agent, for
itself and on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, and the Notes Agent, for itself and on behalf of the
Note Claimholders, further agree that prior to an issuance of an Enforcement Notice or the
commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, any Proceeds of Collateral, whether or
not deposited under Account Agreements, which are used by any Grantor to acquire other property
which is Collateral shall not (solely as between the Agents, the ABL Claimholders and the Note
Claimholders) be treated as Proceeds of Collateral for purposes of determining the relative
priorities in the Collateral which was so acquired. In addition, unless and until the Discharge of
ABL Obligations occurs, subject to Section 4.2, the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders
each hereby consents to the application, prior to the receipt by the ABL Agent of an Enforcement
Notice issued by the Notes Agent, of cash or other Proceeds of Collateral, deposited under Account
Agreements to the repayment of ABL Obligations pursuant to the ABL Loan Documents.
IV.
PAYMENTS.
PAYMENTS.
4.1. Application of Proceeds.
(a) So long as the Discharge of ABL Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, all ABL Priority
Collateral or Proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or other Disposition of, or
collection on, such ABL Priority Collateral as a result of the exercise of remedies or other
Enforcement or Going Out of Business Sale by either Agent or any ABL Claimholders or Note
Claimholders, shall be delivered to the ABL Agent and shall be applied or further distributed by
the ABL Agent to or on account of the ABL Obligations in such order, if any, as specified in the
relevant ABL Loan Documents or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. Upon the
Discharge of ABL Obligations, the ABL Agent shall deliver to the Notes Agent any Collateral and
Proceeds of Collateral received or delivered to it pursuant to the preceding sentence, in the same
form as received, with any necessary endorsements, to be applied by
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the Notes Agent to the Note Obligations in such order as specified in the Note Security
Documents or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
(b) So long as the Discharge of Note Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, all Notes
Priority Collateral or Proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or other Disposition
of, or collection on, such Notes Priority Collateral as a result of the exercise of remedies or
other Enforcement by either Agent or any Note Claimholders or ABL Claimholders (which, for the
avoidance of doubt, shall not include any proceeds from sales of inventory utilizing any license of
any Notes Trademark Collateral), shall be delivered to the Notes Agent and shall be applied or
further distributed by the Notes Agent to or on the account of the Note Obligations in such order
as specified in the relevant Note Documents or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct. Upon the Discharge of Note Obligations, the Notes Agent shall deliver to the ABL Agent any
Collateral and Proceeds of Collateral received or delivered to it pursuant to the preceding
sentence, in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, to be applied by the ABL
Agent to the ABL Obligations in such order as specified in the ABL Security Documents or as a court
of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event of any
Disposition or series of related Dispositions that includes ABL Priority Collateral and Notes
Priority Collateral where the aggregate sales price is not allocated between the ABL Priority
Collateral and Notes Priority Collateral being sold (including in connection with or as a result of
the sale of the Capital Stock of a Grantor), then solely for purposes of this Agreement, the
allocation of proceeds of such Disposition to the ABL Priority Collateral shall be based upon, in
the case of (i) any ABL Priority Collateral consisting of Inventory, at the book value thereof as
assessed on the date of such Disposition, (ii) any ABL Priority Collateral consisting of accounts
receivable, at the book value thereof as assessed on the date of such Disposition and (iii) all
other ABL Priority Collateral and Notes Priority Collateral, at fair market value of such ABL
Priority Collateral and Notes Priority Collateral sold, as determined by the Company in its
reasonable judgment or, if the aggregate amount of such other ABL Priority Collateral and Notes
Priority Collateral sold is greater than $15,000,000, an independent appraiser.
4.2. Payments Over in Violation of Agreement. So long as neither the Discharge of ABL
Obligations nor the Discharge of Note Obligations has occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, any Collateral (including
assets or Proceeds subject to Liens referred to in the final sentence of Section 2.3)
received by either Agent or any Note Claimholders or ABL Claimholders in connection with the
exercise of any right, power, or remedy (including set-off) relating to the Collateral in
contravention of this Agreement shall be segregated and held in trust and forthwith paid over to
the appropriate Agent for the benefit of the Note Claimholders or the ABL Claimholders, as
applicable, in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. Each Agent is hereby authorized by the other Agent to
make any such endorsements as agent for the other Agent or any Note Claimholders or ABL
Claimholders, as applicable. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable
until the Discharge of ABL Obligations and Discharge of Note Obligations.
4.3. Application of Payments. Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, all
payments received by (a) the ABL Agent or the ABL Claimholders may be applied, reversed and
reapplied, in whole or in part, to the ABL Obligations to the extent provided for in the ABL Loan
Documents and (b) the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders may be applied, reversed and reapplied,
in whole or in part, to the Note Obligations to the extent provided for in the Note Documents.
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4.4. Revolving Nature of ABL Obligations. The Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note
Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that the ABL Credit Agreement includes a revolving commitment
and that the amount of the ABL Obligations that may be outstanding at any time or from time to time
may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed.
V.
OTHER AGREEMENTS.
OTHER AGREEMENTS.
5.1. Releases.
(a) (i) If, in connection with (A) any exercise of remedies or Enforcement (including as
provided for in Section 3.1(b) or Section 6.8(a)) or any Going Out of Business Sale
or (B) any release of ABL Priority Collateral (in the case of clause (B), so long as no Note
Default has occurred), irrespective of whether an ABL Default has occurred and is continuing, the
ABL Agent, on behalf of any of the ABL Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any part of the
ABL Priority Collateral, then the Liens, if any, of the Notes Agent, for the benefit of the Note
Claimholders, on such ABL Priority Collateral, shall be automatically, unconditionally and
simultaneously released; provided that in the case of clause (A), to the extent the
Proceeds of such ABL Priority Collateral are not applied to reduce ABL Obligations, the Notes Agent
shall retain a Lien on such Proceeds in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Notes
Agent, on behalf of the Note Claimholders, promptly shall execute and deliver to the ABL Agent or
such Grantor such termination statements, releases and other documents as the ABL Agent or such
Grantor may request in writing to effectively confirm such release.
(ii) If, in connection with any exercise of remedies or Enforcement (including as provided for
in Section 3.2(b) or Section 6.8(b)), the Notes Agent, on behalf of any of the
Note Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any part of the Notes Priority Collateral, then the
Liens, if any, of the ABL Agent, for the benefit of the ABL Claimholders, on such Notes Priority
Collateral, shall be automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released; provided
that to the extent the Proceeds of such Notes Priority Collateral are not applied to reduce Note
Obligations, the ABL Agent shall retain a Lien on such Proceeds in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement. The ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, promptly shall execute and
deliver to the Notes Agent or such Grantor such termination statements, releases and other
documents as the Notes Agent or such Grantor may request in writing to effectively confirm such
release.
