PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
THIS PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Security Agreement”) is entered into as of March 4, 2009 by and among XXXXXXX COMPANY, a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), the Subsidiaries of the Company listed on the signature pages hereto (together with the Company, the “Initial Grantors,” and together with any additional Subsidiaries, whether now existing or hereafter formed or acquired which become parties to this Security Agreement from time to time, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement (as defined below) or, upon the effectiveness thereof, the Note Agreement (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement), if any, by executing a Supplement hereto in substantially the form of Annex I, the “Grantors”), and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association, in its capacity as contractual representative (the “Collateral Agent”) for itself and for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement identified below).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company from time to time parties thereto as borrowers (together with the Company, the “Borrowers”), the financial institutions from time to time party thereto as lenders (collectively, the “Lenders”), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent thereunder (the “Administrative Agent”), have entered into that certain Credit Agreement dated as of June 19, 2007 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), which Credit Agreement provides, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, for extensions of credit and other financial accommodations to be made by the Lenders to or for the benefit of the Borrowers.
The Grantors wish to secure their obligations to the Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of this Security Agreement.
ACCORDINGLY, the Grantors and the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1. Terms Defined in the Credit Agreement. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
1.2. Terms Defined in UCC. Terms defined in the UCC which are not otherwise defined in this Security Agreement are used herein as defined in the UCC.
1.3. Definitions of Certain Terms Used Herein. As used in this Security Agreement, in addition to the terms defined in the Preliminary Statement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Article” means a numbered article of this Security Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.
“Chattel Paper” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Collateral” means all Accounts, Chattel Paper, Commercial Tort Claims, Copyrights, Deposit Accounts, Documents, Equipment, Farm Products, General Intangibles, Goods, Instruments, Inventory, Investment Property, letters of credit, Letter-of-Credit Rights, Licenses, Patents, Pledged Deposits, Supporting Obligations, Trademarks and Other Collateral, wherever located, in which any Grantor now has or hereafter acquires any right or interest, and the proceeds (including Stock Rights), insurance proceeds and products thereof, together with all books and records, customer lists, credit files, computer files, programs, printouts and other computer materials and records related thereto; provided however that “Collateral” shall not include Excluded Assets.
“Commercial Tort Claims” means those certain currently existing commercial tort claims, as defined in the UCC of any Grantor, including each commercial tort claim specifically described in Exhibit “F”.
“Control” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 or, if applicable, in Section 9-104, 9-105, 9-106 or 9-107 of Article 9 of the UCC.
“Copyrights” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest in and to the following: (a) all copyrights, rights and interests in copyrights, works protectable by copyright, copyright registrations, and copyright applications; (b) all extensions of any of the foregoing; (c) all income, royalties, damages, and payments now or hereafter due and/or payable under any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, damages or payments for past or future infringements for any of the foregoing; (d) the right to xxx for past, present, and future infringements of any of the foregoing; and (e) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.
“Default” means an event described in Section 5.1 hereof.
“Deposit Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Documents” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Equipment” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Excluded Assets” means (i) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title; (ii) any equipment, lease, license, contract, instrument or agreement to which any Grantor is a party, if and so long as the pledge of, or grant of a security interest in, such property would result in (A) a breach of applicable law or (B) a breach, termination or default under the terms of such lease, license, contract, instrument or agreement or any agreement to which such equipment is subject (other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC); (iii) assets to the extent a security interest in such assets would result in a Deemed Dividend Problem or a Financial Assistance Problem; (iv) assets consisting of real property or interests in real property; (v) fixtures; (vi) assets of the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary located in Australia or Japan; (vii) those assets as to which the Collateral Agent, by notice to the Company, reasonably determines that the burden or cost of obtaining such a security interest, pledge or perfection thereof outweighs the benefit to the Secured Parties of the security to be afforded thereby; and (viii) any lease of
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equipment by a Grantor and equipment subject thereto which are conveyed to a third party in connection with the financing of such lease and equipment, to the extent such Indebtedness and any Lien on such lease and/or equipment is otherwise permitted under Sections 6.01 and 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement.
“Exhibit” refers to a specific exhibit to this Security Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.
“Farm Products” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“General Intangibles” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC and, in any event, includes payment intangibles, contract rights, rights to payment, rights arising under common law, statutes, or regulations, choses or things in action, goodwill (including the goodwill associated with any Trademark), Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, URLs and domain names, Industrial Designs, other industrial or Intellectual Property or rights therein or applications therefor, whether under license or otherwise, programs, programming materials, blueprints, drawings, purchase orders, customer lists, monies due or recoverable from pension funds, route lists, rights to payment and other rights under any royalty or licensing agreements, including Intellectual Property Licenses, infringement claims, computer programs, information contained on computer disks or tapes, software, literature, reports, catalogs, pension plan refunds, pension plan refund claims, insurance premium rebates, tax refunds, and tax refund claims, interests in a partnership or limited liability company which do not constitute a security under Article 8 of the Code, and any other personal property other than Commercial Tort Claims, money, Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Goods, Investment Property, negotiable Collateral, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
“Goods” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Industrial Designs” means (i) registered industrial designs and industrial design applications, and also includes registered industrial designs and industrial design applications listed in Exhibit “B”, (ii) all renewals, divisions and any industrial design registrations issuing thereon and any and all foreign applications corresponding thereto, (iii) all income, royalties, damages and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto, including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and payments for past or future infringements thereof, (iv) the right to xxx for past, present and future infringements thereof, and (v) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto throughout the world.
“Instruments” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Intellectual Property” means all Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and any other intellectual property.
“Inventory” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Investment Property” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Letter of Credit Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“Licenses” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest in and to (a) any and all licensing agreements or similar arrangements in and to its Patents, Copyrights, or Trademarks, (b) all income, royalties, damages, claims, and payments now or hereafter due or payable
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under and with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages and payments for past and future breaches thereof, and (c) all rights to xxx for past, present, and future breaches thereof.
“Other Collateral” means any property of the Grantors, not included within the defined terms Accounts, Chattel Paper, Commercial Tort Claims, Copyrights, Deposit Accounts, Documents, Equipment, Farm Products, General Intangibles, Goods, Instruments, Inventory, Investment Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights, Licenses, Patents, Pledged Deposits, Supporting Obligations and Trademarks, including, without limitation, all cash on hand, Stock Rights or any other deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) with any bank or other financial institution, it being intended that the Collateral include all personal property of the Grantors other than Excluded Assets.
“Patents” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest in and to: (a) any and all patents and patent applications; (b) all inventions and improvements described and claimed therein; (c) all reissues, divisions, continuations, extensions, and continuations-in-part thereof; (d) all income, royalties, damages, claims, and payments now or hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages and payments for past and future infringements thereof; (e) all rights to xxx for past, present, and future infringements thereof; and (f) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.