(b) Until the Discharge of ABL Obligations and Discharge of Note Obligations shall occur, the
ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, and the Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note
Claimholders, as applicable, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the other Agent and any
officer or agent of the other Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful
attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of the other
Agent or such holder or in the Agent’s own name, from time to time in such Agent’s discretion
exercised in good faith, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.1, to
take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may
be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.1, including any endorsements or
other instruments of transfer or release.
(c) Until the Discharge of ABL Obligations and Discharge of Note Obligations shall occur, to
the extent that the Agents or the ABL Claimholders or the Note Claimholders (i) have released any
Lien on Collateral and such Lien is later reinstated or (ii) obtain any new Liens from any Grantor,
then, in accordance with Section 2.3, the Grantors shall xxxxx x Xxxx on any such
Collateral, subject to the Lien priority provisions of this Agreement, to the other Agent, for the
benefit of the ABL Claimholders or Note Claimholders, as applicable.
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5.2. Insurance.
(a) Unless and until the Discharge of ABL Obligations and subject to the terms of, and the
rights of the Grantors under, the ABL Loan Documents, (i) the ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL
Claimholders, shall have the sole and exclusive right to adjust settlement for any insurance policy
covering the ABL Priority Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and to approve any award
granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding (or any deed in lieu of condemnation) affecting
such Collateral; (ii) all Proceeds of any such policy and any such award (or any payments with
respect to a deed in lieu of condemnation) if in respect of the ABL Priority Collateral and to the
extent required by the ABL Loan Documents shall be paid to the ABL Agent for the benefit of the ABL
Claimholders pursuant to the terms of the ABL Loan Documents (including, without limitation, for
purposes of cash collateralization of letters of credit) and thereafter, if the Discharge of ABL
Obligations has occurred, and subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Note Security
Documents, to the Notes Agent for the benefit of the Note Claimholders to the extent required under
the Note Security Documents and then, to the extent no Note Obligations are outstanding, to the
owner of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, and (iii) if the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholders
shall, at any time, receive any Proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award or payment
with respect to ABL Priority Collateral in contravention of this Agreement, it shall segregate and
hold in trust and forthwith pay such Proceeds over to the ABL Agent in accordance with the terms of
Section 4.2.
(b) Unless and until the Discharge of Note Obligations has occurred, subject to the terms of,
and the rights of the Grantors under, the Note Documents, (i) the Notes Agent, on behalf of the
Note Claimholders, shall have the sole and exclusive right to adjust settlement for any insurance
policy covering the Notes Priority Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and to approve
any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding (or any deed in lieu of condemnation)
affecting such Collateral; (ii) all Proceeds of any such policy and any such award (or any payments
with respect to a deed in lieu of condemnation) if in respect of the Notes Priority Collateral and
to the extent required by the Note Documents shall be paid to the Notes Agent for the benefit of
the Note Claimholders pursuant to the terms of the Note Documents and thereafter, if the Discharge
of Note Obligations has occurred, and subject to the rights of the Grantors under the ABL Loan
Documents, to the ABL Agent for the benefit of the ABL Claimholders to the extent required under
the ABL Security Documents and then, to the extent no ABL Obligations are outstanding, to the owner
of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of competent
jurisdiction may otherwise direct; and (iii) if the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholders shall, at any
time, receive any Proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award or payment with respect
to Notes Priority Collateral in contravention of this Agreement, it shall segregate and hold in
trust and forthwith pay such Proceeds over to the Notes Agent in accordance with the terms of
Section 4.2.
(c) To effectuate the foregoing, and to the extent that the pertinent insurance company agrees
to issue such endorsements, the Agents shall each receive separate lender’s loss payable
endorsements naming themselves as loss payee and additional insured, as their interests may appear,
with respect to any policies which insure Collateral hereunder.
5.3. Amendments to ABL Loan Documents and Note Documents; Refinancing.
(a) The ABL Loan Documents and Note Documents may be amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified (each, an “Amendment”) in accordance with their terms, all without
affecting the Lien subordination or other provisions of this Agreement. The ABL Obligations may be
Refinanced without notice to, or the consent of, the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders and
without affecting the Lien subordination or other provisions of this Agreement, and the Note
Obligations may be Refinanced
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without notice to, or consent of, the ABL Agent or the ABL Claimholders and without
affecting the Lien subordination and other provisions of this Agreement; provided,
however, that, in each case, the lenders or holders of such Refinancing debt (to the extent
secured by a Lien on the Collateral) bind themselves in a writing addressed to the Notes Agent and
the Note Claimholders or the ABL Agent and the ABL Claimholders, as applicable, to the terms of
this Agreement; provided further, however, that, if such Refinancing debt
is secured by a Lien on any Collateral, the holders of such Refinancing debt shall be deemed bound
by the terms hereof regardless of whether or not such writing is provided. For the avoidance of
doubt, the sale or other transfer of Indebtedness is not restricted by this Agreement, but the
provisions of this Agreement shall be binding on all holders of ABL Obligations and Note
Obligations.
(b) So long as the Discharge of Note Obligations has not occurred, each Grantor and the ABL
Agent, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Claimholders, agrees that, without the consent of the
Notes Agent, it shall not at any time execute or deliver any amendment or other modification to any
of the ABL Loan Documents, whether in a Refinancing or otherwise, in violation of this Agreement.
(c) So long as the Discharge of ABL Obligations has not occurred, each Grantor and the Notes
Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Note Claimholders, agrees that, without the consent of the
ABL Agent, it shall not at any time execute or deliver any amendment or other modification to any
of the Note Documents, whether in a Refinancing or otherwise, in violation of this Agreement.
(d) So long as the Discharge of ABL Obligations has not occurred, the Notes Agent agrees that
each applicable Note Security Document that grants a Lien on any Collateral shall include the
following language (or similar language reasonably acceptable to the ABL Agent): “Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the liens and security interests granted to U.S. Bank National
Association, as Collateral Agent, pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of any right or
remedy by U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent hereunder, are subject to the
provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement dated as of April 7, 2011 (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), among
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the ABL Agent, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee and as
Notes Agent and the Grantors (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) from time to time party
thereto. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the
terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.”
(e) So long as the Discharge of Note Obligations has not occurred, the ABL Agent agrees that
each applicable ABL Security Document executed on or after the date hereof that grants a Lien on
any Collateral that is Note Collateral shall include the following language (or similar language
reasonably acceptable to the Notes Agent): “Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
liens and security interests granted to the Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of
any right or remedy by the Agent hereunder, are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement dated as of April 7, 2011 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), among the Administrative Agent, as ABL Agent,
U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee and as Notes Agent and the Grantors (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement) from time to time party thereto. In the event of any conflict between the
terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.”
5.4. Bailees for Perfection.
(a) Each Agent agrees to hold that part of the Collateral that is in its possession or control
(or in the possession or control of its agents or bailees) to the extent that possession or control
thereof is taken to perfect a Lien thereon (such Collateral, which shall include, without
limitation, Deposit Accounts, Securities
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Accounts and Capital Stock, being the “Pledged Collateral”) as (i) in the
case of the ABL Agent, the collateral agent for the ABL Claimholders under the ABL Loan Documents
or, in the case of the Notes Agent, the collateral agent for the Note Claimholders under the Note
Documents and (ii) gratuitous bailee for the benefit of the other Agent (such bailment being
intended, among other things, to satisfy the requirements of Sections 8-301(a)(2) and 9-313(c) of
the UCC) and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted under
the ABL Loan Documents and the Note Documents, respectively, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Section 5.4. The Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders hereby appoint the ABL Agent
as their agent for the purposes of perfecting their security interest in all Deposit Accounts and
Securities Accounts of the Grantors (other than the Note Collateral Account). The ABL Agent hereby
accepts such appointment and acknowledges and agrees that it shall act for the benefit of the Notes
Agent and the other Note Claimholders under each Account Agreement and that any Proceeds received
by the ABL Agent under any Account Agreement shall be applied in accordance with Article
IV. In furtherance of the foregoing, each Grantor hereby grants (x) a security interest in the
Pledged Collateral to the Notes Agent for the benefit of the ABL Claimholders and (y) a security
interest in the Pledged Collateral (other than securities to the extent such security interest
would require the filing of financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) to the ABL
Agent for the benefit of the Note Claimholders.
(b) Neither Agent shall have any obligation whatsoever to the other Agent, to any other ABL
Claimholder, or to any other Note Claimholder to ensure that the Pledged Collateral is genuine or
owned by any of the Grantors or to preserve rights or benefits of any Person except as expressly
set forth in this Section 5.4. The duties or responsibilities of the respective Agents
under this Section 5.4 shall be limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral as
gratuitous bailee in accordance with this Section 5.4 and delivering the Pledged Collateral
or Proceeds thereof upon a Discharge of ABL Obligations or Discharge of Note Obligations, as
applicable, as provided in paragraph (d) below.
(c) Neither Agent acting pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall have by reason of the ABL
Loan Documents, the Note Documents, this Agreement or any other document a fiduciary relationship
in respect of the other Agent, any other ABL Claimholder or any other Note Claimholder.
(d) Upon the Discharge of ABL Obligations or the Discharge of Note Obligations, as applicable,
the ABL Agent or the Notes Agent, as applicable, shall deliver the remaining Pledged Collateral (if
any) together with any necessary endorsements, first, to the other Agent to the extent the
other Obligations remain outstanding, and second, to the applicable Grantor to the extent
the Discharge of ABL Obligations and the Discharge of Note Obligations have occurred (in each case,
so as to allow such Person to obtain possession or control of such Pledged Collateral) or as
otherwise required by law. Each Agent further agrees that upon the Discharge of the ABL
Obligations or the Discharge of the Note Obligations, as applicable, it shall take all other action
reasonably requested by the other Agent in connection with the other Agent obtaining a
first-priority interest in the Collateral or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any obligation of
the Agent which has been discharged to make any delivery to the other Agent under this Section
5.4(d) is subject to (i) the order of any court of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) any
automatic stay imposed in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
(e) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, (i) so long as the Discharge of ABL Obligations
has not occurred, the ABL Agent shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged Collateral or Collateral
within its “control” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and other ABL Loan Documents,
but only to the extent that such Collateral constitutes ABL Priority Collateral, as if the Liens of
the Notes Agent on behalf of the Note Claimholders did not exist, and (ii) so long as the Discharge
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not occurred, the Notes Agent shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged Collateral or
Collateral within its “control” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and other Note
Documents, but only to the extent that such Collateral constitutes Notes Priority Collateral, as if
the Liens of the ABL Agent on behalf of the ABL Claimholders did not exist.
VI.
INSOLVENCY OR LIQUIDATION PROCEEDINGS.
INSOLVENCY OR LIQUIDATION PROCEEDINGS.
6.1. Finance and Sale Issues. The Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note Claimholders,
hereby agrees that, until the Discharge of ABL Obligations has occurred, if any Grantor shall be
subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the ABL Agent shall desire to permit the
use of “Cash Collateral” (as such term is defined in Section 363(a) of the Bankruptcy Code)
constituting ABL Priority Collateral or to permit any Grantor to obtain financing, whether from the
ABL Claimholders or any other Person under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar
Bankruptcy Law (“DIP Financing”) secured by a Lien on ABL Priority Collateral, then any
Note Claimholder will not be entitled to raise (and will not raise or support any Person in
raising), but instead shall be deemed to have hereby irrevocably and absolutely waived, any
objection to, and shall not otherwise in any manner be entitled to oppose or will oppose or support
any Person in opposing, such Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing so long as such Cash Collateral
use or DIP Financing meets the following requirements: (i) the Notes Agent and the other Note
Claimholders retain a Lien on the Collateral and, with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral,
with the same priority as existed prior to the commencement of the Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding, (ii) to the extent that the ABL Agent is granted adequate protection in the form of a
Lien, the Notes Agent is permitted to seek a Lien (without objection from the ABL Agent or any ABL
Claimholder) on the assets subject to such Lien (so long as, with respect to ABL Priority
Collateral, such Lien is junior to the Liens securing such DIP Financing and any other Liens in
favor of the ABL Agent), (iii) the terms of the Cash Collateral use or the DIP Financing require
that any Lien on the Notes Priority Collateral to secure such DIP Financing is subordinate to the
Lien of the Notes Agent securing the Note Obligations with respect thereto and (iv) the terms of
such DIP Financing or use of Cash Collateral do not require any Grantor to seek approval for any
Plan of Reorganization that is inconsistent with this Agreement. The Notes Agent shall be required
to subordinate and will subordinate its Liens in the ABL Priority Collateral to the Liens securing
such DIP Financing (and all obligations relating thereto, including any “carve-out” granting
administrative priority status or Lien priority to secure repayment of fees and expenses of
professionals retained by any debtor or creditors’ committee) and, consistent with the preceding
provisions of this Section 6.1, will not request adequate protection or any other relief in
connection therewith (except as expressly provided in clause (ii) above); provided,
however, if the Liens securing the DIP Financing rank junior to the Liens securing the ABL
Obligations, the Notes Agent shall be required to subordinate its Liens in the ABL Priority
Collateral to the Liens securing such DIP Financing. The Notes Agent, on behalf of itself and the
Note Claimholders, agrees that no such Person shall provide to such Grantor any DIP Financing to
the extent that the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholder would, in connection with such financing,
be granted a Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral senior to or
pari passu with the Liens of the ABL
Agent, in each case over the objection of the ABL Agent. The ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and
the ABL Claimholders, agrees that no such Persons shall provide to such Grantor any DIP Financing
to the extent that the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholder would, in connection with such financing,
be granted a Lien on the Notes Priority Collateral senior to or
pari passu with the Liens of the
Notes Agent, in each case over the objection of the Notes Agent.