“Pledged Deposits” means all time deposits of money (other than Deposit Accounts and Instruments), whether or not evidenced by certificates, which a Grantor may from time to time designate as pledged to the Collateral Agent or to any Secured Party as security for any Secured Obligations, and all rights to receive interest on said deposits.
“Receivables” means the Accounts, Chattel Paper, Documents, Investment Property, Instruments or Pledged Deposits, and any other rights or claims to receive money which are General Intangibles or which are otherwise included as Collateral.
“Section” means a numbered section of this Security Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.
“Security” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 of the UCC, excluding immaterial Securities received from or with respect to customers in settlement of Receivables.
“Senior Creditor Documents” means (i) prior to the effectiveness of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Loan Documents and (ii) on and after the effectiveness of the Intercreditor Agreement, the “Senior Creditor Documents” (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement).
“Stock Rights” means any securities, dividends or other distributions and any other right or property which any Grantor shall receive or shall become entitled to receive for any reason whatsoever with respect to, in substitution for or in exchange for any securities or other ownership interests in a corporation, partnership, joint venture or limited liability company constituting Collateral and any securities, any right to receive securities and any right to receive earnings, in which any Grantor now has or hereafter acquires any right, issued by an issuer of such securities.
“Supporting Obligation” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.
“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, trade dress, and trade styles and the registrations and applications for registration thereof and the goodwill of the business symbolized by the foregoing; (b) all licenses of the foregoing, whether as licensee or licensor; (c) all
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renewals of the foregoing; (d) 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; (e) 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 (f) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.
The foregoing definitions shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
ARTICLE II
GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST
Each of the Grantors hereby pledges, assigns and grants to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to the Collateral to secure the prompt and complete payment and performance of the Secured Obligations (including, without limitation, the Secured Obligations as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement upon the effectiveness of the Intercreditor Agreement). For the avoidance of doubt, the grant of a security interest herein shall not be deemed to be an assignment of intellectual property rights owned by the Grantors.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each of the Initial Grantors represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties, and each Grantor that becomes a party to this Security Agreement pursuant to the execution of a Security Agreement Supplement in substantially the form of Annex I represents and warrants (after giving effect to supplements to each of the Exhibits hereto with respect to such subsequent Grantor as attached to such Security Agreement Supplement), that:
3.1. Title, Authorization, Validity and Enforceability. Such Grantor has good and valid rights in or the power to transfer the Collateral owned by it and title to the Collateral with respect to which it has purported to grant a security interest hereunder, free and clear of all Liens except for Liens permitted under Section 4.1.6 hereof, and has full corporate, limited liability company or partnership, as applicable, power and authority to grant to the Collateral Agent the security interest in such Collateral pursuant hereto. The execution and delivery by such Grantor of this Security Agreement have been duly authorized by proper corporate, limited liability company, limited partnership or partnership, as applicable, proceedings, and this Security Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Grantor and creates a security interest which is enforceable against such Grantor in all Collateral it now owns or hereafter acquires, except as enforceability may be limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization or similar laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and (iii) requirements of reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing. When financing statements have been filed in the appropriate offices against such Grantor in the locations listed in Exhibit “E”, the Collateral Agent will have a fully perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral owned by such Grantor in which a security interest may be perfected by filing of a financing statement under the UCC, subject only to Liens permitted under Section 4.1.6 hereof and the limitations on perfection and priority set forth in the UCC.
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3.2. Conflicting Laws and Contracts. Neither the execution and delivery by such Grantor of this Security Agreement, the creation and perfection of the security interest in the Collateral granted hereunder, nor compliance with the terms and provisions hereof will violate (i) any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award binding on such Grantor, or (ii) such Grantor’s charter, articles or certificate of incorporation, partnership agreement or by-laws (or similar constitutive documents), or (iii) the provisions of any indenture, instrument or agreement to which such Grantor is a party or is subject, or by which it, or its property may be bound or affected, or conflict with or constitute a default thereunder, or result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien in, of or on the property of such Grantor pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, instrument or agreement (other than any Lien of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties).
3.3. Principal Location. Such Grantor’s mailing address and the location of its place of business (if it has only one) or its chief executive office (if it has more than one place of business), is disclosed in Exhibit “A”; such Grantor has no other places of business except those set forth in Exhibit “A”.
3.4. Property Locations. The Inventory and Equipment of each Grantor are located solely at the locations of such Grantor described in Exhibit “A”, except for Inventory and Equipment which is in transit or Inventory which is located in storage facilities for use by such Grantor’s sales and marketing operations, at customer’s premises, or with dealers or distributors for such Grantor’s Inventory. All of said locations are owned by such Grantor except for locations (i) which are leased by such Grantor as lessee and designated in Part B of Exhibit “A” and (ii) at which Inventory is held in a public warehouse or is otherwise held by a bailee or on consignment by such Grantor as designated in Part C of Exhibit “A”, with respect to which Inventory such Grantor has delivered bailment agreements, warehouse receipts, financing statements or other documents satisfactory to the Collateral Agent to protect the Collateral Agent’s and the Secured Parties’ security interest in such Inventory.
3.5. No Other Names; Etc.. Within the five-year period ending as of the date such Person becomes a Grantor hereunder, such Grantor has not conducted business under any name, changed its jurisdiction of formation, merged with or into or consolidated with any other Person, except as disclosed in Exhibit “A”. The name in which such Grantor has executed this Security Agreement is the exact name as it appears in such Grantor’s organizational documents, as amended, as filed with such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization as of the date such Person becomes a Grantor hereunder.
3.6. No Default. No Default exists.
3.7. Accounts and Chattel Paper. The names of the obligors, amounts owing, due dates and other information with respect to the Accounts and Chattel Paper owned by such Grantor are and will be correctly stated in all material respects in all records of such Grantor relating thereto and in all invoices and reports with respect thereto furnished to the Collateral Agent by such Grantor from time to time. As of the time when each Account or each item of Chattel Paper arises, such Grantor shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such Account or Chattel Paper, as the case may be, and all records relating thereto, are genuine and in all respects what they purport to be.
3.8. Filing Requirements. None of the Collateral owned by such Grantor is of a type for which security interests or liens may be perfected by filing under any federal statute except for Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights held by such Grantor and described in Part B of Exhibit “B”.
3.9. No Financing Statements. No financing statement describing all or any portion of the Collateral which has not lapsed or been terminated naming such Grantor as debtor has been filed in any jurisdiction except financing statements (i) naming the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties
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as the secured party and (ii) in respect of Liens permitted by Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement; provided, that nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute an agreement to subordinate any of the Liens of the Collateral Agent under the Senior Creditor Documents to any Liens otherwise permitted under Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement.
3.10. Federal Employer Identification Number; State Organization Number; Jurisdiction of Organization. Such Grantor’s federal employer identification number is, and if such Grantor is a registered organization, such Grantor’s State of organization, type of organization and State of organization identification number are, listed in Exhibit “G”.