6.2. Relief from the Automatic Stay.
(a) Until the Discharge of ABL Obligations, the Notes Agent, on behalf of the other Note
Claimholders, agrees that none of them shall seek (or support any other Person seeking) relief from
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automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the
ABL Priority Collateral, without the prior written consent of the ABL Agent (given or not given in
its sole and absolute discretion), unless (i) the ABL Agent already has filed a motion (which
remains pending) for such relief with respect to its interest in such ABL Priority Collateral and
(ii) a corresponding motion, in the reasonable judgment of the Notes Agent, must be filed for the
purpose of preserving the Notes Agent’s ability to receive residual distributions pursuant to
Section 4.1, although the Note Claimholders shall otherwise remain subject to the
restrictions in Section 3.1 following the granting of any such relief from the automatic
stay.
(b) Until the Discharge of Note Obligations has occurred, the ABL Agent, on behalf of the
other ABL Claimholders, agrees that none of them shall seek (or support any other Person seeking)
relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in
respect of the Notes Priority Collateral, without the prior written consent of the Notes Agent
(given or not given in its sole and absolute discretion), unless (i) the Notes Agent already has
filed a motion (which remains pending) for such relief with respect to its interest in the Notes
Priority Collateral and (ii) a corresponding motion, in the reasonable judgment of the ABL Agent,
must be filed for the purpose of preserving the ABL Agent’s ability to receive residual
distributions pursuant to Section 4.1, although the ABL Agent shall otherwise remain
subject to the restrictions in Section 3.2 following the granting of any such relief from
the automatic stay.
6.3. Adequate Protection.
(a) The Notes Agent, on behalf of itself and the Note Claimholders, agrees that none of them
shall be entitled to contest (or support any other Person contesting) (but instead shall be deemed
to have hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waived any right to contest):
(i) any request by the ABL Agent or the other ABL Claimholders for relief from the
automatic stay with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral; or
(ii) any request by the ABL Agent or the other ABL Claimholders for adequate protection
with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral (except to the extent any such adequate
protection is a payment from Notes Priority Collateral); or
(iii) any objection by the ABL Agent or the other ABL Claimholders to any motion,
relief, action or proceeding based on the ABL Agent or the other ABL Claimholders claiming a
lack of adequate protection with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral.
(b) The ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the ABL Claimholders, agrees that none of them
shall be entitled to contest (or support any other Person contesting) (but instead shall be deemed
to have hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waived any right to contest):
(i) any request by the Notes Agent or the other Note Claimholders for relief from the
automatic stay with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral; or
(ii) any request by the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders for adequate protection
with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral (except to the extent any such adequate
protection is a payment from ABL Priority Collateral); or
(iii) any objection by the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders to any motion, relief,
action or proceeding based on the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders claiming a lack of
adequate protection with respect to the Notes Priority Collateral.
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(c) Consistent with the foregoing provisions in this Section 6.3, and except as
provided in Sections 6.1 and 6.6, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding:
(i) no Note Claimholder shall be entitled (and each Note Claimholder shall be deemed to
have hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waived any right):
(1) to seek or otherwise be granted any type of adequate protection with
respect to its interests in the ABL Priority Collateral (except as expressly set
forth in Section 6.1 or as may otherwise be consented to in writing by the
ABL Agent in its sole and absolute discretion); provided, however,
subject to Section 6.1, Note Claimholders may seek and obtain adequate
protection in the form of an additional or replacement Lien on Collateral so long as
(i) the ABL Claimholders have been granted adequate protection in the form of a
replacement lien on such Collateral, and (ii) any such Lien on ABL Priority
Collateral (and on any Collateral granted as adequate protection for the ABL
Claimholders in respect of their interest in such ABL Priority Collateral) is
subordinated to the Liens of the ABL Agent in such Collateral on the same basis as
the other Liens of the Notes Agent on ABL Priority Collateral; and
(2) to seek or otherwise be granted any adequate protection payments with
respect to its interests in the Collateral from Proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral
(except as may be consented to in writing by the ABL Agent in its sole and absolute
discretion)
(ii) no ABL Claimholder shall be entitled (and each ABL Claimholder shall be deemed to
have hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waived any right):
(1) to seek or otherwise be granted any type of adequate protection with
respect to its interests in the Notes Priority Collateral except as may be consented
to in writing by the Notes Agent in its sole and absolute discretion;
provided, however, ABL Claimholders may seek and obtain adequate
protection in the form of an additional or replacement Lien on Collateral so long as
(i) the Note Claimholders have been granted adequate protection in the form of a
replacement lien on such Collateral, and (ii) any such Lien on Notes Priority
Collateral (and on any Collateral granted as adequate protection for the Note
Claimholders in respect of their interest in such Notes Priority Collateral) is
subordinated to the Liens of the Notes Agent in such Collateral on the same basis as
the other Liens of the ABL Agent on Notes Priority Collateral; and
(2) to seek or otherwise be granted any adequate protection payments with
respect to its interests in the Collateral from Proceeds of Notes Priority
Collateral (except as may be consented to in writing by the Notes Agent in its sole
and absolute discretion).
(d) Nothing herein shall limit (i) the rights of the Notes Agent or the Note Claimholders to
seek adequate protection with respect to their rights in the Notes Priority Collateral in any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (including adequate protection in the form of a cash payment,
periodic cash payments or otherwise, other than from Proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral) so long
as such request is not otherwise inconsistent with this Agreement or (ii) the rights of the ABL
Agent or the ABL Claimholders to seek adequate protection with respect to their rights in the ABL
Priority Collateral in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (including adequate protection in
the form of a cash payment, periodic cash payments or otherwise, other than from Proceeds of Notes
Priority Collateral) so long as such request is not otherwise inconsistent with this Agreement.
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6.4. Avoidance Issues. If any ABL Claimholder or Note Claimholder is required in any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of
the applicable Grantor any amount paid in respect of ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations, as
applicable (a “Recovery”), then such ABL Claimholders or Note Claimholders shall be
entitled to a reinstatement of ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations, as applicable, with respect
to all such recovered amounts. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such
Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior termination
shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties
hereto from such date of reinstatement.
6.5. Reorganization Securities. Subject to the ability of the ABL Claimholders and
the Note Claimholders, as applicable, to support or oppose confirmation or approval of any
Conforming Plan of Reorganization or to oppose confirmation or approval of any Non-Conforming Plan
of Reorganization, as provided herein, if, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, debt
obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the reorganized debtor
are distributed pursuant to a Plan of Reorganization, both on account of ABL Obligations and on
account of Note Obligations, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on account of the
ABL Obligations and on account of the Note Obligations are secured by Liens upon the same property,
the provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to
such plan and will apply with like effect to the debt obligations so distributed, to the Liens
securing such debt obligations and the distribution of Proceeds thereof.
6.6. Post-Petition Interest.
(a) Neither the Notes Agent nor any Note Claimholder shall oppose or seek to challenge:
(i) any claim by the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholder for allowance in any Insolvency
or Liquidation Proceeding of ABL Obligations consisting of post-petition interest, fees or
expenses to the extent of the value of the Lien on the ABL Priority Collateral securing any
ABL Claimholder’s claim, without regard to the existence of the Lien of the Notes Agent on
behalf of the Note Claimholders on such Collateral;
(ii) the payment of such expenses allowed in accordance with Section 6.6(a)(i);
or
(iii) the payment of such interest and fees allowed in accordance with Section
6.6(a)(i) solely from Proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral;
provided that nothing contained in this Section 6.6(a) prohibits the Notes Agent on
behalf of the Note Claimholders from seeking adequate protection (to the extent it has not already
done so under other provisions of this Agreement) with respect to their rights in the Notes
Priority Collateral in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding if such Notes Priority Collateral
is the source of payment of post-petition expenses payable to the ABL Agent or any ABL Claimholder.
(b) Neither the ABL Agent nor any other ABL Claimholder shall oppose or seek to challenge:
(i) any claim by the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholder for allowance in any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Note Obligations consisting of post-petition
interest, fees or expenses to the extent of the value of the Lien on the Notes Priority
Collateral securing any Note Claimholder’s claim, without regard to the existence of the
Lien of the ABL Agent on behalf of the ABL Claimholders on such Collateral;
(ii) the payment of such expenses allowed in accordance with Section 6.6(b)(i); or
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(iii) the payment of such interest and fees allowed in accordance with Section
6.6(b)(i) solely from Proceeds of Notes Priority Collateral;
provided that nothing contained in this Section 6.6(b) prohibits the ABL Agent on
behalf of the ABL Claimholders from seeking adequate protection (to the extent it has not already
done so under other provisions of this Agreement) with respect to their rights in the ABL Priority
Collateral in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding if such ABL Priority Collateral is the
source of payment of post-petition expenses payable to the Notes Agent or any Note Claimholder.
6.7. Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classification. The Notes Agent, on
behalf of the Note Claimholders, and the ABL Agent on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, acknowledge
and intend that: the grants of Liens pursuant to the ABL Security Documents and the Note Security
Documents constitute two separate and distinct grants of Liens, and because of, among other things,
their differing rights in the Collateral, the Note Obligations are fundamentally different from the
ABL Obligations and must be separately classified in any Plan of Reorganization proposed or
confirmed (or approved) in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. To further effectuate the
intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that the
claims of the ABL Claimholders and the Note Claimholders in respect of the Collateral constitute
claims in the same class (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then
the ABL Claimholders and the Note Claimholders hereby acknowledge and agree that all distributions
shall be made as if there were separate classes of ABL Obligations and Note Obligations against the
Grantors (with the effect being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the ABL Priority
Collateral or Notes Priority Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by
the other Secured Parties for whom such Collateral is non-priority in accordance with Section
2.1 and Section 2.2), the ABL Claimholders or the Note Claimholders, respectively,
shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of principal,
pre-petition interest and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of post-petition interest,
fees or expenses that is available from each pool of priority Collateral for each of the ABL
Claimholders and the Note Claimholders, respectively, before any distribution is made in respect of
the claims held by the other Secured Parties for whom such Collateral is non-priority, with such
other Secured Parties hereby acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the respective other
Secured Parties amounts otherwise received or receivable by them to the extent necessary to
effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of reducing the
aggregate recoveries.
6.8. Asset Dispositions in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
(a) Without limiting the ABL Agent’s and the ABL Claimholders’ rights under Section
3.1(b), neither the Notes Agent nor any other Note Claimholder shall, in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise, oppose any sale or Disposition of any ABL Priority Collateral
that is supported by the ABL Claimholders, and the Notes Agent and each other Note Claimholder will
be deemed to have irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally consented under Section 363 of the
Bankruptcy Code (and otherwise) to any sale of any ABL Priority Collateral supported by the ABL
Claimholders and to have released their Liens on such assets; provided that to the extent
the Proceeds of such Collateral are not applied to reduce ABL Obligations the Notes Agent shall
retain a Lien on such Proceeds in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(b) Without limiting the Notes Agent’s and the Note Claimholders’ rights under Section
3.2(b), neither the ABL Agent nor any other ABL Claimholder shall, in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise, oppose any sale or Disposition of any Notes Priority
Collateral that is supported by the Note Claimholders and made subject to Section 3.3 and
the ABL Agent and each other ABL Claimholder will be deemed to have consented under Section 363 of
the Bankruptcy Code (and otherwise)
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to any sale of any Notes Priority Collateral supported by the Note Claimholders and to
have released their Liens on such assets; provided that to the extent the Proceeds of such
Collateral are not applied to reduce Note Obligations, the ABL Agent shall retain a Lien on such
Proceeds in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided further that the
ABL Agent’s and the ABL Claimholders’ rights under Section 3.3 shall survive any such sale
or Disposition.
VII.
RELIANCE; WAIVERS; ETC.
RELIANCE; WAIVERS; ETC.
7.1. Reliance. Other than any reliance on the terms of this Agreement, the ABL Agent,
on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, acknowledges that it and, to its knowledge, each of the other
ABL Claimholders has, independently and without reliance on the Notes Agent or any Note
Claimholder, and based on documents and information deemed by it appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into ABL Loan Documents and be bound by the terms of this Agreement,
and each of them will continue to make its own credit decision in taking or not taking any action
under the ABL Loan Documents or this Agreement. Other than any reliance on the terms of this
Agreement, the Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note Claimholders, acknowledges that it and, to its
knowledge, each of the other Note Claimholders has, independently and without reliance on the ABL
Agent or any other ABL Claimholder, and based on documents and information deemed by it
appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into each of the other Note
Documents and be bound by the terms of this Agreement, and each of them will continue to make its
own credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the Note Documents or this Agreement.
7.2. No Warranties or Liability. The ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders,
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders have made no express
or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality,
completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any of the other Note Documents, the ownership of
any Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon. Except as otherwise provided in
this Agreement, the Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders will be entitled to manage and supervise
their respective loans and extensions of credit under the Note Documents in accordance with law and
as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate. The Notes Agent, on behalf the
Note Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that the ABL Agent and the other ABL Claimholders have
made no express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution,
validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any of the other ABL Loan
Documents, the ownership of any Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the ABL Agent and the other ABL Claimholders will be entitled
to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under their respective ABL
Loan Documents in accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem
appropriate. The Notes Agent and the Note Claimholders shall have no duty to the ABL Agent or any
of the ABL Claimholders, and the ABL Agent and the other ABL Claimholders shall have no duty to the
Notes Agent or any of the other Note Claimholders, to act or refrain from acting in a manner which
allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an event of default or default under any
agreements with any Grantor (including the ABL Loan Documents and the Note Documents), regardless
of any knowledge thereof which they may have or be charged with.