3.11. Pledged Securities and Other Investment Property. Exhibit “D” sets forth a complete and accurate list of the Instruments, Securities and other Investment Property constituting Collateral and delivered to the Collateral Agent. Each Grantor is the direct and beneficial owner of each Instrument, Security and other type of Investment Property listed in Exhibit “D” as being owned by it, free and clear of any Liens, except for the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties hereunder or as permitted by Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement. Each Grantor further represents and warrants that (i) all such Instruments, Securities or other types of Investment Property which are shares of stock in a corporation or ownership interests in a partnership or limited liability company have been (to the extent such concepts are relevant with respect to such Instrument, Security or other type of Investment Property) duly and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and constitute the percentage of the issued and outstanding shares of stock (or other equity interests) of the respective issuers thereof indicated in Exhibit “D” hereto and (ii) with respect to any certificates delivered to the Collateral Agent representing an ownership interest in a partnership or limited liability company, either such certificates are Securities as defined in Article 8 of the UCC of the applicable jurisdiction as a result of actions by the issuer or otherwise, or, if such certificates are not Securities, such Grantor has so informed the Collateral Agent so that the Collateral Agent may take steps to perfect its security interest therein as a General Intangible.
3.12. Intellectual Property.
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3.12.1 Exhibit “B” contains a complete and accurate listing as of the date hereof of all U.S. Intellectual Property of each of the Grantors, including, but not limited to the following: (i) state and U.S. trademark registrations, applications for trademark registration and common law trademarks, (ii) U.S. patents and patents applications, together with all reissuances, continuations, continuations in part, revisions, extensions, and reexaminations thereof, (iii) U.S. copyright registrations and applications for registration, (iv) industrial design registrations and industrial design applications, (v) trade secrets, (vi) domain names, (vii) proprietary computer software, (viii) all forms of Intellectual Property described in clauses (i)-(iii) above that are owned by a third party and licensed to the Grantors or otherwise used by the Grantors under contract, and (ix) the names of any Person who has been granted rights in respect thereof outside of the ordinary course of business. All of the U.S. registrations, applications for registration or applications for issuance of the Intellectual Property are valid and subsisting, in good standing and are recorded or is in the process of being recorded in the name of the applicable Grantor. |
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3.12.2 Such Intellectual Property’s valid, subsisting, unexpired (where registered) and enforceable and has not been abandoned or adjudged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part except as could not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. |
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3.12.3 No Person other than the respective Grantor has any right or interest of any kind or nature in or to the Intellectual Property, including any right to sell, license, lease, transfer, |
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distribute, use or otherwise exploit the Intellectual Property or any portion thereof outside of the ordinary course of the respective Grantor’s business, except as noted on Exhibit B. Each Grantor has good, marketable and exclusive title to, and the valid and enforceable power and right to sell, license, transfer, distribute, use and otherwise exploit, its Intellectual Property, except as noted on Exhibit B. |
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3.12.4 Each Grantor has taken or caused to be taken steps so that none of its Intellectual Property, the value of which to the Grantors are contingent upon maintenance of the confidentiality thereof, have been disclosed by such Grantor to any Person other than employees, contractors, customers, representatives and agents of the Grantors who are parties to customary confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements with the Grantors except where those disclosures, individually or in the aggregate, could not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. |
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3.12.5 To each Grantor’s knowledge, no Person has violated, infringed upon or breached, or is currently violating, infringing upon or breaching, any of the rights of the Grantors to the Intellectual Property or has breached or is breaching any duty or obligation owed to the Grantors in respect of the Intellectual Property except where those breaches, individually or in the aggregate, could not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. |
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3.12.6 No settlement or consents, covenants not to xxx, nonassertion assurances, or releases have been entered into by any Grantor or to which any Grantor is bound that adversely affects its rights to own or use any Intellectual Property except as could not be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, in each case individually or in the aggregate. |
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3.12.7 No Grantor has received any written notice that remains outstanding challenging the validity, enforceability, or ownership of any Intellectual Property except where those challenges could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and to such Grantor’s knowledge at the date hereof there are no facts upon which such a challenge could be made. |
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3.12.8 Each Grantor owns directly or is entitled to use, by license or otherwise, all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of such Grantor’s business. |
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3.12.9 Each Grantor uses adequate standards of quality in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of all products sold and in the provision of all services rendered under or in connection with all trademarks and has taken all commercially reasonable action necessary to insure that all licensees of the trademarks owned or licensed by such Grantor use such adequate standards of quality, except where the failure to use adequate standards of quality could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. |
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3.12.10 The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Senior Creditor Documents will not result in the termination or material impairment of any of the Intellectual Property. |
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS
From the date of this Security Agreement and thereafter until this Security Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.12 hereof, each of the Initial Grantors agrees, and from and after the
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effective date of any Security Agreement Supplement applicable to any Grantor (and after giving effect to supplements to each of the Exhibits hereto with respect to such subsequent Grantor as attached to such Security Agreement Supplement) and thereafter until this Security Agreement is terminated each such subsequent Grantor agrees:
4.1. General.
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4.1.1 Inspection. Subject to the limitations set forth in the Senior Creditor Documents, each Grantor will permit the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party, by its representatives and agents (i) to inspect the Collateral, (ii) to examine and make copies of the records of such Grantor relating to the Collateral and (iii) to discuss the Collateral and the related records of such Grantor with, and to be advised as to the same by, such Grantor’s officers and employees (and, in the case of any Receivable, with any person or entity which is or may be obligated thereon), all at such reasonable times and intervals as the Collateral Agent or such Secured Party may determine, and all at such Grantor’s expense. |
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4.1.2 Taxes. Such Grantor will pay when due all taxes, assessments and governmental charges and levies upon the Collateral owned by such Grantor, except (i) those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside in accordance with GAAP and with respect to which no Lien exists, and (ii) those which by reason of the amount involved or the remedies available to the taxing authority could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
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4.1.3 Records and Reports; Notification of Default. Each Grantor shall keep and maintain complete, accurate and proper books and records with respect to the Collateral owned by such Grantor, and furnish to the Collateral Agent, with sufficient copies for each of the Secured Parties, such reports relating to the Collateral as the Collateral Agent shall from time to time reasonably request. Each Grantor will give prompt notice in writing to the Collateral Agent and the Lenders of the occurrence and continuance of a Default and of any other development, financial or otherwise, which could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the Collateral. |
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4.1.4 Financing Statements and Other Actions; Defense of Title. Each Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to file, and if requested will execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, all financing statements describing the Collateral owned by such Grantor and other documents and take such other actions as may from time to time reasonably be requested by the Collateral Agent in order to maintain a first priority, perfected security interest in and, if applicable, Control of, the Collateral owned by such Grantor, subject to Liens permitted under Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute an agreement to subordinate any of the Liens of the Collateral Agent under the Loan Documents to any Liens otherwise permitted under Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement. Such financing statements may describe the Collateral in the same manner as described herein or may contain an indication or description of collateral that describes such property in any other manner as the Collateral Agent may determine, in its reasonable discretion, is necessary, advisable or prudent to ensure that the perfection of the security interest in the Collateral granted to the Collateral Agent herein, including, without limitation, describing such property as “all assets (other than the Excluded Assets described and defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of March 4, 2009 by and among the Debtor, other parties and the Secured Party)” or “all assets whether now owned or hereafter acquired and wheresoever located, including all accessions thereto and proceeds thereof (other than the Excluded Assets described |
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and defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of March 4, 2009 by and among the Debtor, other parties and the Secured Party).” Each Grantor will take any and all actions reasonably necessary to defend title to the Collateral owned by such Grantor against all persons and to defend the security interest of the Collateral Agent in such Collateral and the priority thereof against any Lien not expressly permitted hereunder. |
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4.1.5 Disposition of Collateral. No Grantor will sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the Collateral owned by such Grantor except (i) prior to the occurrence and continuance of a Default, dispositions specifically permitted pursuant to Section 6.03 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement, (ii) until such time following the occurrence and the continuance of a Default as such Grantor receives a notice from the Collateral Agent instructing such Grantor to cease such transactions, sales or leases of Inventory in the ordinary course of business, (iii) dispositions of Intellectual Property which is no longer useful or necessary in such Grantor’s business as reasonably determined by such Grantor, and (iv) until such time as such Grantor receives a notice from the Collateral Agent pursuant to Article VII, proceeds of Inventory and Accounts collected in the ordinary course of business. |
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4.1.6 Liens. No Grantor will create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien on the Collateral owned by such Grantor except Liens permitted pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement, provided, that nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute an agreement to subordinate any of the Liens of the Collateral Agent under the Senior Creditor Documents to any Liens otherwise permitted under Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement. |
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4.1.7 Change in Corporate Existence, Type or Jurisdiction of Organization, Location, Name. Each Grantor will: |
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preserve its existence and corporate structure as in effect on the date hereof; |
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not change its jurisdiction of organization; |
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not maintain its place of business (if it has only one) or its chief executive office (if it has more than one place of business) at a location other than a location specified in Exhibit “A”; and |
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not (i) have any Inventory, Equipment or proceeds or products thereof (other than Inventory and proceeds thereof disposed of as permitted by Section 4.1.5) at a location other than a location specified in Exhibit “A” or as described in Section 3.4, (ii) change its name or taxpayer identification number or (iii) change its mailing address, |
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unless, in each such case, such Grantor shall have given the Collateral Agent not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of such event or occurrence and the Collateral Agent shall have either (x) determined that such event or occurrence will not adversely affect the validity, perfection or priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, or (y) taken such steps (with the cooperation of such Grantor to the extent necessary or advisable) as are necessary or advisable to properly maintain the validity, perfection and priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral owned by such Grantor. |
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4.1.8 Other Financing Statements. No Grantor will suffer to exist or authorize the filing of any financing statement naming it as debtor covering all or any portion of the Collateral owned by such Grantor, except any financing statement authorized under Section 4.1.4 hereof and |
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financing statements filed with respect to Liens otherwise permitted under Section 6.02 of the Credit Agreement and the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement. |
4.2. Receivables.
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4.2.1 Certain Agreements on Receivables. Following the occurrence and during the continuation of a Default, upon reasonable notice from the Collateral Agent, no Grantor will make or agree to make any discount, credit, rebate or other reduction in the original amount owing on a Receivable or accept in satisfaction of a Receivable less than the original amount thereof. Prior to the occurrence and continuation of a Default, such Grantor may reduce the amount of Accounts arising from the sale of Inventory or the rendering of services in accordance with its present policies and in the ordinary course of business and as otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement and the Note Agreement. |
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4.2.2 Collection of Receivables. Except as otherwise provided in this Security Agreement, each Grantor will collect and enforce, at such Grantor’s sole expense, in accordance with its present policies and in the ordinary course of business, all amounts due or hereafter due to such Grantor under the Receivables owned by such Grantor. |
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4.2.3 Delivery of Invoices. Each Grantor will deliver to the Collateral Agent immediately upon its request after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Default duplicate invoices with respect to each Account owned by such Grantor bearing such language of assignment as the Collateral Agent shall reasonably specify. |
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4.2.4 Disclosure of Counterclaims on Receivables. If (i) any material discount, credit or agreement to make a rebate or to otherwise reduce the amount owing on a Receivable owned by a Grantor exists or (ii) if, to the knowledge of a Grantor, any material dispute, setoff, claim, counterclaim or defense exists or has been asserted or threatened with respect to a Receivable, such Grantor will disclose such fact to the Collateral Agent in writing in connection with the inspection by the Collateral Agent of the records of such Grantor relating to such Receivable and in connection with any invoice or report furnished by such Grantor to the Collateral Agent relating to such Receivable. |
4.3. Maintenance of Goods. Each Grantor will do all things reasonably necessary to maintain, preserve, protect and keep the Inventory and the Equipment owned by such Grantor in good repair, working order and saleable condition (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and make all necessary and proper repairs, renewals and replacements so that its business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.4. Instruments, Securities, Chattel Paper, Documents and Pledged Deposits. Each Grantor will (i) deliver to the Collateral Agent immediately upon execution of this Security Agreement the originals of any Chattel Paper to the extent representing an amount in excess of $200,000, Securities (to the extent certificated) and Instruments constituting Collateral (if any then exist), (ii) hold in trust for the Collateral Agent upon receipt and immediately thereafter deliver to the Collateral Agent any such Chattel Paper, Securities and Instruments constituting Collateral, (iii) upon the designation of any Pledged Deposits (as set forth in the definition thereof), deliver to the Collateral Agent such Pledged Deposits which are evidenced by certificates included in the Collateral endorsed in blank, marked with such legends and assigned as the Collateral Agent shall specify, and (iv) upon the Collateral Agent’s request, after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, deliver to the Collateral Agent (and
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thereafter hold in trust for the Collateral Agent upon receipt and immediately deliver to the Collateral Agent) any Document evidencing or constituting Collateral.
4.5. Uncertificated Securities and Certain Other Investment Property. Each Grantor will permit the Collateral Agent from time to time to cause the appropriate issuers (and, if held with a securities intermediary, such securities intermediary) of uncertificated securities or other types of Investment Property not represented by certificates which are Collateral owned by such Grantor to xxxx their books and records with the numbers and face amounts of all such uncertificated securities or other types of Investment Property not represented by certificates and all rollovers and replacements therefor to reflect the Lien of the Collateral Agent granted pursuant to this Security Agreement. Each Grantor will use all commercially reasonable efforts, with respect to Investment Property constituting Collateral owned by such Grantor held with a financial intermediary, to cause such financial intermediary to enter into a control agreement with the Collateral Agent in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
4.6. Stock and Other Ownership Interests.
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4.6.1 Changes in Capital Structure of Issuers. Except as permitted in the Credit Agreement and the Note Agreement, no Grantor will (i) permit or suffer any issuer of privately held corporate securities or other ownership interests in a corporation, partnership, joint venture or limited liability company constituting Collateral owned by such Grantor to dissolve, liquidate, retire any of its capital stock or other Instruments or Securities evidencing ownership, reduce its capital or merge or consolidate with any other entity, or (ii) vote any of the Instruments, Securities or other Investment Property in favor of any of the foregoing except to the extent permitted under Section 6.03 of the Credit Agreement. |
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4.6.2 Issuance of Additional Securities. No Grantor will permit or suffer the issuer, which is a Subsidiary of such Grantor, of privately held corporate securities or other ownership interests in a corporation, partnership, joint venture or limited liability company constituting Collateral to issue any such securities or other ownership interests, any right to receive the same or any right to receive earnings, except to such Grantor. |
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4.6.3 Registration of Pledged Securities and other Investment Property. Each Grantor will permit any registrable Collateral owned by such Grantor to be registered in the name of the Collateral Agent or its nominee at any time at the option of the Required Lenders following the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default and without any further consent of such Grantor. |
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4.6.4 Exercise of Rights in Pledged Securities and other Investment Property. Each Grantor will permit the Collateral Agent or its nominee at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, without notice, to exercise or refrain from exercising any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Collateral owned by such Grantor or any part thereof, and to receive all dividends and interest in respect of such Collateral. |
4.7. Deposit Accounts. Each Grantor will (i) upon the Collateral Agent’s request, cause each bank or other financial institution in which it maintains (a) a Deposit Account to enter into a control agreement with the Collateral Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in order to give the Collateral Agent Control of the Deposit Account or (b) other deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) to be notified of the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent hereunder and cause each such bank or other financial institution to acknowledge such notification in writing and (ii) upon the Collateral Agent’s request after the occurrence and during the continuance of a
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Default, deliver to each such bank or other financial institution a letter, in form and substance acceptable to the Collateral Agent, transferring dominion and control over each such other deposit to the Collateral Agent until such time as no Default exists. In the case of deposits maintained with Lenders, the terms of such letter shall be subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement but subject to the Intercreditor Agreement regarding setoffs.
4.8. Letter-of-Credit Rights. Each Grantor will, upon the Collateral Agent’s request, cause each issuer of a letter of credit in an amount equal to or in excess of $100,000 for which such Grantor is the beneficiary, to consent to the assignment of proceeds of the letter of credit in order to give the Collateral Agent Control of the letter-of-credit rights to such letter of credit.
4.9. Federal, State or Municipal Claims. Each Grantor will notify the Collateral Agent of any material Collateral owned by such Grantor which constitutes a claim against the United States government or any state or local government or any instrumentality or agency thereof, the assignment of which claim is restricted by federal, state or municipal law. Furthermore, each Grantor will execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent such documents, agreements and instruments, and will take such further actions (including, without limitation, the taking of necessary actions under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended (31 U.S.C. § 3727 et seq. and 41 U.S.C. § 15 et seq.)), which the Collateral Agent may, from time to time, reasonably request, to ensure perfection and priority of the Liens hereunder in respect of material Accounts and General Intangibles owing by any government or instrumentality or agency thereof, all at the expense of the Company.
4.10. Intellectual Property.
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4.10.1 If, after the date hereof, any Grantor obtains rights to, including, but not limited to filing and acceptance of a statement of use or an amendment to allege use with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or applies for or seeks registration of, any new patentable invention, Trademark or Copyright in addition to the Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights described in Part B of Exhibit “B”, which are all of such Grantor’s U.S. Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights as of the date hereof, then such Grantor shall give the Collateral Agent notice thereof, as part of each compliance certificate provided to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the comparable certificate provided pursuant to the Note Agreement. Each Grantor agrees promptly upon request by the Collateral Agent to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent any supplement to this Security Agreement or any other document reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to evidence such security interest in a form appropriate for recording in the applicable U.S. federal office. Each Grantor also hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to modify this Security Agreement unilaterally (i) by amending Part B of Exhibit “B” to include any future U.S. Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights of which the Collateral Agent receives notification from such Grantor pursuant hereto and (ii) by recording, in addition to and not in substitution for this Security Agreement, a duplicate original of this Security Agreement containing in Part B of Exhibit “B” a description of such future Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights. |
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4.10.2 As of the date hereof, no Grantor has any interest in, or title to, any U.S. Copyrights, Intellectual Property Licenses, Patents, Trademarks or Industrial Design except as set forth in Exhibit “B”. This Agreement is effective to create a valid and continuing Lien on such Copyrights, Intellectual Property Licenses, Patents, Trademarks and Industrial Designs and, upon filing of the Confirmatory Grant of Security Interest in Copyrights with the United States Copyright Office and filing of the Confirmatory Grant of Security Interest in Patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the filing of appropriate financing statements in the jurisdictions listed in Exhibit “E” hereto, all action necessary or desirable to protect and |
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perfect the security interest in, to and on each Grantor’s U.S. Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights or Industrial Designs has been taken and such perfected security interest is enforceable as such as against any and all creditors of and purchasers from any Grantor. No Grantor has any interest in any U.S. Copyright that is necessary in connection with the operation of such Grantor’s business, except for those Copyrights identified in Exhibit “B” attached hereto which have been registered with the United States Copyright Office. |
4.11. Commercial Tort Claims. If, after the date hereof, any Grantor identifies the existence of a Commercial Tort Claim belonging to such Grantor that has arisen in the course of such Grantor’s business in addition to the Commercial Tort Claims described in Exhibit “F”, which are all of such Grantor’s Commercial Tort Claims as of the date hereof, then such Grantor shall give the Collateral Agent prompt notice thereof, but in any event not less frequently than quarterly. Each Grantor agrees promptly upon request by the Collateral Agent to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent any supplement to this Security Agreement or any other document reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to evidence the grant of a security interest therein in favor of the Collateral Agent.
4.12. Updating of Exhibits to Security Agreement. The Company will provide to the Collateral Agent, concurrently with the delivery of the certificate of a Financial Officer of the Company as required by Section 5.01(c) of the Credit Agreement or the comparable provisions of the Note Agreement, updated versions of the Exhibits to this Security Agreement, provided that if there have been no material changes with respect to the information set forth on any such Exhibits since the previous updating thereof required hereby, the Company shall indicate that there has been “no material change” to the applicable Exhibit(s).
ARTICLE V
DEFAULT
5.1. The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall constitute a Default:
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5.1.1 The breach by any Grantor of any of the terms or provisions of Article IV or Article VII. |
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5.1.2 The breach by any Grantor (other than a breach which constitutes a Default under Section 5.1.1 or 5.1.2 hereof) of any of the terms or provisions of this Security Agreement which is not remedied within ten (10) days after the giving of written notice to such Grantor by the Collateral Agent. |
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5.1.3 Any material portion of the Collateral shall be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. |
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5.1.4 The occurrence of any “Event of Default” under, and as defined in, the Credit Agreement and, upon the effectiveness of the Intercreditor Agreement, the occurrence of a “Default” under, and as defined in, the Intercreditor Agreement. |
5.2. Acceleration and Remedies. Upon the occurrence and continuance of a Default, the Collateral Agent may, in accordance with the terms of the Senior Creditor Documents, exercise any or all of the following rights and remedies:
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5.2.1 Those rights and remedies provided in this Security Agreement, the Credit Agreement, or any other Senior Creditor Document, provided that this Section 5.2.1 shall not be understood to limit any rights or remedies available to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties prior to a Default. |
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5.2.2 Those rights and remedies available to a secured party under the UCC (whether or not the UCC applies to the affected Collateral) or under any other applicable law (including, without limitation, any law governing the exercise of a bank’s right of setoff or bankers’ lien) when a debtor is in default under a security agreement. |
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5.2.3 Without notice except as specifically provided in Section 8.1 hereof or elsewhere herein, sell, lease, assign, grant an option or options to purchase or otherwise dispose of the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and upon such other terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable. |
The Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, may comply with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral, and such compliance will not be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.
If, after the Credit Agreement, the Note Agreement and the other documents evidencing the Obligations have terminated by their terms and all of the Secured Obligations have been paid in full, there remain outstanding Swap Obligations or Banking Services Obligations, the Required Lenders may exercise the remedies provided in this Section 5.2 upon the occurrence of any event which would allow or require the termination or acceleration of any Swap Obligations by a party thereto other than a Grantor or Banking Services Obligations, provided that no such remedies may be exercised following termination of this Security Agreement as provided in Section 8.12.
5.3. Grantors’ Obligations Upon Default. Upon the request of the Collateral Agent after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, each Grantor will:
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5.3.1 Assembly of Collateral. Assemble and make available to the Collateral Agent the Collateral and all records relating thereto at any place or places specified by the Collateral Agent. |
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5.3.2 Secured Party Access. Permit the Collateral Agent, by the Collateral Agent’s representatives and agents, to enter any premises where all or any part of the Collateral, or the books and records relating thereto, or both, are located, to take possession of all or any part of the Collateral and to remove all or any part of the Collateral. |
5.4. License. The Collateral Agent is hereby granted a non-exclusive license or other non-exclusive right to use, following the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, without charge, each Grantor’s labels, patents, copyrights, rights of use of any name, trade secrets, trade names, trademarks, service marks, customer lists and advertising matter, or any property of a similar nature, as it pertains to the Collateral, in completing production of, advertising for sale, and selling any Collateral, and, following the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, such Grantor’s rights under all licenses and all franchise agreements shall inure to the Collateral Agent’s benefit. In addition, each Grantor hereby irrevocably agrees that the Collateral Agent may, following the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, sell any of such Grantor’s Inventory directly to any person, including without limitation persons who have previously purchased such Grantor’s Inventory from such Grantor and in connection with any such sale or other enforcement of the Collateral Agent’s rights under this Security Agreement, may sell Inventory which bears any trademark owned by or licensed to such Grantor and any Inventory that is covered by any copyright owned by or licensed to such Grantor and the Collateral Agent may finish any work in process and affix any trademark owned by or licensed to such Grantor and sell such Inventory as provided herein.
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ARTICLE VI
WAIVERS, AMENDMENTS AND REMEDIES
No delay or omission of the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party to exercise any right or remedy granted under this Security Agreement shall impair such right or remedy or be construed to be a waiver of any Default or an acquiescence therein, and any single or partial exercise of any such right or remedy shall not preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. No waiver, amendment or other variation of the terms, conditions or provisions of this Security Agreement whatsoever shall be valid unless in writing signed by the Collateral Agent and each Grantor, and then only to the extent in such writing specifically set forth, provided that the addition of any Subsidiary as a Grantor hereunder by execution of a Security Agreement Supplement in the form of Annex I (with such modifications as shall be acceptable to the Collateral Agent) shall not require receipt of any consent from or execution of any documentation by any other Grantor party hereto. All rights and remedies contained in this Security Agreement or by law afforded shall be cumulative and all shall be available to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties until the Secured Obligations have been paid in full.
ARTICLE VII
PROCEEDS; COLLECTION OF RECEIVABLES
7.1. Lockboxes. Upon request of the Collateral Agent after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, each Grantor shall execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent irrevocable lockbox agreements in the form provided by or otherwise acceptable to the Collateral Agent, which agreements shall be accompanied by an acknowledgment by the bank where the lockbox is located of the Lien of the Collateral Agent granted hereunder and of irrevocable instructions to wire all amounts collected therein to a special collateral account at the Collateral Agent.
7.2. Collection of Receivables. The Collateral Agent may at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, by giving each Grantor written notice, elect to require that the Receivables be paid directly to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties. In such event, each Grantor shall, and shall permit the Collateral Agent to, promptly notify the account debtors or obligors under the Receivables owned by such Grantor of the Collateral Agent’s interest therein and direct such account debtors or obligors to make payment of all amounts then or thereafter due under such Receivables directly to the Collateral Agent. Upon receipt of any such notice from the Collateral Agent, each Grantor shall thereafter hold in trust for the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, all amounts and proceeds received by it with respect to the Receivables and Other Collateral and immediately and at all times thereafter deliver to the Collateral Agent all such amounts and proceeds in the same form as so received, whether by cash, check, draft or otherwise, with any necessary endorsements. The Collateral Agent shall hold and apply funds so received as provided by the terms of Sections 7.3 and 7.4 hereof.
7.3. Special Collateral Account. After the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, the Collateral Agent may require all cash proceeds of the Collateral to be deposited in a special non-interest bearing cash collateral account with the Collateral Agent and held there as security for the Secured Obligations. No Grantor shall have any control whatsoever over said cash collateral account. If no Default has occurred and is continuing, the Collateral Agent shall from time to time deposit the collected balances in said cash collateral account into the applicable Grantor’s general operating account with the Collateral Agent. If any Default has occurred and is continuing, the Collateral Agent may, in accordance with the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement (to the extent the Intercreditor Agreement
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is in effect), from time to time, apply the collected balances in said cash collateral account to the payment of the Secured Obligations whether or not the Secured Obligations shall then be due.
7.4. Application of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Collateral received by the Collateral Agent hereunder shall be applied by the Collateral Agent to payment of the Secured Obligations as provided under Section 2.18 of the Credit Agreement but subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
8.1. Notice of Disposition of Collateral; Condition of Collateral. To the extent permitted under applicable law, each Grantor hereby waives notice of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of all or any part of the Collateral may be made. To the extent such notice may not be waived under applicable law, any notice made shall be deemed reasonable if sent to the Company, addressed as set forth in Article IX, at least ten (10) days prior to (i) the date of any such public sale or (ii) the time after which any such private sale or other disposition may be made. The Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to clean-up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale.
8.2. Compromises and Collection of Collateral. Each Grantor and the Collateral Agent recognize that setoffs, counterclaims, defenses and other claims may be asserted by obligors with respect to certain of the Receivables, that certain of the Receivables may be or become uncollectible in whole or in part and that the expense and probability of success in litigating a disputed Receivable may exceed the amount that reasonably may be expected to be recovered with respect to a Receivable. In view of the foregoing, each Grantor agrees that the Collateral Agent may at any time and from time to time, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, compromise with the obligor on any Receivable, accept in full payment of any Receivable such amount as the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion shall determine or abandon any Receivable, and any such action by the Collateral Agent shall be commercially reasonable so long as the Collateral Agent acts in good faith based on information known to it at the time it takes any such action.
8.3. Secured Party Performance of Grantor’s Obligations. Without having any obligation to do so, after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, the Collateral Agent may perform or pay any obligation which any Grantor has agreed to perform or pay in this Security Agreement and such Grantor shall reimburse the Collateral Agent for any reasonable amounts paid by the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Section 8.3. Each Grantor’s obligation to reimburse the Collateral Agent pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be a Secured Obligation payable on demand.
8.4. Authorization for Secured Party to Take Certain Action. Each Grantor irrevocably, until this Security Agreement is terminated as provided in Section 8.12, authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time in the sole discretion of the Collateral Agent and appoints the Collateral Agent as its attorney in fact (i) to execute on behalf of such Grantor as debtor and to file financing statements necessary or desirable in the Collateral Agent’s sole discretion to perfect and to maintain the perfection and priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, (ii) to indorse and collect any cash proceeds of the Collateral, (iii) to file a carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Security Agreement or any financing statement with respect to the Collateral as a financing statement and to file any other financing statement or amendment of a financing statement (which does not add new collateral or add a debtor) in such offices as the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion reasonably deems necessary or desirable to perfect and to maintain the perfection and priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, (iv) to contact and enter into one or more agreements with the issuers of
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uncertificated securities which are Collateral owned by such Grantor and which are Securities or with financial intermediaries holding other Investment Property as may be necessary or advisable to give the Collateral Agent Control over such Securities or other Investment Property, (v) subject to the terms of Section 4.1.5 hereof, to enforce payment of the Instruments, Accounts and Receivables in the name of the Collateral Agent or such Grantor, (vi) to apply the proceeds of any Collateral received by the Collateral Agent to the Secured Obligations as provided in Article VII and (vii) to discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees or Liens on the Collateral (except for such Liens as are specifically permitted hereunder or under any other Senior Creditor Document), and each Grantor agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent on demand for any reasonable payment made or any reasonable expense incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection therewith, provided that this authorization shall not relieve any Grantor of any of its obligations under this Security Agreement or under the Credit Agreement or the Note Agreement.
8.5. Specific Performance of Certain Covenants. Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained in Sections 4.1.5, 4.1.6, 4.4, 5.3, or 8.7 or in Article VII hereof will cause irreparable injury to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties, that the Collateral Agent and Secured Parties have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breaches and therefore agrees, without limiting the right of the Collateral Agent or the Secured Parties to seek and obtain specific performance of other obligations of the Grantors contained in this Security Agreement, that the covenants of the Grantors contained in the Sections referred to in this Section 8.5 shall be specifically enforceable against the Grantors.
8.6. Use and Possession of Certain Premises. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to occupy and use any premises owned or leased by the Grantors where any of the Collateral or any records relating to the Collateral are located until the Secured Obligations are paid or the Collateral is removed therefrom, whichever first occurs, without any obligation to pay any Grantor for such use and occupancy.
8.7. Dispositions Not Authorized. No Grantor is authorized to sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral except as set forth in Section 4.1.5 hereof and notwithstanding any course of dealing between any Grantor and the Collateral Agent or other conduct of the Collateral Agent, no authorization to sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral (except as set forth in Section 4.1.5 hereof) shall be binding upon the Collateral Agent or the Secured Parties unless such authorization is in writing signed by the Collateral Agent with the consent or at the direction of the Required Lenders (to the extent the Intercreditor Agreement is not in effect) or the Requisite Secured Parties (upon the effectiveness of the Intercreditor Agreement).
8.8. Benefit of Agreement. The terms and provisions of this Security Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Grantors, the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns (including all persons who become bound as a debtor to this Security Agreement), except that the Grantors shall not have the right to assign their rights or delegate their obligations under this Security Agreement or any interest herein, without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent.
8.9. Survival of Representations. All representations and warranties of the Grantors contained in this Security Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery of this Security Agreement.
8.10. Taxes and Expenses. Any taxes (including income taxes) payable or ruled payable by a Federal or State authority in respect of this Security Agreement shall be paid by the Grantors, together with interest and penalties, if any. The Grantors shall reimburse the Collateral Agent for any and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and internal charges (including reasonable attorneys’, auditors’ and
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accountants’ fees and reasonable time charges of attorneys, paralegals, auditors and accountants who may be employees of the Collateral Agent) paid or incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, collection and enforcement of this Security Agreement and in the audit, analysis, administration, collection, preservation or sale of the Collateral (including the expenses and charges associated with any periodic or special audit of the Collateral). Any and all costs and expenses incurred by the Grantors in the performance of actions required pursuant to the terms hereof shall be borne solely by the Grantors.
8.11. Headings. The title of and section headings in this Security Agreement are for convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the interpretation of any of the terms and provisions of this Security Agreement.
8.12. Termination. This Security Agreement shall continue in effect (notwithstanding the fact that from time to time there may be no Secured Obligations outstanding) until (i) any and all commitments to extend credit under the Senior Creditor Documents have terminated and (ii) all of the Secured Obligations (other than (x) contingent indemnity obligations and (y) Banking Services Obligations and Swap Obligations, in each case only to the extent the same are not yet due and payable) have been indefeasibly paid in cash and performed in full and no commitments of the Administrative Agent or the Secured Parties which would give rise to any Secured Obligations, other than Banking Services Obligations and Swap Obligations, are outstanding.
8.13. Entire Agreement. This Security Agreement embodies the entire agreement and understanding between the Grantors and the Collateral Agent relating to the Collateral and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings among the Grantors and the Collateral Agent relating to the Collateral.
8.14. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.
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8.14.1 THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. |
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8.14.2 Each Grantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Security Agreement or any other Senior Creditor Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each Grantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each Grantor agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Security Agreement or any other Senior Creditor Document shall affect any right that the Collateral Agent may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Security Agreement or any other Senior Creditor Document against any Grantor or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction. |
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8.14.3 Each Grantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Security Agreement or any other Senior Creditor Document in any court referred to in Section 8.14.2. |
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Each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court. |
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8.14.4 Each party to this Security Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Article IX of this Security Agreement, and each of the Grantors hereby appoints the Company as its agent for service of process. Nothing in this Security Agreement or any other Senior Creditor Document will affect the right of any party to this Security Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. |
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8.14.5 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH GRANTOR HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER SENIOR CREDITOR DOCUMENT (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH GRANTOR CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER GRANTOR HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER GRANTOR WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER. |
8.15. Indemnity. Each Grantor hereby agrees, jointly with the other Grantors and severally, to indemnify the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties, and their respective successors, assigns, agents and employees (each, an “Indemnitee”), from and against any and all liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs, and expenses of any kind and nature (including, without limitation, all expenses of litigation or preparation therefor whether or not the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party is a party thereto) imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Collateral Agent or the Secured Parties, or their respective successors, assigns, agents and employees, in any way relating to or arising out of this Security Agreement or any other Senior Creditor Document, or the manufacture, purchase, acceptance, rejection, ownership, delivery, lease, possession, use, operation, condition, sale, return or other disposition of any Collateral (including, without limitation, latent and other defects, whether or not discoverable by the Collateral Agent or the Secured Parties or any Grantor, and any claim for patent, trademark or copyright infringement), provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or from the breach by such Indemnitee of its material obligations under the Senior Creditor Documents.
8.16. Subordination of Intercompany Indebtedness. Each Grantor agrees that any and all claims of such Grantor against any other Grantor (each an “Obligor”) with respect to any “Intercompany Indebtedness” (as hereinafter defined), any endorser, obligor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations, or against any of its properties shall be subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment, in full and in cash, of all Secured Obligations, provided that, and not in contravention of the foregoing, so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, such Grantor may make loans to and receive payments in the ordinary course of business with respect to such Intercompany Indebtedness from each such Obligor to the extent not prohibited by the terms of this Security Agreement and the other Senior Creditor Documents. Notwithstanding any right of any Grantor to ask, demand, xxx for, take or receive any payment from any Obligor, all rights, liens and security interests of such Grantor, whether now or hereafter arising and howsoever existing, in any assets of any other Obligor shall be and are subordinated to the rights of the Secured Parties and the Collateral Agent in those assets. No Grantor shall have any right to possession of any such asset or to foreclose upon any such asset, whether by judicial action or otherwise, unless and until this Security Agreement has terminated in accordance with
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Section 8.12 hereof. After the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, if all or any part of the assets of any Obligor, or the proceeds thereof, are subject to any distribution, division or application to the creditors of such Obligor, whether partial or complete, voluntary or involuntary, and whether by reason of liquidation, bankruptcy, arrangement, receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other action or proceeding, or if the business of any such Obligor is dissolved or if substantially all of the assets of any such Obligor are sold, then, and in any such event (such events being herein referred to as an “Insolvency Event”), any payment or distribution of any kind or character, either in cash, securities or other property, which shall be payable or deliverable upon or with respect to any indebtedness of any Obligor to any Grantor (“Intercompany Indebtedness”) shall be paid or delivered directly to the Collateral Agent for application on any of the Secured Obligations, due or to become due, until such Secured Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations) shall have first been fully paid and satisfied (in cash). Should any payment, distribution, security or instrument or proceeds thereof be received by the applicable Grantor upon or with respect to the Intercompany Indebtedness after any Insolvency Event and prior to the termination of this Security Agreement in accordance with Section 8.12 hereof, such Grantor shall receive and hold the same in trust, as trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall forthwith deliver the same to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in precisely the form received (except for the endorsement or assignment of the Grantor where necessary), for application to any of the Secured Obligations, due or not due, and, until so delivered, the same shall be held in trust by the Grantor as the property of the Secured Parties. If any such Grantor fails to make any such endorsement or assignment to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent or any of its officers or employees is irrevocably authorized to make the same. Each Grantor agrees that until the termination of this Security Agreement in accordance with Section 8.12 hereof, no Grantor will assign or transfer to any Person (other than the Collateral Agent or the Company or another Grantor) any claim any such Grantor has or may have against any Obligor.
8.17. Severability. Any provision in this Security Agreement that is held to be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid in any jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid without affecting the remaining provisions in that jurisdiction or the operation, enforceability, or validity of that provision in any other jurisdiction, and to this end the provisions of this Security Agreement are declared to be severable.
8.18. Counterparts. This Security Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Security Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Security Agreement.
ARTICLE IX
NOTICES
9.1. Sending Notices. Any notice required or permitted to be given under this Security Agreement shall be sent (and deemed received) in the manner and to the addresses set forth in Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement. Any notice delivered to the Company shall be deemed to have been delivered to all of the Grantors.
9.2. Change in Address for Notices. Each of the Grantors, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders may change the address for service of notice upon it by a notice in writing to the other parties.
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ARTICLE X
THE COLLATERAL AGENT
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. has been appointed Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties hereunder pursuant to Article VIII of the Credit Agreement and the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement. It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties to this Security Agreement that any authority conferred upon the Collateral Agent hereunder is subject to the terms of the delegation of authority made by the Secured Parties to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, and that the Collateral Agent has agreed to act (and any successor Collateral Agent shall act) as such hereunder only on the express conditions contained in such Article VIII. Any successor Collateral Agent appointed pursuant to Article VIII of the Credit Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement shall be entitled to all the rights, interests and benefits of the Collateral Agent hereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Grantors and the Collateral Agent have executed this Security Agreement as of the date first above written.
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ANNEX I
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PLEDGE AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
Reference is hereby made to the Pledge and Security Agreement (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Agreement”), dated as of March [__] 2009, made by each of XXXXXXX COMPANY, a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), the Subsidiaries of the Company listed on the signature pages thereto (together with the Company, the “Initial Grantors”, and together with any additional Subsidiaries, including the undersigned, which become parties thereto by executing a Supplement in substantially the form hereof, the “Grantors”), in favor of the Collateral Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Agreement. By its execution below, the undersigned, [NAME OF NEW GRANTOR], a [__________] [corporation/limited liability company/limited partnership] (the “New Grantor”) agrees to become, and does hereby become, a Grantor under the Agreement and agrees to be bound by the Agreement as if originally a party thereto. By its execution below, the undersigned represents and warrants as to itself that all of the representations and warranties contained in the Agreement are true and correct in all respects as of the date hereof. New Grantor represents and warrants that the supplements to the Exhibits to the Agreement attached hereto are true and correct in all respects as to the New Grantor and such supplements set forth all information required to be scheduled under the Agreement with respect to the New Grantor. New Grantor shall take all steps necessary and required under the Agreement to perfect, in favor of the Collateral Agent, a first-priority security interest in and lien against New Grantor’s Collateral.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Grantor has executed and delivered this Annex I counterpart to the Agreement as of this ___________ day of ____________, 20___.
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