7.3. No Waiver of Lien Priorities.
(a) No right of the Agents, the other ABL Claimholders or the other Note Claimholders to
enforce any provision of this Agreement or any ABL Loan Document or Note Document shall at any time
in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of any Grantor or by
any act or failure to act by such Agents, ABL Claimholders or Note Claimholders or by any
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any Person with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Agreement, any of the ABL Loan
Documents or any of the Note Documents, regardless of any knowledge thereof which the Agents or the
ABL Claimholders or Note Claimholders, or any of them, may have or be otherwise charged with.
(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph (but subject to the
rights of the Grantors under the ABL Loan Documents and Note Documents and subject to the
provisions of Section 5.3(a)), the Agents, the other ABL Claimholders and the other Note
Claimholders may, at any time and from time to time in accordance with the ABL Loan Documents and
Note Documents and/or applicable law, without the consent of, or notice to, the other Agent or the
ABL Claimholders or the Note Claimholders (as applicable), without incurring any liabilities to
such Persons and without impairing or releasing the Lien priorities and other benefits provided in
this Agreement (even if any right of subrogation or other right or remedy is affected, impaired or
extinguished thereby) do any one or more of the following:
(i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or change or extend the time of
payment of, or amend, renew, exchange, increase or alter, the terms of any of the
Obligations or any Lien or guaranty thereof or any liability of any Grantor, or any
liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof (including any increase in or
extension of the Obligations, without any restriction as to the tenor or terms of any such
increase or extension) or otherwise amend, renew, exchange, extend, modify or supplement in
any manner any Liens held by the Agents or any rights or remedies under any of the ABL Loan
Documents or the Note Documents;
(ii) sell, exchange, release, surrender, realize upon, enforce or otherwise deal with
in any manner and in any order any part of the Collateral (except to the extent provided in
this Agreement) or any liability of any Grantor or any liability incurred directly or
indirectly in respect thereof;
(iii) settle or compromise any Obligation or any other liability of any Grantor or any
security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof and
apply any sums by whomsoever paid and however realized to any liability in any manner or
order that is not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement; and
(iv) exercise or delay in or refrain from exercising any right or remedy against any
security or any Grantor or any other Person, elect any remedy and otherwise deal freely with
any Grantor in a manner not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement.
7.4. Obligations Unconditional. All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of
the ABL Claimholders and the Note Claimholders, respectively, hereunder shall remain in full force
and effect irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any ABL Loan Documents or any Note
Documents;
(b) except, in each case, as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all or any of
the ABL Obligations or Note Obligations, or any amendment or waiver or other modification,
including any increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, of
the terms of any ABL Loan Document or any Note Document;
(c) except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, any exchange, release,
voiding, avoidance or non-perfection of any security interest in any Collateral or any other
collateral,
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or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing or by course
of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the ABL Obligations or Note Obligations or any
guaranty thereof;
(d) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of any
Grantor; or
(e) any other circumstances which otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or
a discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the ABL Agent, the ABL Obligations, any ABL
Claimholder, the Notes Agent, the Note Obligations or any Note Claimholder in respect of
this Agreement.
VIII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
8.1. Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement
and the provisions of any ABL Credit Document or any Note Document, the provisions of this
Agreement shall govern and control. By accepting the benefits of this Agreement, each Claimholder
waives any right to assert that any provision of any ABL Loan Document or Note Document that is
inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement shall govern or control with respect to such
inconsistency.
8.2. Effectiveness; Continuing Nature of This Agreement; Severability. This Agreement
shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties hereto. This is a continuing
agreement of Lien subordination (as opposed to an agreement of debt or claim subordination), and
the ABL Claimholders and Note Claimholders may continue, at any time and without notice to the
other Agent, to extend credit and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the
benefit of any Grantor in reliance hereon. Each of the Agents, on behalf the ABL Claimholders or
the Note Claimholders, as applicable, hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waives
any right any Claimholder may have under applicable law to revoke this Agreement or any of the
provisions of this Agreement. The terms of this Agreement shall survive, and shall continue in
full force and effect, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. Consistent with, but not in
limitation of, the preceding sentence, each of the Agents, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders and
the Note Claimholders, as applicable, irrevocably acknowledges that this Agreement constitutes a
“subordination agreement” within the meaning of both New York law and Section 510(a) of the
Bankruptcy Code. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in
any other jurisdiction. All references to any Grantor shall include such Grantor as debtor and
debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for any Grantor (as applicable) in any Insolvency
or Liquidation Proceeding. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect:
(a) with respect to the ABL Agent, the ABL Claimholders and the ABL Obligations, the
date of the Discharge of ABL Obligations, subject to the rights of the ABL Claimholders
under Section 6.4;
(b) with respect to the Notes Agent, the Note Claimholders and the Note Obligations,
the date of the Discharge of Note Obligations, subject to the rights of the Note
Claimholders under Section 6.4; and
(c) with respect to any Grantor, when such Grantor is irrevocably released and
discharged from its obligations under the ABL Credit Agreement, the Indenture, each
Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement and each Permitted Refinancing Agreement.
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8.3. Amendments; Waivers. No amendment, modification or waiver of any of the
provisions of this Agreement by the Notes Agent or the ABL Agent shall be deemed to be made unless
the same shall be in writing signed on behalf of each party hereto or its authorized agent and each
waiver, if any, shall be a waiver only with respect to the specific instance involved and shall in
no way impair the rights of the parties making such waiver or the obligations of the other parties
to such party in any other respect or at any other time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Grantor
shall have any right to consent to or approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement except to the extent its rights or obligations are directly affected.
8.4. Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and Its Subsidiaries.
The ABL Agent and the ABL Claimholders, on the one hand, and the Notes Agent and the Note
Claimholders, on the other hand, shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a)
the financial condition of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and all endorsers and/or
guarantors and other Grantors of the ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations and (b) all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the ABL Obligations or the Note Obligations.
Neither the ABL Claimholders, on the one hand, nor the Note Claimholders, on the other hand, shall
have any duty to advise the other of information known to it or them regarding such condition or
any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event that either the ABL Agent or any of the other
ABL Claimholders, on the one hand, or the Notes Agent or any of the other Note Claimholders, on the
other hand, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to any of
the others, it or they shall be under no obligation, (i) to make, and shall not make, any express
or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the accuracy, completeness,
truthfulness or validity of any such information so provided, (ii) to provide any additional
information or to provide any such information on any subsequent occasion, (iii) to undertake any
investigation, or (iv) to disclose any information, which pursuant to accepted or reasonable
commercial finance practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required
to maintain confidential.
8.5. Subrogation.
(a) With respect to the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other
assets that any of the Note Claimholders actually pays over to the ABL Agent or the ABL
Claimholders under the terms of this Agreement, the Note Claimholders shall be subrogated to the
rights of the ABL Claimholders; provided, however, that the Notes Agent, on behalf
of the Note Claimholders, hereby agrees not to assert or enforce all such rights of subrogation it
may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of ABL Obligations has
occurred. The Grantors acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the
value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other assets received by the Note
Claimholders that are paid over to the ABL Claimholders pursuant to this Agreement shall not reduce
any of the Note Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section
8.5(a), none of the Note Claimholders shall have any claim against any of the ABL Claimholders
for any impairment of any subrogation rights herein granted to the Note Claimholders.
(b) With respect to the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other
assets that any of the ABL Claimholders actually pays over to the Note Agent or the Note
Claimholders under the terms of this Agreement, the ABL Claimholders shall be subrogated to the
rights of the Note Claimholders; provided, however, that the ABL Agent, on behalf
of the ABL Claimholders, hereby agrees not to assert or enforce all such rights of subrogation it
may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of Note Obligations has
occurred. The Grantors acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the
value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other assets received by the ABL
Claimholders that are paid over to the Note Claimholders pursuant to this Agreement shall not
reduce any of the ABL Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
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this Section 8.5(b), none of the ABL Claimholders shall have any claim against any of
the Note Claimholders for any impairment of any subrogation rights herein granted to the ABL
Claimholders.
8.6. SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVERS.
(a) ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY PERSON ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING HERETO MAY
BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN XXX XXXXX, XXXXXX XXX XXXX XX
XXX XXXX. BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY, FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF THE
NOTE CLAIMHOLDERS (IN THE CASE OF THE NOTES AGENT) AND THE ABL CLAIMHOLDERS (IN THE CASE OF THE ABL
AGENT), IRREVOCABLY:
(1) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH
COURTS;
(2) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS;
(3) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE
MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE APPLICABLE PERSON
(AND IN THE CASE OF A PARTY, AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION
8.7); AND
(4) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (3) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER
PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE PERSON IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT,
AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT.
(b) WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A
TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OF THE ABL LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY OF THE NOTE DOCUMENTS. EACH
OF THE PARTIES HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY
HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF
LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES
HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT, THE ABL LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE NOTE
DOCUMENTS, AS APPLICABLE, BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS
SECTION 8.6.
8.7. Notices. All notices permitted or required under this Agreement need be sent
only to the Notes Agent and the ABL Agent, as applicable, in order to be effective and otherwise
binding on any applicable Claimholder. If any notice is sent for whatever reason to the other Note
Claimholders or the ABL Claimholders, such notice shall also be sent to the applicable Agent.
Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice hereunder shall be in writing and may be
personally served, telexed or sent by telefacsimile or United States mail or courier service and
shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by overnight courier service and
signed for against receipt thereof, upon receipt of telefacsimile or telex during normal business
hours, or three Business Days after depositing it in the United States certified mails (return
receipt requested) with postage prepaid and properly addressed. For the purposes hereof, the
addresses of the parties hereto shall be as set forth below each party’s name on the
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signature pages hereto, or, as to each party, at such other address as may be designated by such
party in a written notice to all of the other parties.
8.8. Further Assurances. The ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, and the
Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note Claimholders, and the Grantors, agree that each of them shall
take such further action and shall execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments
(in recordable form, if requested) as the ABL Agent or the Notes Agent may reasonably request to
effectuate the terms of and the Lien priorities contemplated by this Agreement. If any Subsidiary
of the Company shall become a Grantor after the date of this Agreement, such Grantor shall deliver
a counterpart of this Agreement duly executed by such Grantor to the ABL Agent and the Notes Agent
whereupon such Subsidiary shall become a party hereto without any further action by any other party
hereto (it being understood that any failure by a Grantor to deliver a counterpart to this
Agreement shall not affect the relative rights and obligations of the ABL Claimholders and the Note
Claimholders with respect to the Collateral of such Grantor).
8.9. APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
8.10. Specific Performance. Each of the ABL Agent and the Notes Agent may demand
specific performance of this Agreement. The ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the ABL
Claimholders, and the Notes Agent, on behalf of itself and the Note Claimholders, hereby
irrevocably waive any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense which
might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action which may be brought by
the ABL Agent or the other ABL Claimholders or the Notes Agent or the other Note Claimholders, as
applicable.
8.11. Headings. Section headings in this Agreement are included herein for
convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other
purpose or be given any substantive effect.
8.12. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such separate counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument. In proving this Agreement in any judicial proceedings,
it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart signed by the
party against whom such enforcement is sought. Any signatures delivered by a party by facsimile
transmission or by e-mail transmission shall be deemed an original signature hereto.
8.13. Authorization. By its signature, each party hereto represents and warrants to
the other parties hereto that the individual signing this Agreement on its behalf is duly
authorized to execute this Agreement. The Notes Agent hereby represents that pursuant to the terms
of the Indenture, the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) have agreed to comply with the terms
applicable to them under this Agreement applicable to them in their capacities as such to the same
extent as if they were parties to this Agreement. The ABL Agent hereby represents that pursuant to
the terms of the Initial ABL Credit Agreement, the Lenders (as defined in the Initial ABL Credit
Agreement) have authorized the ABL Agent to enter into this Agreement and to bind such Lenders by
the terms of this Agreement.
8.14. No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof
shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns and shall inure to the benefit of (and shall be binding upon) each of the Agents, the other
ABL Claimholders and the other Note Claimholders and their respective successors and assigns.
Without limiting the generality of the
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foregoing, each of the Indenture, each Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement and the
amendments to ABL Security Documents shall expressly refer to this Agreement and acknowledge that
its provisions shall be binding on the Notes Agent, and the other Note Claimholders (and their
respective successors and assigns) and on the ABL Agent and the other ABL Claimholders (and their
respective successors and assigns), as applicable, and, in any event, this Agreement shall be
binding on the Agents, the other ABL Claimholders, and the other Note Claimholders and their
respective successors and assigns as if its provisions were set forth in their entirety in the ABL
Credit Agreement, the Indenture and each Additional Pari Passu Note Agreement.
8.15. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. The provisions of this Agreement
are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the ABL Claimholders
on the one hand and the Note Claimholders on the other hand. No Grantor or any other creditor
thereof shall have any rights hereunder, and no Grantor may rely on the terms hereof. Nothing in
this Agreement is intended to or shall impair as between the Grantors and the ABL Agent and the
other ABL Claimholders, or as between the Grantors and the Notes Agent and the other Note
Claimholders, the obligations of any Grantor, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay
principal, interest, fees and other amounts as provided in the other ABL Loan Documents and the
other Note Documents, respectively, including as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms.
8.16. Marshalling of Assets. The Notes Agent, on behalf of the Note Claimholders,
hereby irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally waives any and all rights or powers any Note
Claimholder may have at any time under applicable law or otherwise to have the ABL Priority
Collateral, or any part thereof, marshaled upon any foreclosure or other enforcement of the ABL
Agent’s Liens. The ABL Agent, on behalf of the ABL Claimholders, hereby waives irrevocably,
absolutely, and unconditionally any and all rights any ABL Claimholder may have at any time under
applicable law or otherwise to have the Notes Priority Collateral, or any part thereof, marshaled
upon any foreclosure or other enforcement of the Notes Agent’s Liens.
8.17. Exclusive Means of Exercising Rights under This Agreement. The Note
Claimholders shall be deemed to have irrevocably appointed the Notes Agent, and the ABL
Claimholders shall be deemed to have irrevocably appointed the ABL Agent, as their respective and
exclusive agents hereunder. Consistent with such appointment, the Note Claimholders and the ABL
Claimholders further shall be deemed to have agreed that only their respective Agent (and not any
individual Claimholder or group of Claimholders) shall have the exclusive right to exercise any
rights, powers, and/or remedies under this Agreement (including bringing any action to interpret or
otherwise enforce the provisions of this Agreement) or the Collateral. Specifically, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Note Claimholder or group of Note Claimholders, and
each ABL Claimholder or group of ABL Claimholders, shall not be entitled to take or file, but
instead shall be precluded from taking or filing (whether in any Insolvency or Liquidation
Proceeding or otherwise), any action, judicial or otherwise, to enforce any right or power or
pursue any remedy under this Agreement (including any declaratory judgment or other action to
interpret or otherwise enforce the provisions of this Agreement).
8.18. Interpretation. This Agreement is a product of negotiations among
representatives of, and has been reviewed by counsel to, the Notes Agent, the ABL Agent and the
Grantors and is the product of those Persons on behalf of themselves and the Note Claimholders (in
the case of the Notes Agent) and the ABL Claimholders (in the case of the ABL Claimholders).
Accordingly, this Agreement’s provisions shall not be construed against, or in favor of, any party
or other Person merely by virtue of that party or other Person’s involvement, or lack of
involvement, in the preparation of this Agreement and of any of its specific provisions.
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8.19. Capacity of Notes Agent. U.S. Bank Nation Association is entering into this
Agreement solely in its capacity as Trustee and Collateral Agent under the Indenture and the
rights, powers, privileges and protections afforded to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under the
Indenture shall also apply to U.S. Bank Nation Association as the Notes Agent hereunder. The Notes
Agent has been expressly authorized and directed to execute and deliver this Agreement under the
terms of the Indenture.
8.20. Termination. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and
effect upon the Discharge of the ABL Obligations or upon the Discharge of the Note Obligations,
subject to the rights of the ABL Lenders and the Noteholders, as applicable, under Section
6.4.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Intercreditor Agreement as of the
date first written above.
ABL Agent: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as ABL Agent |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx Xxxx | |||
Title: | Vice President | |||
Notice Address: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 000 Xxxx Xxx., 00xx Xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 Attention: Xxxxx Xxxx Fax: 000-000-0000 |
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
Notes Agent: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as Trustee and Collateral Agent under the Indenture and Collateral Agent under the Note Documents, as Notes Agent |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx Xxxxx | |||
Title: | Vice President | |||
Notice Address: U.S. Bank, National Association Corporate Trust Services 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000 Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxx |
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
Acknowledged and Agreed to by:
LIZ CLAIBORNE, INC.
By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Senior Vice President — Chief Legal Officer, | ||||
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |
Notice Address:
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx (or Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx)
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx (or Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx)
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxx
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
with a copy to the General Counsel
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx (or Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx)
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Attention: The General Counsel
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx (or Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx)
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Attention: The General Counsel
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 000-000-0000
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
Company Subsidiaries:
BOODLE, INC.
DB NEWCO CORP.
HAVANA LLC
JERG, INC.
JUICY COUTURE, INC.
XXXX SPADE LLC
L. C. AUGUSTA, INC.
L.C. CARIBBEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
L.C. LICENSING, INC.
L.C. SERVICE COMPANY, INC.
L.C. SPECIAL MARKETS, INC.
LC LIBRA, LLC
LCI ACQUISITION U.S., INC.
LCI HOLDINGS, INC.
LCI INVESTMENTS, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE ACCESSORIES, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE ACCESSORIES-SALES, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE COSMETICS, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE EXPORT, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE FOREIGN HOLDINGS, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE JAPAN, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE PUERTO RICO, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE SALES, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE SHOES, INC.
LUCKY BRAND DUNGAREES, INC.
LUCKY BRAND DUNGAREES STORES, INC.
MONET INTERNATIONAL, INC.
MONET PUERTO RICO, INC.
NONEE I HOLDING, LLC
NONEE I, LLC
SEGRETS, INC.
SKYLARK SPORT MARKETING CORPORATION
WESTCOAST CONTEMPO PROMENADE, INC.
WESTCOAST CONTEMPO RETAIL, INC.
WESTCOAST CONTEMPO (U.S.A.) INC.
DB NEWCO CORP.
HAVANA LLC
JERG, INC.
JUICY COUTURE, INC.
XXXX SPADE LLC
L. C. AUGUSTA, INC.
L.C. CARIBBEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
L.C. LICENSING, INC.
L.C. SERVICE COMPANY, INC.
L.C. SPECIAL MARKETS, INC.
LC LIBRA, LLC
LCI ACQUISITION U.S., INC.
LCI HOLDINGS, INC.
LCI INVESTMENTS, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE ACCESSORIES, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE ACCESSORIES-SALES, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE COSMETICS, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE EXPORT, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE FOREIGN HOLDINGS, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE JAPAN, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE PUERTO RICO, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE SALES, INC.
LIZ CLAIBORNE SHOES, INC.
LUCKY BRAND DUNGAREES, INC.
LUCKY BRAND DUNGAREES STORES, INC.
MONET INTERNATIONAL, INC.
MONET PUERTO RICO, INC.
NONEE I HOLDING, LLC
NONEE I, LLC
SEGRETS, INC.
SKYLARK SPORT MARKETING CORPORATION
WESTCOAST CONTEMPO PROMENADE, INC.
WESTCOAST CONTEMPO RETAIL, INC.
WESTCOAST CONTEMPO (U.S.A.) INC.
By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Senior Vice President — Chief Legal Officer, | ||||
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT