Exhibit T3C
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ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.,
as Issuer
12% SUBORDINATED SECURED COMPOUNDING NOTES DUE 2009
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INDENTURE
Dated as of [ ], 2002
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION.......................... 2
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.............................................................................. 2
SECTION 1.02. Other Definitions........................................................... 15
SECTION 1.03. Incorporation by Reference of the Trust Indenture Act....................... 15
SECTION 1.04. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee...................................... 16
SECTION 1.05. Acts of Holders; Record Dates............................................... 16
SECTION 1.06. Benefits of Indenture....................................................... 17
SECTION 1.07. Legal Holidays.............................................................. 17
ARTICLE II THE NOTES........................................................................ 18
SECTION 2.01. Title and Terms............................................................. 18
SECTION 2.02. Form and Dating............................................................. 19
SECTION 2.03. Execution and Authentication................................................ 19
SECTION 2.04. Registrar, Paying Agent and Depositary...................................... 20
SECTION 2.05. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust......................................... 20
SECTION 2.06. Holder Lists................................................................ 20
SECTION 2.07. Transfer and Exchange....................................................... 20
SECTION 2.08. Legends..................................................................... 22
SECTION 2.09. Temporary Notes............................................................. 23
SECTION 2.10. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes................................. 23
SECTION 2.11. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.............................. 24
SECTION 2.12. Persons Deemed Owners....................................................... 24
SECTION 2.13. Cancellation................................................................ 25
SECTION 2.14. CUSIP Numbers............................................................... 25
ARTICLE III SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE....................................................... 25
SECTION 3.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..................................... 25
SECTION 3.02. Application of Trust Money.................................................. 26
ARTICLE IV REMEDIES......................................................................... 26
SECTION 4.01. Events of Default........................................................... 26
SECTION 4.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Exercise of Remedies.............................. 28
SECTION 4.03. Waiver of Past Defaults..................................................... 28
SECTION 4.04. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee............. 28
SECTION 4.05. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim............................................ 29
SECTION 4.06. Application of Money Collected.............................................. 29
SECTION 4.07. Limitation on Suits......................................................... 29
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SECTION 4.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest... 30
SECTION 4.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.......................................... 30
SECTION 4.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.............................................. 30
SECTION 4.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver................................................ 30
SECTION 4.12. Control by Majority Noteholders............................................. 30
SECTION 4.13. Undertaking for Costs....................................................... 31
SECTION 4.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws............................................ 31
ARTICLE V THE TRUSTEE...................................................................... 31
SECTION 5.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities......................................... 31
SECTION 5.02. Notice of Defaults.......................................................... 31
SECTION 5.03. Certain Rights of Trustee................................................... 31
SECTION 5.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes........................... 33
SECTION 5.05. May Hold Notes.............................................................. 33
SECTION 5.06. Money Held in Trust......................................................... 33
SECTION 5.07. Compensation and Reimbursement.............................................. 33
SECTION 5.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests..................................... 34
SECTION 5.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility..................................... 34
SECTION 5.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........................... 34
SECTION 5.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...................................... 35
SECTION 5.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business................. 35
SECTION 5.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company........................... 36
SECTION 5.14. Appointment of Co-Trustee................................................... 36
ARTICLE VI HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE............................................ 36
SECTION 6.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders................... 36
SECTION 6.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders...................... 37
SECTION 6.03. Reports by Trustee.......................................................... 37
ARTICLE VII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE............................. 38
SECTION 7.01. Consolidation, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.................................. 38
SECTION 7.02. Successor Substituted....................................................... 38
ARTICLE VIII SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.......................................................... 38
SECTION 8.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.......................... 38
SECTION 8.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders and Majority Noteholders.... 39
SECTION 8.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures........................................ 40
SECTION 8.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures........................................... 40
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SECTION 8.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act......................................... 41
SECTION 8.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures............................... 41
ARTICLE IX REDEMPTION OF NOTES.............................................................. 41
SECTION 9.01. Optional Redemption......................................................... 41
SECTION 9.02. Mandatory Prepayment; Use of Excess Cash Flow............................... 41
SECTION 9.03. Applicability of Article.................................................... 42
SECTION 9.04. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee....................................... 42
SECTION 9.05. Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed................................ 42
SECTION 9.06. Notice of Redemption........................................................ 42
SECTION 9.07. Deposit of Redemption Price................................................. 43
SECTION 9.08. Notes Payable on Redemption Date............................................ 43
SECTION 9.09. Notes Redeemed in Part...................................................... 43
ARTICLE X COVENANTS........................................................................ 44
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.................................. 44
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................. 44
SECTION 10.03. Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust................................. 44
SECTION 10.04. Existence; Conduct of Business.............................................. 45
SECTION 10.05. Payment and Performance of Obligations...................................... 45
SECTION 10.06. Additional Domestic Subsidiaries; Material Foreign Subsidiaries............. 45
SECTION 10.07. Indebtedness................................................................ 46
SECTION 10.08. Liens....................................................................... 47
SECTION 10.09. Fundamental Changes......................................................... 47
SECTION 10.10. Investments................................................................. 47
SECTION 10.11. Asset Sales................................................................. 48
SECTION 10.12. Restricted Payments......................................................... 48
SECTION 10.13. Prepayments of Indebtedness................................................. 49
SECTION 10.14. Transactions with Affiliates................................................ 49
SECTION 10.15. Repurchase Upon a Change of Control......................................... 49
SECTION 10.16. Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.............. 51
SECTION 10.17. Compliance with Laws; Etc................................................... 51
SECTION 10.18. Maintenance of Insurance.................................................... 51
SECTION 10.19. Change in Nature of Business................................................ 51
SECTION 10.20. Accounting Changes; Fiscal Year............................................. 51
SECTION 10.21. Minimum EBITDA.............................................................. 52
SECTION 10.22. Minimum Direct Units in Service............................................. 52
SECTION 10.23. Minimum Consolidated SRM Revenues........................................... 53
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SECTION 10.24. Non-Device Capital Expenditures............................................. 55
SECTION 10.25. Device Capital Expenditures................................................. 56
SECTION 10.26. Provision of Financial Statements........................................... 57
SECTION 10.27. Statement by Officers as to Default; Notice of Default...................... 58
ARTICLE XI COLLATERAL....................................................................... 58
SECTION 11.01. Collateral.................................................................. 58
SECTION 11.02. Recording and Opinions...................................................... 58
SECTION 11.03. Possession and Use of Collateral............................................ 59
SECTION 11.04. Release and Disposition of Collateral....................................... 59
SECTION 11.05. Disposition of Collateral Without Release................................... 59
ARTICLE XII GUARANTEES....................................................................... 60
SECTION 12.01. Guarantees.................................................................. 60
SECTION 12.02. Subordination of Guarantee.................................................. 62
SECTION 12.03. Limitation on Guarantor Liability........................................... 62
SECTION 12.04. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee......................................... 62
SECTION 12.05. Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.......................... 63
SECTION 12.06. Releases Following Sale of Assets........................................... 63
ARTICLE XIII SUBORDINATION.................................................................... 64
SECTION 13.01. Agreement to Subordinate.................................................... 64
SECTION 13.02. Liquidation, Dissolution or Bankruptcy...................................... 64
SECTION 13.03. Default on Designated Senior Debt........................................... 65
SECTION 13.04. Rights and Obligations of the Trustee and the Holders....................... 65
SECTION 13.05. Subrogation................................................................. 66
SECTION 13.06. Obligations of Company Unconditional........................................ 66
SECTION 13.07. Notice by the Company....................................................... 66
SECTION 13.08. Right as Holder of Senior Debt.............................................. 67
SECTION 13.09. Reinstatement............................................................... 67
SECTION 13.10. Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent.......................................... 67
SECTION 13.11. Trust Moneys Not Subordinated............................................... 67
SECTION 13.12. Trustee To Effectuate Subordination......................................... 67
SECTION 13.13. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt............................ 67
SECTION 13.14. Reliance by Holders of Senior Debt on Subordination Provisions.............. 67
ARTICLE XIV MISCELLANEOUS.................................................................... 68
SECTION 14.01. Trust Indenture Act Controls................................................ 68
SECTION 14.02. Notices..................................................................... 68
SECTION 14.03. Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes............... 69
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SECTION 14.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.......................... 69
SECTION 14.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion............................... 69
SECTION 14.06. Rules by Trustee and Agents................................................. 69
SECTION 14.07. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders.... 70
SECTION 14.08. Governing Law............................................................... 70
SECTION 14.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements............................... 70
SECTION 14.10. Successors.................................................................. 70
SECTION 14.11. Severability................................................................ 70
SECTION 14.12. Counterpart Originals....................................................... 70
SECTION 14.13. Table of Contents, Headings, etc............................................ 70
EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT A - Form of Note
EXHIBIT B - Form of Notation of Guarantee
EXHIBIT C - Form of Collateral Agent Agreement
EXHIBIT D - Form of Security Agreement
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INDENTURE, dated as of __________, 2002, by and among Arch
Wireless Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), Arch Wireless
Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("ARCH"), Arch Wireless, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the "PARENT"), and the direct and indirect subsidiaries of
the Parent listed on Schedule I hereto (such subsidiaries, the "SUBSIDIARY
GUARANTORS," and together with Arch and the Parent, herein the "GUARANTORS") and
The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (the
"TRUSTEE").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, on November 9, 2001, three creditors filed an
involuntary petition against Arch under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United
States Code (the "BANKRUPTCY CODE");
WHEREAS, on December 6, 2001, Arch consented to entry of an
order for relief and the Company and the other Guarantors each filed a voluntary
petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code with the United
States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts (the "BANKRUPTCY
COURT");
WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantors filed Debtors' First
Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization which was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court
on [ ], 2002 (as amended, the "PLAN");
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Plan, the Company is required to
issue the Notes (as defined herein), to certain holders of indebtedness of the
Company and certain of the Guarantors outstanding on the record date set by
order of the Bankruptcy Court;
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the creation of an
issue of its 12% Subordinated Secured Compounding Notes due 2009 (the "NOTES")
of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide
therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture;
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed
by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the
Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms, have
been done;
WHEREAS, the Guarantors have duly authorized the guarantee of
the Notes, and to provide therefor, the Guarantors have duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Guarantees, when
executed by the Guarantors and when the Notes have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the
Guarantors, and to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Guarantors, in
accordance with their and its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the acquisition
of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER
PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) The definitions of terms herein 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, (i) 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,
supplemented or otherwise modified, (ii) any definition of or reference to any
law shall be construed as referring to such law as from time to time amended and
any successor thereto and the rules and regulations promulgated from time to
time thereunder, (iii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
include such Person's successors and assigns, (iv) the words "herein," "hereof"
and "hereunder," and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to
this Indenture in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (v)
all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be
construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to,
this Indenture, and (vi) 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.
(2) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms
of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP;
provided that if the Company notifies the Trustee that the Company requests an
amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change
occurring after the date of this Indenture in GAAP or in the application thereof
on the operation of such provision, regardless of whether any such notice is
given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then
such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and
applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such
notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance
herewith. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a fiscal
period shall refer to the relevant fiscal period of the Company.
"ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT" means the named administrative agent,
in its capacity as administrative agent under any Credit Agreement, or any
successor thereto.
"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.
"AGENT" means any Registrar, co-registrar, Paying Agent or
additional paying agent.
"APPLICABLE PROCEDURES" means, with respect to any transfer,
redemption or exchange of or for beneficial interests in any Global Note, the
rules and procedures of the Depositary that apply to such transfer, redemption
or exchange.
"ARCH" means Arch Wireless Communications, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
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"AVAILABLE AMOUNT" means for any Person the aggregate unused
portion of any commitment, subject to any borrowing base or other limitations,
under any Credit Agreement available to be borrowed.
"BANKRUPTCY CODE" has the meaning set forth in the recitals to
this Indenture.
"BANKRUPTCY COURT" has the meaning set forth in the recitals
to this Indenture.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means: (1) with respect to a corporation,
the board of directors of the corporation; (2) with respect to a partnership,
the Board of Directors of the general partner of the partnership; and (3) with
respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a
similar function.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" of a Person means a copy of a resolution
certified by the Secretary or a duly authorized Assistant Secretary of such
Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full
force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"BUSINESS DAY" means (i) any day excluding Saturday, Sunday
and any day which is a legal holiday under the laws of the State of New York or
is a day on which banking institutions located in such state are required or
authorized by law or other governmental action to close, and (ii) a day of the
year on which the Collateral Agent is not required or authorized to close.
"CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the aggregate of amounts that would be reflected as additions to
property, plant or equipment on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person and
its subsidiaries prepared in conformity with GAAP, excluding interest
capitalized during construction and deferred financing fees.
"CAPITAL LEASE" means, with respect to any Person, any lease
of property by such Person as lessee which would be accounted for as a capital
lease on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in conformity with GAAP.
"CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS" means, for any Person for any
period, cash and cash equivalents of such Person and its subsidiaries for such
period, determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP.
"CHANGE IN CONTROL" means the occurrence at any time after the
date hereof of any of the following circumstances:
(a) any person or group of persons (within the
meaning of the Exchange Act), shall have acquired beneficial ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the Commission under
the Exchange Act) of 50% or more of the issued and outstanding Voting
Stock of the Parent;
(b) during any period of twelve consecutive calendar
months, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the
Board of Directors of any of the Note Parties or their subsidiaries
(together with any new directors whose election by the Board of
Directors of the Parent or whose nomination for election by the
stockholders of any of the Note Parties or their subsidiaries was
approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still
in office who either were directors at the beginning of such period or
whose elections or nomination for election was previously so approved)
cease for any reason other than death or disability to constitute a
majority of the directors then in office;
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(c) the failure of the Parent to own directly,
beneficially and of record, 100% of the aggregate ordinary voting power
represented by the issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents
of Arch on a fully diluted basis; or
(d) the failure of Arch to own directly, beneficially
and of record, 100% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented
by the issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents of the
Company on a fully diluted basis.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or any
successor legislation thereto), as amended from time to time.
"COLLATERAL" means any and all "Collateral" as defined in the
Collateral Agent Agreement and the Security Agreement.
"COLLATERAL AGENT" means The Bank of New York, in its capacity
as collateral agent under the Collateral Agent Agreement, or any successor
thereto.
"COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT" means the Collateral Agent
Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, among the Note Parties, the
Indenture Trustees, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties.
"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture.
"COMPANY REQUEST" or "COMPANY ORDER" means a written request
or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its
Chief Executive Officer, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President, a Vice
President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer,
its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"COMPOUNDED VALUE" means, for any Note, as of any date of
determination, the sum of (A) the principal amount of the Note and (B) any
interest in respect of such Note accrued through such date but in no event later
than the Trigger Date in accordance with Section 2.01 hereof and the terms of
such Note. On the date of issuance of any such Note, the amount under clause (B)
shall be zero.
"CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means, for any Person for any
period, the net income (or loss) of such Person and its subsidiaries for such
period, determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP; provided,
however, that: (a) the net income of any other Person in which such Person or
one of its subsidiaries has a joint interest with a third party (which interest
does not cause the net income of such other Person to be consolidated into the
net income of such Person in accordance with GAAP) shall be included only to the
extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid to such Person or
subsidiary; (b) the net income of any subsidiary of such Person that is subject
to any restriction or limitation on the payment of dividends or the making of
other distributions shall be excluded to the extent of such restriction or
limitation; (c) any net gain (or loss) resulting from an Asset Sale by such
Person or any of its subsidiaries other than in the ordinary course of business
shall be excluded; and (d) extraordinary gains and losses and any one-time
increase or decrease to net income which is required to be recorded because of
the adoption of new accounting policies, practices or standards required by GAAP
shall be excluded.
"CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION" of any Person means any obligation,
agreement, undertaking or similar provision of any security issued by such
Person or of any agreement, undertaking, contract, lease, indenture, mortgage,
deed of trust or other instrument (excluding this Indenture) to which such
Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound or to which any
of its properties is subject.
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"CONTROL" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a
Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or
otherwise. The terms "Controlling" and "Controlled" have meanings correlative
thereto.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" mean the principal office of the
Trustee in the City of New York, at which at any particular time its corporate
trust business shall be administered, which at the date hereof is 000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000.
"CREDIT AGREEMENT" means one or more debt facilities or
agreements (a) existing on the date hereof or (b) entered into after the date
hereof and prior to the Trigger Date with the consent of holders representing at
least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Senior Notes,
in each case with banks or other institutional lenders providing for revolving
credit loans and the issuance of letters of credit in an amount not to exceed
$35,000,000 to be used on a revolving credit basis for working capital purposes,
in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced,
restructured, restated or refinanced (including any agreement to extend the
maturity thereof and adding additional borrowers or guarantors) in whole or in
part from time to time under the same or any other agent, lender or group of
lenders.
"CURRENT MATURITIES OF LONG TERM DEBT" means, for any Person
for any period, current maturities of long term debt of such Person and its
subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in conformity
with GAAP.
"CUSTOMARY PERMITTED LIENS" means, with respect to any Person,
any of the following Liens:
(a) Liens with respect to the payment of taxes, assessments or
governmental charges in all cases which are not yet due or which are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which
adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are being maintained to the
extent required by GAAP;
(b) Liens of landlords arising by statute and Liens of
suppliers, mechanics, carriers, materialmen, warehousemen or workmen and other
Liens imposed by law created in the ordinary course of business for amounts not
yet due or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
and with respect to which adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are
being maintained to the extent required by GAAP;
(c) deposits made in the ordinary course of business in
connection with worker's compensation, unemployment insurance or other types of
social security benefits or to secure the performance of bids, tenders, sales,
contracts (other than for the repayment of borrowed money) and surety, appeal,
customs or performance bonds;
(d) encumbrances arising by reason of zoning restrictions,
easements, licenses, reservations, covenants, rights-of-way, utility easements,
building restrictions and other similar encumbrances on the use of real property
that do not materially detract from the value of such real property or interfere
with the ordinary conduct of the business conducted and proposed to be conducted
at such real property;
(e) encumbrances arising under leases or subleases of real
property that do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of such
real property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business conducted
and proposed to be conducted at such real property;
(f) financing statements of a lessor's rights in and to
personal property leased to such Person in the ordinary course of such Person's
business; and
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(g) Liens to secure Indebtedness permitted by clauses (h) and
(i) of Section 10.07 covering only the assets acquired with such Indebtedness.
"DEFAULT" means any event or condition which constitutes an
Event of Default or that upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured
or waived, become an Event of Default.
"DEFINITIVE NOTE" means a certificated Note registered in the
name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.07 hereof,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto except that such Note shall not
bear the Global Note Legend and shall not have the "Schedule of Exchanges of
Interests in the Global Note" attached thereto.
"DEPOSITARY" means, with respect to the Notes issuable or
issued in whole or in part in global form, any Person authorized by the Company
to serve as the Depositary with respect to the Notes, until a successor shall
have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this
Indenture, and, thereafter, "Depositary" shall mean or include such successor.
"DESIGNATED SENIOR DEBT" means Indebtedness of the Parent or
any of the Subsidiaries outstanding under any Credit Agreement and all Hedging
Contracts with respect thereto and the Senior Notes and the related obligations
set forth in clause (4) of the definition of Senior Debt.
"DETERMINATION DATE" means the date of determination of Excess
Cash Flow, which shall be 10 days prior to each Interest Payment Date.
"DIRECT UNITS IN SERVICE" means, at any date, messaging
devices for which messaging services are provided by the Parent and the
Subsidiaries as of such date directly to customers.
"DOLLARS" or "$" refers to lawful money of the United States
of America.
"DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY" means, as to the Parent, a Subsidiary
organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia.
"EBITDA" means, with respect to any Person for any period, an
amount equal to: (a) Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period;
plus (b) the sum of, in each case to the extent included in the calculation of
such Consolidated Net Income but without duplication, (i) any provision for
income taxes, (ii) Interest Expense, (iii) loss from extraordinary items, (iv)
depreciation, depletion and amortization of intangibles or financing or
acquisition costs, (v) all other non-cash charges and non-cash losses for such
period, including the amount of any compensation deduction as the result of any
grant of Stock or Stock Equivalents to employees, officers, directors or
consultants, other than charges representing accruals of future cash expenses,
(vi) severance payments to employees, whether or not previously reserved for and
(vii) all cash restructuring charges; minus (c) the sum of, in each case to the
extent included in the calculation of such Consolidated Net Income but without
duplication, (i) any credit for income tax, (ii) interest income, (iii) gains
from extraordinary items for such period, (iv) any aggregate net gain (but not
any aggregate net loss) from the sale, exchange or other disposition of capital
assets by such Person, and (v) any other non-cash gains or other items which
have been added in determining Consolidated Net Income, including any reversal
of a change referred to in clause (b)(v) above by reason of a decrease in the
value of any Stock or Stock Equivalent.
"EXCESS CASH FLOW" means from the date hereof and until
September 30, 2004, for each six month period starting on each of April 1 and
October 1 (other than the initial period which shall be from the date hereof
through September 30, 2002) (each, a "MEASUREMENT PERIOD"), the amount by which
(a) Cash and Cash Equivalents as of the end of the Measurement Period just ended
less (i) the amount of cash required to make the interest payment on the Notes
on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date and (ii) the amount of cash
required to make any mandatory redemptions pursuant to Section 9.02(a) to the
extent
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such amounts are included in Cash and Cash Equivalents, (b) plus the Available
Amount on the Determination Date, and (c) plus 75% of any negative number, or
minus 50% of any positive number, resulting from subtracting Working Capital at
the end of the Measurement Period just ended from Working Capital at the end of
the Measurement Period preceding the Measurement Period just ended (the
"AVAILABLE CASH") exceeds $45,000,000. From and after October 1, 2004, "EXCESS
CASH FLOW" will mean, for any such Measurement Period, the amount by which
Available Cash exceeds $35,000,000.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"FISCAL QUARTER" means each of the three-month periods ending
on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31.
"FISCAL YEAR" means the twelve-month period ending on December
31.
"FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means, as to the Parent, any Subsidiary
other than a Domestic Subsidiary.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in
effect in the United States of America as of the date hereof unless another date
is specified herein.
"GLOBAL NOTE" means a Note substantially in the form of the
Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"GOVERNMENT SECURITIES" means direct obligations of, or
obligations fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by, the United
States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof for the payment of
which obligations or guarantee the full faith and credit of the United States is
pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the issuer's option.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means the government of the United
States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof,
whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory
body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative,
judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or
pertaining to government.
"GROSS PLACEMENTS" means the sale, lease or exchange of paging
and messaging devices.
"GUARANTEE" means each guarantee by the Parent or any of the
Subsidiaries of any Notes or Senior Notes.
"GUARANTY OBLIGATION" means, as applied to any Person, any
direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person with
respect to any Indebtedness of another Person, if the purpose or intent of such
Person in incurring the Guaranty Obligation is to provide assurance to the
obligee of such Indebtedness that such Indebtedness will be paid or discharged,
or that any holder of such Indebtedness will be protected (in whole or in part)
against loss in respect thereof, including: (a) the direct or indirect guaranty,
endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of
business), or co-making of Indebtedness of another Person; and (b) any liability
of such Person for Indebtedness of another Person through any agreement
(contingent or otherwise) (i) to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such
Indebtedness or any security therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or
discharge of such Indebtedness (whether in the form of a loan, advance, stock
purchase, capital contribution or otherwise), (ii) to maintain the solvency or
any balance sheet item, level of income or financial condition of another
Person, (iii) to make take-or-pay or similar payments, if required, regardless
of non-performance by any other party or parties to an agreement, (iv) to
purchase, sell or lease (as lessor or lessee) property, or to purchase or sell
services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment of
such Indebtedness or to assure the holder of such Indebtedness against loss, or
(v) to supply funds to or in any
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other manner invest in such other Person (including to pay for property or
services irrespective of whether such property is received or such services are
rendered), if in the case of any agreement described under subclause (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv) or (v) of clause (b) of this sentence the primary purpose or intent
thereof is as described in the preceding sentence. The amount of any Guaranty
Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the Indebtedness so guaranteed or
otherwise supported.
"GUARANTORS" means, collectively, the Parent, Arch and each of
the Subsidiary Guarantors.
"HEDGING CONTRACTS" means all Interest Rate Contracts, foreign
exchange contracts, currency swap or option agreements, forward contracts,
commodity swap, purchase or option agreements, other commodity price hedging
arrangements, and all other similar agreements or arrangements designed to alter
the risks of any Person arising from fluctuations in interest rates, currency
values or commodity prices.
"HOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Note is registered in
the Note Register.
"INDEBTEDNESS" of any Person means without duplication: (a)
all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments or which
bear interest; (c) all reimbursement and all obligations with respect to letters
of credit, bankers' acceptances, surety bonds and performance bonds, whether or
not matured; (d) all indebtedness for the deferred purchase price of property or
services, other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising under any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by
such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under
such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of
such property); (f) all obligations of such Person under Capital Leases and the
present value of future rental payments under all synthetic leases; (g) all
Guaranty Obligations of such Person; (h) all obligations of such Person to
purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any Stock or
Stock Equivalents of such Person, valued, in the case of redeemable preferred
stock, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference
plus accrued and unpaid dividends; (i) all payments that such Person would have
to make in the event of an early termination on the date Indebtedness of such
Person is being determined in respect of Hedging Contracts of such Person; and
(j) all Indebtedness of the type referred to above secured by (or for which the
holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to
be secured by) any Lien upon or in property (including Accounts (as defined in
the Security Agreement) and general intangibles) owned by such Person, even
though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such
Indebtedness.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
entered into pursuant to applicable provisions hereof.
"INDENTURE TRUSTEES" means the Senior Indenture Trustee and
the Trustee.
"INTEREST EXPENSE" means, for any Person for any period, the
total interest expense of such Person and its subsidiaries for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP and including, in any
event, interest capitalized for such period and net costs under Interest Rate
Contracts for such period (without deducting therefrom any (i) net gains of such
Person and its subsidiaries under Interest Rate Contracts for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP, or (ii) interest
income of such Person and its subsidiaries for such period determined on a
consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP).
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means the Stated Maturity of an
installment of interest on the Notes.
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"INTEREST PERIOD" means (i) the period commencing on the date
hereof and ending on and including the day immediately preceding the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date and (ii) the period commencing on and including
an Interest Payment Date and ending on and including the day immediately
preceding the next succeeding Interest Payment Date.
"INTEREST RATE CONTRACTS" means all interest rate swap
agreements, interest rate cap agreements, interest rate collar agreements and
interest rate insurance.
"INVESTMENT" means, with respect to any Person: (a) any
purchase or other acquisition by that Person of (i) any security issued by, (ii)
a beneficial interest in any security issued by, or (iii) any other equity
ownership interest in, any other Person; (b) any purchase by that Person of all
or a significant part of the assets of a business conducted by another Person;
(c) any loan, advance (other than deposits with financial institutions available
for withdrawal on demand, prepaid expenses, accounts receivable and similar
items made or incurred in the ordinary course of business as presently
conducted), or capital contribution by that Person to any other Person,
including all Indebtedness of any other Person to that Person arising from a
sale of property by that Person other than in the ordinary course of its
business; and (d) any guarantee incurred by that Person in respect of
Indebtedness of any other Person.
"LIEN" means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge,
hypothecation, assignment, charge, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien
(statutory or other), security interest or preference, priority or other
security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever
intended to assure payment of any Indebtedness or other obligation, including
any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, the interest of a
lessor under a Capital Lease, any financing lease having substantially the same
economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing of any financing
statement under the UCC or comparable law of any jurisdiction naming the owner
of the asset to which such Lien relates as debtor (other than those financing
statements filed solely for precautionary reasons in connection with operating
leases).
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" means any Credit Agreement, the promissory
notes issued thereunder, any guarantees thereof and the documentation in respect
of each letter of credit issued thereunder.
"MAJORITY NOTEHOLDERS" means, at any time, Holders
representing at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Notes.
"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means a material adverse effect on
any of (a) the condition (financial or otherwise), business, performance,
prospects (as such prospects relate to the Note Parties' ability to repay its
obligations under the Notes and the Guarantees), operations or properties of any
of the Parent and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the legality, validity
or enforceability of any Secured Debt Document; (c) the perfection or priority
of the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Documents; (d) the ability of the
Parent or any of the Subsidiaries to repay the Obligations or perform its
respective obligations under the Secured Debt Documents; or (e) the ability of
the Administrative Agent, the Indenture Trustees or the Collateral Agent to
enforce the rights and remedies under the Secured Debt Documents.
"MATERIAL FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means, as to any Person, a
Foreign Subsidiary of such Person which, as of the last day of the most recently
completed fiscal quarter, satisfied any one or more of the following three
tests: (i) the amount of the Investments in such Foreign Subsidiary made by the
Parent and the Subsidiaries on or after the date hereof exceeds $5,000,000 in
the aggregate, (ii) the Parent's and the Subsidiaries' (other than such Foreign
Subsidiary's) proportionate share of consolidated total assets of the Parent and
the Subsidiaries (after intercompany eliminations) consisting of the property of
such Foreign Subsidiary exceeds 2% of consolidated total assets of the Parent
and the Subsidiaries or (iii) the Parent's and the Subsidiaries' (other than
such Foreign Subsidiary's) equity in the income (not to include losses) from
continuing operations before income taxes, extraordinary items and the
cumulative effect of a change
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in accounting principles of such Foreign Subsidiary exceeds 2% of the income
(not to include losses) from continuing operations before income taxes,
extraordinary items and the cumulative effect of a change in accounting
principles of the Parent and the Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with GAAP.
"MATERIAL OBLIGATIONS" means Indebtedness (other than
Indebtedness under this Indenture and the Notes) or other obligations of any one
or more of the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal
amount equal to or exceeding $4,000,000. For purposes of determining Material
Obligations, the "principal amount" of the obligations of the Parent or any
Subsidiary in respect of any Hedging Contract at any time shall be the maximum
aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Parent or
any Subsidiary, as applicable, would be required to pay if such Hedging Contract
were terminated at such time.
"MATURITY" means, with respect to any Note, the date on which
any principal of such Note becomes due and payable as provided therein or in
this Indenture, whether at the Stated Maturity with respect to such principal or
by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, purchase or otherwise.
"MATURITY DATE" means May 15, 2009.
"MEASUREMENT PERIOD" has the meaning set forth in the
definition of "Excess Cash Flow."
"MORTGAGE" means a mortgage, deed of trust, assignment of
leases and rents or other security document granting a Lien on any Mortgaged
Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) to secure the Obligations.
"NET CASH PROCEEDS" means proceeds received by any Note Party
after the date hereof in Cash and Cash Equivalents from any: (a) Asset Sale in
excess of $2 million, net of (i) the reasonable cash costs of sale, assignment
or other disposition, (ii) taxes paid or payable as a result thereof and (iii)
the amount of Indebtedness secured by the property that is the subject of such
Asset Sale which is required to be repaid upon such sale or (b) Property Loss
Event; provided, however, that in the case of any Net Cash Proceeds arising from
a Property Loss Event in an amount less than $1,000,000, (i) if the Company
shall deliver a certificate of a financial officer thereof to the Collateral
Agent and the Trustee within 30 days after the date thereof setting forth such
Note Party's intent to use the proceeds of such Property Loss Event to repair or
replace the assets that are the subject thereof with, or otherwise purchase,
other assets to be used in the same line of business within 180 days of the
receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds and no Default shall have occurred and be
continuing at the time of such certificate or at the proposed time of the
application of such proceeds or (ii) the Majority Noteholders shall have
consented to such use in writing, such proceeds shall not constitute Net Cash
Proceeds except to the extent not so used at the end of such 180-day period, at
which time such proceeds shall be deemed Net Cash Proceeds.
"NON-MATERIAL FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means as to any Person at
any time of determination, a Foreign Subsidiary of such Person other than a
Material Foreign Subsidiary.
"NOTE CUSTODIAN" means any Person authorized by the Company to
serve as custodian with respect to the Notes in global form, or any successor
entity thereto.
"NOTES" has the meaning set forth in the recitals to this
Indenture.
"NOTE PARTIES" means the Company and the Guarantors.
"OBLIGATIONS" shall have the meaning set forth in the Security
Agreement.
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"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the
officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 10.27 shall
be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
"ONE-WAY CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, for any Person for any
period, the Capital Expenditures made by such Person for such period in respect
of one-way paging and messaging services.
"ONE-WAY SRM REVENUE" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the consolidated Revenue of such Person and its consolidated
subsidiaries solely in respect of the provision of network service for the
service, rental and maintenance of one-way paging and messaging devices for such
period.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may (unless otherwise required by the Trust Indenture Act) be counsel for the
Company and who may rely as to factual matters on an Officers' Certificate, and
who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"OUTSTANDING," when used with respect to Notes, means, as of
the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Notes for whose payment or redemption money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or
any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Notes; provided that if such
Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made; and
(c) Notes paid pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof or
Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Notes in respect of which there shall have been presented to the
Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Notes are held by a bona
fide purchaser in whose hands such Notes are valid obligations of the
Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Notes owned by
the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company
or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding,
except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying
upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Notes which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to
be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the
Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"PARENT" means Arch Wireless, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
"PAYING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of or interest on any Notes on behalf of the Company.
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"PERMIT" means any permit, approval, authorization, license,
variance or permission required from a Governmental Authority under an
applicable Requirement of Law.
"PERSON" means any natural person, corporation, limited
liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership,
Governmental Authority or other entity.
"PLANNED ONE-WAY SRM REVENUE" for any Fiscal Quarter means the
projected One-Way SRM Revenue for such quarter as set forth in Section 10.23 of
this Indenture.
"PLANNED TWO-WAY SRM REVENUE" for any Fiscal Quarter means the
projected Two-Way SRM Revenue for such quarter as set forth in Section 10.23 of
this Indenture.
"PROPERTY LOSS EVENT" means any loss of or damage to property
of any Note Party that results in the receipt by such Person of proceeds of
insurance or any taking of property of any Note Party that results in the
receipt by such Person of a compensation payment in respect thereof.
"REDEMPTION DATE," when used with respect to any Note to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REDEMPTION PRICE," when used with respect to any Note to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date means the May 15 or November 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as
the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"REPRESENTATIVE" means the Trustee or other trustee, agent or
representative for any Senior Debt.
"REQUIREMENT OF LAW" means, with respect to any Person, the
common law and all federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and
regulations, orders, judgments, decrees and other legal requirements or
determinations of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator, applicable to or
binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any
of its property is subject.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER," when used with respect to the Trustee,
means an officer of the Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office assigned and duly
authorized by the Trustee to administer this Indenture and when used with
respect to any other Person, any other officer to whom a matter is referred
because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject.
"RESTRICTED PAYMENT" means: (a) any dividend or other
distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any Stock or Stock Equivalents
of the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding, except a
dividend payable solely in Stock or Stock Equivalents or a dividend or
distribution payable solely to the Parent, the Company and/or one or more
Subsidiary Guarantors; (b) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar
payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any
Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries now or
hereafter outstanding other than one payable solely to the Parent, the Company
and/or one or more Subsidiary Guarantors; and (c) any payment or prepayment of
principal, premium, if any, interest, fees (including fees to obtain any waiver
or consent) or other charges on, or redemption, purchase, retirement,
defeasance, sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any other
Indebtedness of the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries or any other Note Party
which by its terms is subordinated to the Notes, other than any required
redemptions, retirement, purchases or other payments, in each case to the extent
permitted to be made by the terms of such Indebtedness after giving effect to
any applicable subordination provisions.
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"REVENUE" means, with respect to any Person for any period, an
amount equal to the revenue or earnings of such Person for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP.
"SECURED DEBT DOCUMENTS" means the Security Documents, the
Loan Documents, this Indenture, the Senior Indenture, the Notes and the Senior
Notes.
"SECURED PARTIES" means the "Secured Parties" as defined in
the Security Agreement.
"SECURITY AGREEMENT" means the Security Agreement,
substantially in the form of Exhibit D, among the Note Parties, the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
"SECURITY DOCUMENTS" means, collectively, all of the
agreements, instruments, documents, pledges or filings executed in connection
with granting, or that otherwise evidence, the Lien of the Collateral Agent in
the Collateral, including, without limitation, the Collateral Agent Agreement,
the Security Agreement and each Mortgage creating a Lien that secures the Notes
and the guarantees thereof, the Senior Notes and the guarantees thereof, and the
Credit Agreement, if any, and any other document, agreement, instrument, pledge
or filing executed in connection with the granting, or that otherwise evidence,
the Lien of the Collateral Agent on the Collateral.
"SENIOR DEBT" means:
(1) all Indebtedness of the Parent and any of the Subsidiaries
outstanding under any Credit Agreement and all Hedging Contracts with respect
thereto;
(2) the Senior Notes;
(3) any other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by the
Company under the terms of this Indenture that expressly provides that it is
Senior Debt; and
(4) all obligations of the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries
with respect to the items listed in the preceding clauses (1), (2) and (3),
including any principal, premium, if any, interest (including with respect to
clauses (1) and (2) above, interest accruing at the rate provided for in the
documents evidencing such Senior Debt after the commencement of any proceedings
of the type referred to in Sections 4.01(h) or (i) hereof, whether or not an
allowed claim in such proceeding), redemption proceeds, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, guarantees, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities
payable under the documentation governing any such Indebtedness.
"SENIOR INDENTURE" means the Indenture, dated as of [ ],
2002, between the Note Parties and the Senior Indenture Trustee pursuant to
which the Company issued the Senior Notes.
"SENIOR INDENTURE TRUSTEE" means The Bank of New York, in its
capacity as trustee under the Senior Indenture, and any successor thereto.
"SENIOR NOTES" means the 10% Senior Subordinated Secured Notes
due 2007 of the Company issued under the Senior Indenture.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.11.
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"SRM REVENUE" means, with respect to any Person for any
period, the consolidated Revenue of such Person and its consolidated
subsidiaries solely in respect of the provision of network service for the
service, rental and maintenance of paging devices for such period.
"STATED MATURITY" means, when used with respect to any Note or
any installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such Note as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Note or such installment of interest
is due and payable.
"STOCK" means shares of capital stock (whether denominated as
common stock or preferred stock), beneficial, partnership or membership
interests, participations or other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of
or in a corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture,
association, company, partnership or other entity, whether voting or non-voting.
"STOCK EQUIVALENTS" means all securities convertible into or
exchangeable for Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase or
subscribe for any Stock, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or
exercisable.
"SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person (the "parent")
at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with
those of the parent in the parent's consolidated financial statements if such
financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as
well as any other corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture,
association, company, partnership or other entity of which securities or other
ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of
the ordinary voting power are or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of
the general partnership interests is, as of such date, owned, controlled or held
by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
"SUBSIDIARY" means any subsidiary of the Parent other than (i)
any subsidiary of Paging Network Canadian Holdings, Inc. that is organized under
the laws of Canada or any province thereof and that is in existence on the date
hereof, (ii) for the period from the date hereof through the date which is 367
days after the later of (x) June 1, 2002 and (y) the termination of the Asset
Acquisition Agreement, dated as of January 24, 2001, by and among Unrestricted
Subsidiary Funding Company, the Parent, PageNet SMR Sub, Inc., and AWI Spectrum
Co., LLC, AWI Spectrum Co., LLC and AWI Spectrum Co. Holdings, Inc. shall not be
deemed to be Subsidiaries for purposes of this Indenture; provided that on and
after such date, each of AWI Spectrum Co., LLC and AWI Spectrum Co. Holdings,
Inc. shall be deemed to be Subsidiaries for purposes of this Indenture, and
(iii) each Foreign Subsidiary of Paging Network International, Inc. existing on
the date hereof; provided that if such Foreign Subsidiary is not dissolved or
merged into the Company or a Guarantor on or before the first anniversary of the
date hereof and the Trustee shall not have received a certificate of the
applicable Governmental Authority (with a certified translation thereof if such
certificate is not in English) evidencing the dissolution thereof or the merger
thereof into the Company or a Guarantor, such Foreign Subsidiary shall
thereafter be deemed to be a Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture.
"SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR" means all of the current and future
Domestic Subsidiaries of the Parent other than the Company.
"TRIGGER DATE" means the date on which the Senior Notes are
paid in full.
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean such successor Trustee.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed;
provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act
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of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent
required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"TWO-WAY CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, for any Person for any
period, the Capital Expenditures made by such Person for such period in respect
of two-way paging and messaging services.
"TWO-WAY SRM REVENUE" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the consolidated Revenue of such Person and its consolidated
subsidiaries solely in respect of the provision of network service for the
service, rental and maintenance of two-way paging and messaging devices for such
period.
"UCC" means, at any time, the Uniform Commercial Code in
effect in the State of New York at such time.
"VICE PRESIDENT," when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a word or a
number of words added before or after the title "vice president."
"VOTING STOCK" means Stock of any Person having ordinary power
to vote in the election of members of the Board of Directors of such Person
(irrespective of whether, at the time, Stock of any other class or classes of
such entity shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of
any contingency).
"WORKING CAPITAL" means the difference between current assets
(excluding Cash and Cash Equivalents) and current liabilities (excluding Current
Maturities of Long Term Debt, if any) each in conformity with GAAP.
SECTION 1.02. OTHER DEFINITIONS.
Defined in
Term Section
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"Act" .......................................... 1.05
"Affiliate Transaction" ........................ 10.14
"Asset Sale" ................................... 10.11
"Benefited Party" .............................. 12.01
"Change of Control Offer" ...................... 10.15
"Change of Control Purchase Price" ............. 10.15
"CUSIP" ........................................ 2.15
"Defaulted Interest" ........................... 2.11
"Event of Default" ............................. 4.01
"Note Register" ................................ 2.04
"One-Way Device Capital Expenditures" .......... 10.24
"Paying Agent" ................................. 2.04
"Permitted Investments" ........................ 10.10
"Permitted Liens" .............................. 10.08
"Registrar" .................................... 2.04
"Surviving Entity" ............................. 7.01
"Two-Way Device Capital Expenditures" .......... 10.24
SECTION 1.03. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
(a) Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of
the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part
of this Indenture.
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(b) The following TIA terms used in this Indenture
have the following meanings:
"indenture securities" means the Notes;
"indenture security holder" means a Holder of a Note;
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture;
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the
Trustee; and
"obligor" on the Notes means the Company and any successor
obligor upon the Notes.
(c) All other terms used in this Indenture that are
defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or
defined by Commission rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned
to them.
SECTION 1.04. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified
by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or Opinion of
Counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the
matters upon which such officer's certificate or opinion is based are erroneous.
Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates
to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an
officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to
such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel
knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
SECTION 1.05. ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by the Majority Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by the Majority Noteholders in
person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"ACT" of the Majority Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof
of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section
5.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section.
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(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The Company or the Trustee may, in the circumstances
permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, fix any day as the record date for the
purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on
any action, authorized or permitted to be given or taken by Holders, and the
Company agrees to notify the Trustee of any such fixing of a record date. If not
set by the Company or the Trustee prior to the first solicitation of a Holder
made by any Person in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such
vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be
the 30th day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required
to be provided pursuant to Section 6.01) prior to such first solicitation or
vote, as the case may be. With regard to any record date, only the Holders on
such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or take,
or vote on, the relevant action.
(d) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note
Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Majority Noteholders shall bind every future
Holder of the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the
Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon
such Note.
SECTION 1.06. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder and the Holders of Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.07. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date,
or Stated Maturity of any Note shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Notes) payment
of interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity; provided that
no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment
Date, Redemption Date, or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
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ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.01. TITLE AND TERMS.
The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $100,500,000,
except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of,
or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 2.09, 2.10,
8.06 or 9.09.
The Notes shall be known and designated as the "12%
Subordinated Secured Compounding Notes due 2009" of the Company. The Stated
Maturity of the Notes shall be May 15, 2009. Interest on the Notes will accrue
at a rate per annum equal to 12%.
From the date of original issuance of the Notes through the
Trigger Date, interest on the Notes shall compound semi-annually on the
Compounded Value in effect immediately prior to the applicable Interest Payment
Date as if the Compounded Value were principal. All references in this Indenture
to principal of the Notes as of any date shall mean the Compounded Value as of
such date. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the aggregate
amount of such Compounded Value and such accrued and compounded interest on the
Determination Date.
On the Trigger Date, the Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the occurrence of the Trigger Date and of the Compounded Value as of
such date. From and after the Trigger Date, interest on the Notes shall be
payable in cash semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date based on
the Compounded Value as of the Trigger Date, which shall be the Compounded Value
as of the immediately prior Interest Payment Date. On the first Interest Payment
Date occurring after the Trigger Date, interest shall be paid on the Notes in
cash for the full prior Interest Period. Interest will accrue or be paid, as the
case may be, on each May 15 and November 15 commencing November 15, 2002, to the
persons in whose names the Notes are registered at the close of business on the
preceding May 1 or November 1, as the case may be. Interest will accrue from the
most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from the
date of original issuance of the Notes. Interest will be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. If at any time an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall pay interest on demand at a
rate that is 2% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect; it shall pay
interest on overdue installments of interest from time to time on demand at the
same rate to the extent lawful.
The principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable at
the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, New York, maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency
maintained by the Company for such purpose; provided, however, that at the
option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the
address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note
Register. Payment of the principal of on the Notes will be made upon the
presentation of the Notes at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York.
The Notes shall be redeemable as provided in Article IX.
The Notes shall not have the benefit of any sinking fund
obligations.
The Notes shall be guaranteed pursuant to the terms of the
Article XII hereof and shall be secured pursuant to the terms of the Security
Documents.
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SECTION 2.02. FORM AND DATING.
(a) GENERAL. The Notes and the Trustee's certificate of
authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The Notes
may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange
rules or usage. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The
Notes shall be issued in fully registered form, without coupons, in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. The terms and provisions
contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part
of this Indenture, and the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and
delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to
be bound thereby.
(b) FORM OF NOTES. Notes issued in global form shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (including the Global
Note Legend and the "Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in Global Notes"
attached thereto). Notes issued in definitive form shall be substantially in the
form of Exhibit A attached hereto (but without including the Global Note Legend
and the "Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in Global Notes" attached thereto).
Each Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be
specified therein, and each shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate
principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may
from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges
and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any
increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby
shall be made by the Trustee or the Note Custodian, at the direction of the
Trustee, in accordance with written instructions given by the Holder thereof as
required by Section 2.07 hereof in such form as is reasonably satisfactory to
the Trustee.
(c) BOOK-ENTRY PROVISIONS. Participants and indirect
participants shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any
Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary or by the Trustee as the
custodian for the Depositary or under such Global Note, and the Depositary shall
be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the
Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any
written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary
or impair, as between the Depositary and its participants or indirect
participants, the Applicable Procedures or the operation of customary practices
of the Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a
beneficial interest in any Global Note.
SECTION 2.03. EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.
(a) One officer shall sign the Notes for the Company
by manual or facsimile signature.
(b) If an officer whose signature is on a Note no
longer holds that office at the time a Note is authenticated, the Note
shall nevertheless be valid.
(c) A Note shall not be valid until authenticated by
the manual signature of the Trustee. The signature shall be conclusive
evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.
(d) The Trustee shall, upon a receipt of a Company
Order requesting that notes be authenticated by the Trustee
authenticate Notes for original issue.
(e) The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent
acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. An authenticating
agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each
reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes
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authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same
rights as an Agent to deal with Holders or an Affiliate of the Company.
SECTION 2.04. REGISTRAR, PAYING AGENT AND DEPOSITARY.
The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may
be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange ("REGISTRAR") and an
office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment ("PAYING AGENT"). The
Registrar shall keep in a register of the Notes (the "NOTE REGISTER"), the names
and addresses of the Holders and of their transfer and exchange. The Company,
upon prior written notice to the Trustee, may appoint one or more co-registrars
and one or more additional paying agents. The term "Registrar" includes any
co-registrar and the term "Paying Agent" includes any additional paying agent.
The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any
Holder. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address
of any Agent not a party to this Indenture. The Company or any of its
subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar. The Company shall enter into
an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this Indenture,
which shall incorporate the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act. Such
agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such
Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of such
Agent.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to
act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the
Registrar and Paying Agent and to act as Note Custodian with respect to the
Global Notes.
SECTION 2.05. PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN TRUST.
The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the
Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the
benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the
payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Notes, and
shall notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such
payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying
Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time may
require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment
over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a
Subsidiary) shall have no further liability for the money. If the Company or a
Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust
fund for the benefit of the Holders all money held by it as Paying Agent. Upon
any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings relating to the Company, the
Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.
SECTION 2.06. HOLDER LISTS.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and
addresses of all Holders and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If
the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at
least seven Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other
times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such
date or such shorter time as the Trustee may allow, as the Trustee may
reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders and the Company
shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a).
SECTION 2.07. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a) TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF DEFINITIVE NOTES. When Definitive
Notes are presented by a Holder to the Registrar with a request (1) to register
the transfer of the Definitive Notes or (2) to
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exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes
of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or
make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such transactions are
met; provided that any Definitive Notes presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a
written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly
executed by the Holder thereof or by his attorney duly authorized in writing.
(b) TRANSFER OF A DEFINITIVE NOTE FOR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
THE GLOBAL NOTE. A Definitive Note may be exchanged for a beneficial interest in
the Global Note only upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly
endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instruments of transfer, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, together with written instructions directing the
Trustee to make an endorsement on the Global Note to reflect an increase in the
aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note.
(c) TRANSFER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A GLOBAL NOTE FOR A
DEFINITIVE NOTE. A beneficial interest in the Global Note may be exchanged for a
Definitive Note only under the circumstances described in Section 2.07(g) and
upon receipt by the Trustee of written transfer instructions (or such other form
of instructions as is customary for the Depositary) from the Depositary (or its
nominee) on behalf of any Person having a beneficial interest in a Global Note
that such Note is being transferred, in which case the Trustee shall, in
accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the
Depositary and the Trustee, cause the aggregate principal amount of the Global
Note to be reduced accordingly and, following such reduction, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to
the transferee a Definitive Note in the appropriate principal amount.
(d) TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THE
GLOBAL NOTE. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in the Global
Note shall be effected through the Depositary in accordance with this Indenture
and the procedures of the Depositary therefor, which shall include restrictions
on transfer comparable to those set forth herein to the extent required by the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
When a Global Note is presented to the Registrar with a
request (1) to register the transfer of the Global Note or (2) to exchange such
Global Notes for an equal principal amount of Notes of other denominations, the
Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements
for such transactions are met; provided, however, that any Note presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or
accompanied by a written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Registrar and the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or by his attorney
duly authorized in writing. To permit registrations of transfer and exchanges,
the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate Notes at the
Registrar's request, subject to such rules as the Trustee may reasonably
require.
(e) CANCELLATION AND/OR ADJUSTMENT OF THE GLOBAL NOTE. At such
time as all beneficial interests in the Global Note have either been exchanged
for Definitive Notes, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the Global Note shall
be returned to or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time prior to
such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in the Global Note is exchanged
for Definitive Notes, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the aggregate principal
amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced accordingly,
and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note by the Trustee to reflect
such reduction.
(f) GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO TRANSFERS AND EXCHANGES. To
permit registrations of transfers and exchanges effected in accordance with this
Indenture, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate the
Global Note and any Definitive Notes at the Registrar's request. The Global Note
and any Definitive Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
beneficial interests in the Global Note or the Definitive Notes shall be legal,
valid and binding obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Definitive Notes or
Global Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
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Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required to (a)
issue, register the transfer of or exchange Notes during a period beginning at
the opening of business on a Business Day 15 days before the day of mailing of
any notice of redemption of Notes under Section 9.06 hereof and ending at the
close of business on the day of such mailing or (b) register the transfer of or
exchange any Note so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
No service fee shall be charged to any Holder of a Note for
any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly
permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection
therewith (other than such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable
upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.09, 2.10, 8.06 or 9.09 hereof, which shall
be paid by the Company).
Prior to due presentment to the Trustee for registration of
the transfer of any Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and
treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered as the absolute owner of
such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on
such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is
overdue, and none of the Trustee, any Agent or the Company shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
The Trustee shall authenticate Global Notes and Definitive
Notes in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.03 hereof.
All certifications, certificates and Opinions of Counsel
required to be submitted to the Registrar pursuant to this Section 2.07 to
effect a registration of transfer or exchange may be submitted by facsimile.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to enter into a letter of
representation with the Depositary in the form provided by the Company and to
act in accordance with such letter.
(g) GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO GLOBAL NOTES.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Note may be
transferred to, or registered or exchanged for Notes registered in the name of,
any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Note or any nominee
thereof, and no such transfer may be registered, unless (i) such Depositary (A)
notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary
for such Global Note or (B) ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Exchange Act, (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating that such Global Note shall be so transferable, registrable, and
exchangeable, and such transfers shall be registrable, or (iii) upon the request
of a Holder if there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default
with respect to the Notes evidenced by such Global Note. Notwithstanding any
other provision in this Indenture, a Global Note to which the restriction set
forth in the preceding sentence shall have ceased to apply may be transferred
only to, and may be registered and exchanged for Notes registered only in the
name or names of, such Person or Persons as the Depositary for such Global Note
shall have directed, and no transfer thereof other than such a transfer may be
registered. Every Note authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Note to which the restriction set
forth in the first sentence of this paragraph shall apply, whether pursuant to
this Section 2.07 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form
of, and shall be, a Global Note.
SECTION 2.08. LEGENDS.
The following legend shall appear on the face of all Global
Notes issued under this Indenture:
"THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE
INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS
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HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.07 OF THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS
GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.07
OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR
CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.13 OF THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL NOTE
MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF
THE COMPANY.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES
IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE
DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO
THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY
SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 XXXXX XXXXXX, XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX) ("XXX"),
TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN."
SECTION 2.09. TEMPORARY NOTES.
Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes, the Company may
execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Definitive Notes which shall be substantially in the form of
Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers
executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Company will cause
Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for
Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency
of the Company designated pursuant to Section 10.02, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Notes shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.10. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN NOTES.
If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a certificate
number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like
tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.
Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION 2.11. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
On or before any Interest Payment Date, the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as
its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.03)
an amount of money sufficient to pay the interest on all the Notes that is to be
paid on such Interest Payment Date. Interest on any Note which is payable, and
is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be
paid to the Person in whose name that Note is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "DEFAULTED INTEREST") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the Company to the Persons in whose
names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify
the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid
on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which date shall be a date
which will enable the Trustee to comply with the provisions of the immediately
following sentence), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in
respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to
the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as provided herein. The Trustee shall fix a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more
than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment
and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special
Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause
notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at his
address as it appears in the Note Register, not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their
respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such
Special Record Date. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for or in lieu of, any other Note shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.
SECTION 2.12. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
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Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner of such
Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject to
Section 2.11) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatever, whether
or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.13. CANCELLATION.
All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee,
be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company
may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the
Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes
canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All canceled Notes held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the
Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures.
SECTION 2.14. CUSIP NUMBERS.
Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on
Uniform Security Identification Procedures ("CUSIP"), the Company may cause
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and may direct the Trustee to use CUSIP
numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders of Notes. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of the CUSIP numbers either as printed
on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be
placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon. The Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE III
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 3.01. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
Upon the written request of the Company, this Indenture will
cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
will execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when:
(1) either
(a) all the Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered
(other than Notes which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.10) have been delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation; or
(b) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation have come due and payable, by reason of the making of a notice of
redemption or will otherwise become due and payable within one year and the
Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee
funds in trust for the purpose in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the
entire Indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the
case of Notes which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur
as a result of such deposit, and such deposit will not result in a
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breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is
bound;
(3) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all
other sums payable hereunder by the Company;
(4) the Company has delivered irrevocable
instructions to the Trustee under this Indenture to apply the deposited
money and/or non-callable Government Securities toward the payment of
the Notes at maturity or the redemption date, as the case may be; and
(5) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 5.07 and,
the obligations of the Trustee under Section 3.02 and the last paragraph of
Section 10.03 shall survive.
SECTION 3.02. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
10.03, all money and Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof)
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.01 hereof in respect of the
Outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with
the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly
or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying
Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the
principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the
Trustee.
ARTICLE IV
REMEDIES
SECTION 4.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT," wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant
to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation
of any Governmental Authority):
(a) default in the payment of any interest on any Note when it
becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 5 days;
(b) default in the payment of the principal of any Note at its
Maturity (including pursuant to Sections 9.01 and 9.02 hereof);
(c) the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries shall fail for 60
days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee (at the direction of the
holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding) or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Notes then outstanding to observe or perform any covenant, condition or
agreement contained in Sections 10.07, 10.08, 10.09, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13,
10.14, 10.15, 10.16, 10.19, 10.20, 10.21, 10.22, 10.23, 10.24 or 10.25 hereof;
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(d) the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries shall fail to
observe or perform any other covenant, condition or agreement contained in the
Indenture (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this Section
4.01), and such failure shall continue unremedied for 60 days after written
notice thereof shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee (at the
direction of the Majority Noteholders) or the Majority Noteholders;
(e) (i) any Note Party shall fail to observe or perform any
covenant, condition or agreement contained in the Security Documents to the
extent it is a party thereto; (ii) any Note Party shall breach in any material
respect any representation or warranty or agreement in any of the Security
Documents or in any certificates delivered in connection therewith; (iii) the
repudiation by any of them of any of their obligations under any of the Security
Documents; (iv) the unenforceability of the Security Documents against any of
them in any material respect for any reason which, in each case, shall continue
unremedied for 30 days after the earlier of the date on which (A) a Responsible
Officer of the Parent becomes aware of such failure or (B) written notice
thereof shall have been given to the Parent by the Trustee or the Majority
Noteholders; or (v) the loss of the perfection or priority of any material
portion of the Liens granted by any of them pursuant to the Security Documents
for any reason;
(f) the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries shall fail to make
any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in
respect of any Material Obligations, when and as the same shall become due and
payable (after giving effect to any applicable grace period);
(g) a default occurs under any Material Obligation which
default results in the acceleration of such Material Obligation prior to its
scheduled maturity or payment date or requires the prepayment, repurchase,
redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or payment
date (in each case after giving effect to any applicable cure period); provided
that this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due
solely as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets
securing such Indebtedness;
(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an
involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or
other relief in respect of the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries, or any of
their debts, or of a substantial part of any of their assets, under any Federal,
state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or
hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Parent or any of the
Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of any of their assets, and, in any such
case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 30 days or an
order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;
(i) the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries shall (i)
voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation,
reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent
to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner,
any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Section 4.01, (iii)
apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Parent or any of the
Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of any of their assets, (iv) file an
answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any
such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or
(vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
(j) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an
aggregate amount in excess of $1,000,000 shall be rendered against the Parent or
any of the Subsidiaries or any combination thereof (which shall not be fully
covered by insurance without taking into account any applicable deductibles) and
the same shall remain undischarged or unbonded for a period of 30 consecutive
days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed; or
(k) any Guarantor disavows any of its obligations under its
Guarantee of the Notes.
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SECTION 4.02. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; EXERCISE OF REMEDIES.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default
described in clause (h) or (i) of Section 4.01), shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Trustee or the Majority Noteholders may, by notice to the
Company, declare the Notes then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or
in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may
thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of
the Notes so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest
thereon, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand,
protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the
Company. In case of any Event of Default described in clause (h) or (i) of
Section 4.01, the principal of the Notes then outstanding, together with accrued
interest thereon, shall automatically become due and payable, without
presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby waived by the Company; provided, however, that so long as any Designated
Senior Debt is outstanding, the acceleration shall not be effective until the
earlier of (i) an acceleration of any Designated Senior Debt or (ii) five
Business Days after receipt by the Company of written notice of the acceleration
of the Notes.
The Holders of the Notes shall not have the independent right
to direct the time, method or place of conducting any remedy available to the
Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee or, on
behalf of all Holders of Notes, to consent to the waiver of any past Default or
Event of Default or its consequences. All decisions regarding the declaration of
an Event of Default, the acceleration of the Notes, the waiver of any Defaults
and Events of Default, and the direction of the Collateral Agent and the Trustee
with respect to the exercise of rights and remedies against the Company, the
Guarantors and the Collateral shall be made by the Majority Noteholders. These
limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by a Holder of a Note for
enforcement of payment of any amounts then due as an unsecured claimant.
SECTION 4.03. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Majority Noteholders by notice to the Trustee may, on
behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, waive an existing Default or Event of
Default and its consequences hereunder, except:
(1) an uncured default in the payment of principal or
interest on any Note, or
(2) a default in respect of a covenant or provision
hereof which under Article VIII cannot be modified or amended without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby;
provided, however, that after any acceleration, but before a judgment or decree
based on acceleration is obtained by the Trustee, the Majority Noteholders may
rescind and annul such acceleration if all Events of Default, other than the
nonpayment of accelerated principal, premium or interest, have been cured or
waived as provided in this Indenture. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall
cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to
have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall
extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 4.04. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE.
Subject at all times to the provisions of Section 4.02, the
Company covenants that if an Event of Default specified in clauses (a) or (b) of
Section 4.01 occurs and is continuing, the Company will, upon demand of the
Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, the whole
amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest and, to the
extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on
any overdue principal and on any overdue interest at the rate borne by the
Notes, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to
cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel.
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Subject at all times to the provisions of Section 4.02, if an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion
proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders by such
appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 4.05. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and
the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Notes), its creditors or its property and shall be
entitled and empowered to participate as a member, voting or otherwise, of any
official committee of creditors appointed in such matter and shall be entitled
and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims, and any custodian in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to
the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to
it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 5.07 hereof. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 5.07 hereof out of the estate in
any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall
be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions,
dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be
entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan
of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 4.06. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.
Subject to the provisions of the Security Documents, any money
collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the
following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money, on account of principal or interest upon
presentation of the Notes and the notation thereon of the payment if only
partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 5.07;
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of and interest on the Notes in respect of which or
for the benefit of which such money has been collected,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on such Notes for principal and
interest respectively; and
THIRD: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the
Company, its successors or assigns or to whomsoever may be
lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may direct.
SECTION 4.07. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
Subject to Section 4.08, no Holder of any Note shall have any
right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or to foreclose or
take any other action with respect to the Collateral or under any Security
Document or for any other remedy hereunder, under any Security Document unless:
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(a) such Holder has previously given to the Trustee
written notice of a continuing Event of Default, and
(b) the Majority Noteholders have made a written
request and offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it to
institute such proceeding as trustee.
The preceding limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by
a Holder for enforcement of payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or
interest on, a Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note.
A Holder may not use this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority
over another Holder.
SECTION 4.08. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM
AND INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the
Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and (subject to Section 2.11) interest on
such Note on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Note (in the
case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit as an
unsecured claimant for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights
shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 4.09. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 4.10. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 4.02 and except as
otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in the last paragraph of Section 2.10, no right
or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder or otherwise shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment
of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 4.11. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall
impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of
Default or an acquiescence therein. Subject to the provisions of Section 4.02,
every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 4.12. CONTROL BY MAJORITY NOTEHOLDERS.
The Majority Noteholders shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy
available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Trustee; provided that
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(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with the
Trust Indenture Act or any rule of law or with this Indenture, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed
proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction or
the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 4.13. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in
such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit (including
reasonable attorney's fees and expenses), and may assess costs against any such
party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture
Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be
deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an
assessment in any suit instituted by the Trustee or the Company.
SECTION 4.14. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of
any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit
the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE V
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 5.01. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
The Trustee need perform only those duties that are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others. The duties and
responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk
or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not herein expressly so
provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting
the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of this Section.
SECTION 5.02. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing
and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder of the Notes
notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after the occurrence
thereof, or, if earlier, within 30 days of the Trustee obtaining knowledge
thereof. Except in the case of a Default or an Event of Default in payment of
principal of or interest on any Notes, the Trustee may withhold the notice to
the Holders of such Notes if its Board of Directors, executive committee or a
committee of its trust officers in good faith determines that withholding the
notice is in the interest of the Holders of the Notes.
SECTION 5.03. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
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Subject to the provisions of Section 5.01:
(1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be
protected in acting or refraining from acting in reliance upon any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note,
other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by
it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
party or parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company
Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture
the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or
established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action
hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request from
the Company and rely upon an Officers' Certificate and/or an Opinion of
Counsel;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its
selection, and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel
shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of
any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and
in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at
the request or direction of any of the Majority Noteholders pursuant to
this Indenture, unless the Majority Noteholders or the Holders shall
have offered to the Trustee security or joint and several indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
facts or matters as it may see fit;
(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or
powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by
or through agents or attorneys, and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent
or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action
taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 4.12 and
reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(9) except with respect to Section 10.01, as long as
the Trustee is the Paying Agent, it shall have no duty to inquire as to
the performance of the Company with respect to the covenants contained
in Article X. In addition, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of an Event of Default except (i) any Default or Event of
Default occurring pursuant to Sections 4.01(a) or 4.01(b) or (ii) any
Default or Event of Default of which the Trustee shall have received
written notification or obtained actual knowledge;
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(10) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities
and benefits given to the Trustee, including without limitation, its
right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by,
the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent,
custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder; and
(11) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver
an Officers' Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or
titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions
pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers' Certificate may be signed
by any person authorized to sign an Officers' Certificate, including
any Person specified as so authorized in any such certificate
previously delivered and not superceded.
SECTION 5.04. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF NOTES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of the Notes or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 5.05. MAY HOLD NOTES.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Note Registrar or any other
agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and, subject to Sections 5.08 and 5.13, may otherwise
deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Paying Agent, Note Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 5.06. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder
except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
SECTION 5.07. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such
compensation as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time
agree in writing for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents and counsel (including local legal counsel) and if an Event of
Default occurs and is continuing, auditors, accountants, appraisers,
printers, insurance and environmental advisors, financial advisors and
other consultants and agents), except any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may be attributable to its gross negligence or willful
misconduct; and
(3) to indemnify each of the Trustee, its employees,
officers, directors and agents or any predecessor Trustee for, and to
hold it harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or
expense incurred without gross negligence or willful misconduct on its
part,
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arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration
of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself
against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, a Holder or any
other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
All such payments and reimbursements shall be made with
interest at the rate borne by the Notes.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Section the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Notes upon
all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds
held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 4.01(h) or Section
4.01(i), the expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the Trustee's services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
The Company's obligations under this Section 5.07 and any Lien
arising hereunder shall survive the resignation or removal of any Trustee, the
discharge of the Company's obligations pursuant to this Indenture and/or the
termination of this Indenture.
SECTION 5.08. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either
eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by,
and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
SECTION 5.09. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and
has a combined capital and surplus of (a) at least $25,000,000 and be a member
of a bank holding company that has a combined capital and surplus of at least
$100,000,000 or (b) at least $50,000,000. If such Person publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 5.10. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under
Section 5.11. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not
have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation or removal, the Trustee resigning or being removed may, at
the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Company.
(c) The Majority Noteholders may remove the Trustee by so
notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing.
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(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section
5.08 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months,
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 5.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by
the Company or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or
shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or
of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 4.13, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, the Majority Noteholders
appoint a successor Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith
upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee and
supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor
Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and shall
have accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has
been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all
Holders in the manner provided in Section 14.02. Each notice shall include the
name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 5.11. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of
its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money
held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject to its Lien provided for in
Section 5.07. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 5.12. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
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Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate
trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder;
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Notes shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.
SECTION 5.13. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 5.14. APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE.
It is the purpose of this Indenture that there shall be no
violation of any law of any jurisdiction, including particularly the law of the
State of New York, denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or
associations to transact business as Trustee in such jurisdiction. It is
recognized that in case of litigation under this Indenture, and in particular in
case of the enforcement on Default, or in case the Trustee deems that by reason
of any present or future law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the
powers, rights or remedies herein granted to the Trustee or hold title to the
properties, in trust, as herein granted, or take any other action which may be
desirable or necessary in connection therewith, it may be necessary that the
Trustee appoint an additional individual or institution as a separate or
co-trustee. The following provisions of this Section 5.14 are adopted to these
ends.
In the event that the Trustee appoints an additional
individual or institution as a separate or co-trustee, each and every remedy,
power, right, claim, demand, cause of action, immunity, estate, title, interest
and Lien expressed or intended by this Indenture to be exercised by or vested in
or conveyed to the Trustee with respect thereto shall be exercisable by and
vested in such separate or co-trustee but only to the extent necessary to enable
such separate or co-trustee to exercise such powers, rights and remedies, and
every covenant and obligation necessary to the exercise thereof by such separate
or co-trustee shall run to and be enforceable by such separate or co-trustee.
No trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of
any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder.
Should any instrument in writing be required by the separate
trustee or co-trustee so appointed by the Trustee for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to him or it such properties, rights, powers, trusts,
duties and obligations, any and all such instruments in writing shall, on
request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Company. In case any
separate trustee or co-trustee, or a successor to either, shall die, become
incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the estates, properties, rights,
powers, trusts, duties and obligations of such separate trustee or co-trustee,
so far as permitted by law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Trustee until
the appointment of a new trustee or successor to such separate trustee or
co-trustee.
ARTICLE VI
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.
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The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not more than 5 Business Days
after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of
such Regular Record Date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than
15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Registrar.
SECTION 6.02. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form
as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders
contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided
in Section 6.01 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the
Trustee in its capacity as Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 6.01 upon receipt of a new list
so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Notes, and the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be
as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Notes, by receiving and holding
the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held
accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and
addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.03. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such
reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as
may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in
the manner provided pursuant thereto. If required by Section 313(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall, within sixty days after
each February 15 following the date of this Indenture, deliver to
Holders a brief report, dated as of such February 15, which complies
with the provision of such Section 313(a).
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of
such transmission to Holders, be mailed to the Company and each stock
exchange upon which the Notes are listed in accordance with Section
313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. The Company will promptly notify the
Trustee when the Notes are listed on or delisted from any securities
exchange.
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ARTICLE VII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER,
CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 7.01. CONSOLIDATION, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company will not consolidate with or merge with or into
any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an
entirety to any Person or Persons (other than to a Subsidiary Guarantor as
permitted by Article X hereof), and the Company will not permit any of its
subsidiaries to enter into any such transaction or series of transactions, if
such transaction or series of transactions, in the aggregate, would result in
the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties
and assets of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis to any
Person, unless:
(a) such transaction is permitted by Article X hereof
or consented to by the Majority Noteholders; and
(b) either (i) the Company is the surviving
corporation or (ii) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by
such consolidation or into which the Company or such Subsidiary is
merged or the Person which acquires, by conveyance, transfer or lease,
the properties and assets of the Company or such Subsidiary, as the
case may be, substantially as an entirety (the "SURVIVING ENTITY") (A)
shall be a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or trust
organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of
America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and (B) shall
expressly assume, by a supplemental indenture executed and delivered to
the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the Company's
obligation for the due and punctual payment of the principal and
interest on all the Notes and the performance and observance of every
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed
or observed.
In connection with any such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
transfer or lease, the Company or the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to
the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, and if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental
indenture, comply with the requirements of this Section 7.01, and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
complied with.
SECTION 7.02. SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any transaction or series of transactions that are of the
type described in, and are effected in accordance with, conditions described in
Section 7.01, the Surviving Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and
may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the
same effect as if such Surviving Entity had been named as the Company herein;
and when a Surviving Entity duly assumes all of the obligations and covenants of
the Company pursuant to this Indenture and the Notes, except in the case of a
lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all such obligations.
ARTICLE VIII
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
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Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to
the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants
of the Company herein and in the Notes;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the
benefit of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Company;
(c) to grant additional security for the Notes;
(d) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement
any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture which shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture; provided that such action
pursuant to this clause (d) shall not adversely affect the interests of
the Holders in any material respect;
(e) to name any Agent, Depositary or Registrar in
accordance with the terms hereof;
(f) to change the Trustee in accordance with the
terms hereof; or
(g) to make any change to comply with any requirement
of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of
this Indenture under the TIA.
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a Board
Resolution authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section
8.03 hereof, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of any
amended or supplemental indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this
Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that
may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into
such amended or supplemental indenture that affects its own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 8.02. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS AND MAJORITY
NOTEHOLDERS.
With the consent of the Majority Noteholders, the Company,
when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating or waiving (subject to
Section 4.03) any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture; provided, however, that
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby, no
such supplemental indenture shall:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of,
or any installment of interest on, any Note, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest (including default interest)
thereon or change the place of payment where, or the currency in which,
any Note or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment after the Stated
Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date); or
(b) (i) change any provision of this Indenture in a
manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments among the
Holders of the Notes, (ii) change any of the provisions of this Section
or the definition of the term "Majority Noteholders" or any other
provision hereof
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specifying the number or percentage of Holders required to waive, amend
or modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any
consent under this Indenture, (iii) release any Guarantor from its
Guarantee (except as expressly provided in Article XII hereof or the
Security Documents), or limit its liability in respect of such
Guarantee, or (iv) release all or substantially all of the Collateral
from the Liens of the Security Documents (except as expressly provided
in the Security Documents or in connection with a transaction permitted
by Section 10.09 and 10.11 hereof).
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a Board
Resolution authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the
Trustee of the consent of the Holders of Notes as aforesaid, and upon receipt by
the Trustee of the documents described in Section 8.03 hereof, the Trustee shall
join with the Company in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture
unless such amended or supplemental indenture directly affects the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case
the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into
such amended or supplemental indenture.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record
date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any
indenture supplemental hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such
record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be
entitled to consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided that unless such consent shall
have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained
prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date, any such consent
previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be
cancelled and of no further effect.
It shall not be necessary for any consent by the Majority
Noteholders or the Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of
any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent
shall approve the substance thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section
becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders at such Holder's
address appearing in the Note Register a notice briefly describing the
amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice,
or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the
validity of any such amended or supplemental Indenture or waiver. Subject to
Sections 4.03 and 4.08 hereof, the Majority Noteholders may waive compliance in
a particular instance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the
Notes.
SECTION 8.03. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by,
any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications
thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and (subject to Section 5.01) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such
supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 8.04. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this
Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and
every Holder of Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall be bound thereby.
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SECTION 8.05. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.06. REFERENCE IN NOTES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the
Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE IX
REDEMPTION OF NOTES
SECTION 9.01. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.
After the Trigger Date, the Notes will be redeemable at the
election of the Company, as a whole or from time to time in part, at any time on
not less than 15 days' prior notice, without premium or penalty, at the
Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of Compounded Value) set forth below
together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon redeemed to the
applicable Redemption Date (subject to the right of holders of record on
relevant record dates to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date) if
redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on May 15 of the years
indicated below:
Year Percentage
---- ----------
2002 - 2006........................................... 106.0%
2007.................................................. 104.0%
2008.................................................. 102.0%
2009 ................................................. 100.0%
SECTION 9.02. MANDATORY PREPAYMENT; USE OF EXCESS CASH FLOW.
(a) After the Trigger Date, in the event and on each occasion
that any Net Cash Proceeds are received by or on behalf of the Company, on the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, the Company shall redeem Notes in an
amount equal to the aggregate amount of such Net Cash Proceeds plus any interest
accrued and paid thereon (subject to the requirements of Section 9.05). Within
five Business Days after receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds, the Company shall pay
to the Collateral Agent such Net Cash Proceeds, to be held by the Collateral
Agent in the Collateral Account established pursuant to Section 5.2(a) of the
Collateral Agent Agreement for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes. The
Company shall direct the Collateral Agent to invest the amount so deposited in
an interest bearing bank deposit selected by the Company. On the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date, the Trustee shall direct the Collateral Agent to deliver
such Net Cash Proceeds, together with any interest accrued and paid thereon, to
the Trustee for payment to the Holders of the Notes.
(b) After the Trigger Date, (i) on the Determination Date, the
Company shall calculate the Excess Cash Flow and (ii) on each Interest Payment
Date, the Company shall redeem Notes in an amount equal to 100% of the Excess
Cash Flow, if any (subject to the requirements of Section 9.05).
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(c) In connection with any mandatory redemption pursuant to
this Section 9.02, on the Determination Date, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee a notice stating which portion of the funds to be delivered to the
Trustee on the next Interest Payment Date will constitute ordinary interest
payments, which portion will constitute redemptions made with Net Cash Proceeds
pursuant to clause (a) above, and which portion will constitute redemptions made
with Excess Cash Flow pursuant to clause (b) above.
SECTION 9.03. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Redemption of Notes at the election of the Company or
otherwise, as permitted or required by any provision of this Indenture, shall be
made in accordance with such provision and this Article.
SECTION 9.04. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The election of the Company to redeem any Notes pursuant to
Section 9.01 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption
at the election of the Company of the Outstanding Notes, the Company shall, at
least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee in
writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Notes to be
redeemed.
SECTION 9.05. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF NOTES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time,
selection of Notes for redemption will be made by the Trustee in compliance with
the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which
the Notes are listed, or, if the Notes are not so listed, on a pro rata basis or
in accordance with the Applicable Procedures; provided that no Notes of $1,000
principal amount or less shall be redeemed in part.
If the Net Cash Proceeds plus any interest accrued and paid
thereon delivered to the Trustee by the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section
9.02(a) are not equal to an integral multiple of $1,000, the Trustee shall pay
to the Company on the Interest Payment Date the amount by which such Net Cash
Proceeds plus any interest accrued and paid thereon exceed an integral multiple
of $1,000. If the Excess Cash Flow calculated pursuant to Section 9.02(b) is not
equal to an integral multiple of $1,000, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or Paying Agent on the Redemption Date only such amount as shall be
equal to an integral multiple of $1,000.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and each Note
Registrar in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of
any Notes selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context
otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Notes shall
relate, in the case of any Notes redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Notes which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 9.06. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed not less than 15 days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each Holder of Notes to be redeemed, at such Holder's address appearing in the
Note Register.
All notices of redemption shall identify the Notes to be
redeemed (including CUSIP numbers) and shall state:
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(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Notes are to be
redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of
any Notes, the principal amounts) of the particular Notes to be
redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price
will become due and payable upon each such Note to be redeemed and
that, unless the Company defaults on the payment of the Redemption
Price, interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
and
(5) the place or places where such Notes are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price.
Notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed at the election
of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by
the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company; provided that the
Company has given the Trustee written notice of the Redemption Date and
Redemption Price at least 15 days prior to the date that such notice of
redemption must be given to the Holders.
SECTION 9.07. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
By 10:00 a.m., New York City time on the Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes which are to be redeemed on that
date.
SECTION 9.08. NOTES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Notes
so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued and
unpaid interest) such Notes shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Note for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Note shall be paid
by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued and unpaid
interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of
interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Notes, registered as such at the close of
business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 2.12.
If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Note.
SECTION 9.09. NOTES REDEEMED IN PART.
Any Note which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at an office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose
pursuant to Section 10.02 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Note, without
service charge to the Holder, a new Note or Notes, of any authorized
denomination as requested by
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such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Note so surrendered.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.01. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this
Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company will maintain an office or agency where Notes may
be presented or surrendered for payment, where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. The Trustee may resign any
agency capacity under this Indenture upon 30 days' written notice to the
Company.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for
any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such
designation or remission and of any change in the location of any such other
office or agency.
SECTION 10.03. MONEY FOR NOTE PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent,
it will, after the Trigger Date, on or before each due date of the principal of,
or interest on any of the Notes, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest
so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it
will, after the Trigger Date, prior to each due date of the principal of, or
interest on any of the Notes, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to
pay the principal or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal or interest, and (unless
such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee
of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section,
that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the
principal of or interest on Notes in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons
or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
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(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the
Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any
payment of principal or interest; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such
default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or
interest on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal
or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company
Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust;
and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor,
look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee
or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the
Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such
publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid
to the Company.
SECTION 10.04. EXISTENCE; CONDUCT OF BUSINESS.
The Parent will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to,
preserve and maintain its corporate existence, material rights (charter and
statutory) and material franchises except as permitted by Sections 10.09 and
10.11 hereof. The Parent will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to: (a)
conduct its business in the ordinary course; and (b) use its reasonable efforts,
in the ordinary course, to preserve its business and the goodwill and business
of the customers, advertisers, suppliers and others having business relations
with the Parent or such Subsidiary.
SECTION 10.05. PAYMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS.
The Parent will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to,
pay or perform its material obligations, including tax liabilities before the
same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or
amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or
(b) the Parent or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves
with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP as then in effect.
SECTION 10.06. ADDITIONAL DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARIES; MATERIAL FOREIGN
SUBSIDIARIES.
If any Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary
(other than the Company, a Domestic Subsidiary or a Material Foreign Subsidiary
that has executed a Guarantee and is a party to the Security Documents) is
formed or acquired (or otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes of this
Indenture) after the date of this Indenture or a Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary
becomes a Material Foreign Subsidiary, the Parent will notify the Trustee in
writing thereof not later than the fifth Business Day after the date on which
such Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary is formed or acquired
(or otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture) or such
Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Material Foreign Subsidiary, as
applicable, and, in addition, the Parent will:
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(a) (i) cause such new Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign
Subsidiary or such Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary that has become a Material
Foreign Subsidiary, as applicable, to execute and deliver a Guarantee and (ii)
cause such new Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary (including a
Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary that has become a Material Foreign Subsidiary)
to become a party to each applicable Security Document in the manner provided
therein, in each case not later than the fifth Business Day after the date on
which such new Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary is formed or
acquired (or otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture) or
such Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Material Foreign Subsidiary, as
applicable and (ii) promptly take such actions to create and perfect Liens on
such Subsidiary's assets as constitute Collateral to secure the Obligations; and
(b) if any Stock or Stock Equivalents issued by any such
Domestic Subsidiary, Material Foreign Subsidiary or Non-Material Foreign
Subsidiary are owned or held by or on behalf of the Company or any Guarantor or
any loans, advances or other debt is owed or owing by any Subsidiary to the
Company or any Guarantor, cause such Stock and Stock Equivalents and promissory
notes and other instruments evidencing such loans, advances and other debt to be
pledged pursuant to, and to the extent required by, the Security Documents not
later than the fifth Business Day after the date on which such Domestic
Subsidiary, Material Foreign Subsidiary or Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary is
formed or acquired (or otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes of this
Indenture).
SECTION 10.07. INDEBTEDNESS.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or otherwise
become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness,
except:
(a) Indebtedness represented by the Notes and the Senior
Notes;
(b) the other Obligations;
(c) Indebtedness represented by any Credit Agreement;
(d) Indebtedness existing on the date of this Indenture;
(e) Guaranty Obligations incurred by the Company or any
Guarantor in respect of Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor otherwise
permitted by this Section 10.07;
(f) Indebtedness arising from intercompany loans from the
Guarantors to the Company or from the Company or any of its subsidiaries to any
Guarantor; provided, however, that the Investment in the intercompany loan to
such subsidiary is permitted under Section 10.10;
(g) Indebtedness arising under any performance or surety bond
entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(h) the incurrence by the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries of
Indebtedness represented by Capital Leases (which leases have commercially
reasonable terms) incurred in connection with a transaction permitted by Section
10.11(i) hereof in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000
during the term of this Indenture; or
(i) the incurrence by the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries of
Indebtedness represented by Capital Leases (which leases have commercially
reasonable terms) or purchase money obligations, in each case, incurred for the
purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or lease expense or
cost of construction or repair, improvement or addition to property, plant or
equipment used in the business
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of the Parent or the Subsidiaries, in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed $1,000,000 at any one time outstanding.
SECTION 10.08. LIENS.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, create or suffer to exist, any Lien upon or with respect to any
of their respective properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, or assign, or permit any of the Subsidiaries to assign, any right to
receive income, except for (collectively, the "PERMITTED LIENS"):
(a) Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the
Secured Parties created pursuant to the Security Documents; and
(b) Customary Permitted Liens of the Parent and the
Subsidiaries.
SECTION 10.09. FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to: (a) merge with any Person; (b) consolidate with any Person; (c)
acquire all or substantially all of the Stock or Stock Equivalents of any
Person; (d) acquire all or substantially all of the assets of any Person or all
or substantially all of the assets constituting the business of a division,
branch or other unit operation of any Person; or (e) enter into any joint
venture or partnership with any Person; provided, however, that any Subsidiary
that is not a Note Party will be permitted to merge with or be liquidated into
another Subsidiary (other than Arch) and any Subsidiary Guarantor may merge with
or be liquidated into another Subsidiary Guarantor; and provided, further,
however, that AWI Spectrum Co. LLC and AWI Spectrum Co. Holdings, Inc. will be
permitted to merge with or be liquidated into any Note Party.
SECTION 10.10. INVESTMENTS.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly make or maintain any Investment except
(collectively, the "PERMITTED INVESTMENTS"):
(a) Investments existing on the date of this Indenture;
(b) a transfer by the Parent of any Equity Interests in any
subsidiary of the Parent to Arch or the Company;
(c) cash equivalents held in a Cash Collateral Account or a
Control Account (each as defined in the Security Agreement) with respect to
which the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties has a first
priority perfected Lien;
(d) Accounts, Contract Rights and Chattel Paper (each as
defined in the Security Agreement), notes receivable and similar items arising
or acquired in the ordinary course of business of the Parent and the
Subsidiaries;
(e) other Investments, including loans and advances to
employees and officers of the Parent and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course
of business, not to exceed an aggregate of $500,000 at any one time outstanding;
or
(f) Investments by (i) any Guarantor in the Company or in
another Guarantor which is a subsidiary of the Company; (ii) the Company in any
Guarantor which is a subsidiary of the Company; and (iii) the Company in
subsidiaries that are not Guarantors; provided, however, that the aggregate
outstanding amount of such Investments pursuant to this clause (f)(iii), shall
not exceed $100,000 at any time.
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SECTION 10.11. ASSET SALES.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Parent will not, and will
not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, sell, convey, transfer, lease or
otherwise dispose of, any of their respective assets or any interest therein
(including the sale or factoring at maturity or collection of any accounts) to
any Person, or permit or suffer any other Person to acquire any interest in any
of their respective assets or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell any
shares of such Subsidiary's Stock or Stock Equivalents (any such sale,
conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition being an "ASSET SALE"), except:
(a) transactions permitted by Section 10.09 hereof;
(b) transactions permitted by Section 10.10 hereof;
(c) subject to Section 10.06 hereof, the sale, conveyance,
transfer, lease or other disposition of assets to a subsidiary of the Company
which is a Guarantor;
(d) the sale or disposition of or other use of inventory in
the ordinary course of the Parent's or the Subsidiaries' business;
(e) the collection, liquidation or otherwise disposition of
Accounts (as defined in the Security Agreement) in the ordinary course of the
Parent's or the Subsidiaries' business;
(f) the renegotiation and termination of leasehold interests
in the ordinary course of the Parent's or the Subsidiaries' business;
(g) the sale or disposition of obsolete or worn out fixtures
and equipment in the ordinary course of the Parent's or the Subsidiaries'
business;
(h) the grant of easements and rights of way on Mortgaged
Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) or other real property in the
ordinary course of the Parent's or the Subsidiaries' business that do not secure
any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the
affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the
Parent and the Subsidiaries;
(i) the sale or disposition of owned real property in an
amount not to exceed $10,000,000 during the term of this Indenture; provided,
however, that the Net Cash Proceeds from such Asset Sales shall be applied as
required by Section 9.02 of this Indenture; and
(j) Asset Sales not otherwise described in this Section 10.11
in the ordinary course of business in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any
Fiscal Year; provided that no individual Asset Sale made pursuant to this
Section 10.11(j) shall exceed $2,000,000.
SECTION 10.12. RESTRICTED PAYMENTS.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart
any sum for any Restricted Payment, except:
(a) Restricted Payments by any Subsidiary to the Company or
any Guarantor which is a subsidiary of the Company;
(b) Restricted Payments by any wholly owned subsidiary of the
Company to its direct or indirect parent company;
(c) Payments in respect of tax sharing among the Note Parties;
and
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(d) Restricted Payments by any Subsidiary to the Parent or
Arch to enable the Parent and Arch to pay ordinary course holding company
expenses.
SECTION 10.13. PREPAYMENTS OF INDEBTEDNESS.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, prepay or obligate itself to prepay, in whole or in part, or
voluntarily redeem or otherwise retire prior to the maturity thereof, any Notes,
except
(a) Notes may be prepaid, redeemed or otherwise retired as
permitted or required by Article IX of this Indenture;
(b) Notes may be retired in exchange for common stock of the
Parent subject to the consent of each exchanging holder; and
(c) Notes may be redeemed upon a Change of Control as required
by Section 10.15 hereof; provided that all of the Senior Notes tendered (and not
withdrawn) into the Change of Control Offer required by the comparable
provisions of the Senior Indenture have been purchased by the Company prior to
any such redemption of Notes.
SECTION 10.14. TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, except as otherwise expressly permitted herein, do any of the
following (each, an "AFFILIATE TRANSACTION"):
(a) make any Investment in an Affiliate of the Parent which is
not a Subsidiary or a Guarantor;
(b) transfer, sell, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of any
asset to any Affiliate of the Parent which is not a Subsidiary or a Guarantor;
(c) merge into or consolidate with or purchase or acquire
assets from any Affiliate of the Parent which is not a Subsidiary or a
Guarantor;
(d) repay any Indebtedness to any Affiliate of the Parent
which is not a Subsidiary or a Guarantor; or
(e) enter into any other transaction, directly or indirectly,
with or for the benefit of any Affiliate of the Parent which is not a Guarantor
(including guaranties and assumptions of obligations of any such Affiliate);
except for (i) transactions in the ordinary course of business on a basis no
less favorable to the Parent or such Guarantor as would be obtained in a
comparable arm's length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate and (ii)
salaries and other compensation to officers or directors of the Parent or any of
the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.
SECTION 10.15. REPURCHASE UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL.
(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder
shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal
to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000) of such Holder's Notes pursuant to
the offer described below (the "CHANGE OF CONTROL OFFER") at a purchase price
(the "CHANGE OF CONTROL PURCHASE PRICE") equal to 101% of the Compounded Value
thereof, plus
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accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the purchase date (subject to the right
of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant
Interest Payment Date).
Within 10 Business Days following any Change of Control, the
Company shall:
(i) send, by first-class mail, with a copy to the
Trustee, to each Holder, at such Holder's address appearing in
the Note Register maintained in respect of the Notes by the
Registrar, a notice stating:
(1) that a Change of Control has occurred and a
Change of Control Offer is being made
pursuant to Section 10.15 and that all Notes
timely tendered will be accepted for
payment;
(2) the Change of Control Purchase Price and the
purchase date, which shall be, subject to
any contrary requirements of applicable law,
a Business Day no earlier than 30 days nor
later than 60 days from the date such notice
is mailed;
(3) the circumstances and relevant facts
regarding the Change of Control (including,
if applicable, information with respect to
pro forma historical income, cash flow and
capitalization after giving effect to the
Change of Control); and
(4) the procedures that Holders must follow in
order to tender their Notes (or portions
thereof) for payment, and the procedures
that Holders must follow in order to
withdraw an election to tender Notes (or
portions thereof) for payment.
The Company will comply, to the extent applicable, with the
requirements of Section 14(e)-1 of the Exchange Act and any other securities
laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of Notes pursuant to a
Change of Control Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities
laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of the covenant described
hereunder, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and
regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the
covenant described hereunder by virtue of such compliance.
(b) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall,
to the extent lawful:
(i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes
properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;
(ii) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to
the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or
portions of Notes properly tendered; and
(iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee
the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers'
Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or
portions of Notes being purchased by the Company.
(c) The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to each Holder of
Notes properly tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the
Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by
book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any
unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any; provided that each new
Note will be in a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000.
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(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section
10.15, no Notes may be purchased pursuant to such Change of Control Offer until
all Senior Notes tendered (and not withdrawn) into the Change of Control Offer
required by the comparable provisions of the Senior Indenture have been
purchased by the Company.
SECTION 10.16. DIVIDEND AND OTHER PAYMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECTING
SUBSIDIARIES.
The Parent shall not, and shall not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist or become
effective any restriction on the ability of any Subsidiary to (a) make any
Restricted Payment, (b) make loans or advances to the Parent or any of the
Subsidiaries or (c) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Parent or
any of the Subsidiaries.
The preceding restrictions will not apply to encumbrances or
restrictions existing under or by reason of:
(a) the Notes and the Senior Notes;
(b) this Indenture and the Senior Indenture;
(c) any Credit Agreement, if any;
(d) the Security Documents; and
(e) applicable law.
SECTION 10.17. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS; ETC.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Parent shall, and shall
cause each of the Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable Requirements of
Law, Contractual Obligations and Permits, except where the failure so to comply
would not in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 10.18. MAINTENANCE OF INSURANCE.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Parent shall: (a)
maintain, and cause to be maintained for each of the Subsidiaries, insurance
with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations in such
amounts and covering such risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in
similar businesses and owning similar properties in the same general areas in
which the Parent or the Subsidiaries operate, and, in any event, all insurance
required by any Secured Debt Document; and (b) cause all such insurance to name
the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties as an additional insured
or loss payee, as appropriate, and to provide that no cancellation, material
addition in amount or material change in coverage shall be effective until after
30 days' written notice thereof to the Trustee.
SECTION 10.19. CHANGE IN NATURE OF BUSINESS.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, make any material change in the nature or conduct of its
business as carried on at the date hereof.
SECTION 10.20. ACCOUNTING CHANGES; FISCAL YEAR.
The Parent will not, and will not permit any of the
Subsidiaries to, change their respective: (a) accounting treatment and reporting
practices or tax reporting treatment, except as required by GAAP or any
Requirement of Law and disclosed to the Trustee; or (b) Fiscal Year.
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SECTION 10.21. MINIMUM EBITDA.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Note Parties shall have,
as of the last day of each quarter set forth below, EBITDA for such quarter of
not less than the following:
Quarter Ending Minimum Quarterly EBITDA
(dollars in millions)
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June 30, 2002 45.9
September 30, 2002 43.0
December 31, 2002 40.6
March 31, 2003 39.4
June 30, 2003 37.9
September 30, 2003 36.4
December 31, 2003 35.0
March 31, 2004 33.4
June 30, 2004 33.1
September 30, 2004 33.0
December 31, 2004 33.0
March 31, 2005 32.7
June 30, 2005 33.6
September 30, 2005 33.9
December 31, 2005 34.3
March 31, 2006 33.5
June 30, 2006 34.9
September 30, 2006 36.4
December 31, 2006 37.8
March 31, 2007 37.3
June 30, 2007 36.8
September 30, 2007 36.1
December 31, 2007 35.3
March 31, 2008 34.5
June 30, 2008 33.9
September 30, 2008 33.1
December 31, 2008 32.4
March 31, 2009 31.7
SECTION 10.22. MINIMUM DIRECT UNITS IN SERVICE.
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From and after the Trigger Date, the Note Parties will
maintain a number of Direct Units in Service as of the last day of the quarter,
not less than as set forth opposite such day:
Quarter Ending Minimum Direct Units in
Service
(units in thousands)
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June 30, 2002 4,215.2
September 30, 2002 4,002.7
December 31, 2002 3,819.3
March 31, 2003 3,630.1
June 30, 2003 3,558.1
September 30, 2003 3,487.6
December 31, 2003 3,418.4
March 31, 2004 3,219.3
June 30, 2004 3,129.5
September 30, 2004 3,042.3
December 31, 2004 2,957.5
March 31, 2005 2,896.9
June 30, 2005 2,837.6
September 30, 2005 2,779.5
December 31, 2005 2,722.6
March 31, 2006 2,600.3
June 30, 2006 2,566.4
September 30, 2006 2,532.8
December 31, 2006 2,499.7
SECTION 10.23. MINIMUM CONSOLIDATED SRM REVENUES.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Note Parties shall
maintain, as of the last day of each quarter set forth below, consolidated SRM
Revenue for such quarter of not less than the Minimum Quarterly Consolidated SRM
Revenue listed below:
Quarter Ending Minimum Quarterly Planned One-Way Planned Two-Way
Consolidated SRM SRM Revenue SRM Revenue
Revenue (dollars in millions) (dollars in millions)
(dollars in millions)
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June 30, 2002 174.8 174.9 30.8
September 30, 2002 166.6 162.2 34.0
December 31, 2002 160.7 151.7 37.3
March 31, 2003 153.7 142.5 43.8
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Quarter Ending Minimum Quarterly Planned One-Way Planned Two-Way
Consolidated SRM SRM Revenue SRM Revenue
Revenue (dollars in millions) (dollars in millions)
(dollars in millions)
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June 30, 2003 150.1 133.8 48.2
September 30, 2003 143.7 125.6 48.5
December 31, 2003 141.3 117.9 53.3
March 31, 2004 131.7 109.1 55.5
June 30, 2004 130.8 100.9 62.6
September 30, 2004 127.9 93.4 66.5
December 31, 2004 125.3 86.4 70.3
March 31, 2005 121.8 81.5 70.7
June 30, 2005 120.3 76.9 73.5
September 30, 2005 119.8 72.6 77.2
December 31, 2005 117.4 68.5 78.3
March 31, 2006 112.6 64.4 80.8
June 30, 2006 112.1 60.6 84.1
September 30, 2006 111.2 57.0 86.5
December 31, 2006 110.8 53.7 89.3
March 31, 2007 N/A 50.5 91.4
June 30, 2007 N/A 47.5 92.8
September 30, 2007 N/A 44.6 93.8
December 31, 2007 N/A 41.9 94.3
March 31, 2008 N/A 39.4 94.8
June 30, 2008 N/A 37.0 95.5
September 30, 2008 N/A 34.8 95.7
December 31, 2008 N/A 32.8 96.0
March 31, 2009 N/A 30.7 96.3
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SECTION 10.24. NON-DEVICE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Note Parties will not
permit: (a) One-Way Capital Expenditures (other than One-Way Capital
Expenditures made in respect of paging and messaging devices ("ONE-WAY DEVICE
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES")); and (b) Two-Way Capital Expenditures (other than
Two-Way Capital Expenditures made in respect of paging and messaging devices
("TWO-WAY DEVICE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES")) to be made or incurred for each of the
quarters set forth below such that the cumulative amounts would not be in excess
of the maximum cumulative amounts set forth below:
Quarter Ending Maximum Cumulative One Way Maximum Cumulative
Capital Expenditures Two Way Capital
(dollars in millions) Expenditures
(dollars in millions)
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June 30, 2002 2.8 3.5
September 30, 2002 4.9 9.7
December 31, 2002 6.7 12.8
March 31, 2003 8.1 14.2
June 30, 2003 9.3 15.6
September 30, 2003 10.6 16.9
December 31, 2003 11.7 18.1
March 31, 2004 12.8 19.2
June 30, 2004 13.9 20.4
September 30, 2004 14.9 21.5
December 31, 2004 15.8 22.8
March 31, 2005 16.7 26.0
June 30, 2005 17.6 29.5
September 30, 2005 18.4 33.0
December 31, 2005 19.2 36.7
March 31, 2006 19.9 41.0
June 30, 2006 20.6 45.5
September 30, 2006 21.2 50.1
December 31, 2006 21.8 54.9
March 31, 2007 22.3 56.4
June 30, 2007 22.8 57.9
September 30, 2007 23.3 59.4
December 31, 2007 23.8 60.9
March 31, 2008 24.3 62.4
June 30, 2008 24.8 63.9
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Quarter Ending Maximum Cumulative One Way Maximum Cumulative
Capital Expenditures Two Way Capital
(dollars in millions) Expenditures
(dollars in millions)
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September 30, 2008 25.3 65.4
December 31, 2008 25.8 66.9
March 31, 2009 26.3 68.4
provided that any individual commitment for such One-Way Capital Expenditures
other than One-Way Device Capital Expenditures or Two-Way Capital Expenditures
other than Two-Way Device Capital Expenditures in excess of $2,500,000 shall
require the prior approval of the Board of Directors of the Parent.
SECTION 10.25. DEVICE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.
From and after the Trigger Date, the Note Parties will not
permit: (a) One-Way Device Capital Expenditures; and (b) Two-Way Device Capital
Expenditures to be made or incurred for each of the quarters set forth below
such that the cumulative amounts would not be in excess of the maximum
cumulative amounts set forth below:
Quarter Ending Maximum Cumulative One Way Maximum Cumulative Two Way
Device Capital Expenditures Device Capital Expenditures
(dollars in millions) (dollars in millions)
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June 30, 2002 7.2 12.0
September 30, 2002 11.2 24.9
December 31, 2002 15.1 40.5
March 31, 2003 20.8 56.4
June 30, 2003 26.6 72.2
September 30, 2003 32.4 88.7
December 31, 2003 38.2 105.2
March 31, 2004 42.1 119.6
June 30, 2004 46.0 133.9
September 30, 2004 49.7 148.0
December 31, 2004 53.2 162.1
March 31, 2005 56.2 175.2
June 30, 2005 59.2 188.2
September 30, 2005 62.0 201.2
December 31, 2005 64.7 214.2
March 31, 2006 67.0 227.1
June 30, 2006 69.3 239.6
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Quarter Ending Maximum Cumulative One Way Maximum Cumulative Two Way
Device Capital Expenditures Device Capital Expenditures
(dollars in millions) (dollars in millions)
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September 30, 2006 71.5 251.5
December 31, 2006 73.5 263.1
March 31, 2007 75.3 274.3
June 30, 2007 76.8 285.3
September 30, 2007 78.4 296.0
December 31, 2007 79.8 306.5
March 31, 2008 81.1 317.1
June 30, 2008 82.3 327.6
September 30, 2008 83.4 338.2
December 31, 2008 84.5 348.7
March 31, 2009 85.4 359.3
provided that (i) any commitments (measured in terms of number of devices) for
such One-Way Device Capital Expenditures in either the Company's numerical or
alphanumerical product lines, each measured separately, in excess of the prior
three months' Gross Placements for such product line and (ii) any commitments
(measured in terms of number of devices) for such Two-Way Device Capital
Expenditures in excess of the prior two months' Gross Placements shall each
require the prior approval of the Board of Directors of the Parent; provided,
further, that (x) if One-Way SRM Revenue for the immediately preceding Fiscal
Quarter is reported below Planned One-Way SRM Revenue for such Fiscal Quarter,
the maximum amount of permitted One-Way Device Capital Expenditures shall be
reduced by one-half of the percentage by which such reported One-Way SRM Revenue
is below Planned One-Way SRM Revenue or (y) if Two-Way SRM Revenue for the
immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter is reported below Planned Two-Way SRM
Revenue for such Fiscal Quarter, the maximum amount of permitted Two-Way Device
Capital Expenditures shall be reduced by one-half of the percentage by which
such reported Two-Way SRM Revenue is below Planned Two-Way SRM Revenue.
SECTION 10.26. PROVISION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, on the date the Company is
required to file such information with the Commission (a) all quarterly and
annual financial information that would be required to be contained in a filing
with the Commission on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Company were required to file
such forms, including a "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations" and, with respect to the annual information
only, a report on the annual financial statements by the Company's certified
independent accountants and (b) all current reports that would be required to be
filed with the Commission on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such
reports.
In addition, the Company shall file a copy of all information
and reports referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above with the Commission for
public availability within the time periods specified in the Commission's rules
and regulations (unless the Commission will not accept that filing) and make
that information available to securities analysts and prospective investors upon
request.
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Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the
Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee's receipt of such
shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Company's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
SECTION 10.27. STATEMENT BY OFFICERS AS TO DEFAULT; NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
(a) The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days
after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Company ending after the date hereof,
an Officers' Certificate, stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signers
thereof the Company is in compliance with all the terms, provisions, covenants
and conditions of this Indenture and if the Company shall be in Default under
this Indenture, specifying all such Defaults and the nature and status thereof
of which they may have knowledge and including the information referred to in
clause (i) of subsection (b) below.
(b) The Company will deliver to the Trustee within 45 days
after the end of each Fiscal Quarter of any Fiscal Year, an Officers'
Certificate (i) demonstrating compliance with each of the financial covenants
contained in this Article X which is tested on a quarterly basis, and (ii)
stating that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or,
if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, stating the
nature thereof and the action which the Company proposes to take with respect
thereto.
(c) The Company will, so long as any of the Notes are
Outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, within five Business Days of becoming aware
of any Default or Event of Default in the performance of any covenant, agreement
or condition in this Indenture, an Officers' Certificate specifying such Default
or Event of Default.
ARTICLE XI
COLLATERAL
SECTION 11.01. COLLATERAL.
In order to secure the due and punctual payment of the
Obligations, the Company and the Guarantors will grant security interests in and
mortgages on their right, title and interest in and to the Collateral to the
Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents no later than the date of
the first issuance of Notes under this Indenture. At the time the Security
Documents are executed, the Company and the Guarantors will have full right,
power and lawful authority to grant, bargain, sell, release, convey,
hypothecate, assign, mortgage, transfer and confirm, absolutely, the property
constituting the Collateral in the manner and form evidenced by the Security
Documents, and will for so long as any Notes are outstanding, warrant and defend
the title to the same against the claims of all Persons whatsoever unless the
Collateral is released as provided herein or in the Security Documents. The
claims of the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes against the Collateral will
be subject to the terms and provisions of the Security Documents.
SECTION 11.02. RECORDING AND OPINIONS.
The Company and the Guarantors will cause, at their own
expense, the Security Documents and all amendments or supplements thereto to be
registered, recorded and filed or re-recorded, refiled and renewed in such
manner and in such place or places, if any, as may be required by law in order
fully to preserve and protect the Liens created by the Security Documents on all
parts of the Collateral.
The Company and the Guarantors shall furnish to the Trustee:
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(a) promptly after the execution and delivery of the Security
Documents (at any time after the initial issuance of the Notes), an Opinion of
Counsel either (i) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, the assignment
of the Collateral intended to be made by the Security Documents and all other
instruments of further assurance or amendment have been properly recorded,
registered and filed to the extent necessary to make effective the Lien intended
to be created by the Security Documents, and reciting the details of such action
or referring to prior opinions of counsel in which such details are given, and
stating that as to the Security Documents such recording, registering and filing
are the only recordings, registerings and filings necessary to give notice
thereof and that no re-recordings, re-registerings or re-filings are necessary
to maintain such notice, and further stating that all financing statements,
continuation statements and other instruments have been executed and filed that
are necessary fully to preserve and protect the rights of the Holders and the
Trustee hereunder and under the Security Documents, or (ii) stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such Lien and
assignment effective; and
(b) if then required by the TIA, within 30 days after May 1 in
each year beginning with May 1, 2003, an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of such
date, either (i) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has
been taken with respect to the recording, registering, filing, re-recording,
re-registering and re-filing of all supplemental indentures, financing
statements, continuation statements or other instruments of further assurance as
are necessary to maintain the Lien of the Security Documents and reciting the
details of such action or referring to prior opinions of counsel in which such
details are given, and stating that all financing statements and continuation
statements have been executed and filed that are necessary fully to preserve and
protect the rights of the Holders and the Trustee hereunder and under the
Security Documents, or (ii) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
such action is necessary to maintain such lien and assignment.
SECTION 11.03. POSSESSION AND USE OF COLLATERAL.
(a) So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Company and the Guarantors will have the right to remain in
possession and retain exclusive control over the Collateral, to freely operate
the Collateral and to collect, invest and dispose of the income therefrom.
(b) Nothing in this Indenture or any of the Security Documents
shall prohibit the Company or any Guarantors from transferring, by conveyance or
otherwise, subject to the Lien of the Security Documents, any of the assets
constituting the Collateral to any Guarantor, for so long as the Guarantor
remains a Guarantor, without any release or consent of the Trustee or the
Majority Noteholders.
SECTION 11.04. RELEASE AND DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL.
The Collateral shall be released from the Lien of the Security
Documents as expressly provided therein or in connection with any transaction
permitted by Section 10.11 of this Indenture.
To the extent applicable, the Company shall cause TIA Section
314(d) relating to the release of property from the Lien of the Security
Documents to be complied with. Any certificate or opinion required by TIA
Section 314(d) may be made by an officer of the Company, except in cases in
which TIA Section 314(d) requires that such certificate or opinion be made by an
independent Person.
The release of any Collateral from the terms hereof and of the
Security Documents pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents or this
Indenture will not be deemed to impair the security under this Indenture in
contravention of the provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.05. DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL WITHOUT RELEASE.
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(a) In addition to and without limiting the
provisions of Section 11.04 and subject to Section 10.11, at any time
and from time to time, the Company and any Guarantors may without any
release or consent of the Trustee or the Majority Noteholders:
(i) sell, dispose of or transfer inventory
in the ordinary course of the Company's or the
Guarantors' business;
(ii) collect, liquidate or otherwise dispose
of Accounts (as defined in the Security Agreement) in
the ordinary course of the Company's or the
Guarantors' business;
(iii) renegotiate and terminate leasehold
interests in Collateral in the ordinary course of the
Company's or the Guarantors' business;
(iv) sell or dispose of in the ordinary
course of business free from the Liens of the
Security Documents, any machinery, equipment,
furniture, apparatus, tools or implements, materials
or supplies or other similar property ("Subject
Property") which the Company determines, in its
reasonable opinion, may have become obsolete or unfit
for use in the conduct of its businesses or the
operation of the Collateral so long as (a) such
Subject Property is replaced with or exchanged for
property of equal value, and (b) upon replacing the
same with, or exchanging for the same, new property,
such new property shall without further action become
Collateral subject to the Liens of the Security
Documents; and
(v) make cash payments from the deposit
accounts of the Company in the ordinary course of
business that are not otherwise prohibited by this
Indenture.
(b) The Company's and the Guarantors' right to rely
upon subsection (a) of this Section for each Measurement Period shall
be conditioned upon the Company and the Guarantors delivering to the
Trustee and the Collateral Agent, within 30 days following the end of
such Measurement Period, an Officers' Certificate to the effect that
all sales of inventory, all collections and other dispositions of
Accounts (as defined in the Security Agreement) and any other
disposition contemplated by Section 11.05(a) by the Company and the
Guarantors during such Measurement Period were in the ordinary course
of the Company's and the Guarantors' business and that all proceeds
therefrom were used by the Company and the Guarantors in the ordinary
course of their business or to make other cash payments permitted by
this Indenture.
ARTICLE XII
GUARANTEES
SECTION 12.01. GUARANTEES.
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Subject to this Article XII, each of the Guarantors hereby,
jointly and severally, unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Note
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors
and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture,
the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that: (a)
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes shall be promptly
paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or
otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes,
if any, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or
the Trustee hereunder or thereunder shall be promptly paid in full or performed,
all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any
extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other
obligations, that same shall be promptly paid in full when due or performed in
accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated
maturity, by acceleration pursuant to Section 4.02 hereof or otherwise. Failing
payment when due of any amount so guaranteed or any performance so guaranteed
for whatever reason, the Guarantors shall be jointly and severally obligated to
pay the same immediately. Each Guarantor agrees that this is a guarantee of
payment and not a guarantee of collection.
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations with regard
to this Guarantee shall be joint and several and unconditional, irrespective of
the validity or enforceability of the Notes or the obligations of the Company
under this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, the
recovery of any judgment against the Company or any other obligor with respect
to this Indenture, the Notes or the Obligations of the Company under this
Indenture or the Notes, any action to enforce the same or any other
circumstances (other than complete performance) which might otherwise constitute
a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor
further, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waives and relinquishes all
claims, rights and remedies accorded by applicable law to guarantors and agrees,
to the extent permitted by applicable law, not to assert or take advantage of
any such claims, rights or remedies, including but not limited to: (a) any right
to require any of the Trustee, the Holders or the Company (each a "BENEFITED
PARTY"), as a condition of payment or performance by such Guarantor, to (i)
proceed against the Company, any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor)
of the Obligations under the Guarantees or any other Person, (ii) proceed
against or exhaust any security held from the Company, any such other guarantor
or any other Person, (iii) proceed against or have resort to any balance of any
deposit account or credit on the books of any Benefited Party in favor of the
Company or any other Person, or (iv) pursue any other remedy in the power of any
Benefited Party whatsoever; (b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity,
lack of authority or any disability or other defense of the Company including
any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the
unenforceability of the Obligations under the Guarantees or any agreement or
instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability of
the Company from any cause other than payment in full of the Obligations under
the Guarantees; (c) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which
provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in
other respects more burdensome than that of the principal; (d) any defense based
upon any Benefited Party's errors or omissions in the administration of the
Obligations under the Guarantees, except behavior which amounts to bad faith;
(e)(i) any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or
might be in conflict with the terms of the Guarantees and any legal or equitable
discharge of such Guarantor's obligations hereunder, (ii) the benefit of any
statute of limitations affecting such Guarantor's liability hereunder or the
enforcement hereof, (iii) any rights to set-offs, recoupments and counterclaims
and (iv) promptness, diligence and any requirement that any Benefited Party
protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or Lien on any property
subject thereto; (f) notices, demands, presentations, protests, notices of
protest, notices of dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, including
acceptance of the Guarantees, notices of default under the Notes or any
agreement or instrument related thereto, notices of any renewal, extension or
modification of the Obligations under the Guarantees or any agreement related
thereto, and notices of any extension of credit to the Company and any right to
consent to any thereof; (g) to the extent permitted under applicable law, the
benefits of any "One Action" rule and (h) any defenses or benefits that may be
derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate
guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms of the Guarantees.
Each Guarantor hereby covenants that its Guarantee shall not be discharged
except by complete performance of the obligations contained in its Guarantee and
this Indenture.
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If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or
otherwise to return to the Company, the Guarantors or any custodian, trustee,
liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to either the Company or
the Guarantors, any amount paid either to the Trustee or such Holder, this
Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full
force and effect.
Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any
right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations
guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby.
Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand,
and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the
obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 4.02
hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction
or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations
guaranteed hereby and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of
such obligations as provided in Section 4.02 hereof, such obligations (whether
or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors
for the purpose of this Guarantee. The Guarantors shall have the right to seek
contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right
does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Guarantee.
SECTION 12.02. SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTEE.
The Obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee pursuant
to this Article XII shall be junior and subordinated to the Senior Debt of such
Guarantor on the same basis as the Notes are junior and subordinated to Senior
Debt of the Company. For the purposes of the foregoing sentence, the Trustee and
the Holders shall have the right to receive and/or retain payments by any of the
Guarantors only at such times as they may receive and/or retain payments in
respect of the Notes pursuant to this Indenture, including Article XII hereof.
SECTION 12.03. LIMITATION ON GUARANTOR LIABILITY.
Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of Notes, each Holder,
hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Guarantee
of such Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for
purposes of the Bankruptcy Code, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the
Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law to the
extent applicable to any Guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the
Trustee, the Holders and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the
obligations of such Guarantor under this Article XII shall be limited to the
maximum amount as shall, after giving effect to such maximum amount and all
other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor that are relevant under
such laws, including, if applicable, its guarantee of all obligations under any
Credit Agreement, and after giving effect to any collections from, rights to
receive contribution from or payments made by or on behalf of any other
Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under this
Article XII, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee not
constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
SECTION 12.04. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF GUARANTEE.
To evidence its Guarantee set forth in Section 12.01 hereof,
each Guarantor hereby agrees that a notation of such Guarantee in substantially
the form included in Exhibit B shall be endorsed by an officer of such Guarantor
on each Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and that this Indenture
shall be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by its President or one of its
Vice Presidents.
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in
Section 12.01 hereof shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any
failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Guarantee.
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If an officer whose signature is on this Indenture or on the
Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the
Note on which a Guarantee is endorsed, the Guarantee shall be valid
nevertheless.
The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the
authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee
set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.
SECTION 12.05. GUARANTORS MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ON CERTAIN TERMS.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section 12.05, no
Guarantor may consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such
Guarantor is the surviving Person) another Person whether or not affiliated with
such Guarantor unless:
(a) subject to this Section 12.05, the Person formed
by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than a
Guarantor or the Company) unconditionally assumes all the obligations
of such Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, under the Notes, this
Indenture, and the Guarantee on the terms set forth herein or therein;
and
(b) the Guarantor complies with the requirements of
Article VII and Section 10.09 hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance
and upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture,
executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee,
of the Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and the due and punctual performance of
all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the
Guarantor, such successor Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the
Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein as a Guarantor.
Such successor Person thereupon may cause to be signed any or all of the
Guarantees to be endorsed upon all of the Notes issuable hereunder which
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the
Trustee. All the Guarantees so issued shall in all respects have the same legal
rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Guarantees theretofore and
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all
of such Guarantees had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
Except as set forth in Article VII and Section 10.09 hereof,
and notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, nothing contained in this
Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a
Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent any
sale or conveyance of the property of a Guarantor as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety to the Company or another Guarantor.
SECTION 12.06. RELEASES FOLLOWING SALE OF ASSETS.
In the event of a sale or other disposition of all of the
assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale
or other disposition of all the capital stock of any Guarantor, in each case to
a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transactions)
a subsidiary of the Company, then such Guarantor (in the event of a sale or
other disposition, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, of all of the
capital stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation acquiring the property (in
the event of a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the
assets of such Guarantor) shall be released and relieved of any obligations
under its Guarantee; provided that the net proceeds of such sale or other
disposition are applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, including without limitation Section 10.11 hereof. Upon delivery by
the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that such sale or other disposition was made by the Company in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, including without limitation
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10.11 hereof, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in
order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its obligations under its
Guarantee.
Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its
Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest
on the Notes and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under this Indenture
as provided in this Article XII.
ARTICLE XIII
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 13.01. AGREEMENT TO SUBORDINATE.
The Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note
agrees, that the Indebtedness evidenced by, and the payment of principal,
premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes is subordinated in right of payment,
to the extent and in the manner provided in this Article XIII, to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Debt, and that the subordination is for the
benefit of and enforceable by the holders of Senior Debt.
SECTION 13.02. LIQUIDATION, DISSOLUTION OR BANKRUPTCY.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets or securities of
the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities,
upon any dissolution or winding up or total or partial liquidation or
reorganization of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, or in
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings or upon an assignment
for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the assets and
liabilities of the Company, all Senior Debt shall first be paid in full in cash,
or payment provided for in cash or cash equivalents in a manner satisfactory to
the holders of Senior Debt, before any direct or indirect payments or
distributions, including, without limitation, by exercise of set-off, of any
cash, property or securities on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on the Notes and to that end the holders of Senior Debt shall be
entitled to receive (subject to any agreements among the holders of Senior Debt,
pro rata on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Debt held by them)
directly, for application to the payment thereof (to the extent necessary to pay
all Senior Debt in full after giving effect to any substantially concurrent
payment or distribution to or provision for payment to the holders of such
Senior Debt), any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in
cash, property or securities, which the Holders of the Notes would be entitled
but for this Article XIII, except that the Holders of the Notes may receive and
retain equity securities of the Company or debt securities of the Company that
are subordinated to Senior Debt (and any debt securities issued in exchange for
Senior Debt) to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than,
the Notes are subordinated to the Senior Debt pursuant to this Article XIII. The
holders of Senior Debt are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for
and on behalf of the Holders if they or any of them do not file, and there is
not otherwise filed on behalf of the Holders, a proper claim or proof of claim
in the form required in any such proceeding prior to 30 days before the
expiration of the time to file such claim or claims.
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SECTION 13.03. DEFAULT ON DESIGNATED SENIOR DEBT.
The Company may not make any direct or indirect payment to the
Trustee or any Holder of principal of (premium, if any), or interest on, the
Notes, whether pursuant to the terms of the Notes, upon acceleration or
otherwise, if at the time of such payment there exists (i) a default in the
payment of all or any portion of principal of (premium, if any), interest on,
fees or other amounts owing in connection with any Designated Senior Debt, or
(ii) any other default under any document or instrument governing or evidencing
any Designated Senior Debt, and the Trustee has received written notice of such
default from the Representative of the holders of Designated Senior Debt, and,
in either case, such default shall not have been cured or waived in writing;
provided, however, that if within the period specified in the next sentence with
respect to a default referred to in clause (ii) above, the holders of Designated
Senior Debt have not declared the Designated Senior Debt to be immediately due
and payable (or have declared such Designated Senior Debt to be immediately due
and payable and within such period have rescinded such acceleration), then and
in that event, payment of principal of, and interest on, the Notes shall be
resumed. With respect to any default under clause (ii) above, the period
referred to in the preceding sentence shall commence upon receipt by the Trustee
of a written notice or notices (which shall specify all defaults existing under
the Designated Senior Debt on the date of such notice and of which the
Representative giving such notice had actual knowledge at such time) of the
commencement of such period from such Representative, and shall end at the
completion of the 179th day after the beginning of such period. Only one such
179 day period may commence within any 360 consecutive days. Upon termination of
any such period, the Company shall resume payments on account of the principal
of (premium, if any), and interest on, the Notes, subject to the provisions of
this Article XIII.
SECTION 13.04. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE TRUSTEE AND THE HOLDERS.
(a) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provision
prohibiting such payment or distribution, the Trustee or any Holder shall have
received any payment on account of the Notes at a time when such payment is
prohibited by such provision before the Senior Debt is paid in full, then and in
such event, such payment or distribution shall be received and held in trust by
the Trustee or such Holders apart from their other assets and paid over or
delivered to the holders of the Senior Debt remaining unpaid to the extent
necessary to pay in full in cash the principal of (premium, if any), and
interest on, such Senior Debt in accordance with its terms and after giving
effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior
Debt.
(b) Nothing contained in this Article XIII will limit the
right of the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes to take any action to
accelerate the maturity of the Notes; provided, however, that the right of the
Holders to receive any payment from the Company of principal of, or interest on,
the Notes upon such acceleration shall be subject to the provisions of Section
13.03 hereof.
(c) Upon any payment or distribution of assets or securities
referred to in this Article XIII, the Trustee and the Holders shall be entitled
to rely (i) upon any order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in
which any proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 13.02 are pending;
(ii) upon a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other Person
making such payment or distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders or (iii)
upon the Representatives for the holders of Senior Debt for the purpose of
ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, the holders of Senior Debt and other Indebtedness of the Company,
the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed
thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XIII.
(d) In the event that the Trustee determines, in good faith,
that evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article XIII, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution and other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person
under this Article XIV, and, if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may
defer
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any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of
such Person to receive such payment. The provisions of Sections 5.01 and 5.02
shall be applicable to all actions or omissions of actions by the Trustee
pursuant to this Article XIII.
SECTION 13.05. SUBROGATION.
Upon the payment in full of all Senior Debt, the Holders of
the Notes shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions
made to the holders of, or otherwise applied to payment of, the Senior Debt
pursuant to the provisions of this Article XIII and to the rights of the holders
of Senior Debt to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Company
made on the Senior Debt until the Notes shall be paid in full; and for the
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to holders of Senior
Debt of any cash, property or securities to which Holders of the Notes would be
entitled except for the provisions of this Article XIII, no payment over
pursuant to the provisions of this Article XIII to holders of Senior Debt by the
Holders, shall, as between Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior
Debt and the Holders of the Notes, be deemed to be payment by Company to or on
account of Senior Debt, it being understood that the provisions of this Article
XIII are solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the holders
of Senior Debt, on the one hand, and the Holders of the Notes, on the other
hand.
If any payment or distribution to which the Holders would
otherwise have been entitled but for the provisions of this Article XIII shall
have been applied, pursuant to the provisions of this Article XIII, to the
payment of Senior Debt, then and in such case, the Holders shall be entitled to
receive from the holders of Senior Debt at the time outstanding any payments or
distributions received by such holders of Senior Debt in excess of the amount
sufficient to pay all Senior Debt in full.
SECTION 13.06. OBLIGATIONS OF COMPANY UNCONDITIONAL.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Security Documents,
nothing contained in this Article XIII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the
Notes is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company and the Holders,
the obligations of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to
the Holders the principal of (premium, if any), and interest on, the Notes as
and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms,
or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders of the
Notes and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior Debt,
nor shall anything herein or therein prevent any Holder from exercising all
remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon the occurrence of a Default
or Event of Default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under
this Article XIII of the holders of Senior Debt in respect of cash, property or
securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal of, or
interest on, the Notes by reason of any provision of this Article XIII shall not
be construed as preventing the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default
hereunder.
SECTION 13.07. NOTICE BY THE COMPANY.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee
and the Paying Agent of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the
making of any payment on or in respect of the Notes, but failure to give such
notice shall not affect the subordination of the Notes to the Senior Debt
provided in this Article XIII. Nothing contained in this Section 13.07 shall
limit the right of the holders of Senior Debt to recover payments as
contemplated by 13.01 and 13.02.
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SECTION 13.08. RIGHT AS HOLDER OF SENIOR DEBT.
The Trustee or any Holder in its individual capacity shall be
entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article XIII with respect to any
Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other
holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee
or such Holder of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 13.09. REINSTATEMENT.
The provisions of this Article XIII shall continue to be
effective or be reinstated, and the Senior Debt shall not be deemed to be paid
in full, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Senior
Debt is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the holder thereof upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise, all as
though such payment had not been made.
SECTION 13.10. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AND PAYING AGENT.
Notwithstanding Section 13.03, the Trustee or Paying Agent may
continue to make payments on the Notes and shall not be charged with knowledge
of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any such
payments, unless not less than two Business Days prior to the date of such
payment, a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received at its office
written notice of facts that would cause the payment of any principal of and
interest on the Notes to violate this Article XIII. The Company, the Registrar
or co-registrar, the Paying Agent, a Representative or a Holder of Senior Debt
may give the notice; provided, however, that, if an issue of Senior Debt has a
Representative, only the Representative may give the notice. The Trustee in its
individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Debt with the same rights it
would have if it were not Trustee. The Registrar and co-registrar and the Paying
Agent may do the same with like rights.
SECTION 13.11. TRUST MONEYS NOT SUBORDINATED.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in
this Article XIII with respect to any Senior Debt which may at any time be held
by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt; and nothing in
Article VI shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article XIII shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 5.07.
SECTION 13.12. TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION.
Each Holder of a Note by the Holder's acceptance thereof
authorizes and directs the Trustee on the Holder's behalf to take such action as
may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination
between the Holders and the holders of Senior Debt as provided in this Article
XIII, and appoints the Trustee to act as the Holder's attorney-in-fact for any
and all such purposes.
SECTION 13.13. TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to
the holders of Senior Debt and shall not be liable to any such holders if it
shall mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders or the Company or any other
Person, money or assets to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by
virtue of this Article XIII or otherwise.
SECTION 13.14. RELIANCE BY HOLDERS OF SENIOR DEBT ON SUBORDINATION
PROVISIONS.
Each Holder by accepting a Note acknowledges and agrees that
the foregoing subordination provisions are, and are intended to be, an
inducement and a consideration to each holder of any Senior Debt, whether such
Senior Debt was created or acquired before or after the issuance of the
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Notes, to acquire and continue to hold, or to continue to hold, such Senior Debt
and such holder of Senior Debt shall be deemed conclusively to have relied on
such subordination provisions in acquiring and continuing to hold, or in
continuing to hold, such Senior Debt.
ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 14.01. TRUST INDENTURE ACT CONTROLS.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or
conflicts with the duties imposed by TIA Section 318(c), the imposed duties
shall control.
SECTION 14.02. NOTICES.
Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to
the other is duly given if in writing and delivered in Person or mailed by first
class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telecopier or
overnight air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery, to the other's address:
If to the Company:
Arch Wireless Holdings, Inc.
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: J. Xxx Xxxxxx, Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
With a copy to:
Xxxx and Xxxx LLP
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esq.
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
If to the Trustee:
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
The Company or the Trustee, by notice to the other, may
designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or
communications.
All notices and communications (other than those sent to
Holders and the Trustee) shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time
delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being
deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged,
if telecopied; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier,
if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery. All notices and
communications to the Trustee shall be deemed duly given and effective only upon
receipt.
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Any notice or communication to a Holder shall be mailed by
first class mail, certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by
overnight air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery to its address shown on the
Note Register. Any notice or communication shall also be so mailed to any Person
described in TIA Section 313(c), to the extent required by the TIA. Failure to
mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect
its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.
If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided
above within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee
receives it.
If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it
shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.
SECTION 14.03. COMMUNICATION BY HOLDERS OF NOTES WITH OTHER HOLDERS OF NOTES.
Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with
other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes.
The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the
protection of TIA Section 312(c).
SECTION 14.04. CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee
to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee:
(a) an Officers' Certificate in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the
statements set forth in Section 14.05 hereof) stating that, in the
opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent and covenants, if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have
been complied with; and
(b) an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the
statements set forth in Section 14.05 hereof) stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants
have been complied with.
SECTION 14.05. STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN CERTIFICATE OR OPINION.
Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate
provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of
TIA Section 314(e) and shall include:
(a) a statement that the Person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of
the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person,
he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable such Person to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion
of such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 14.06. RULES BY TRUSTEE AND AGENTS.
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The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a
meeting of Holders. The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and
set reasonable requirements for its functions.
SECTION 14.07. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND
STOCKHOLDERS.
No past, present or future director, officer, employee,
incorporator or stockholder of the Company, as such, shall have any liability
for any obligations of the Company under the Notes, this Indenture or for any
claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their
creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of
the Notes. Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the
federal securities laws and it is the view of the Commission that such a waiver
is against public policy.
SECTION 14.08. GOVERNING LAW.
THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE
USED TO CONSTRUE THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO
APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF
THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
SECTION 14.09. NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other
indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its subsidiaries or of any
other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to
interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 14.10. SUCCESSORS.
All covenants and agreements of the Note Parties in this
Indenture and the Notes and the Guarantees shall bind its successors. All
covenants and agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its
successors.
SECTION 14.11. SEVERABILITY.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall
be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
SECTION 14.12. COUNTERPART ORIGINALS.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.
Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the
same agreement.
SECTION 14.13. TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS, ETC.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings in
this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to
be considered a part of this Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict
any of the terms or provisions hereof.
[Signatures on following page]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first written above.
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ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
By:___________________________________
ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
By:___________________________________
ARCH WIRELESS, INC.
By:___________________________________
PAGING NETWORK CANADIAN HOLDINGS, INC.
PAGENET SMR SUB, INC.
ARCHTEL, INC.
ARCH CONNECTICUT VALLEY, INC.
XXXXXX INVESTMENTS, INC.
MOBILEMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA
PAGING NETWORK, INC.
PAGENET, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF AMERICA, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF COLORADO, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF MICHIGAN, INC.
PAGING NETWORK FINANCE CORP.
PAGING NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC.
ARCH COMMUNICATION ENTERPRISES, LLC
MOBILEMEDIA LICENSE CO., L.L.C.
By:___________________________________
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
By:___________________________________
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EXHIBIT A
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(Face of Note)
12% SUBORDINATED SECURED COMPOUNDING NOTES DUE 2009
CUSIP _____________
NO. $_____________
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
promises to pay to CEDE & CO., INC. or registered assigns, the principal sum of
_________________ Dollars ($______________) on May 15, 2009.
Interest Payment Dates: May 15 and November 15, commencing November 15, 2002.
Record Dates: May 1 and November 1.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be
signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
By:_________________________________
Name:
Title:
This is one of the Global Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By: _____________________
Authorized Signatory
Dated _____________, 20__
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(Back of Note)
12% Subordinated Secured Compounding Notes due 2009
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned
to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.
1. INTEREST. Arch Wireless Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"COMPANY"), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 12%
per annum until maturity. The Company shall compound, or after the Trigger Date,
pay, interest semi-annually on May 15 and November 15 of each year, or if any
such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each an
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE"). Interest on the Notes shall accrue from the most
recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid,
from the date of original issuance; provided, however, that if there is no
existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated
between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest
Payment Date; provided, further, that the first Interest Payment Date shall be
the first of May 15 or November 15 to occur after the date of issuance.
From the date of original issuance of the Notes through the
Trigger Date, interest on the Notes shall compound semi-annually on the
Compounded Value in effect immediately prior to the applicable Interest Payment
Date as if the Compounded Value were principal. All references in this Note to
principal of the Note as of any date shall mean the Compounded Value as of such
date. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the aggregate amount of
such Compounded Value and such accrued and compounded interest on the
Determination Date.
On the Trigger Date, the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of
the occurrence of the Trigger Date and of the Compounded Value as of such date.
From and after the Trigger Date, interest on the Notes shall be payable in cash
semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date based on the Compounded
Value as of the Trigger Date, which shall be the Compounded Value as of the
immediately prior Interest Payment Date. On the first Interest Payment Date
occurring after the Trigger Date, interest shall be paid on the Notes in cash
for the full prior Interest Period. Interest will accrue or be paid, as the case
may be, on each Interest Payment Date, commencing November 15, 2002. Interest
will accrue from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided
for, from the date of original issuance of the Notes. Interest will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. If at any time an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall pay interest on
demand at a rate that is 2% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect; it
shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest from time to time on
demand at the same rate to the extent lawful.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company shall cause to be compounded or,
after the Trigger Date shall pay, interest on the Notes (except defaulted
interest) to the Persons who are Holders at the close of business on the May 1
or November 1 next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are
cancelled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date,
except as provided in Section 2.11 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted
interest. The Notes shall be payable as to principal, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such
purpose, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by
check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the Note Register;
provided, however, that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds
shall be required with respect to principal of and interest, if any, and
premium, if any, on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which
shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the Paying
Agent. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York, the
Trustee under the Indenture, shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The
Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder.
The Company or any of its subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.
4. INDENTURE; SUBORDINATION. The Company issued the Notes under an
Indenture dated as of [ ], 2002 ("INDENTURE") among the Company, the guarantors
party thereto (the "GUARANTORS") and the Trustee. The terms of the Notes include
those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference
to the
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Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code Sections
77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred
to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any
provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture,
the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Notes are
obligations of the Company limited in aggregate principal amount to
$100,500,000.
The Notes are subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in
the manner set forth in Article XIII of the Indenture, to the prior payment in
full in cash or cash equivalents of all Senior Debt, whether outstanding on the
date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed.
The Guarantees in respect of the Notes will be junior and subordinated in right
of payment, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to the
prior payment in full in cash or cash equivalents of all Senior Debt of each
Guarantor, whether outstanding on the date of the Indenture or thereafter
created, incurred assumed or guaranteed. Each Holder by its acceptance hereof
agrees to be bound by such provisions and authorizes and expressly directs the
Trustee, on its behalf, to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate
to effectuate the subordination provided for in the Indenture and appoints the
Trustee its attorney-in-fact for such purposes.
5. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.
(a) After the Trigger Date, the Notes will be redeemable at
the election of the Company, as a whole or from time to time in part, at any
time on not less than 15 days' prior notice, without premium or penalty, at the
Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of Compounded Value) set forth below
together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes redeemed to the
applicable Redemption Date (subject to the right of holders of record on
relevant record dates to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date) if
redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on May 15 of the years
indicated below:
Year Percentage
---- ----------
2002 - 2006.................................. 106.0%
2007......................................... 104.0%
2008 ........................................ 102.0%
2009 ........................................ 100.0%
(b) Any prepayment pursuant to this paragraph shall be made
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 9.01 through 9.07 of the Indenture.
6. MANDATORY REDEMPTION.
(a) After the Trigger Date, in the event and on each occasion
that any Net Cash Proceeds are received by or on behalf of the Company, on the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, the Company shall redeem Notes in an
amount equal to the aggregate amount of such Net Cash Proceeds plus any interest
accrued and paid thereon (subject to the requirements of Section 9.05 of the
Indenture). Within five Business Days after receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds,
the Company shall pay to the Collateral Agent such Net Cash Proceeds, to be held
by the Collateral Agent in the Collateral Account established pursuant to
Section 5.2(a) of the Collateral Agent Agreement for the benefit of the Holders
of the Notes. The Company shall direct the Collateral Agent to invest the amount
so deposited in an interest bearing bank deposit selected by the Company. On the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, the Trustee shall direct the Collateral
Agent to deliver such Net Cash Proceeds, together with any interest accrued and
paid thereon, to the Trustee for payment to the Holders of the Notes.
(b) After the Trigger Date, (i) on the Determination Date, the
Company shall calculate the Excess Cash Flow and (ii) on each Interest Payment
Date, the Company shall redeem Notes in an amount equal to 100% of the Excess
Cash Flow, if any.
7. REPURCHASE AT OPTION OF HOLDER.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall have the
right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or
an integral multiple of $1,000) of such Holder's Notes (a "CHANGE OF CONTROL
OFFER") at a purchase price equal to 101% of the Compounded Value thereof, plus
accrued and unpaid
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interest, if any, to the purchase date (subject to the right of Holders on the
relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment
Date). Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph 7, no Notes
may be purchased pursuant to such Change of Control Offer until all Senior Notes
tendered (and not withdrawn) into the Change of Control Offer required by the
comparable provisions of the Senior Indenture have been purchased by the
Company.
8. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption shall be mailed at
least 15 days before the redemption date to each Holder whose Notes are to be
redeemed at its registered address. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000
may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the
Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. On and after the redemption date
interest ceases to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.
9. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered
form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as
provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder,
among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents,
and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law
or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the
transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for
the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, the Company
need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days
before the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed or during
the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.
10. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered holder of a Note may be
treated as its owner for all purposes.
11. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain
exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the
consent of the Majority Noteholders, and any existing Default or Event of
Default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be
waived with the consent of the Majority Noteholders. Without the consent of any
Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at
any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, to evidence the
succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such
successor of the covenants of the Company in the Indenture and in the Notes; to
add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders, or to
surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; to grant
additional security for the Notes; to cure any ambiguity, to correct or
supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture; provided that such action pursuant to this clause
shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect;
to name any Agent, Depositary or Registrar in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture; to change the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Indenture;
or to make any change to comply with any requirement of the Commission in order
to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA.
12. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. Each of the following is an Event of
Default under the Indenture (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any Governmental Authority): (1) default in the payment of any
interest on any Note when it becomes due and payable and such default continues
for a period of 5 days; (2) default in the payment of the principal of any Note
at its Maturity (including pursuant to Sections 9.01 and 9.02 of the Indenture);
(3) the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries shall fail for 60 days after written
notice to the Company by the Trustee (at the direction of the holders of at
least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding) or the
holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained
in Sections 10.07, 10.08, 10.09, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15,
10.16, 10.19, 10.20, 10.21, 10.22, 10.23, 10.24 or 10.25 of the Indenture; (4)
the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries shall fail to observe or perform any other
covenant, condition or agreement contained in the Indenture (other than those
specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) of Section 4.01 of the Indenture), and such
failure shall continue unremedied for 60 days after written notice thereof shall
have been given to the Company by the Trustee (at the direction of the Majority
Noteholders) or the Majority Noteholders; (5) (i) any Note Party shall fail to
observe or perform any covenant, condition or
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agreement contained in the Security Documents to the extent it is a party
thereto; (ii) any Note Party shall breach in any material respect any
representation or warranty or agreement in any of the Security Documents or in
any certificates delivered in connection therewith; (iii) the repudiation by any
of them of any of their obligations under any of the Security Documents; (iv)
the unenforceability of the Security Documents against any of them in any
material respect for any reason which shall continue unremedied for 30 days
after the earlier of the date on which (A) a Responsible Officer of the Parent
becomes aware of such failure or (B) written notice thereof shall have been
given to the Parent by the Trustee or the Majority Noteholders; or (v) the loss
of the perfection or priority of the Liens granted by any of them pursuant to
the Security Documents for any reason; (6) the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries
shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless
of amount) in respect of any Material Obligations, when and as the same shall
become due and payable (after giving effect to any applicable grace period); (7)
a default occurs under any Material Obligation which default results in the
acceleration of such Material Obligation prior to its scheduled maturity or
payment date or requires the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance
thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or payment date (in each case after
giving effect to any applicable cure period); provided that this clause (7)
shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due solely as a result of
the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such
Indebtedness; (8) certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency described in the
Indenture with respect to the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries; (9) one or more
judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of
$1,000,000 shall be rendered against the Parent or any of the Subsidiaries or
any combination thereof (which shall not be fully covered by insurance without
taking into account any applicable deductibles) and the same shall remain
undischarged or unbonded for a period of 30 consecutive days during which
execution shall not be effectively stayed; or (10) any Guarantor disavows any of
its obligations under its Guarantee of the Notes.
If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the
Majority Noteholders may declare all the Notes to be due and payable.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of an Event of Default arising from
certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency, all outstanding Notes shall become
due and payable without further action or notice; provided, however, that so
long as any Senior Debt is outstanding, the acceleration shall not be effective
until the earlier of (i) an acceleration of any Senior Debt or (ii) five
Business Days after receipt by the Company of written notice of the acceleration
of the Notes. Holders may not enforce the Indenture except as provided in the
Indenture. Subject to certain limitations, the Majority Noteholders may direct
the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from
Holders notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default
or Event of Default relating to the payment of principal or interest) if it
determines that withholding notice is in their interest. The Majority
Noteholders by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders of all of the
Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under
the Indenture except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of
interest on, or the principal of, the Notes. The Company is required to deliver
to the Trustee annually a statement regarding compliance with the Indenture, and
the Company is required upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default,
to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such Default or Event of
Default.
13. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH THE COMPANY. The Trustee, in its
individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and
perform services for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with
the Company or its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
14. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. No director, officer, employee,
incorporator or stockholder of the Company or of any Guarantor, as such, shall
have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under the
Indenture, the Notes, the Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of,
or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a
Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of
the consideration for the issuance of the Notes; such waiver may not be
effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws and it is the
view of the SEC that such a waiver is against public policy.
15. AUTHENTICATION. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by
the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
16. ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name
of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act).
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17. GOVERNING LAW. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL
GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES WITHOUT GIVING
EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT THAT THE
APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
18. CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers
in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made
as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as
contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers placed thereon.
The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request
and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:
Arch Wireless Holdings, Inc.
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer
this Note to
________________________________________________________________________________
(Insert assignee's soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint ________________________________________________________
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute
another to act for him.
________________________________________________________________________________
Date: ______________
Your Signature:__________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of
this Note)
Signature Guarantee:_____________________________
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an
interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part
of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note,
have been made:
Principal Amount
Amount of of this Global Note Signature of
decrease in Amount of increase following such authorized signatory
Principal Amount in Principal Amount decrease (or of Trustee or
Date of Exchange of this Global Note of this Global Note increase) Note Custodian
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
For value received, each Guarantor (which term includes any
successor Person under the Indenture), jointly and severally, unconditionally
guarantees, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the
provisions in the Indenture, dated as of [ ], 2002 (the "Indenture"), by and
among Arch Wireless Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), Arch
Wireless Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("ARCH"), Arch Wireless,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "PARENT"), and the subsidiaries of the Parent
listed on Schedule I thereto (such subsidiaries, the "SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS,"
and together with Arch and the Parent, herein the "GUARANTORS") and The Bank of
New York, as Trustee (the "TRUSTEE"), (a) the due and punctual payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes (as defined in the
Indenture), whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, the
due and punctual payment of interest on overdue principal and premium, if any,
and, to the extent permitted by law, interest, and the due and punctual
performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the
Trustee all in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (b) in case of any
extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other
obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed
in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. The obligations of the Guarantors to the
Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture
are expressly set forth in Article XII of the Indenture and reference is hereby
made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee. This Guarantee is
subject to release as and to the extent set forth in Sections 12.05 and 12.06 of
the Indenture. This Guarantee is subordinated in right of payment to the extent
set forth in the Indenture. Each Holder of a Note, by accepting the same agrees
to and shall be bound by such provisions.
ARCH WIRELESS, INC.
ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
PAGING NETWORK CANADIAN HOLDINGS, INC.
PAGENET SMR SUB, INC.
ARCHTEL, INC.
ARCH CONNECTICUT VALLEY, INC.
XXXXXX INVESTMENTS, INC.
MOBILEMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA
PAGING NETWORK, INC.
PAGENET, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF AMERICA, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF COLORADO, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF MICHIGAN, INC.
PAGING NETWORK FINANCE CORP.
PAGING NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC.
ARCH COMMUNICATION ENTERPRISES, LLC
MOBILEMEDIA LICENSE CO., L.L.C.
By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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Exhibit C
COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT
AMONG
ARCH WIRELESS, INC.,
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.,
ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.,
EACH OF THE OTHER GRANTORS PARTY HERETO,
ANY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PARTY HERETO,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SENIOR INDENTURE TRUSTEE
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS JUNIOR INDENTURE TRUSTEE
AND
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
DATED AS OF MAY 29, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER MATTERS ................................. 1
Section 1.1 Definitions ............................................... 1
Section 1.2 Rules of Interpretation ................................... 5
ARTICLE 2. APPOINTMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF COLLATERAL AGENT ................ 6
Section 2.1 Appointment of Collateral Agent ........................... 6
Section 2.2 Acceptance of Duties ...................................... 6
Section 2.3 Acknowledgment of Collateral Agent ........................ 6
ARTICLE 3. CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF THE COLLATERAL
AGENT AND THE GRANTORS; POWERS OF ATTORNEY .................... 6
Section 3.1 Authorization to Execute Security Documents ............... 6
Section 3.2 Certain Representations and Warranties of the
Collateral Agent ................................................... 7
Section 3.3 Actions; Control of the Collateral Agent .................. 7
Section 3.4 Additional Security Documents ............................. 8
Section 3.5 Powers of Attorney to the Collateral Agent and to AWHI .... 8
ARTICLE 4. DEFAULTS; REMEDIES ........................................... 9
Section 4.1 Notice of Default ......................................... 9
Section 4.2 Control by Administrative Agent and Indenture Trustees .... 9
Section 4.3 Remedies .................................................. 10
Section 4.4 Right to Initiate Judicial Proceedings, etc. .............. 11
Section 4.5 Appointment of a Receiver ................................. 11
Section 4.6 Exercise of Powers ........................................ 11
Section 4.7 Remedies Not Exclusive 12
Section 4.8 Waiver of Certain Rights 12
Section 4.9 Limitation on Collateral Agent's Duties in Respect 12
of Collateral
Section 4.10 Limitation by Law ........................................ 13
Section 4.11 Absolute Rights of the Secured Parties ................... 13
ARTICLE 5. COLLATERAL ACCOUNT; APPLICATION OF MONEYS .................... 14
Section 5.1 Priority of Security Interests ............................ 14
Section 5.2 The Collateral Account .................................... 14
Section 5.3 Grant of Security Interest; Control of Collateral ......... 15
Account
Section 5.4 Investment of Funds Deposited in Collateral Account ....... 15
Section 5.5 Application of Investments ................................ 15
ARTICLE 6. AGREEMENTS WITH THE COLLATERAL AGENT ......................... 16
Section 6.1 Delivery of Documents ..................................... 16
Section 6.2 Information as to Secured Parties ......................... 17
Section 6.3 Compensation and Expenses ................................. 17
Section 6.4 Stamp and Other Similar Taxes ............................. 17
Section 6.5 Filing Fees, Excise Taxes, etc. ........................... 18
Section 6.6 Indemnification ........................................... 18
Section 6.7 Further Assurances ........................................ 19
ARTICLE 7. COLLATERAL AGENT ............................................. 19
Section 7.1 Exculpatory Provisions .................................... 19
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 7.2 Delegation of Duties ...................................... 20
Section 7.3 Reliance by Collateral Agent .............................. 20
Section 7.4 Limitations on Duties of the Collateral Agent ............. 21
Section 7.5 Moneys Held By Collateral Agent ........................... 22
Section 7.6 Resignation and Removal of the Collateral Agent ........... 22
Section 7.7 Status of Successors to the Collateral Agent .............. 23
Section 7.8 Merger of the Collateral Agent. ........................... 23
ARTICLE 8. RELEASE OF COLLATERAL ........................................ 23
Section 8.1 Conditions to Release of Collateral ....................... 23
Section 8.2 Actions Following Release of the Collateral ............... 24
SECTION 9. AGREEMENTS AMONG BENEFICIARIES ............................. 24
Section 9.1 Other Agreements Among Secured Parties .................... 24
Section 9.2 Payment of Collateral Agent's Fees ........................ 25
Section 9.3 Invalidation of Payments .................................. 25
ARTICLE 10. OTHER PROVISIONS ............................................ 25
Section 10.1 Amendments, Supplements and Waivers ...................... 25
Section 10.2 Notices .................................................. 26
Section 10.3 Severability ............................................. 26
Section 10.4 Dealings with the Grantors ............................... 26
Section 10.5 Claims Against the Collateral Agent ...................... 26
Section 10.6 Binding Effect ........................................... 27
Section 10.7 Conflict with Other Agreements ........................... 27
Section 10.8 Administrative Agent ..................................... 27
ARTICLE 11. GOVERNING LAW ............................................... 27
ARTICLE 12. COUNTERPARTS ................................................ 27
ARTICLE 13. HEADINGS .................................................... 27
ARTICLE 14. JURISDICTION; VENUE; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS .......... 27
ARTICLE 15. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL ........................................ 28
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Joinder Agreement
(ii)
COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT, dated as of May 29, 2002, among ARCH WIRELESS,
INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Parent"), ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC., a
Delaware corporation ("AWHI"), ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware
corporation ("Arch"), each of the subsidiaries of the Parent party hereto, THE
BANK OF NEW YORK, as Senior Indenture Trustee (as defined below), THE BANK OF
NEW YORK, as Junior Indenture Trustee (as defined below), the Administrative
Agent (as defined below) party hereto, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Collateral
Agent.
RECITALS
I. Reference is made to each of the following:
1. the Indenture ("Senior Indenture"), dated as of May 29, 2002,
among AWHI, as issuer, the Parent and each of the Subsidiaries (other than
AWHI), as guarantors, and The Bank of New York, as trustee (in such capacity,
the "Senior Indenture Trustee"), pursuant to which AWHI issued its 10% Senior
Subordinated Secured Notes due 2007 (the "Senior Notes");
2. the Indenture ("Junior Indenture"), dated as of May 29, 2002,
among AWHI, as issuer, the Parent and each of the Subsidiaries (other than
AWHI), as guarantors, and The Bank of New York, as trustee (in such capacity,
the "Junior Indenture Trustee"), pursuant to which AWHI issued its 12% Senior
Subordinated Secured Compounding Notes due 2009 (the "Junior Notes");
3. the Credit Agreement (as defined in the Security Agreement
referred to below); and
4. the Security Agreement, dated as of May 29, 2002, by and among
the Grantors and the Collateral Agent (the "Security Agreement").
II. In consideration for the execution and delivery of: (i) the Senior
Indenture by the Senior Indenture Trustee, (ii) the Junior Indenture by the
Junior Indenture Trustee, and (iii) the Credit Agreement by the Administrative
Agent and the other Bank Credit Parties, the Grantors have executed and
delivered the Security Agreement to secure, subject to the terms and conditions
thereof, of this Collateral Agent Agreement and the Security Documents, the
payment and performance of the Obligations.
III. The execution, delivery and effectiveness of the Senior Indenture,
the Junior Indenture and the Credit Agreement are conditioned upon this
Collateral Agent Agreement having been duly executed and delivered.
Accordingly, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER MATTERS
Section 1.1 Definitions
When used in this Collateral Agent Agreement, the following
capitalized terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto as
follows:
"Acceleration Default" has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Administrative Agent" has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Applicable Representative" has the meaning assigned to such
term in the Security Agreement.
"Approved Securities Intermediary" has the meaning assigned to
such term in the Security Agreement.
"Arch" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this
Collateral Agent Agreement.
"AWHI" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this
Collateral Agent Agreement.
"Bank Credit Party" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Code" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Blocked Account Bank" has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Blocked Account Letter" has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Business Day" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Cash Equivalents" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Collateral" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Collateral Account" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 5.2(a), which definition shall include any sub-accounts created
thereunder.
"Collateral Agent" means The Bank of New York, and its
successors as provided herein.
"Collateral Agent's Fees" means all fees, costs and expenses
of the Collateral Agent of the types described in Sections 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and
6.6.
"Collateral Agent's Liens" means all Liens and Security
Interests against the Secured Debt Collateral which result from (i) claims
against the Collateral Agent unrelated to the transactions contemplated by this
Collateral Agent Agreement and the other Security Documents or (ii) affirmative
acts by the Collateral Agent creating a Lien or Security Interest other than as
contemplated by this Collateral Agent Agreement.
"Collateral Agreement Collateral" means defined in Section
5.3(a).
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"Communications Act" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Control Account Letter" has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Credit Agreement" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Credit Agreement Event of Default" has the meaning assigned
to such term in the Security Agreement.
"Credit Agreement Obligations" has the meaning assigned to
such term in the Security Agreement.
"Default" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Distribution Dates" means, the Business Days fixed by the
Collateral Agent (the first of which shall occur as soon as practicable after a
Notice of Acceleration Default has been given by the Applicable Representative
or a Notice of Actionable Default has been given by Majority Creditors, but in
no event more than ninety days after the giving by such Applicable
Representative of a Notice of Acceleration Default or the giving by Majority
Creditors of a Notice of Actionable Default which has not theretofore been
withdrawn and the others of which shall, so long as such Notice of Acceleration
Default shall not have been withdrawn by such Applicable Representative or such
Notice of Actionable Default shall not have been withdrawn by Majority
Creditors, be on the corresponding date (or if not a Business Day, the next
Business Day) in each calendar month thereafter) for the distribution of all
moneys held by the Collateral Agent in the Collateral Account.
"FCC" has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security
Agreement.
"FCC License" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Foreign Pledge Agreements" has the meaning assigned to such
term in the Security Agreement.
"Governmental Authority" has the meaning assigned to such
term in the Security Agreement.
"Indentures" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Issuing Bank" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Joinder Agreement" means a Joinder Agreement, substantially
in the form of Exhibit A.
"Junior Note Event of Default" has the meaning assigned to
such term in the Security Agreement.
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"Junior Noteholder" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Junior Obligations" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Letter of Credit" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Lien" has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security
Agreement.
"Majority Creditors" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Material Adverse Effect" has the meaning assigned to such
term in the Security Agreement.
"Mortgage" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Notice of Acceleration Default" has the meaning assigned to
such term in the Security Agreement.
"Notice of Default" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Obligations" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Parent" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this
Collateral Agent Agreement.
"Person" has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security
Agreement.
"Pledged Stock" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Proceeds" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Real Property" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Representative" means, in the case of the (i) Senior
Indenture, the Senior Indenture Trustee, (ii) Junior Indenture, the Junior
Indenture Trustee, and (iii) Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to any Person, the
Chairman of the Board, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief
Executive Officer or the Treasurer of such Person.
"Secured Debt Collateral" has the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.3(a).
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"Secured Debt Documents" has the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Secured Parties" has the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"Security Agreement" has the meaning assigned to such term in
paragraph 4 of Recital I.
"Security Documents" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Security Interest" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Senior Note Event of Default" has the meaning assigned to
such term in the Security Agreement.
"Senior Note Obligations" has the meaning assigned to such
term in the Security Agreement.
"Senior Noteholder" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Senior Obligations" has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Security Agreement.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of l939.
"UCC" has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security
Agreement.
Section 1.2 Rules of Interpretation
The definitions of terms herein 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, (i) 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, supplemented or
otherwise modified, (ii) any definition of or reference to any law shall be
construed as referring to such law as from time to time amended and any
successor thereto and the rules and regulations promulgated from time to time
thereunder, (iii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
include such Person's successors and assigns, (iv) the words "herein," "hereof"
and "hereunder," and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to
this Collateral Agent Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular
provision hereof, (v) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and
Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits
and Schedules to, this Collateral Agent Agreement, and (vi) 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.
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ARTICLE 2. APPOINTMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF COLLATERAL AGENT
Section 2.1 Appointment of Collateral Agent
Each of the Senior Indenture Trustee, on behalf of itself and each
Senior Noteholder, the Junior Indenture Trustee, on behalf of itself and each
Junior Noteholder, and the Administrative Agent, on behalf of itself and each
other Bank Credit Party, hereby designates The Bank of New York, as Collateral
Agent, for the purposes of executing and delivering on their behalf the Security
Agreement, the Mortgages, the Foreign Pledge Agreements and the other Security
Documents and to act as specified herein, and in the Mortgages, in the Foreign
Pledge Agreements, the Security Agreement and the other Security Documents.
Section 2.2 Acceptance of Duties
The Collateral Agent, for itself and its successors, hereby accepts
the duties and obligations required by this Collateral Agent Agreement, the
Mortgages, the Foreign Pledge Agreements, the Security Agreement and the other
Security Documents upon the terms and conditions hereof and thereof, including
those contained in Article 7.
Section 2.3 Acknowledgment of Collateral Agent
(a) To secure the payment, observance and performance of the
Obligations and in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements set
forth herein, the Collateral Agent does hereby acknowledge and accept that it
holds as Collateral Agent, to the extent actually received as Collateral Agent,
pursuant to this Collateral Agent Agreement, all of the following (and each
Grantor does hereby consent thereto): (i) the Security Agreement, the Foreign
Pledge Agreements and the Mortgages and the Liens granted to the Collateral
Agent thereunder, (ii) the UCC financing statements, Blocked Account Letters and
Control Account Letters required to be delivered pursuant to the Secured Debt
Documents, (iii) each agreement entered into and delivered, from time to time,
pursuant to Sections 3.4, 6.7 or 10.1(b) and the collateral granted to the
Collateral Agent thereunder, (iv) the Collateral Agreement Collateral and (v)
the Proceeds of each of the foregoing. The foregoing Security Documents, the
Collateral, the Proceeds of any and all thereof and the right, title and
interest of the Collateral Agent therein are hereinafter referred to
collectively as the "Secured Debt Collateral."
(b) The Collateral Agent hereby holds the Secured Debt
Collateral under and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in
the other Security Documents, and for the benefit of the Secured Parties and for
the enforcement of the payment of all Obligations, and for the performance of
and compliance with the covenants and conditions of the Secured Debt Documents.
ARTICLE 3 CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT AND THE
GRANTORS; POWERS OF ATTORNEY
Section 3.1 Authorization to Execute Security Documents
The Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver each of the
Security Documents requiring execution and delivery by it and shall accept
delivery from each Grantor of those Security Documents which do not require the
Collateral Agent's execution; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent shall
have no duty to execute and deliver, or to accept delivery of, any Security
Document not satisfactory to it.
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Section 3.2 Certain Representations and Warranties of the Collateral
Agent
The Collateral Agent, in its capacity as Collateral Agent hereunder,
represents and warrants to the Secured Parties as follows:
(a) The Collateral Agent is a banking corporation duly
incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State
of New York and has all requisite corporate power and authority to enter into
and perform its obligations under this Collateral Agent Agreement and the other
Security Documents to which it is, or may become, a party.
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Collateral
Agent of this Collateral Agent Agreement and the other Security Documents to
which it (i) is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate
action on the part of the Collateral Agent and (ii) becomes a party will be duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Collateral
Agent.
(c) There are no Collateral Agent's Liens and the Collateral
Agent, in its individual capacity, has no Liens or Security Interests against
the Secured Debt Collateral.
(d) This Collateral Agent Agreement and each of the other
Security Documents to which the Collateral Agent is a party have been duly
executed and delivered by the Collateral Agent. Assuming that this Collateral
Agent Agreement and each of such other Security Documents have been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the other parties hereto and thereto, this
Collateral Agent Agreement and each of such other Security Documents constitute
the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Collateral Agent, enforceable
against it in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or other similar laws affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by the effect of general
principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law).
(e) There are no actions or proceedings pending or, to its
knowledge, threatened against it before any Governmental Authority (A) which
question the validity or enforceability of this Collateral Agent Agreement or
any other Security Document to which it is a party, or (B) which relate to the
banking or trust powers of the Collateral Agent and which, if determined
adversely to the position of the Collateral Agent, would materially and
adversely affect the ability of the Collateral Agent to perform its obligations
under this Collateral Agent Agreement or any of the other Security Documents to
which it is a party.
Section 3.3 Actions; Control of the Collateral Agent
(a) Subject to Sections 3.3(b) and 3.3(c) and except as
otherwise provided in Section 3.3(d) and in the Security Agreement, the
Collateral Agent shall take such action with respect to the Collateral and the
Security Documents (including, but not limited to, exercising the rights and
remedies provided in Article 4) as is requested in writing by and only by the
Applicable Representative or, during the continuance of an Actionable Default,
by Majority Creditors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall
not be obligated to take any action which is in conflict with any provisions of
law or of this Collateral Agent Agreement or the other Security Documents or
with respect to which the Collateral Agent has not received adequate security or
indemnity as provided in Section 7.3(d). Following the receipt by the Collateral
Agent of a Notice of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or
a Notice of Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, and so long as such
Notice of Acceleration Default or Notice of Actionable Default, as applicable,
has not been withdrawn by the
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Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors, as applicable, the Collateral
Agent shall not take any action to enforce the Security Interest in the
Collateral or foreclose on any Lien thereon unless the Collateral Agent has
received instructions to do so in the manner provided in this Section 3.3.
(b) The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to follow any
written directions received pursuant to Section 3.3(a) to the extent the
Collateral Agent has received an opinion of independent counsel to the
Collateral Agent to the effect that such written directions are in conflict with
any provisions of law or this Collateral Agent Agreement; provided, however,
that under no circumstances shall the Collateral Agent be liable for following
the written instructions of the Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors
at such times as such parties have the authority to act as herein provided.
(c) Nothing in this Section 3.3 shall impair the right of the
Collateral Agent to take or omit to take any action not inconsistent with any
direction of the Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors at such times
as such parties have the authority to act as herein provided.
(d) The Collateral Agent shall have no duty to inquire into,
investigate or ascertain the performance by any Grantor of any of the covenants
or agreements of any Grantor contained herein or in any other agreement or
document.
(e) To the extent that a direction of the Applicable
Representative requires the consent or direction of Majority Creditors, the
giving of such direction shall be deemed to be a certification by the Applicable
Representative that Majority Creditors have given their consent or such
direction to the Applicable Representative.
Section 3.4 Additional Security Documents
In the event that a Grantor acquires any interest in any
Collateral which is not covered by a Security Document in a manner which will
perfect the Collateral Agent's Lien upon and Security Interest in such
Collateral without further act or deed of the Collateral Agent, at the time such
interest in such Collateral is acquired, to the extent that such Security
Interest may be perfected by the execution and/or filing of a Security Document,
then such Grantor shall immediately prepare, execute and deliver to the
Collateral Agent such Security Documents, in form and substance similar to the
Security Documents heretofore executed and delivered by the Grantors (and in
form and substance acceptable to the Representatives), as are necessary to
perfect the Collateral Agent's Lien upon and Security Interest in such
Collateral. If the signature of the Collateral Agent is required on any such
Security Document, such Grantor shall present such Security Document to the
Collateral Agent for its signature, and the Collateral Agent shall execute such
Security Document and shall cause the same to be filed or recorded with the
public filing and/or recording offices as required or deemed advisable by the
Applicable Representative to perfect or protect the Collateral Agent's Lien upon
and Security Interest in such Collateral.
Section 3.5 Powers of Attorney to the Collateral Agent and to AWHI
(a) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the
Collateral Agent and any officer or agent thereof, with full power of
substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power and
authority in the name of such Grantor or the name of such attorney-in-fact for
the purpose of signing documents and taking other action to perfect and protect
the Liens and Security Interests of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral. Such
power of attorney is a power coupled with an interest, shall be irrevocable and
shall not first require the Collateral Agent to have received a Notice of
Acceleration Default.
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(b) Each Grantor (other than AWHI) hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints AWHI and any officer or agent thereof, with full power of
substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power and
authority in the name of such Grantor or in its own name, from time to time in
AWHI's discretion, to take or omit taking any and all actions hereunder for the
purpose of carrying out the terms of this Collateral Agent Agreement and any of
the other Security Documents, to receive and give all notices to be given by or
received by such Grantor, to execute any and all documents and instruments which
may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes hereof and, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby grants to AWHI the power and
right on behalf of such Grantor, without assent by such Grantor, to bind such
Grantor in all respects hereunder and under any of the other Security Documents,
with the intent that all action taken by AWHI on behalf of such Grantor shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of such Grantor as effectively as if such
action were taken directly by such Grantor. Each such power of attorney is a
power coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable until all of the
Obligations are paid in full in cash.
ARTICLE 4 DEFAULTS; REMEDIES
Section 4.1 Notice of Default
(a) Upon actual receipt by an officer of the Collateral Agent of
a Notice of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or a Notice
of Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, the Collateral Agent shall,
within five Business Days thereafter, send a copy thereof to the other
Representatives and each Grantor. Upon receipt of any written directions
pursuant to Section 3.3(a), the Collateral Agent shall, within five Business
Days thereafter, send a copy thereof to each Representative and each Grantor.
(b) The Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors shall be
entitled to withdraw a Notice of Default given by it or them, as applicable, by
delivering written notice of withdrawal to the Collateral Agent (i) before the
Collateral Agent takes any action to exercise any remedy with respect to the
Collateral or (ii) thereafter, if the Grantors otherwise indemnify the
Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties (in a manner satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent and the Representatives in their sole discretion) with respect
to all costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent and the Secured
Parties in connection with reversing all actions the Collateral Agent has taken
to exercise any remedy or remedies with respect to the Collateral. The
Collateral Agent or any Secured Party shall immediately notify each Grantor as
to the receipt and contents of any such notice of withdrawal and shall promptly
notify each of the Representatives, in the manner provided in Section 10.2, of
the withdrawal of any Notice of Default and shall promptly send a copy of any
such notice of withdrawal to the Representatives.
Section 4.2 Control by Administrative Agent and Indenture Trustees
(a) Subject to Section 4.2(b), if the Collateral Agent shall
have received a (i) Notice of Acceleration Default and so long as such Notice of
Acceleration Default has not been withdrawn in accordance with the provisions of
Section 4.1(b), the Applicable Representative, and (ii) Notice of Actionable
Default and so long as such Notice of Actionable Default has not been withdrawn
in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.1(b), Majority Creditors, shall
have the right, by an instrument in writing executed and delivered to the
Collateral Agent, to direct the Collateral Agent to exercise, or to refrain from
exercising, any right, remedy, trust or power available to or conferred upon the
Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other Security Document and in
connection therewith, to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any right or remedy available to the Collateral Agent, or of
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Collateral Agent, or for the
appointment of a receiver, or for the taking of any other action authorized by
this Collateral Agent
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Agreement or any other Security Document; provided, however, that the Collateral
Agent shall have received adequate security or indemnity as provided in Section
7.3(d) of this Collateral Agent Agreement.
(b) The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to follow any
written directions received pursuant to Section 4.2(a) or Section 4.4 of this
Collateral Agent Agreement to the extent the Collateral Agent has received a
written opinion of its counsel to the effect that such directions are in
conflict with any provisions of law or any applicable Security Document or any
order of any court or Governmental Authority; provided, however, under no
circumstances shall the Collateral Agent be liable for following such written
directions of the Administrative Agent, the Senior Indenture Trustee or the
Junior Indenture Trustee, as the case may be.
(c) Nothing in this Section 4.2 shall impair the right of the
Collateral Agent in its discretion to take or omit to take any action which is
deemed proper by the Collateral Agent and which it believes in good faith is not
inconsistent with any direction of the Administrative Agent, the Senior
Indenture Trustee or the Junior Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, delivered
pursuant to this Section 4.2; provided, however, the Collateral Agent shall not
be under any obligation, as a result of this Section 4.2 or any other provision
of this Collateral Agent Agreement, to take any action which is discretionary
with the Collateral Agent under the provisions hereof or under any other
Security Document unless so directed by the Administrative Agent, the Senior
Indenture Trustee or the Junior Indenture Trustee, as the case may be.
Section 4.3 Remedies
(a) Upon receipt of a Notice of Acceleration Default from the
Applicable Representative or a Notice of Actionable Default from Majority
Creditors and during such time as such Notice of Acceleration Default or Notice
of Actionable Default, as applicable, has not been withdrawn in accordance with
the provisions of Section 4.1(b) and irrespective of whether the Collateral
Agent has delivered notices to the other Representatives pursuant to Section
4.1(a) or Section 4.1(b), the Collateral Agent shall exercise the rights and
remedies provided in this Article 4 and the rights and remedies provided in any
of the other Security Documents in accordance with instructions of the
Applicable Representative, in the case of a Notice of Acceleration Default, or
Majority Creditors, in the case of a Notice of Actionable Default.
(b) Each Grantor hereby waives presentment, demand, protest or
any notice (to the extent permitted by applicable law and except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Collateral Agent Agreement or any of the other
Security Document) of any kind in connection with this Collateral Agent
Agreement, any Collateral, any other Security Document or any Secured Debt
Document.
(c) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the
Collateral Agent and any officer or agent thereof, with full irrevocable power
of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power and
authority in the name of such Grantor or in its own name, from time to time
acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative (in its sole
discretion) during the continuation of an Acceleration Default and Majority
Creditors during the continuation of an Actionable Default, for the purpose of
carrying out the terms of this Collateral Agent Agreement and any of the other
Security Documents, to take any and all appropriate action and to execute any
and all documents and instruments which may be necessary or desirable to
accomplish the purposes of this Collateral Agent Agreement any other Security
Document, and hereby gives the Collateral Agent the power and right on behalf of
such Grantor, without notice to or assent by such Grantor, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, to do any or all of the following:
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(i) to ask for, demand, xxx for, collect, receive and give
acquittance for any and all moneys due or to become due with respect to the
Collateral,
(ii) to receive, take, indorse, assign and deliver any and all
checks, notes, drafts, acceptances, documents and other negotiable and
nonnegotiable instruments, documents and chattel paper taken or received by the
Collateral Agent in connection herewith and therewith,
(iii) to commence, file, prosecute, defend, settle, compromise
or adjust any claim, suit, action or proceeding with respect to the Collateral,
and
(iv) to sell, transfer, assign or otherwise deal in or with
the Collateral or any part thereof pursuant to the terms and conditions
hereunder and thereunder.
(d) If any Grantor fails to perform or comply with any of its
agreements contained herein or in any other Security Document, the Collateral
Agent, at its option, but without any obligation so to do, may perform or
comply, or otherwise cause performance or compliance, with such agreement.
(e) All powers, authorizations and agencies contained in this
Collateral Agent Agreement are coupled with an interest and are irrevocable
until this Collateral Agent Agreement is terminated and the Security Interests
created by the Security Documents are released.
Section 4.4 Right to Initiate Judicial Proceedings, etc.
(a) Even if the Collateral Agent has not received a Notice of
Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or a Notice of
Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, the Collateral Agent shall
nevertheless have the right and power, but not the obligation, to institute and
maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem appropriate to protect and
enforce the rights vested in it by this Collateral Agent Agreement and each
other Security Document; provided, however, that as set forth in Section 3.3(a),
foreclosure of the Liens and Security Interests in the Collateral may not be
commenced prior to the Collateral Agent's receipt of a Notice of Acceleration
Default and instructions from the Applicable Representative or a Notice of
Actionable Default and instructions from Majority Creditors.
(b) If and only if the Collateral Agent shall have received a
Notice of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative and during
such time as such Notice of Acceleration Default shall not have been withdrawn,
the Collateral Agent may, either after entry or without entry, proceed by suit
or suits at law or in equity to foreclose upon the Collateral and to sell all
or, from time to time, any of the Secured Debt Collateral under the judgment or
decree of a court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 4.5 Appointment of a Receiver
If a receiver of the Secured Debt Collateral shall be required
to be appointed in any judicial proceeding, The Bank of New York may be
appointed as such receiver. Notwithstanding the appointment of a receiver, the
Collateral Agent shall be entitled to retain possession and control of all cash
held by or deposited with it or its agents pursuant to any provision of this
Collateral Agent Agreement or any other Security Document.
Section 4.6 Exercise of Powers
All of the powers, remedies and rights of the Collateral Agent
as set forth in this Collateral Agent Agreement may be exercised by the
Collateral Agent in respect of any Security
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Document as though set forth at length therein, and all the powers, remedies and
rights of the Collateral Agent as set forth in any Security Document may be
exercised from time to time as herein and therein provided.
Section 4.7 Remedies Not Exclusive
(a) No remedy conferred upon or reserved to the Collateral
Agent herein or in the other Security Documents is intended to be exclusive of
any other remedy or remedies, but every such remedy shall be cumulative and
shall be in addition to every other remedy conferred herein or in any of the
other Security Documents or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by
statute.
(b) No delay or omission of the Collateral Agent to exercise
any right, remedy or power accruing upon any Default shall impair any such
right, remedy or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default
or an acquiescence therein; and every right, power and remedy given by this
Collateral Agent Agreement or any other Security Document to the Collateral
Agent may be exercised from time to time.
(c) In case the Collateral Agent shall have proceeded to
enforce any right, remedy or power under this Collateral Agent Agreement or any
other Security Document and the proceeding for the enforcement thereof shall
have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or shall have been determined
adversely to the Collateral Agent, then and in every such case the Grantors, the
Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties shall, subject to any effect of or
determination in such proceeding, severally and respectively be restored to
their former positions and rights hereunder and under such other Security
Document with respect to the Secured Debt Collateral and in all other respects,
and thereafter all rights, remedies and powers of the Collateral Agent shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.
(d) All rights of action and rights to assert claims upon or
under this Collateral Agent Agreement and the other Security Documents may be
enforced by the Collateral Agent without the possession of any Secured Debt
Document or the production thereof in any trial or other proceeding relative
thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Collateral Agent
shall be brought in its name as Collateral Agent and any recovery of judgment
shall be held as part of the Secured Debt Collateral.
Section 4.8 Waiver of Certain Rights
Each Grantor, to the extent it may lawfully do so, on behalf of
itself and all who may claim from, through or under it, including any and all
subsequent creditors, vendees, assignees and lienors, expressly waives and
releases any, every and all rights to demand or to have any marshaling of the
Secured Debt Collateral upon any sale, whether made under any power of sale
granted under the Security Documents, or pursuant to judicial proceedings or
upon any foreclosure or any enforcement of this Collateral Agent Agreement or
the other Security Documents and consents and agrees that all the Secured Debt
Collateral may at any such sale be offered and sold as an entirety. In no event,
however, does any Grantor waive any obligations of the Collateral Agent under
applicable law to dispose of the Secured Debt Collateral in a commercially
reasonable manner.
Section 4.9 Limitation on Collateral Agent's Duties in Respect of
Collateral
Beyond its duties set forth in this Collateral Agent Agreement
as to the custody of, and the accounting to the Grantors and the Representatives
for, moneys received by it hereunder, the
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Collateral Agent shall not have any duty to the Grantors or the Secured Parties
as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or
control of any agent or nominee of it or any income thereon or as to the
preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining
thereto.
Section 4.10 Limitation by Law
All the provisions of this Article 4 are intended to be subject
to all applicable mandatory provisions of law which may be controlling in the
premises and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they will not render
this Collateral Agent Agreement invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part.
Section 4.11 Absolute Rights of the Secured Parties
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Collateral
Agent Agreement or any provision of any other Security Document but subject to
the priorities contained in the Security Documents, including Section 1.4 of the
Security Agreement and Section 5.1 of this Collateral Agent Agreement, neither
the right of each Secured Party, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payments of the Obligations held by such Secured Party on or after the due date
thereof as expressed in the Secured Debt Documents, to institute suit for the
enforcement of such payment on or after such due date, or to assert its position
and views as a secured or unsecured creditor in, and to otherwise exercise any
right (other than the right to enforce the Security Interest in the Collateral,
which shall in all circumstances be exercisable only by the Collateral Agent and
only as provided in this Collateral Agent Agreement and the other Security
Documents) which such Secured Party may have in connection with, a case under
the Bankruptcy Code in which a Grantor is a debtor, nor the obligation of each
Grantor, which is also absolute and unconditional, to pay the Obligations owing
by such Grantor to each Secured Party at the time and place expressed in the
Secured Debt Documents shall be impaired or affected without the consent of such
Secured Party.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any
Secured Debt Document or in any other agreement, instrument or document executed
by any Grantor and delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent will
not take any action pursuant to any Secured Debt Document or any other document
referred to above which would constitute or result in any assignment of any FCC
License or, to the extent failure to obtain such approval could reasonably be
expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect, from any other applicable
Governmental Authority, or any change of control (whether de jure or de facto)
of such Grantor or any of its subsidiaries if such assignment of any such FCC
License or change of control would require, under then existing law, the prior
approval of the FCC or, to the extent failure to obtain such approval could
reasonably be expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect, from any
other applicable Governmental Authority, without first obtaining such prior
approval of the FCC or such other Governmental Authority. Upon the occurrence of
a Default or at any time thereafter during the continuance thereof, such Grantor
agrees to take any action which the Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of
the Applicable Representative, in the case of an Acceleration Default, or
Majority Creditors, in the case of an Actionable Default, may reasonably request
in order to obtain from the FCC or any other Governmental Authority such
approval as may be necessary to enable the Collateral Agent to exercise and
enjoy the full rights and benefits granted to the Collateral Agent by this
Collateral Agent Agreement and the other documents referred to above, including
specifically, at the cost and expense of such Grantor, the use of commercially
reasonable efforts to assist in obtaining approval of the FCC or
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such other Governmental Authority for any action or transaction contemplated by
this Collateral Agent Agreement for which such approval is or shall be required
by law, and specifically, without limitation, upon request, to prepare, sign and
file with the FCC or such other Governmental Authority the assignor's or
transferor's portion of any application or applications for consent to the
assignment of license, FCC License or transfer of control necessary or
appropriate under the FCC's or such other Governmental Authority's rules and
regulations for approval of (i) any sale or other disposition of the Pledged
Stock by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent, or (ii) any assumption by the
Collateral Agent of voting rights in the Pledged Stock effected in accordance
with the terms of this Collateral Agent Agreement. It is understood and agreed
that all foreclosure and related actions will be made in accordance with the
Communications Act and applicable regulations and published policies and
decisions of the FCC, and the statutes, regulations and published policies and
decisions enforced by such other Governmental Authorities pertaining to such
foreclosure and related actions.
ARTICLE 5. COLLATERAL ACCOUNT; APPLICATION OF MONEYS
Section 5.1 Priority of Security Interests
Notwithstanding (i) the time, order, manner or method of
creation, attachment or perfection of the respective Security Interests and/or
Liens granted to any Secured Party in or on any or all of the property or assets
of the Grantors, (ii) the time or manner of the filing of the financing
statements reflecting such Security Interests, (iii) whether any Secured Party
or any bailee or agent thereof holds possession of any or all of the property or
assets of the Grantors, (iv) the dating, execution or delivery of any agreement,
document or instrument granting any Secured Party Security Interests and/or
Liens in or on any or all of the property or assets of the Grantors and (v) any
provision of the UCC or any other applicable law to the contrary, (y) any and
all Security Interests, Liens, rights and interests of the Senior Indenture
Trustee and/or holders of Senior Notes, whether now or hereafter arising and
howsoever existing, in or on any or all of the Collateral, shall be and hereby
are subordinated to any and all Security Interests, Liens, rights and interests
of the Administrative Agent in and to the Collateral, and (z) any and all
Security Interests, Liens, rights and interests of the Junior Indenture Trustee
and/or holders of Junior Notes, whether now or hereafter arising and howsoever
existing, in or on any or all of the Collateral, shall be and hereby are
subordinated to any and all Security Interests, Liens, rights and interests of
the Administrative Agent and the Senior Indenture Trustee and/or holders of
Senior Notes in and to the Collateral. For purposes of the foregoing allocation
of priorities, any claim of a right of setoff shall be treated in all respects
as a Security Interest, and no claimed right of setoff shall be asserted to
defeat or diminish the rights or priorities provided for herein.
Section 5.2 The Collateral Account
(a) On the date hereof there shall be established and, at all
times thereafter there shall be maintained by the Collateral Agent an account
which shall be entitled the "AWHI Collateral Account" (the "Collateral
Account"). The Collateral Agent may establish and maintain one or more
sub-accounts under the Collateral Account, each of which shall constitute a part
of the Collateral Account.
(b) Subject to paragraph (c) below, all moneys which are
received by the Collateral Agent from the Company and which are identified as
constituting Net Cash Proceeds (as such term is defined in the Senior Indenture
or, if the Senior Indenture is not then in effect, the Junior Indenture) shall
be deposited in the Collateral Account and thereafter shall be held, applied
and/or disbursed by the Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of this
Section 5.2(b). All such moneys received by the Collateral Agent shall be
invested in an interest bearing bank deposit as directed by AWHI. In the absence
of such direction such moneys shall not be invested. As and when directed by the
Applicable Representative in writing, the Collateral Agent shall deliver such
amounts, together with any accrued interest thereon, to the Senior Trustee for
application to the Senior Notes in accordance with the Senior Indenture or, if
the Senior Indenture is not then in effect, to the Junior Trustee for
application to the Junior Notes in accordance with the Junior Indenture.
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(c) All moneys which are received by the Collateral Agent with
respect to the Collateral at any time after a Notice of Acceleration Default
shall have been given to the Collateral Agent by the Applicable Representative
or a Notice of Actionable Default shall have been given to the Collateral Agent
by Majority Creditors, and shall not have been withdrawn, shall be deposited in
the Collateral Account and thereafter shall be held, applied and/or disbursed by
the Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of this Collateral Agent
Agreement. In the event that any such Notice of Acceleration Default shall have
been withdrawn by the Applicable Representative or any such Notice of Actionable
Default shall have been withdrawn by Majority Creditors, upon the written
request of AWHI, moneys on deposit in the Collateral Account shall be paid over
to the Concentration Account or to another Blocked Account.
Section 5.3 Grant of Security Interest; Control of Collateral Account
(a) As security for the payment or performance, as applicable,
in full of the Obligations, each Grantor hereby bargains, sells, conveys,
assigns, sets over, mortgages, pledges, hypothecates and transfers to the
Collateral Agent (and its successors and assigns), for the benefit of the
Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral
Agent (and its successors and assigns), for the benefit of the Collateral Agent
and the Secured Parties, a security interest in all of the right, title and
interest of such Grantor in and to the following, whether presently existing or
hereafter arising or acquired (the "Collateral Agreement Collateral"): (i) the
Collateral Account; (ii) all cash deposited therein; (iii) all certificates and
instruments, if any, from time to time representing the Collateral Account; (iv)
all investments from time to time made pursuant to Section 5.4; (v) all notes,
certificates of deposit and other instruments from time to time hereafter
delivered to or otherwise possessed by the Collateral Agent in substitution for,
or in addition to, any or all of the then existing Collateral Agreement
Collateral; (vi) all interest, dividends, cash, instruments, and other property
from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or
in exchange for any or all of the then existing Collateral Agreement Collateral;
and (vii) to the extent not otherwise included in clauses (i) through (vi) of
this Section 5.3(a), all Proceeds of any and all collections, earnings and
accruals with respect to any or all of the foregoing (whether the same are
acquired before or after the commencement of a case under the Bankruptcy Code by
or against such Grantor as a debtor).
(b) All right, title and interest in and to the Collateral
Account shall vest in the Collateral Agent, and funds on deposit in the
Collateral Account and other Collateral Agreement Collateral shall constitute
part of the Secured Debt Collateral. The Collateral Account shall be subject to
the exclusive dominion and control of the Collateral Agent.
Section 5.4 Investment of Funds Deposited in Collateral Account
Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2(b), the Collateral
Agent shall invest and reinvest moneys on deposit in the Collateral Account at
any time in Cash Equivalents but only in accordance with the written
instructions of the Applicable Representative specifying the particular
investment. In the absence of the receipt of any such instructions, the moneys
on deposit in the Collateral Account shall not be invested. All such investments
and the interest and income received thereon and therefrom and the net proceeds
realized on the sale thereof shall be held in the Collateral Account as part of
the Secured Debt Collateral.
Section 5.5 Application of Investments
From and after the receipt by the Collateral Agent of a Notice
of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or a Notice of
Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, and for as
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long as such Notice of Acceleration Default or Notice of Actionable Default, as
applicable, shall not have been withdrawn, assets held in the Collateral Account
(other than cash) shall be sold or otherwise liquidated from time to time and
the proceeds thereof shall, to the extent available for distribution, be
distributed by the Collateral Agent on the first and each succeeding
Distribution Date as follows:
FIRST: To the Collateral Agent in an amount equal to the Collateral
Agent's Fees which are unpaid as of such Distribution Date, and to the
Representatives for the account of any Secured Party which has theretofor
advanced or paid any such Collateral Agent's Fees in an amount equal to the
amount thereof so advanced or paid by such Secured Party prior to such
Distribution Date; provided, however, that nothing herein is intended to relieve
any Grantor of its obligation to pay such costs, fees, expenses and liabilities
from funds outside of the Collateral Account;
SECOND: To the Administrative Agent, for its own account and for the
account of the other Bank Credit Parties, in an amount equal to the unpaid
Credit Agreement Obligations and any other amounts then due to the
Administrative Agent or such other Bank Credit Parties, as applicable; provided
that with respect to any outstanding Letters of Credit, the Collateral Agent
shall withhold and retain in the Collateral Account the undrawn face amount of
such Letters of Credit; provided further that if any undrawn Letter of Credit is
thereafter drawn, the Collateral Agent shall pay to the Issuing Bank for payment
to the drawee (or for its own account if the Issuing Bank has theretofor paid
the drawee) the amount drawn up to the maximum amount retained by the Collateral
Agent in respect of such Letter of Credit; and provided further that if any such
Letter of Credit shall expire, the Collateral Agent shall distribute the amounts
retained to secure such undrawn Letter of Credit to the Administrative Agent for
the account of each Bank Credit Party, in each case pursuant to this Section
5.5);
THIRD: To the Senior Indenture Trustee, for its own account and for
the account of the Senior Noteholders, in an amount equal to the unpaid Senior
Note Obligations and any other amounts then due to the Senior Indenture Trustee
or the Senior Noteholders, as applicable;
FOURTH: To the Junior Indenture Trustee, for its own account and for
the account of the Junior Noteholders, in an amount equal to the unpaid Junior
Note Obligations and any other amounts then due to the Junior Indenture Trustee
or the Junior Noteholders, as applicable; and
FIFTH: Provided that all Obligations have been paid in full in cash,
any surplus then remaining shall be paid to the applicable Grantors or their
successors or assigns, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
ARTICLE 6. AGREEMENTS WITH THE COLLATERAL AGENT
Section 6.1 Delivery of Documents
On or promptly after the date hereof, AWHI will deliver to
the Collateral Agent true and complete copies of all Secured Debt Documents
(other than the Senior Notes, Junior Notes or the notes issued under the Credit
Agreement) and all Security Documents; provided that the failure to provide the
Collateral Agent with copies of such documents shall not affect the rights of
the Secured Parties or the validity of the Collateral Agent's actions taken
hereunder. AWHI further agrees that, promptly upon the execution thereof, AWHI
will deliver to the Collateral Agent a true and complete copy of any Secured
Debt Documents and Security Documents entered into by any Grantor subsequent to
the date hereof, and a true and complete copy of any and all amendments,
modifications or supplements to Secured Debt Document or Security Document
entered into by any Grantor subsequent to the date hereof.
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Section 6.2 Information as to Secured Parties
At any time after the Collateral Agent has received a
Notice of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or a Notice of
Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, and for as long as such Notice of
Acceleration Default or Notice of Actionable Default, as applicable, shall not
have been withdrawn, within five Business Days following the receipt of a
request of the Collateral Agent: (i) the Senior Indenture Trustee shall deliver
to the Collateral Agent, a schedule setting forth the aggregate principal amount
of Senior Note Obligations, the aggregate amount accrued and unpaid interest,
fees and other amounts constituting Senior Note Obligations and such other
information as the Collateral Agent may request to make distributions pursuant
to Section 5.5, (ii) the Junior Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the
Collateral Agent, a schedule setting forth the aggregate principal amount of
Junior Note Obligations, the aggregate amount accrued and unpaid interest, fees
and other amounts constituting Junior Note Obligations and such other
information as the Collateral Agent may request to make distributions pursuant
to Section 5.5, and (iii) the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the
Collateral Agent, a schedule setting forth the aggregate principal amount of
Credit Agreement Obligations, the interest rate or rates and the letter of
credit fee or fees then in effect with respect to such Credit Agreement
Obligations, the aggregate amount accrued and unpaid interest, fees and other
amounts constituting Credit Agreement Obligations and such other information as
the Collateral Agent may request to make distributions pursuant to Section 5.5.
Upon receipt of the requested information, the Collateral Agent shall compile
such information and prepare a master schedule which the Collateral Agent shall
promptly send to the Representatives.
Section 6.3 Compensation and Expenses
The Grantors jointly and severally agree to pay to the
Collateral Agent as compensation for the Collateral Agent's services hereunder
and under the other Security Documents and for administering the Secured Debt
Collateral, (a) such reasonable fees as shall be agreed to in writing from time
to time between AWHI and the Collateral Agent and (b) from time to time, upon
demand, all of the fees, costs and expenses of the Collateral Agent (including
the reasonable fees and disbursements of its counsel and such special counsel as
the Collateral Agent elects to retain) (x) arising in connection with the
preparation, execution, delivery, modification, restatement, amendment or
termination of this Collateral Agent Agreement and each other Security Document
or the enforcement (whether in the context of a civil action, adversary
proceeding, workout or otherwise) of any of the provisions hereof or thereof, or
(y) incurred or required or otherwise advanced in connection with the
administration of the Secured Debt Collateral (including reimbursements or other
payments made by the Collateral Agent to a Blocked Account Bank pursuant to a
Blocked Account Letter or to an Approved Securities Intermediary pursuant to a
Control Account Lender), the sale or other disposition of Collateral and the
preservation, protection or defense of the Collateral Agent's rights under this
Collateral Agent Agreement and in and to the Collateral and the Secured Debt
Collateral. As security for such payment, the Collateral Agent shall have a Lien
prior to the Obligations upon all Collateral and other property and funds held
or collected by the Collateral Agent as part of the Secured Debt Collateral. The
obligation of the Grantors to pay any and all fees, expenses, indemnities and
other amounts due hereunder shall be joint and several and shall survive the
termination of this Collateral Agent Agreement, the other Security Documents and
the other Secured Debt Documents.
Section 6.4 Stamp and Other Similar Taxes
The Grantors jointly and severally agree to indemnify and
hold harmless the Collateral Agent and each Secured Party from, and shall
reimburse the Collateral Agent and each Secured Party for, any present or future
claim for liability for any stamp or other similar tax and any penalties or
interest
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with respect thereto, which may be assessed, levied or collected by any
jurisdiction in connection with this Collateral Agent Agreement, any other
Security Document, the Secured Debt Collateral, or the attachment or perfection
of the Security Interest granted to the Collateral Agent in any Collateral. The
obligations of the Grantors under this Section 6.4 shall survive the termination
of the other provisions of this Collateral Agent Agreement.
Section 6.5 Filing Fees, Excise Taxes, etc.
The Grantors jointly and severally agree to pay or to
reimburse the Collateral Agent and each Secured Party for any and all amounts in
respect of all search, filing, recording and registration fees, taxes, excise
taxes and other similar imposts which may be payable or determined to be payable
in respect of the execution, delivery, performance and enforcement of this
Collateral Agent Agreement and each other Security Document and agree to save
the Collateral Agent and each Secured Party harmless from and against any and
all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or
omitting to pay such taxes and fees. The obligations of the Grantors under this
Section 6.5 shall survive the termination of the other provisions of this
Collateral Agent Agreement.
Section 6.6 Indemnification
(a) The Grantors jointly and severally agree to pay,
indemnify and hold the Collateral Agent, each of the Secured Parties and each of
their respective agents harmless from and against any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, amounts paid in
settlement, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature
whatsoever with respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and
administration of this Collateral Agent Agreement, the other Security Documents
and the Collateral, except to the extent that such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, amounts paid in settlement,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements 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 indemnified party. As security for such
payment, the Collateral Agent shall have a Lien prior to the Obligations upon
all Collateral and other property and funds held or collected by the Collateral
Agent as part of the Secured Debt Collateral.
(b) In any suit, proceeding or action brought by the
Collateral Agent under or with respect to the Collateral for any sum owing
thereunder, or to enforce any provisions thereof, or of any of the Security
Documents, including this Collateral Agent Agreement, the Grantors will save,
indemnify and keep the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties harmless from
and against all expense, loss or damage suffered by reason of any defense,
setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or reduction of liability whatsoever of the
obligee thereunder, arising out of a breach by any Grantor of any of its
obligations hereunder or thereunder or arising out of any other agreement,
indebtedness or liability at any time owing to or in favor of such obligee or
its successors from such Grantor, and all such obligations of the Grantors shall
be and remain enforceable against and only against the Grantors and shall not be
enforceable against the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party.
(c) The agreements and obligations of the Grantors in this
Section 6.6 shall survive resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent and the
termination of the other provisions of this Collateral Agent Agreement.
(d) If and to the extent that the obligations of the
Grantors under this Section 6.6 are unenforceable for any reason, each Grantor
hereby agrees to make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction
of such obligations which is permissible under applicable law.
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Section 6.7 Further Assurances
At any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the
Collateral Agent, and at the expense of the Grantors, each Grantor will promptly
execute and deliver any and all such further instruments and documents and take
such further action as the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable in
obtaining the full benefits of this Collateral Agent Agreement and the other
Security Documents and of the rights and powers herein and therein granted,
including the filing of any financing or continuation statements or other
instruments to perfect the Liens and Security Interests granted hereby and
thereby.
ARTICLE 7. COLLATERAL AGENT
Section 7.1 Exculpatory Provisions
(a) The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible in any manner
whatsoever for the correctness of any recitals, statements, representations or
warranties contained herein, in any other Security Document or in any Notice of
Default or in any instructions purported to be from the Applicable
Representative or Majority Creditors, except for those made by the Collateral
Agent. The Collateral Agent makes no representations as to the value or
condition of the Secured Debt Collateral or any part thereof, or as to the title
of any Grantor thereto or as to the security afforded by the Security Documents,
including this Collateral Agent Agreement or, except as set forth in Section
3.2, as to the validity, execution, enforceability, legality, perfection,
priority or sufficiency of this Collateral Agent Agreement, any other Security
Document, any other Secured Debt Document, or of the Obligations secured hereby
and thereby, and the Collateral Agent shall incur no liability or responsibility
in respect of any such matters. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible
for insuring, monitoring or maintaining the insurance on the Secured Debt
Collateral or for the payment of taxes, charges, assessments or Liens upon the
Secured Debt Collateral or otherwise as to the maintenance of the Secured Debt
Collateral, except that (i) in the event the Collateral Agent enters into
possession of a part or all of the Secured Debt Collateral, the Collateral Agent
shall preserve the part in its possession, and (ii) the Collateral Agent will
promptly, and at its own expense, take such action as may be necessary duly to
remove and discharge (by bonding or otherwise) any Collateral Agent's Lien on
any part of the Secured Debt Collateral or any other Lien on any part of the
Secured Debt Collateral resulting from claims against it not related to the
administration of the Secured Debt Collateral or (if so related) resulting from
gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part.
(b) The Collateral Agent shall not be required to ascertain or
inquire as to the performance by any Grantor of any of the covenants or
agreements contained herein, in any other Security Document or in any Secured
Debt Document. Whenever it is necessary, or in the opinion of the Collateral
Agent advisable, for the Collateral Agent to ascertain the identity of any
Secured Party or to ascertain the amount of Obligations then held by a Secured
Party, the Collateral Agent may rely on a certificate of such Secured Party's
Representative as to such amount.
(c) The Collateral Agent shall not be personally liable for any
acts, omissions, errors of judgment or mistakes of fact or law made, taken or
omitted to be made or taken by it in accordance with this Collateral Agent
Agreement or any other Security Document (including acts, omissions, errors or
mistakes with respect to the Collateral), except for those arising out of or in
connection with the Collateral Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct.
In no event shall the Collateral Agent be liable for incidental, indirect,
special or consequential damages, regardless of the form of action and even if
the same were foreseeable. Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the
contrary, the Collateral Agent shall have a duty of reasonable care with respect
to any Collateral which is delivered to the
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Collateral Agent or its designated representatives and is in the Collateral
Agent's or its designated representatives' possession and control.
(d) The Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any claims, losses,
liabilities, damages, costs, expenses and judgments (including reasonable
attorneys' fees and expenses) due to forces beyond the reasonable control of the
Collateral Agent, including strikes, work stoppages, acts of God, and
interruptions, losses or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer
(software or hardware) services.
(e) In performing the functions provided hereunder, no
Representative shall be personally liable for any acts, omissions, errors of
judgment or mistakes of fact or law made, taken or omitted to be made or taken
by it in accordance with this Collateral Agent Agreement, except for those
arising out of or in connection with such Representative's gross negligence or
willful misconduct. In no event shall the Collateral Agent or the
Representatives be liable for incidental, indirect, special or consequential
damages, regardless of the form of action and even if the same were foreseeable.
Section 7.2 Delegation of Duties
The Collateral Agent may execute any of the powers hereof and
perform any duty hereunder either directly or by or through agents, nominees or
attorneys-in-fact. The Collateral Agent may act and conclusively rely, and shall
be protected in acting and conclusively relying on, the opinion or advice of, or
information obtained from, any counsel, accountant, appraiser or other expert or
adviser, whether retained or employed by the Collateral Agent or the
Representatives in relation to any matter in connection with this Collateral
Agent Agreement, the Security Agreement or any other document, instrument or
writing. The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely on the advice of counsel
selected by it concerning all matters pertaining to such powers and duties. The
Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for any acts or omissions, including
any negligence or misconduct, of any agents, designated representatives,
nominees or attorneys-in-fact selected by it, except for those arising out of or
in connection with its gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Section 7.3 Reliance by Collateral Agent
(a) Whenever in the administration of this Collateral Agent
Agreement the Collateral Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that a
matter be proved or established with respect to any Grantor in connection with
the taking, suffering or omitting of any action hereunder by the Collateral
Agent, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein
specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved or established
by a certificate of a Responsible Officer of such Grantor delivered to the
Collateral Agent, and such certificate shall be full warranty to the Collateral
Agent for any action taken, suffered or omitted in reliance thereon, except for
those arising out of or in connection with its without gross negligence or
willful misconduct, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 7.4(b).
(b) The Collateral Agent may consult with counsel, accountants and
other experts selected by it, and any opinion of independent counsel, any such
accountant, and any such other expert shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken or suffered by it hereunder in
accordance therewith. The Collateral Agent shall have the right at any time to
seek instructions concerning the administration of the Secured Debt Collateral
from any court of competent jurisdiction.
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(c) The Collateral Agent may rely, and shall be fully protected in
acting, upon any resolution, statement, certificate, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, bond or other paper or document which
it has no reason to believe to be other than genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties or, in the case of facsimile, to have
been sent by the proper party or parties, including the information provided
pursuant to Section 6.2. In the absence of its gross negligence or willful
misconduct, the Collateral Agent may rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or
opinions furnished to the Collateral Agent and conforming to the requirements of
this Collateral Agent Agreement or any other Security Document.
(d) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or is otherwise
required to take action pursuant to this Collateral Agent Agreement, the
Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in the Collateral Agent by this Collateral Agent Agreement or
any other Security Document unless the Collateral Agent shall have been provided
adequate security and indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which may be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction,
including such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Collateral Agent.
Under no circumstances shall the Collateral Agent or any Representative have any
liability for investments made from moneys in the Collateral Account pursuant to
Section 5.4, and all such investments shall be at the sole risk of the Grantors.
(e) The Collateral Agent shall not be required to inquire or
investigate a Notice of Default or whether any instruction purported to be given
by the Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors, as applicable, was in
fact so given, or whether any such instruction is consistent with the Security
Agreement or this Collateral Agent Agreement, and the Collateral Agent may
assume the foregoing and shall be protected in conclusively relying thereon.
(f) The Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to any Collateral in
its possession or control, other than those duties specifically set forth
herein, or the possession or control of any agent or bailee or any income
thereon or as to the preservation or rights against prior parties or any other
rights pertaining thereto. The Collateral Agent shall endeavor to file such
financing and continuation statements and record such documents or instruments
in such places and at such times as shall be directed in writing by the
Representatives. The Collateral Agent shall not be liable or responsible for any
loss or diminution in the value of any of the Collateral by reason of the act or
omission of any carrier, forwarding agency or other agent or bailee selected by
the Collateral Agent in good faith.
(g) The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the existence,
genuineness or value of any of the Collateral or for the validity, perfection,
priority or enforceability of any Liens on any of the Collateral, whether
impaired by operation of law or by reason of any action or omission to act on
its part hereunder, except to the extent such action or omission constitutes
gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Collateral Agent, for
the validity or sufficiency of the Collateral or any agreement or assignment
contained therein, or for the validity of any title to the Collateral or
otherwise as to the maintenance of the Collateral. The Collateral Agent shall
have no duty to ascertain or inquire into the performance or observance by any
other party of the terms of this Collateral Agent Agreement, the Security
Agreement or any other agreement or document.
Section 7.4 Limitations on Duties of the Collateral Agent
(a) The Collateral Agent shall be obliged to perform such duties and
only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Collateral Agent
Agreement or in any other Security Document, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Collateral Agent Agreement or any other
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Document against the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall, upon receipt
of a Notice of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or a
Notice of Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, and for as long as such
Notice of Acceleration Default or Notice of Actionable Default, as applicable,
shall not have been withdrawn, and unless prevented from doing so by applicable
law, exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Collateral Agent
Agreement or by any other Security Document, and the Collateral Agent shall not
be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted by it in accordance with
the direction of the Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors pursuant to
Section 3.3.
(b) Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, including upon
the written request of the Applicable Representative or Majority Creditors
pursuant to Section 3.3, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation
to take any action which is discretionary with the Collateral Agent under the
provisions hereof or under any other Security Document. The Collateral Agent
shall furnish to the Representatives promptly upon receipt thereof, a copy of
each certificate or other paper furnished to the Collateral Agent by a Grantor
under or in respect of this Collateral Agent Agreement, any other Security
Document or any of the Secured Debt Collateral.
Section 7.5 Moneys Held By Collateral Agent
All moneys received by the Collateral Agent under or pursuant to any
provision of this Collateral Agent Agreement or any other Security Document
shall be held as Collateral for the purposes for which they were paid or are
held.
Section 7.6 Resignation and Removal of the Collateral Agent
(a) The Collateral Agent may at any time, by giving thirty days'
prior written notice to AWHI and the Representatives, resign and be discharged
of the responsibilities hereby created, such resignation to become effective
upon the appointment of a successor collateral agent or collateral agents by the
Representatives and the acceptance of such appointment by such successor
collateral agent or collateral agents. The Collateral Agent may be removed at
any time without cause and a successor collateral agent appointed by the
affirmative vote of Majority Creditors; provided that the Collateral Agent shall
be entitled to its fees and expenses to the date of removal. If no successor
collateral agent or collateral agents shall be appointed and approved within
thirty days from the date of the giving of the aforesaid notice of resignation
or within thirty days from the date of such removal, the Collateral Agent may
apply, at the expense of the Grantors, to any court of competent jurisdiction to
appoint a successor collateral agent or collateral agents (which may be an
individual or individuals) to act until such time, if any, as a successor
collateral agent or collateral agents shall have been appointed as above
provided. Any successor collateral agent or collateral agents so appointed by
such court shall immediately and without further act be superseded by any
successor collateral agent or collateral agents appointed by the Majority
Creditors.
(b) If at any time the Collateral Agent shall resign, be removed or
otherwise become incapable of acting, or if at any time a vacancy shall occur in
the office of the Collateral Agent for any other cause, a successor collateral
agent or collateral agents may be appointed by the Representatives, and the
powers, duties, authority and title of the predecessor collateral agent or
collateral agents terminated and canceled without procuring the resignation of
such predecessor collateral agent or collateral agents, and without any other
formality (except as may be required by applicable law) other than the
appointment and designation of a successor collateral agent or collateral agents
in writing, duly acknowledged, delivered to the predecessor collateral agent or
collateral agents and AWHI, and filed for record in each public office, if any,
in which this Collateral Agent Agreement is required to be filed.
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(c) The appointment and designation referred to in Section 7.6(b)
shall, after any required filing, be full evidence of the right and authority to
make the same and of all the facts therein recited, and this Collateral Agent
Agreement shall vest in such successor collateral agent or collateral agents,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, all of the estate and title of its
predecessor or their predecessors, and upon such filing for record the successor
collateral agent or collateral agents shall become fully vested with all the
estates, properties, rights, powers, trusts, duties, authority and title of its
predecessor or their predecessors; but such predecessor or predecessors shall,
nevertheless, on the written request of any Representative, AWHI, or its or
their successor collateral agent or collateral agents, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor or successors all the estates,
properties, rights, powers, duties, authority and title of such predecessor or
predecessors hereunder and shall deliver all securities and moneys held by it or
them to such successor collateral agent or collateral agents. Should any deed,
conveyance or other instrument in writing from AWHI be required by any successor
collateral agent or collateral agents for more fully and certainly vesting in
such successor collateral agent or collateral agents the estates, properties,
rights, powers, duties, authority and title vested or intended to be vested in
the predecessor collateral agent or collateral agents, any and all such deeds,
conveyances and other instruments in writing shall, on request of such successor
collateral agent or collateral agents, be so executed, acknowledged and
delivered.
(d) Any required filing for record of the instrument appointing a
successor collateral agent or collateral agents as hereinabove provided shall be
at the expense of the Grantors. The resignation of any collateral agent or
collateral agents and the instrument or instruments removing any collateral
agent or collateral agents, together with all other instruments, deeds and
conveyances provided for in this Article 7 shall, if required by law, be
forthwith recorded, registered and filed by and at the expense of the Grantors,
wherever this Collateral Agent Agreement is recorded, registered and filed.
Section 7.7 Status of Successors to the Collateral Agent
Every successor to The Bank of New York appointed pursuant to
Section 7.6 and every corporation resulting from a merger or consolidation
pursuant to Section 7.8 shall be a bank or trust company in good standing and
having power so to act, incorporated under the laws of the United States or any
state thereof or the District of Columbia, and having its principal corporate
trust office within the forty-eight contiguous states, and shall also have
capital, surplus and undivided profits of not less than $250,000,000 and a
rating from Standard & Poor's or Xxxxx'x of A or better.
Section 7.8 Merger of the Collateral Agent.
Any corporation into which the Collateral Agent shall be merged, or
with which it shall be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger or consolidation to which the Collateral Agent shall be a party or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Collateral Agent, shall be the Collateral Agent under this
Collateral Agent Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the parties hereto.
ARTICLE 8. RELEASE OF COLLATERAL
Section 8.1 Conditions to Release of Collateral
(a) Subject to Sections 8.1(d) and 8.2, the Collateral Agent shall
release its Security Interest in all of the Collateral on the date which is
three Business Days after the date on which (i) the Collateral Agent shall have
received written instructions from each Representative instructing the
Collateral Agent to release its Security Interest in all of the Collateral, and
(ii) accrued and unpaid Collateral Agent's Fees shall have been paid in full.
(b) Subject to Sections 8.1(d) and 8.2, the Collateral Agent shall
release its Security Interest in specific items or portions of the Collateral on
the date which is no later than three Business Days after the date on which the
Collateral Agent shall have received written instructions from each
Representative instructing the
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Collateral Agent to release its Security Interest in specific items or portions
of the Collateral.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 8.1 to the
contrary, no Representative shall instruct the Collateral Agent to release its
Security Interest in specific portions of the Collateral without the consent of
each Representative, except to the extent that (i) the net cash proceeds of the
Collateral so released are used to pay amounts owing under the Credit Agreement
or, if the Credit Agreement Obligations have been paid in full, the Senior
Indenture, or, if the Senior Note Obligations have been paid in full, the Junior
Indenture or (ii) the release of Collateral is expressly permitted or required
by the terms of the Secured Debt Documents.
(d) Prior to each proposed release (within the meaning of Section
314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) of Collateral pursuant to this Article 8,
AWHI shall, if then required by Section 314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act, cause
to be furnished to each Representative (with a copy to the Collateral Agent), an
Officers' Certificate (as defined in each Indenture) and an Opinion of Counsel
(as defined in each Indenture) to AWHI, each stating that such release (i) is
contemplated by, and made in accordance with the terms of, this Collateral Agent
Agreement and (ii) is not inconsistent with either Indenture or the Trust
Indenture Act.
Section 8.2 Actions Following Release of the Collateral
To the extent that the Collateral Agent is required to release
Collateral in accordance with Section 8.1, or the Security Interest in any
Collateral granted pursuant to any of the Security Documents is otherwise
terminated or released in accordance with the terms thereof, all right, title
and interest of the Collateral Agent in, to and under such Collateral and the
Security Interest of the Collateral Agent therein shall terminate and shall
revert to the applicable Grantor or its successors and assigns, and the estate,
right, title and interest of the Collateral Agent therein shall thereupon cease,
terminate and become void. Following such request, instructions or other
termination or release, the Collateral Agent shall, upon the written request of
the applicable Grantor or its successors or assigns and at the cost and expense
of the Grantors, or their successors or assigns, execute such instruments and
take such other actions as are necessary or desirable to terminate any such
Security Interest and otherwise to effectuate the release of the specified
portions of the Collateral from the Lien of such Security Interest. Such
termination and release shall be without prejudice to the rights of the
Collateral Agent or any successor collateral agent to charge and be reimbursed
for any expenditures which it may thereafter incur in connection therewith.
SECTION 9. AGREEMENTS AMONG BENEFICIARIES
Section 9.1 Other Agreements Among Secured Parties
Each Secured Party by its acceptance of the benefits of this
Collateral Agent Agreement and any other Security Document and the Collateral
shall be deemed to have:
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(a) agreed that should it obtain, receive or take any Collateral (by
means of set-off, recoupment or otherwise), or recover any amounts under any
Security Document, at any time after the Collateral Agent has received a Notice
of Acceleration Default from the Applicable Representative or a Notice of
Actionable Default from Majority Creditors, then the received Collateral or the
amount recovered shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent for distribution in
accordance with Section 5.5; and
(b) agreed that any recovery of Collateral by any Secured Party with
respect to the Obligations as a result of enforcement of any consensual or
non-consensual Lien or Security Interest on any Collateral shall be remitted to
the Collateral Agent for distribution in accordance with Section 5.5.
Section 9.2 Payment of Collateral Agent's Fees
In the event the Grantors do not pay the Collateral Agent's Fees,
the Collateral Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, to withdraw
the Collateral Agent's Fees from the Collateral Account. In addition, in the
event the Grantors do not pay the Collateral Agent's Fees, each Secured Party
(other than the Collateral Agent) by its acceptance of the benefits of this
Collateral Agent Agreement and any other Security Document and the Collateral
shall be deemed to have agreed that any Proceeds of Collateral to which it shall
be entitled shall be available to pay the Collateral Agent's Fees ratably in
accordance with the proportion of the Obligations held by such Secured Party or,
if there has been any recovery of the Obligations, in accordance with the
proportion of (i) the Obligations recovered by such Secured Party to (ii) the
aggregate amount of Obligations recovered by all Secured Parties.
Section 9.3 Invalidation of Payments
To the extent that any of the Secured Parties receives payments on
the Obligations or receives Proceeds of Collateral which are subsequently
invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, or are required to be
repaid to a collateral agent, receiver or any other Person under the Bankruptcy
Code or under state, federal or common law, then, to the extent the payments or
Proceeds are so repaid, the Obligations or part thereof which was intended to be
satisfied shall be revived and will continue to be in full force and effect as
if those payments or Proceeds had never been received by such Secured Party.
ARTICLE 10. OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 10.1 Amendments, Supplements and Waivers
(a) Except as set forth in Section 10.1(b), this Collateral Agent
Agreement may not be amended, revised, restated or supplemented or waived
without the prior written consent of AWHI, acting for itself and each other
Grantor, and the Collateral Agent, acting with the consent of Majority
Creditors.
(b) The Grantors, the Representatives and the Collateral Agent, at
any time and from time to time, may enter into additional Security Documents or
one or more agreements supplemental hereto or to any other Security Document, in
form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent:
(i) to mortgage, pledge or grant a Security Interest in
personal property of a type or category which is set forth in Section 1.3
of the Security Agreement or in any Real Property in favor of the
Collateral Agent as additional security for the Obligations pursuant to
any Security Document, or
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(ii) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in any other Security Document which may be defective
or inconsistent with any other provision herein or therein or make any
other amendment or modification of any Security Document.
Section 10.2 Notices
All notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in
writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by
certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile, as follows:
(a) in the case of any Grantor, to such Grantor c/o Arch
Wireless Holdings, Inc., 0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: J. Xxx Xxxxxx, Chief Financial Officer,
Telephone: (000) 000-0000, Facsimile: (000) 000-0000, and
(b) in the case of each other party hereto, to it at its Address for
Notices set forth on its signature page hereto or, in the case of any
Administrative Agent not party to the Credit Agreement on the date hereof, on
its signature page to its Joinder Agreement;
provided that in the case of notice to any Grantor other than AWHI, a copy
thereof shall be sent to AWHI. Any party hereto may change its address or
facsimile number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the
other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party
hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Collateral Agent Agreement
shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.
Section 10.3 Severability
Any provision of this Collateral Agent Agreement which 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; provided that this Collateral Agent Agreement shall be
construed so as to give effect to the intention expressed in Section 4.11.
Section 10.4 Dealings with the Grantors
Upon any application or demand by AWHI to the Collateral Agent to
take or permit any action under any of the provisions of this Collateral Agent
Agreement or any other Security Document, AWHI shall furnish to the Collateral
Agent, with copies to each Representative, a certificate signed by a Responsible
Officer of AWHI stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in
this Collateral Agent Agreement or any other Security Document relating to the
proposed action have been complied with, except that in the case of any such
application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Collateral Agent Agreement or any
other Security Document, relating to such particular application or demand, no
additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Section 10.5 Claims Against the Collateral Agent
Any claims or causes of action which a Secured Party or a Grantor
shall have against the Collateral Agent shall survive the termination of this
Collateral Agent Agreement and the release of the Collateral hereunder.
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Section 10.6 Binding Effect
This Collateral Agent Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of each of the parties hereto and shall inure to the benefit of the
Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns, and nothing herein
or in any other Security Document is intended or shall be construed to give any
other Person any right, remedy or claim under, to or in respect of this
Collateral Agent Agreement, any other Security Document or the Secured Debt
Collateral.
Section 10.7 Conflict with Other Agreements
The parties agree that in the event of any conflict between the
provisions of this Collateral Agent Agreement and the provisions of any of the
other Security Documents, the provisions of this Collateral Agent Agreement
shall control.
Section 10.8 Administrative Agent
Any Administrative Agent not party to this Credit Agreement may
become a party hereto by executing a Joinder Agreement. Such Joinder Agreement
will become effective upon the execution thereof by the Collateral Agent acting
at the direction of the Applicable Representative. Upon such effectiveness, the
Administrative Agent named therein shall be the Administrative Agent for all
purposes under this Collateral Agent Agreement and the Security Agreement. The
Collateral Agent shall deliver an executed copy of such Joinder Agreement to the
Grantors and each Representative.
ARTICLE 11. GOVERNING LAW
THIS COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO
APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF
THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
ARTICLE 12. COUNTERPARTS
This Collateral Agent Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by
different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which, when taken together, shall constitute
but one contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Collateral Agent
Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart of this Collateral Agent Agreement.
ARTICLE 13. HEADINGS
Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for
convenience of reference only, are not part of this Collateral Agent Agreement
and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in
interpreting, this Collateral Agent Agreement.
ARTICLE 14. JURISDICTION; VENUE; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS
Each of the parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for
itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State
court or Federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City,
and any appellate court thereof, in any action or proceeding arising
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out of or relating to this Collateral Agent Agreement or the other Secured Debt
Documents, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the
parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties
hereto 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 Collateral Agent Agreement
shall affect any right that the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party may
otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Collateral
Agent Agreement or the other Secured Debt Documents against such Grantor or any
of its property in the courts of any jurisdiction. Each of the parties hereto
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may
legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have
to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Collateral Agent Agreement or the other Secured Debt Documents
in any foregoing court referred to in this Article. Each of the parties hereto
hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or
proceeding in any such court. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to
service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 10.2. Nothing
in this Collateral Agent Agreement will affect the right of any party hereto to
serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
ARTICLE 15. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY 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 COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HERETO (I) CERTIFIES THAT NO
REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HERETO HAS REPRESENTED,
EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF
LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (II) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT
AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS COLLATERAL
AGENT AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN
THIS ARTICLE.
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ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this
Collateral Agent Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
ARCH WIRELESS, INC.
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
ARCH CONNECTICUT VALLEY, INC.
Arch Communications Enterprises, LLC
Archtel, Inc.
MobileMedia Communications, Inc.
Mobile Communications Corporation of
America
MobileMedia License Co., L.L.C.
Xxxxxx Investments, Inc.
Paging Network, Inc.
PageNet, Inc.
Paging Network Finance Corp.
Paging Network International, Inc.
Paging Network of America, Inc.
Paging Network of Colorado, Inc.
Paging Network of Michigan, Inc.
Paging Network of Northern California,
Inc.
Paging Network of San Francisco, Inc.
Paging Network Canadian Holdings, Inc.
Pagenet SMR Sub, Inc.
AS TO EACH OF THE FOREGOING
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Collateral Agent
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Address for Notices
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 00 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Senior Indenture Trustee
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Address for Notices
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 00 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Junior Indenture Trustee
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Address for Notices
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 00 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
EXHIBIT A TO COLLATERAL AGENT AGREEMENT
FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT
JOINDER AGREEMENT (this "Joinder Agreement"), dated as of _________, 200_,
under the Collateral Agent Agreement, dated as of May 29, 2002, among ARCH
WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation ("AWHI"), ARCH WIRELESS, INC., a
Delaware corporation (the "Parent"), ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a
Delaware corporation, the Subsidiaries of the Parent party thereto, and THE BANK
OF NEW YORK, as Collateral Agent (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Collateral Agent Agreement"). Capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such
terms in the Collateral Agent Agreement.
Section 10.8 of the Collateral Agent Agreement provides that a Person
acting as administrative agent under a credit agreement with AWHI which is not
party to the Collateral Agent Agreement may become the Administrative Agent
referred to in the Security Agreement and the Collateral Agent Agreement by
execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Joinder Agreement.
The undersigned (the "New Administrative Agent") is executing this Joinder
Agreement in accordance with the requirements of the Collateral Agent Agreement
to become the Administrative Agent under the Security Agreement and the
Collateral Agent Agreement.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. In accordance with Section 10.8 of the Collateral Agent Agreement, the
New Administrative Agent by its signature below becomes the Administrative Agent
under the Security Agreement and the Collateral Agent Agreement with the same
force and effect as if its was an original signatory to each thereof and New
Administrative Agent hereby agrees to be bound by all of the terms and
provisions of the Security Agreement applicable to it as Administrative Agent
thereunder. Each reference to the "Administrative Agent" in the Security
Agreement and the Collateral Agent Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the New
Administrative Agent.
2. The New Administrative Agent represents and warrants to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties that (i) this Joinder Agreement has been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid
and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and (ii) it is the
Administrative Agent under the [IDENTIFY CREDIT AGREEMENT] and that it is
executing this Joinder Agreement on behalf of itself and each lender under such
Credit Agreement.
3. This Joinder Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by each
party hereto on a different counterpart), each of which shall constitute an
original, but both of which, when taken together, shall constitute but one
contract. This Joinder Agreement shall become effective when the Collateral
Agent shall have received counterparts of this Joinder Agreement that, when
taken together, bear the signatures of the New Administrative Agent and the
Collateral Agent. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Joinder Agreement
by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually
executed counterpart of this Joinder Agreement.
4. THIS JOINDER AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO
APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT THAT THE
APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
5. In the event any one or more of the provisions contained in this
Joinder Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions
contained herein, in the Collateral Agent Agreement and in the Security
Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby (it being
understood that the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular
jurisdiction shall not in and of itself affect the validity of such provision in
any other jurisdiction). The parties hereto shall endeavor in good-faith
negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with
valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that
of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
6. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given
as provided in Section 10.2 of the Collateral Agent Agreement. All
communications and notices hereunder to the New Administrative Agent shall be
given to it at the address set forth on its signature page hereto.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent
have duly executed this Joinder Agreement as of the day and year first above
written.
[NAME OF NEW ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT]
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Address for Notices
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as
Collateral Agent
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Exhibit D
SECURITY AGREEMENT
AMONG
ARCH WIRELESS, INC.,
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.,
ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.,
EACH OF THE SUBSIDIARIES OF ARCH WIRELESS INC. PARTY HERETO
AND
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
DATED AS OF MAY 29, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS; GRANT OF SECURITY; CONTINUING PERFECTION AND PRIORITY................................ 1
Section 1.1 General Definitions........................................................................... 1
Section 1.2 Interpretation; References to the UCC......................................................... 18
Section 1.3 Grant of Security............................................................................. 18
Section 1.4 Ranking of Obligations........................................................................ 20
Section 1.5 Power of Attorney to AWHI..................................................................... 20
ARTICLE 2. SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS; NO ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITY............................................. 21
Section 2.1 Security for Obligations...................................................................... 21
Section 2.2 No Assumption of Liability.................................................................... 21
ARTICLE 3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS...................................................... 21
Section 3.1 Generally 21
Section 3.2 Equipment and Inventory....................................................................... 25
Section 3.3 Receivables................................................................................... 26
Section 3.4 Investment Property........................................................................... 27
Section 3.5 Deposit Accounts.............................................................................. 28
Section 3.6 Letter of Credit Rights....................................................................... 30
Section 3.7 Intellectual Property......................................................................... 30
Section 3.8 Commercial Tort Claims........................................................................ 32
Section 3.9 Real Property................................................................................. 32
ARTICLE 4. FURTHER ASSURANCES................................................................................ 33
Section 4.1 Further Assurances............................................................................ 34
Section 4.2 Additional Subsidiaries; Foreign Subsidiaries................................................. 35
Section 4.3 Opinion of Counsel............................................................................ 36
ARTICLE 5. COLLATERAL AGENT APPOINTED ATTORNEY-IN-FACT....................................................... 36
ARTICLE 6. REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT............................................................................. 37
Section 6.1 Remedies Generally............................................................................ 37
Section 6.2 Pledged Stock................................................................................. 39
Section 6.3 Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property................................................. 40
Section 6.4 Registration, etc............................................................................. 40
Section 6.5 Cash Proceeds................................................................................. 41
Section 6.6 Application of Proceeds....................................................................... 41
ARTICLE 7. THE COLLATERAL AGENT.............................................................................. 41
ARTICLE 8. SECURITY INTEREST ABSOLUTE........................................................................ 41
ARTICLE 9. TERMINATION; RELEASE.............................................................................. 42
ARTICLE 10. STANDARD OF CARE; COLLATERAL AGENT MAY PERFORM................................................... 42
ARTICLE 11. INDEMNITY AND EXPENSES........................................................................... 42
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 11.1 Indemnification.............................................................................. 42
Section 11.2 Survival..................................................................................... 43
ARTICLE 12. NOTICES.......................................................................................... 43
ARTICLE 13. ADDITIONAL GRANTORS.............................................................................. 43
ARTICLE 14. BINDING EFFECT; SEVERAL AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS................................................... 43
ARTICLE 15. SURVIVAL OF AGREEMENT; SEVERABILITY.............................................................. 44
ARTICLE 16. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS........................................................................... 44
ARTICLE 17. GOVERNING LAW.................................................................................... 44
ARTICLE 18. COUNTERPARTS..................................................................................... 44
ARTICLE 19. HEADINGS......................................................................................... 44
ARTICLE 20. JURISDICTION; VENUE; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS............................................... 44
ARTICLE 21. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL............................................................................. 45
(ii)
SCHEDULES:
Schedule 3.1(a)(i) List of Chief Executive Offices, Jurisdictions of
Organization and Federal
Employer Identification Numbers
Schedule 3.1(a)(ii) List of Legal and Other Names
Schedule 3.1(a)(iv) List of FCC Licenses
Schedule 3.1(a)(vi) Capitalization of Subsidiaries
Schedule 3.1(a)(vii) List of Filing Offices
Schedule 3.2 List of Locations of Equipment and Inventory
Schedule 3.4 List of Pledged Collateral
Schedule 3.5 List of Deposit Accounts and Control Accounts
Schedule 3.6 List of Letters of Credit
Schedule 3.7 List of Intellectual Property
Schedule 3.8 List of Commercial Tort Claims
Schedule 3.9(a)(i) List of Owned Real Property
Schedule 3.9(a)(ii) List of Leased Real Property
Schedule 3.9(a)(ii)(D) List of Real Property Leases
Schedule 3.9(b)(ii) List of Material Real Property Leases
EXHIBITS:
Exhibit A Form of Supplement
Exhibit B Form of Blocked Account Letter
Exhibit C Form of Control Account Letter
Exhibit D Form of Landlord Consent
SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of May 29, 2002, among ARCH WIRELESS,
INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Parent"), ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC., a
Delaware corporation ("AWHI"), ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware
corporation ("Arch"), each of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Parent
party hereto and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Collateral Agent under the Collateral
Agent Agreement referred to below.
RECITALS
I. On November 9, 2001, three creditors filed an involuntary petition
against Arch under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the
"Bankruptcy Code").
II. On December 6, 2001, Arch consented to entry of an order for relief
and the Parent and the other Guarantors each filed a voluntary petition for
relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code with the United States Bankruptcy
Court for the District of Massachusetts (the "Bankruptcy Court").
III. AWHI and the Guarantors filed Debtors' First Amended Joint Plan of
Reorganization which was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court entered on May 15,
2002 (as amended, the "Plan").
IV. Pursuant to the Plan, AWHI is required to issue the Senior Notes
and the Junior Notes (as defined herein), to certain holders of Indebtedness of
AWHI and certain of the Guarantors outstanding on the date the Plan was
confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court.
V. As contemplated by the Plan, AWHI is entering into the Credit
Agreement (as defined herein) on the date hereof.
VI. Pursuant to the Plan, (i) the Obligations of the Grantors in
respect of the Credit Agreement are to be secured by a first priority security
interest in the Collateral, (ii) the Obligations of the Grantors in respect of
the Senior Notes are to be secured by a second priority security interest in the
Collateral, and (iii) the Obligations of the Grantors in respect of the Junior
Notes are to be secured by a third priority security interest in the Collateral.
Accordingly, each of the Grantors and the Collateral Agent, on behalf
of itself and each other Secured Party (and each of their respective successors
or assigns), hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS; GRANT OF SECURITY; CONTINUING PERFECTION AND PRIORITY
Section 1.1 General Definitions
As used in this Security Agreement, the following terms shall have the
meanings specified below:
"Acceleration Default" means, with respect to (i) the Bank Credit
Parties, a Credit Agreement Event of Default has occurred, and, as a result
thereof, there has been an acceleration of the Credit Agreement Obligations,
(ii) the Senior Noteholders, a Senior Note Event of Default has occurred, and,
as a result thereof, there has been an acceleration of the Senior Note
Obligations, and (iii) the Junior Noteholders, a Junior Note Event of Default
has occurred, and, as a result thereof, there has been an acceleration of the
Junior Note Obligations.
"Account Debtor" has the meaning specified in Article 9 of the UCC.
"Accounts" means all "accounts" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.
"Actionable Default" means, with respect to (i) the Bank Credit
Parties, a Credit Agreement Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
(ii) the Senior Noteholders, a Senior Note Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, and (iii) the Junior Noteholders, a Junior Note Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing.
"Additional Grantor" has the meaning assigned to such term in Article
13.
"Administrative Agent" means the Person acting as administrative agent
under the Credit Agreement or any successor thereto.
"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.
"Applicable Date" means (i) in the case of any Grantor (other than an
Additional Grantor), the date hereof, and (ii) in the case of any Additional
Grantor, the date of the Supplement executed and delivered by such Additional
Grantor.
"Applicable Representative" means:
(i) at any time during the period during which the Credit
Agreement and the Senior Indenture are in effect, (x) if there are
Loans or Letters of Credit outstanding at such time under the Credit
Agreement, either the Administrative Agent acting with the consent of
the Senior Indenture Trustee or the Senior Indenture Trustee acting
individually, and (y) if there are no Loans or Letters of Credit
outstanding at such time under the Credit Agreement, the Senior
Indenture Trustee;
(ii) at any time during the period during which the Credit
Agreement is in effect (whether or not there are Loans or Letters of
Credit outstanding thereunder at such time) but the Senior Note
Indenture is not in effect, the Administrative Agent;
(iii) at any time during the period during which the Senior
Note Indenture is in effect but the Credit Agreement is not in effect,
the Senior Indenture Trustee; and
(iv) at any time thereafter, the Junior Indenture Trustee.
"Approved Securities Intermediary" means a Securities Intermediary or
commodity intermediary selected or approved by the Applicable Representative and
with respect to which a Grantor has delivered to the Collateral Agent an
executed Control Account Letter.
"Arch" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Security
Agreement.
"AWHI" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Security
Agreement.
"Bank Credit Party" means the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the
Issuing Bank, as the case may be.
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"Bankruptcy Code" has the meaning assigned to such term in Recital I.
"Bankruptcy Court" has the meaning assigned to such term in Recital II.
"Blockage Notice" has the meaning specified in each Blocked Account
Letter.
"Blocked Account" means a Deposit Account maintained by any Grantor
with a Blocked Account Bank which account is the subject of an effective Blocked
Account Letter, and includes all monies on deposit therein and all certificates
and instruments, if any, representing or evidencing such Blocked Account.
"Blocked Account Bank" means a financial institution selected or
approved by the Applicable Representative and with respect to which a Grantor
has delivered to the Collateral Agent an executed Blocked Account Letter.
"Blocked Account Letter" means a letter agreement, substantially in the
form of Exhibit B (with such changes thereto as may be agreed to by the
Collateral Agent with the written consent of the Applicable Representative),
executed by the relevant Grantor and the Collateral Agent and acknowledged and
agreed to by the relevant Blocked Account Bank.
"Business Day" means (i) any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day
which is a legal holiday under the laws of the State of New York or is a day on
which banking institutions located in such state are required or authorized by
law or other governmental action to close, and (ii) a day of the year on which
the Collateral Agent is not required or authorized to close.
"Capital Lease" means, with respect to any Person, any lease of
property by such Person as lessee which would be accounted for as a capital
lease on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in conformity with GAAP.
"Cash Collateral Account" means any Deposit Account or Securities
Account established by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agent
Agreement in which cash and/or Cash Equivalents may from time to time be on
deposit or held therein as provided herein.
"Cash Equivalents" means (a) securities issued or fully guaranteed or
insured by the United States government or any agency thereof; (b) certificates
of deposit, eurodollar time deposits, overnight bank deposits and bankers'
acceptances of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United
States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, any foreign bank, or its
branches or agencies (fully protected against currency fluctuations) which, at
the time of acquisition, are rated at least "A-1" by Standard & Poor's Rating
Services ("S&P") or "P-1" by Xxxxx'x Investors Services, Inc. ("Moody's"); (c)
commercial paper of an issuer rated at least "A-1" by S&P or "P-1" by Moody's;
and (d) shares of any money market fund that (i) has at least 95% of its assets
invested continuously in the types of investments referred to in clauses (a)
through (c) above, (ii) has net assets of not less than $500,000,000, and (iii)
is rated at least "A-1" by S&P or "P-1" by Moody's; provided, however, that the
maturities of all obligations of the type specified in clauses (a) through (c)
above shall not exceed 180 days.
"Chattel Paper" means all "chattel paper" as defined in Article 9 of
the UCC.
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"Claim Proceeds" means, with respect to any Commercial Tort Claim or
any Collateral Support or Supporting Obligation relating thereto, all Proceeds
thereof, including all insurance proceeds and other amounts and recoveries
resulting or arising from the settlement or other resolution thereof, in each
case regardless of whether characterized as a "commercial tort claim" under
Article 9 of the UCC or "proceeds" under the UCC.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
"Collateral" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.3(a).
"Collateral Account" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
5.2 of the Collateral Agent Agreement.
"Collateral Agent" means The Bank of New York, in its capacity as
collateral agent or any successor thereto.
"Collateral Agent Agreement" means the Collateral Agent Agreement,
dated as of May 29, 2002, among the Grantors, the Administrative Agent, the
Indenture Trustees and the Collateral Agent.
"Collateral Agreement Collateral" has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 5.3(a) of the Collateral Agent Agreement.
"Collateral Records" means all books, instruments, certificates,
Records, ledger cards, files, correspondence, customer lists, blueprints,
technical specifications, manuals and other documents, and all computer
software, computer printouts, tapes, disks and related data processing software
and similar items, in each case that at any time represent, cover or otherwise
evidence, or contain information relating to, any of the Collateral or are
otherwise necessary or helpful in the collection thereof or realization
thereupon.
"Collateral Support" means all property (real or personal) assigned,
hypothecated or otherwise securing any of the Collateral, and shall include any
security agreement or other agreement granting a lien or security interest in
such real or personal property.
"Commercial Tort Claims" means (i) all "commercial tort claims" as
defined in Article 9 of the UCC and (ii) all Claim Proceeds with respect to any
of the foregoing; including all claims described on Schedule 3.8.
"Communications Act" means the Federal Communications Act of 1934.
"Concentration Account" means a Deposit Account of the Grantors with
the bank or financial institution acceptable to the Applicable Representative,
which shall be a Blocked Account.
"Control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether
through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. The
terms "Controlling" and "Controlled" have meanings correlative thereto.
"Control Account" means a Securities Account or commodity account
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maintained by any Grantor with an Approved Securities Intermediary which account
is the subject of an effective Control Account Letter, and includes all
Financial Assets held therein and all certificates and instruments, if any,
representing or evidencing the Financial Assets held therein.
"Control Account Letter" means a letter agreement, substantially in the
form of Exhibit C (with such changes thereto as may be agreed to by the
Collateral Agent with the written consent of the Applicable Representative),
executed by any Grantor and the Collateral Agent and acknowledged and agreed to
by the relevant Approved Securities Intermediary.
"Copyright License" means any written agreement, now or hereafter in
effect, granting any right to any third party under any Copyright now or
hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor or which any Grantor
otherwise has the right to license, or granting any right to any Grantor under
any Copyright, including the grant of rights to copy, publicly perform, create
derivative works, manufacture, distribute, exploit and sell materials derived
from any Copyright, now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of
any Grantor under any such agreement, including each agreement described on
Schedule 3.7.
"Copyrights" means all of the following: (i) all copyright rights in
any work subject to the copyright laws of the United States or any other
country, whether as author, assignee, transferee or otherwise, and (ii) all
registrations and applications for registration of any such copyright in the
United States or any other country, including registrations, recordings,
supplemental registrations and pending applications for registration in the
United States Copyright Office or any similar offices in the United States or
any other country, including those described on Schedule 3.7.
"Credit Agreement" means one or more debt facilities or agreements, in
each case with banks or other institutional lenders providing for revolving
credit loans and the issuance of letters of credit in an amount not to exceed
$35,000,000 to be used on a revolving credit basis for working capital purposes,
in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced,
restructured, restated or refinanced (including any agreement to extend the
maturity thereof and adding additional borrowers or guarantors) in whole or in
part from time to time under the same or any other agent, lender or group of
lenders.
"Credit Agreement Event of Default" shall have the meaning attributed
to the term "Event of Default" set forth in the Credit Agreement.
"Credit Agreement Obligations" means, as of any date, the Obligations,
to the extent owing to the Bank Credit Parties under the Loan Documents.
Notwithstanding anything in this Security Agreement to the contrary, for
purposes of this Security Agreement and the Collateral Agent Agreement, the
Credit Agreement Obligations in respect of the principal amount of Loans and all
reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit shall not exceed
$35,000,000.
"Default" means an Actionable Default or an Acceleration Default.
"Deposit Accounts" means all "deposit accounts" as defined in Article 9
of the UCC, including all such accounts described on Schedule 3.4.
"Documents" means all "documents" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.
"Domestic Subsidiary" means, as to the Parent, a Subsidiary organized
under the
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laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of
Columbia.
"Equipment" means (i) all "equipment" as defined in Article 9 of the
UCC, (ii) all machinery, manufacturing equipment, data processing equipment,
computers, office equipment, furnishings, furniture, appliances, fixtures and
tools, in each case, regardless of whether characterized as "equipment" under
the UCC, and (iii) all accessions or additions to any of the foregoing, all
parts thereof, whether or not at any time of determination incorporated or
installed therein or attached thereto, and all replacements therefor, wherever
located, now or hereafter existing.
"Excluded Property" means, with respect to any Grantor, (i) any
outstanding Stock in a Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary of the Parent which is a
"controlled foreign corporation" as defined in the Code in excess of 65% of the
voting power of all classes of Stock of such corporation entitled to vote and
(ii) for so long as a PageNet Foreign Subsidiary is not a Subsidiary pursuant to
the definition thereof, any outstanding Stock in such PageNet Foreign
Subsidiary.
"FCC" means the United States Federal Communications Commission.
"FCC Licenses" means all of the licenses granted to the Grantors by the
FCC.
"Financial Assets" means all "financial assets" as defined in Article 8
of the UCC.
"Foreign Pledge Agreements" means, collectively, each pledge agreement
executed and delivered to grant a security interest in the Stock of a Foreign
Subsidiary of the Parent, other than Excluded Property, each in form and
substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
"Foreign Subsidiary" means, as to the Parent, a subsidiary other than a
Domestic Subsidiary.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in effect in the
United States of America as of the date hereof unless another date is specified
herein.
"General Intangibles" means (i) all "general intangibles" as defined in
Article 9 of the UCC and (ii) all choses in action and causes of action, all
indemnification claims, all goodwill, all Hedging Contracts, all tax refunds,
all licenses, permits, concessions, franchises and authorizations, all
Intellectual Property, all Payment Intangibles and all Software, in each case,
regardless of whether characterized as a "general intangible" under the UCC.
"Goods" means (i) all "goods" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC and
(ii) all Equipment and Inventory and any computer program embedded in goods and
any supporting information provided in connection with such program, to the
extent (a) such program is associated with such goods in such a manner that it
is customarily considered part of such goods or (b) by becoming the owner of
such goods, a Person acquires a right to use the program in connection with such
goods, in each case, regardless of whether characterized as a "good" under the
UCC.
"Governmental Authority" means the government of the United States of
America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or
local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court,
central bank or other entity exercising executive,
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legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions
of or pertaining to government.
"Grantor" and "Grantors" means, collectively, AWHI and the Guarantors.
"Guarantee" means each guarantee by the Parent or any of the
Subsidiaries of any Secured Debt Document.
"Guarantor" and "Guarantors" means, collectively, the Parent and each
of the Subsidiaries other than AWHI.
"Guaranty Obligation" means, as applied to any Person, any direct or
indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person with respect to any
Indebtedness of another Person, if the purpose or intent of such Person in
incurring the Guaranty Obligation is to provide assurance to the obligee of such
Indebtedness that such Indebtedness will be paid or discharged, or that any
holder of such Indebtedness will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss
in respect thereof, including: (a) the direct or indirect guaranty, endorsement
(other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business) or
co-making of Indebtedness of another Person; and (b) any liability of such
Person for Indebtedness of another Person through any agreement (contingent or
otherwise) (i) to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness or
any security therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such
Indebtedness (whether in the form of a loan, advance, stock purchase, capital
contribution or otherwise), (ii) to maintain the solvency or any balance sheet
item, level of income or financial condition of another Person, (iii) to make
take-or-pay or similar payments, if required, regardless of non-performance by
any other party or parties to an agreement, (iv) to purchase, sell or lease (as
lessor or lessee) property, or to purchase or sell services, primarily for the
purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment of such Indebtedness or to assure
the holder of such Indebtedness against loss, or (v) to supply funds to or in
any other manner invest in such other Person (including to pay for property or
services irrespective of whether such property is received or such services are
rendered), if in the case of any agreement described under subclause (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv) or (v) of clause (b) of this sentence the primary purpose or intent
thereof is as described in the preceding sentence. The amount of any Guaranty
Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the Indebtedness so guaranteed or
otherwise supported.
"Hedging Contracts" means all Interest Rate Contracts, foreign exchange
contracts, currency swap or option agreements, forward contracts, commodity
swap, purchase or option agreements, other commodity price hedging arrangements,
and all other similar agreements or arrangements designed to alter the risks of
any Person arising from fluctuations in interest rates, currency values or
commodity prices.
"Indebtedness" of any Person means without duplication: (a) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments or which
bear interest; (c) all reimbursement and all obligations with respect to letters
of credit, bankers' acceptances, surety bonds and performance bonds, whether or
not matured; (d) all indebtedness for the deferred purchase price of property or
services, other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising under any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by
such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under
such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of
such property); (f) all obligations of such Person under Capital Leases and the
present value of future rental payments under all synthetic leases; (g) all
Guaranty Obligations of such Person; (h) all obligations of such Person to
purchase, redeem, retire,
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defease or otherwise acquire for value any Stock or Stock Equivalents of such
Person, valued, in the case of redeemable preferred stock, at the greater of its
voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid
dividends; (i) all payments that such Person would have to make in the event of
an early termination on the date Indebtedness of such Person is being determined
in respect of Hedging Contracts of such Person; and (j) all Indebtedness of the
type referred to above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness
has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon
or in property (including Accounts (as defined in the Security Agreement) and
general intangibles) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not
assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness.
"Indemnitee" means the Collateral Agent and its Related Parties.
"Indenture Trustees" means, collectively, the Senior Indenture Trustee
and the Junior Indenture Trustee.
"Indentures" means, collectively, the Senior Indenture and the Junior
Indenture.
"Instruments" means all "instruments" as defined in Article 9 of the
UCC.
"Insurance" means all insurance policies covering any or all of the
Collateral (regardless of whether the Collateral Agent or any other Secured
Party is the loss payee thereof).
"Intellectual Property" means all intellectual and similar property of
any Grantor of every kind and nature, including inventions, designs, Patents,
Copyrights, Trademarks, Licenses, domain names, Trade Secrets, confidential or
proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how or other data
or information, software and databases and all embodiments or fixations thereof
and related documentation, registrations and franchises, and all additions,
improvements and accessions to, and books and records describing or used in
connection with, any of the foregoing.
"Interest Rate Contracts" means all interest rate swap agreements,
interest rate cap agreements, interest rate collar agreements and interest rate
insurance.
"Inventory" means (i) all "inventory" as defined in Article 9 of the
UCC and (ii) all goods held for sale or lease or to be furnished under contracts
of service or so leased or furnished, all raw materials, work in process,
finished goods and materials used or consumed in the manufacture, packing,
shipping, advertising, selling, leasing, furnishing or production of such
inventory or otherwise used or consumed in any Grantor's business, all goods
which are returned to or repossessed by or on behalf of any Grantor, and all
computer programs embedded in any goods, and all accessions thereto and products
thereof, in each case, regardless of whether characterized as "inventory" under
the UCC.
"Investment" means, with respect to any Person: (a) any purchase or
other acquisition by that Person of (i) any security issued by, (ii) a
beneficial interest in any security issued by, or (iii) any other equity
ownership interest in, any other Person; (b) any purchase by that Person of all
or a significant part of the assets of a business conducted by another Person;
(c) any loan, advance (other than deposits with financial institutions available
for withdrawal on demand, prepaid expenses, accounts receivable and similar
items made or incurred in the ordinary course of business as presently
conducted), or capital contribution by that Person to any other Person,
including all Indebtedness of any other Person to that Person arising from a
sale of property by that Person other than in the ordinary course of its
business; and (d) any guarantee incurred by that Person in respect of
Indebtedness of any other Person.
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"Investment Property" means all "investment property" as defined in
Article 9 of the UCC.
"Issuing Bank" means in the event that the Credit Agreement provides
for a letter of credit subfacility, the Person acting as the letter of credit
issuing bank under the Credit Agreement.
"Junior Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of May 29, 2002, among
AWHI, as issuer, the Parent and each of the Subsidiaries (other than AWHI), as
guarantors, and the Junior Indenture Trustee pursuant to which AWHI issued the
Junior Notes.
"Junior Indenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York, in its capacity
as trustee under the Junior Indenture or any successor.
"Junior Note Event of Default" shall have the meaning attributed to the
term "Event of Default" in the Junior Indenture.
"Junior Note Obligations" means, as of any date, the Obligations, to
the extent owing to the Junior Indenture Trustee and the Junior Noteholders
under the Junior Indenture and the Junior Notes (and the guarantees thereof).
"Junior Noteholder" means a holder of Junior Notes.
"Junior Notes" means the 12% Subordinated Secured Compounding Notes due
2009 issued and outstanding under the Junior Indenture.
"Leased Real Property" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.9(a)(ii)(A).
"Lenders" means, collectively, (i) the Lenders (as such term is defined
in the Credit Agreement) party from time to time to the Credit Agreement, (ii)
the Issuing Bank and (iii) each counterparty to a Secured Hedging Contract.
"Letter of Credit" means, in the event that the Credit Agreement
provides for a letter of credit subfacility, a letter of credit issued by the
Issuing Bank under the Credit Agreement.
"Letter of Credit Rights" means all "letter-of-credit rights" as
defined in Article 9 of the UCC and (ii) all rights, title and interests of each
Grantor to any letter of credit, in each case regardless of whether
characterized as a "letter-of-credit right" under the UCC.
"License" means any Copyright License, Patent License, Trademark
License, Trade Secret License or other license or sublicense to which any
Grantor is a party.
"Lien" means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, charge, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other),
security interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or
preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever intended to assure
payment of any Indebtedness or other obligation, including any conditional sale
or other title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor under a Capital
Lease, any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any
of the foregoing, and the filing of any financing statement under the UCC or
comparable law of any jurisdiction naming the owner of the asset to which such
Lien
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relates as debtor (other than those financing statements filed soley for
precautionary reasons in connection with operating leases).
"Loan Documents" means the Credit Agreement, the promissory notes
issued thereunder, any guarantees thereof, the documentation in respect of each
Letter of Credit and the Security Documents relating to the Loans.
"Loans" means the loans made under the Credit Agreement.
"Majority Creditors" means:
(i) at any time during which the Credit Agreement and/or the
Senior Note Indenture are in effect, Lenders and Senior Noteholders
representing more than 50% of the sum at such time of (A) the
commitments under the Credit Agreement (or, if such commitments do not
then exist, of the sum of (x) the aggregate outstanding principal
balance of the Loans, plus (y) the aggregate amount available to be
drawn (whether or not the conditions therefor have been or may be
satisfied) under all Letters of Credit, plus (z) the aggregate
outstanding principal balance of all reimbursement obligations of AWHI
with respect to Letters of Credit), plus (B) the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of Senior Notes which are Outstanding (as defined in
the Senior Indenture); and
(ii) at all times thereafter, Junior Noteholders representing
more than 50% of the sum at such time of the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of Junior Notes which are Outstanding (as defined in
the Junior Indenture).
"Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse effect on any of (a)
the condition (financial or otherwise), business, performance, prospects (as
such prospects relate to the Parent's and the Subsidiaries' ability to repay the
Obligations), operations or properties of any of the Parent and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the legality, validity or enforceability of
any Secured Debt Document; (c) the perfection or priority of the Liens granted
pursuant to the Security Documents; (d) the ability of the Parent or any of the
Subsidiaries to repay the Obligations or perform its respective obligations
under the Secured Debt Documents; or (e) the ability of the Administrative
Agent, the Indenture Trustees or the Collateral Agent to enforce the rights and
remedies under the Secured Debt Documents.
"Material Foreign Subsidiary" means, as to any Person, a Foreign
Subsidiary of such Person which, as of the last day of the most recently
completed fiscal quarter, satisfied any one or more of the following three
tests: (i) the amount of the Investments in such Foreign Subsidiary made by the
Parent and the Subsidiaries on or after the date hereof exceeds $5,000,000 in
the aggregate, (ii) the Parent's and the Subsidiaries' (other than such Foreign
Subsidiary's) proportionate share (after intercompany eliminations) consisting
of the property of such Foreign Subsidiary exceeds 2% of consolidated total
assets of the Parent and the Subsidiaries or (iii) the Parent's and the
Subsidiaries' (other than such Foreign Subsidiary's) equity in the income (not
to include losses) from continuing operations before income taxes, extraordinary
items and the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles of such
Foreign Subsidiary exceeds 2% of the income (not to include losses) from
continuing operations before income taxes, extraordinary items and the
cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles of the Parent and the
Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
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"Material Intellectual Property" means Intellectual Property owned by
or leased to a Grantor which is material to its business.
"Mellon Account" means the Deposit Account(s) of the Grantors with
Mellon Bank, N.A., each of which shall be a Blocked Account or, if Mellon Bank,
N.A. no longer has such Deposit Account(s), the Deposit Account(s) of the
Grantors into which all of their bank accounts are swept at a financial
institution reasonably acceptable to the Applicable Representative, each of
which shall be a Blocked Account.
"Mortgage" means a mortgage, deed of trust, assignment of leases and
rents or other security document granting a Lien on any Mortgaged Property to
secure the Obligations. Each Mortgage shall be satisfactory in form and
substance to the Applicable Representative.
"Mortgaged Property" means, initially, (i) each parcel of Owned Real
Property and the improvements thereto owned by any Grantor and identified on
Schedule 3.9(a)(i), and includes each other parcel of Owned Real Property and
improvements thereto with respect to which a Mortgage is granted pursuant to
Section 3.9(b)(i) and (ii) each Real Property Lease identified on Schedule
3.9(a)(ii)(D), and includes each other Real Property Lease with respect to which
a Mortgage is granted pursuant to Section 3.9(b)(ii).
"Mortgage Opinion of Counsel" means an Opinion of Counsel with respect
to a Mortgage, which counsel shall be licensed to practice in the State in which
the Mortgaged Property is located, stating that: (i) such Mortgage is in proper
form under the laws of the applicable State to be accepted for recording by the
applicable recording office (the "Recording Office"), (ii) such Mortgage is
enforceable against the applicable Grantor in accordance with its terms, (iii)
upon due recordation of such Mortgage in such Recording Office, such Mortgage
will create, as security for the payment and performance of the Obligations
secured thereby, a valid, perfected and enforceable Lien of record on the entire
interest of the applicable Grantor in such Mortgaged Property (including
fixtures to the extent such fixtures constitute Real Property), (iv) such
Mortgage creates valid security interests in all of the personal property
covered thereby to the extent such security interests can be created under the
Uniform Commercial Code of such State and, upon indexing of the applicable UCC
financing statement with such Recording Office and the Office of the Secretary
of the State of the State of incorporation or formation of such Grantor and
recording of such Mortgage with the Recorder's Office, such Mortgage and such
financing statements will be effective to perfect the security interests created
thereby in the Mortgaged Property described therein (including any exhibits
thereto) to the extent security interests in the Mortgaged Property covered
thereby may be perfected by the filing or recording with said offices under the
Uniform Commercial Code of such State, (v) upon the occurrence of a Default, the
Collateral Agent will have the right to take the actions specified in such
Mortgage, (vi) in order to enforce such Mortgage, neither the Collateral Agent,
any Representative nor any Secured Party need qualify to do business in such
State and the Collateral Agent has the power, without naming any Representative
or any Secured Party in any applicable legal proceeding to exercise its remedies
under the Security Documents for the realization on such Mortgaged Property in
its own name as Collateral Agent, (vii) all rights of redemption of the
applicable Grantor shall be extinguished upon the consummation of the sale of
the such Mortgaged Property pursuant to any remedial provisions provided for in
such Mortgage as a matter of law or otherwise, (viii) neither the Collateral
Agent, any Representative nor any Secured Party will be subject to taxation by
such State or any political subdivision thereof solely by reason of or in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Secured Debt Documents and
(ix) as to such other customary matters.
"Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary" means, as to any Person at any time
of
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determination, a Foreign Subsidiary of such Person other than a Material Foreign
Subsidiary.
"Noteholders" means, collectively, Senior Noteholders and Junior
Noteholders.
"Notes" means, collectively, Senior Notes and Junior Notes.
"Notice of Acceleration Default" means a written certification to the
Collateral Agent and AWHI (i) from the Administrative Agent, certifying that an
Acceleration Default has occurred with respect to the Credit Agreement
Obligations, (ii) from the Senior Indenture Trustee certifying that an
Acceleration Default has occurred with respect to Senior Note Obligations, or
(iii) from the Junior Indenture Trustee certifying that an Acceleration Default
has occurred with respect to Junior Note Obligations.
"Notice of Actionable Default" means a written certification to the
Collateral Agent and AWHI (i) from the Administrative Agent, certifying that an
Actionable Default has occurred with respect to the Credit Agreement
Obligations, (ii) from the Senior Indenture Trustee certifying that an
Actionable Default has occurred with respect to Senior Note Obligations, or
(iii) from the Junior Indenture Trustee certifying that an Actionable Default
has occurred with respect to Junior Note Obligations.
"Notice of Default" means a Notice of Acceleration Default or a Notice
of Actionable Default.
"Obligations" means (a) the due and punctual payment of (i) principal
and premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing during the
pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar
proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) owing
by the Grantors under the Secured Debt Documents (including Guarantees thereof),
when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates
set for prepayment or otherwise, and (ii) all other monetary obligations,
including fees, commissions, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary,
secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary
obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or
allowable in such proceeding), of the Grantors to the Secured Parties, or that
are otherwise payable to any Secured Party, under the Secured Debt Documents
(including Guarantees thereof), (b) the due and punctual performance of all
covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Grantors under or
pursuant to the Secured Debt Documents (including Guarantees thereof), and (c)
unless otherwise agreed upon in writing by the applicable Person party thereto,
all obligations of AWHI, monetary or otherwise, under each Secured Hedging
Contract.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may
(unless otherwise required by the Trust Indenture Act) be counsel for a Grantor
and who may rely as to factual matters on a certificate signed by the Chairman
of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Chief Financial
Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of such Grantor delivered to the Collateral Agent, and who shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Applicable Representative.
"Owned Real Property" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.9(a)(i)(A).
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"PageNet Foreign Subsidiaries" means, collectively, PageNet Argentina
S.A., Paging Network International N.V., PageNet Chile S.A. and Paging Network
(UK), Ltd.
"Parent" has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Security
Agreement.
"Patent License" means any written agreement, now or hereafter in
effect, granting to any third party any right to make, use or sell any invention
on which a Patent, now or hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor
or which any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, is in existence, or
granting to any Grantor any right to make, use or sell any invention on which a
Patent, now or hereafter owned by any third party, is in existence, and all
rights of any Grantor under any such agreement, including each agreement
described on Schedule 3.7.
"Patents" means all of the following: (i) all letters patent of the
United States or any other country, all registrations and recordings thereof and
all applications for letters patent of the United States or any other country,
including registrations, recordings and pending applications in the United
States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in the United States
or any other country, including those described on Schedule 3.7, and (ii) all
reissues, continuations, divisions, continuations-in-part, renewals or
extensions thereof, and the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, including
the right to make, use and/or sell the inventions disclosed or claimed therein.
"Payment Intangibles" means all "payment intangibles" as defined in
Article 9 of the UCC.
"Permitted Liens" means Liens expressly permitted by each of the Credit
Agreement and each of the Indentures.
"Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability
company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental
Authority or other entity.
"Plan" has the meaning assigned to such term in Recital III.
"Pledged Collateral" means, collectively, the Pledged Notes, the
Pledged Stock, the Pledged Partnership Interests, the Pledged LLC Interests, any
other Investment Property of any Grantor, all certificates or other instruments
representing any of the foregoing, all Security Entitlements of any Grantor in
respect of any of the foregoing, all dividends, interest distributions, cash,
warrants, rights, instruments and other property or Proceeds from time to time
received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for
any or all of the foregoing.
"Pledged LLC Interests" means all of any Grantor's right, title and
interest as a member of any limited liability companies and all of such
Grantor's right, title and interest in, to and under any limited liability
company agreement to which it is a party, including all interests in the limited
liability companies listed on Schedule 3.4.
"Pledged Notes" means all right, title and interest of any Grantor in
the Instruments evidencing all Indebtedness owed to such Grantor, including all
Indebtedness described on Schedule 3.4, issued by the obligors named therein,
and all interest, cash, Instruments and other property or Proceeds from time to
time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such Indebtedness.
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"Pledged Partnership Interests" means all of any Grantor's right, title
and interest as a limited and/or general partner in all partnerships and all of
such Grantor's right, title and interest in, to and under any partnership
agreements to which it is a party, including all partnership interests listed on
Schedule 3.4.
"Pledged Stock" means the shares of Capital Stock, Stock and Stock
Equivalents owned by each Grantor, including all shares of capital stock listed
on Schedule 3.4.
"Proceeds" means (i) all "proceeds" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC,
(ii) payments or distributions made with respect to any Pledged Collateral or
Investment Property, (iii) any payment received from any insurer or other Person
or entity as a result of the destruction, loss, theft, damage or other
involuntary conversion of whatever nature of any asset or property that
constitutes the Collateral, and (iv) whatever is receivable or received when any
of the Collateral or proceeds are sold, exchanged, collected or otherwise
disposed of, whether such disposition is voluntary or involuntary, including any
claim of any Grantor against any third party for (and the right to xxx and
recover for and the rights to damages or profits due or accrued arising out of
or in connection with) (a) past, present or future infringement of any Patent
now or hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor, or licensed under
a Patent License, (b) past, present or future infringement or dilution of any
Trademark now or hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor, or
licensed under a Trademark License, or injury to the goodwill associated with or
symbolized by any Trademark now or hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of
any Grantor, (c) past, present or future infringement of any Copyright now or
hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor, or licensed under a
Copyright License, (d) past, present or future infringement of any Trade Secret
now or hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor, or licensed under
a Trade Secret License, and (e) past, present or future breach of any License,
in each case, regardless of whether characterized as "proceeds" under the UCC.
"Real Property" means all of those plots, pieces or parcels of land now
owned, leased or hereafter acquired or leased by any Grantor or any of its
subsidiaries (the "Land"), together with the right, title and interest of such
Grantor or such subsidiaries, if any, in and to the streets, the land lying in
the bed of any streets, roads or avenues, opened or proposed, in front of, the
air space and development rights pertaining to the Land and the right to use
such air space and development rights, all rights of way, privileges, liberties,
tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining
thereto, all fixtures, all easements now or hereafter benefiting the Land and
all royalties and rights appertaining to the use and enjoyment of the Land,
including all alley, vault, drainage, mineral, water, oil and gas rights,
together with all of the buildings and other improvements now or hereafter
erected on the Land, and any fixtures appurtenant thereto.
"Real Property Lease" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.9(a)(ii)(B).
"Receivables" means all rights to payment, whether or not earned by
performance, for goods or other property sold, leased, licensed, assigned or
otherwise disposed of, or services rendered or to be rendered, including all
such rights constituting or evidenced by any Account, Chattel Paper, Instrument
or other document, General Intangible or Investment Property, together with all
of the applicable Grantor's rights, if any, in any goods or other property
giving rise to such right to payment, and all Collateral Support and Supporting
Obligations related thereto and all Receivables Records.
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"Receivables Records" means (i) all originals of all documents,
instruments or other writings or electronic records or other Records evidencing
any Receivable, (ii) all books, correspondence, credit or other files, Records,
ledger sheets or cards, invoices, and other papers relating to any Receivable,
including all tapes, cards, computer tapes, computer discs, computer runs,
record keeping systems and other papers and documents relating to any
Receivable, whether in the possession or under the control of the applicable
Grantor or any computer bureau or agent from time to time acting for such
Grantor or otherwise, (iii) all evidences of the filing of financing statements
and the registration of other instruments in connection therewith, and
amendments, supplements or other modifications thereto, notices to other
creditors or secured parties, and certificates, acknowledgments, or other
writings, including lien search reports, from filing or other registration
officers, (iv) all credit information, reports and memoranda relating thereto,
and (v) all other written forms of information related in any way to the
foregoing or any Receivable.
"Record" means a "record" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.
"Related Parties" means, with respect to any specified Person, such
Person's Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents
and advisors of such Person and such Person's Affiliates.
"Secured Debt Documents" means the Security Documents, the Loan
Documents, the Indentures, the Notes and the Guarantees thereof.
"Secured Hedging Contract" means each Hedging Contract entered into by
AWHI with a Person that, at the time of the entry thereof, was a Lender (or an
Affiliate thereof).
"Secured Parties" means (i) the Bank Credit Parties, (ii) the Indenture
Trustees, (iii) the Noteholders, (iv) the beneficiaries of each indemnification
obligation undertaken by a Grantor under any Senior Debt Document, (v) unless
otherwise agreed upon in writing by it, each counterparty to a Secured Hedging
Contract, and (vi) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.
"Securities Accounts" means all "securities accounts" as defined in
Article 8 of the UCC, including all such accounts described on Schedule 3.4.
"Securities Intermediary" has the meaning specified in Article 8 of the
UCC.
"Security" means any Stock, Stock Equivalent, voting trust certificate,
bond, debenture, note or other evidence of Indebtedness, whether secured,
unsecured, convertible or subordinated, or any certificate of interest, share or
participation in, or any temporary or interim certificate for the purchase or
acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the
foregoing, but shall not include any evidence of the Obligations.
"Security Documents" means, collectively, all of the agreements,
instruments, documents, pledges or filings executed in connection with granting,
or that otherwise evidence, the Lien of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral,
including, without limitation, this Security Agreement, the Collateral Agent
Agreement, the Foreign Pledge Agreements and each Mortgage creating a Lien that
secures the Loan Documents, the Notes and the guarantees thereof, and any other
document, agreement, instrument, pledge or filing executed in connection with
the granting, or that otherwise evidence, the Lien of the Collateral Agent on
the Collateral.
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"Security Entitlement" means a "security entitlement" as defined in
Article 8 of the UCC.
"Security Interest" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
1.3(a).
"Senior Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of May 29, 2002, among
AWHI, as issuer, the Parent and each of the Subsidiaries (other than AWHI), as
guarantors, and the Senior Indenture Trustee pursuant to which AWHI issued the
Senior Notes.
"Senior Indenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York, in its capacity
as trustee under the Senior Indenture or any successor.
"Senior Note Event of Default" shall have the meaning attributed to the
term "Event of Default" in the Senior Indenture.
"Senior Note Obligations" means, as of any date, the Obligations, to
the extent owing to the Senior Indenture Trustee and the Senior Noteholders
under the Senior Indenture and the Senior Notes (and the guarantees thereof).
"Senior Noteholder" means a holder of Senior Notes.
"Senior Notes" means the 10% Senior Subordinated Secured Notes due 2007
issued and outstanding under the Senior Indenture.
"Software" means all "software" as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.
"Stock" means shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common
stock or preferred stock), beneficial, partnership or membership interests,
participations or other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or equivalent entity,
whether voting or non-voting.
"Stock Equivalents" means all securities convertible into or
exchangeable for Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase or
subscribe for any Stock, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or
exercisable.
"subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person (the "parent") at any
date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or
other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the
parent in the parent's consolidated financial statements if such financial
statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any
other corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association,
company, partnership or other entity of which securities or other ownership
interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the
ordinary voting power is or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the
general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by
the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
"Subsidiary" means any subsidiary of the Parent other than (i) any
subsidiary of Paging Network Canadian Holdings, Inc. that is organized under the
laws of Canada or any province thereof and that is in existence on the date
hereof, (ii) for the period from the date hereof through the date which is 367
days after the later of (x) June 1, 2002 and (y) the termination of the Asset
Acquisition
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Agreement, dated as of January 24, 2001, by and among Unrestricted Subsidiary
Funding Company, the Parent, PageNet SMR Sub, Inc., and AWI Spectrum Co., LLC,
AWI Spectrum Co., LLC and AWI Spectrum Co. Holdings, Inc. shall not be deemed to
be Subsidiaries for purposes of this Security Agreement; provided that on and
after such date, each of AWI Spectrum Co., LLC and AWI Spectrum Co. Holdings,
Inc. shall be deemed to be Subsidiaries for purposes of this Security Agreement,
and (iii) each PageNet Foreign Subsidiary; provided that if such PageNet Foreign
Subsidiary is not dissolved or merged into a Grantor on or before the first
anniversary of the date hereof and the Collateral Agent shall not have received
a certificate of the applicable Governmental Authority (with a certified
translation thereof if such certificate is not in English) evidencing the
dissolution thereof or the merger thereof into a Grantor, such PageNet Foreign
Subsidiary shall thereafter be deemed to be Subsidiaries for purposes of this
Security Agreement.
"Supplement" means a supplement hereto, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A.
"Supporting Obligation" means (i) all "supporting obligations" as
defined in Article 9 of the UCC and (ii) all Guarantees and other secondary
obligations supporting any of the Collateral, in each case regardless of whether
characterized as a "supporting obligation" under the UCC.
"Trade Secret Licenses" means any written agreement, now or hereafter
in effect, granting to any third party any right to use any Trade Secrets now or
hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor or which such Grantor
otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any Grantor any right to use
any Trade Secrets now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of
any Grantor under any such agreement.
"Trade Secrets" means all trade secrets and all other confidential or
proprietary information and know-how now or hereafter owned or used in, or
contemplated at any time for use in, the business of any Grantor (all of the
foregoing being collectively called a "Trade Secret"), whether or not such Trade
Secret has been reduced to a writing or other tangible form, including all
documents and things embodying, incorporating or referring in any way to such
Trade Secret, the right to xxx for any past, present and future infringement of
any Trade Secret, and all proceeds of the foregoing, including licenses,
royalties, income, payments, claims, damages and proceeds of suit.
"Trademark License" means any written agreement, now or hereafter in
effect, granting to any third party any right to use any Trademark now or
hereafter owned or held by or on behalf of any Grantor or which such Grantor
otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any Grantor any right to use
any Trademark now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any
Grantor under any such agreement, including each agreement described on Schedule
3.7.
"Trademarks" means all of the following: (i) all trademarks, service
marks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious
business names, trade styles, trade dress, logos, other source or business
identifiers, designs and general intangibles of like nature, now existing or
hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all
registration and recording applications filed in connection therewith, including
registrations and registration applications in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or any similar offices in the United States or any other
country, and all extensions or renewals thereof, including those described on
Schedule 3.7, (ii) all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized by any of the
foregoing and (iii) all other assets, rights and interests that uniquely reflect
or embody such goodwill.
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"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time
in the State of New York or, when the context implies, the Uniform Commercial
Code as in effect from time to time in any other applicable jurisdiction.
Section 1.2 Interpretation; References to the UCC
(a) Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein 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, (i) 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,
supplemented or otherwise modified, (ii) any definition of or reference to any
law shall be construed as referring to such law as from time to time amended and
any successor thereto and the rules and regulations promulgated from time to
time thereunder, (iii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
include such Person's successors and assigns, (iv) the words "herein," "hereof"
and "hereunder," and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to
this Security Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision
hereof, (v) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules
shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and
Schedules to, this Security Agreement, (vi) all references to a Schedule to this
Security Agreement shall refer to such Schedule hereto or to a Supplement, as
applicable and (vii) 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.
(b) References to the UCC. All references herein to provisions of
the UCC shall include all successor provisions under any subsequent version or
amendment to any Article of the UCC.
Section 1.3 Grant of Security
(a) Grant. As security for the payment or performance, as
applicable, in full of the Obligations, each Grantor hereby bargains, sells,
conveys, assigns, sets over, mortgages, pledges, hypothecates and transfers to
the Collateral Agent (and its successors and assigns), for the benefit of the
Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent (and its successors
and assigns), for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the
"Security Interest") in, all personal property and fixtures of such Grantor,
including all of such Grantor's right, title and interest in, to and under the
following, in each case whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or
arising and wherever located (all of which being hereinafter collectively
referred to as the "Collateral"):
(i) all Accounts;
(ii) all Cash Collateral Accounts, Blocked Accounts and
other deposit accounts;
(iii) all Commercial Tort Claims;
(iv) all Documents, Instruments and Chattel Paper;
(v) all Equipment;
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(vi) all General Intangibles;
(vii) all Goods;
(viii) all Insurance;
(ix) all Intellectual Property;
(x) all Inventory;
(xi) all Investment Property, including all Control
Accounts;
(xii) all Letter of Credit Rights;
(xiii) all Proceeds of FCC Licenses;
(xiv) all Owned Real Property;
(xv) all Pledged Collateral;
(xvi) all Receivables and Receivables Records;
(xvii) all other goods and personal property of such
Grantor, whether tangible or intangible, wherever located, including
money and letters of credit;
(xviii) to the extent not otherwise included in clauses
(i) through (xvii) of this Section, all Collateral Records,
Collateral Support and Supporting Obligations in respect of any of
the foregoing,
(xix) to the extent not otherwise included in clauses
(i) through (xviii) of this Section, all other property in which a
security interest may be granted under the UCC or which may be
delivered to and held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms
hereof (including the Collateral Account and all funds and other
property from time to time therein or credited thereto), and
(xx) to the extent not otherwise included in clauses (i)
through (xix) of this Section, all Proceeds, products,
substitutions, accessions, rents and profits of or in respect of any
of the foregoing.
(b) Revisions to UCC. For the avoidance of doubt, it is expressly
understood and agreed that, to the extent the UCC is revised after the date
hereof such that the definition of any of the foregoing terms included in the
description or definition of the Collateral is changed, the parties hereto
desire that any property which is included in such changed definitions, but
which would not otherwise be included in the Security Interest on the date
hereof, nevertheless be included in the Security Interest upon the effective
date of such revision. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, the
Security Interest is intended to apply immediately on the date hereof to all of
the Collateral to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, regardless of
whether any particular item of the Collateral was then subject to the UCC.
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(c) Certain Limited Exclusions. Notwithstanding anything in this
Section 1.3 to the contrary, in no event shall the Collateral include, and no
Grantor shall be deemed to have granted a Security Interest in, (i) any right
under any lease, license or other contract or agreement constituting a General
Intangible, if the granting of a security interest therein or an assignment
thereof would violate any enforceable provision of such lease, license or other
contract or agreement, as applicable, subject, however, to the provisions of
Section 9-406 of the UCC; provided that (A) each of the Grantors, jointly with
the other Grantors and severally, hereby represents and warrants to the
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties that such leases, licenses and
other contracts and agreements, taken as a whole, are not material and (B)
immediately upon such provision no longer being enforceable, the Collateral
shall include, and the Grantors shall be deemed to have granted a Security
Interest in, such right as if such provision had never been enforceable, (ii)
any Excluded Property; provided that if any such property ceases to be Excluded
Property, the security interest granted pursuant to Section 1.3(a) shall
automatically and without further action attach to such property and become
fully effective at that time, or (iii) any FCC Licenses to the extent that a
security interest therein is prohibited by law; provided that (A) to the extent
that such security interest at any time hereafter shall no longer be prohibited
by law, such security interest shall automatically and without any further
action attach and become fully effective at that time (giving effect to any
retroactive effect to any change in applicable law or regulation) and (B)
nothing in this clause (iii) shall affect the grant of the Security Interest in
the Proceeds of FCC Licenses pursuant to Section 1.3(a)(xii).
Section 1.4 Ranking of Obligations
The Security Interest granted herein shall constitute (i) a first
priority security interest and Lien securing the Credit Agreement Obligations,
(ii) a second priority security interest and Lien securing the Senior Note
Obligations, and (iii) a third priority security interest and Lien securing the
Junior Note Obligations. All (i) Credit Agreement Obligations shall rank pari
passu as to the Collateral and shall be secured equally and ratably without
regard to the date or terms of issue of the instruments evidencing such Credit
Agreement Obligations, (ii) Senior Note Obligations shall rank pari passu as to
the Collateral and shall be secured equally and ratably without regard to the
date or terms of issue of the instruments evidencing such Senior Note
Obligations, and (iii) Junior Note Obligations shall rank pari passu as to the
Collateral and shall be secured equally and ratably without regard to the date
or terms of issue of the instruments evidencing such Junior Note Obligations.
Section 1.5 Power of Attorney to AWHI
Pursuant to Section 3.5(b) of the Collateral Agent Agreement, each
Grantor (other than AWHI) has irrevocably constituted and appointed AWHI and any
officer or agent thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and
lawful attorney-in-fact with full power and authority in the name of such
Grantor or in its own name, from time to time in AWHI's discretion, to take or
omit taking any and all actions hereunder for the purpose of carrying out the
terms of this Security Agreement and any of the other Security Documents, to
receive and give all notices to be given by or received by such Grantor, to
execute any and all documents and instruments which may be necessary or
desirable to accomplish the purposes hereof and, without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, has granted to AWHI the power and right on behalf of such
Grantor, without assent by such Grantor, to bind such Grantor in all respects
hereunder and under any of the other Security Documents, with the intent that
all action taken by AWHI on behalf of such Grantor shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of such Grantor as effectively as if such action were taken
directly by such Grantor. Each such power of attorney is a power coupled with an
interest and shall be irrevocable until all of the Obligations are paid in full
in cash.
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ARTICLE 2. SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS; NO ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITY
Section 2.1 Security for Obligations
Subject to Section, 1.4, this Security Agreement secures, and the
Collateral is collateral security for, the prompt and complete payment or
performance in full when due, whether at stated maturity, by required
prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including the
payment of amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic
stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar provision of
any other bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar law), of all
Obligations with respect to each Grantor.
Section 2.2 No Assumption of Liability
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Security
Interest is granted as security only and shall not subject the Collateral Agent
or any other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or
liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the Collateral.
ARTICLE 3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
Section 3.1 Generally
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the Grantors, jointly
with the other Grantors and severally, represents and warrants to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties that:
(i) As of the Applicable Date, (A) such Grantor's chief
executive office or its principal place of business is, and for the
preceding four months has been, located at the office indicated on
Schedule 3.1(a)(i), (B) such Grantor's jurisdiction of organization is the
jurisdiction indicated on Schedule 3.1(a)(i), and (C) such Grantor's
Federal Employer Identification Number and Company Organizational Number
are as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)(i).
(ii) As of the Applicable Date, (A) such Grantor's full legal
name is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)(ii) and (B) such Grantor has not
done in the preceding five years, and does not do, business under any
other name (including any trade name or fictitious business name), except
for those names set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)(ii).
(iii) Such Grantor has not within the five years preceding the
Applicable Date become bound (whether as a result of merger or otherwise)
as debtor under a security agreement entered into by another Person, which
has not heretofore been terminated.
(iv) As of the Applicable Date, (A) all of such Grantor's FCC
Licenses are as listed on Schedule 3.1(a)(iv) and are valid and in full
force and effect, except to the extent that any such invalidity or
ineffectiveness would not have a Material Adverse Effect, (B) such Grantor
is in compliance in all material respects with all terms required for the
continued effectiveness of all such FCC Licenses, (C) there is no pending
or threatened non-renewal, expiration, termination or revocation of any
such FCC Licenses that could have a Material Adverse Effect, (D) no other
material license, in addition to the FCC Licenses currently held by such
Grantor, each of which is set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)(iv), is necessary
to conduct its business as it is now conducted, (E) all FCC Licenses are
renewable by their terms or in the ordinary course of business without the
need to pay any amounts other than routine filing fees
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and upon compliance with routine FCC renewal procedures, and (F) such
material FCC Licenses will not be adversely affected by consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby.
(v) Such Grantor has good and valid rights in, and title to,
the Collateral with respect to which it has purported to grant a Security
Interest, except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its
ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such
Collateral for its intended purposes, and except for Permitted Liens.
(vi) Set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)(vi) hereto is a complete and
accurate list showing, as of the Applicable Date, each Subsidiary, the
number of shares of each class of Stock authorized (if applicable), the
number outstanding on the Applicable Date and the number and percentage of
the outstanding shares of each such class owned (directly or indirectly)
by the Parent and the Subsidiaries (as applicable). No Stock of any
Subsidiary is subject to any outstanding option, warrant, right of
conversion or purchase or any similar right. All of the outstanding Stock
of each Subsidiary owned (directly or indirectly) by the Parent has been
validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the
Parent or a Subsidiary, free and clear of all Liens (other than the Lien
in favor of the Secured Parties created pursuant to the Security
Documents). Neither the Parent nor any such Subsidiary is a party to, or
has knowledge of, any agreement restricting the transfer or hypothecation
of any Stock of any such Subsidiary, other than the Security Documents.
(vii) All actions and consents, including all filings,
notices, registrations and recordings, necessary or desirable to create,
perfect or ensure the first priority (subject only to Permitted Liens) of
the Security Interest in the Collateral owned or held by it or on its
behalf or for the exercise by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured
Party of any voting or other rights provided for in this Security
Agreement or the exercise of any remedies in respect of any such
Collateral have been made or obtained, (A) except for (1) the filing of
UCC financing statements naming such Grantor as "debtor" and the
Collateral Agent as "secured party," or the making of other appropriate
filings, registrations or recordings, containing a description of such
Collateral in each applicable governmental, municipal or other office
specified on Schedule 3.1(a)(vii) and (2) the filing, registration or
recordation of this Security Agreement or other fully executed security
agreements in the form hereof (or in such other form as shall be in all
respects satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) and containing a
description of all such Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and
Copyrights, together with all other necessary documents, in each
applicable governmental registry or office, (B) except for any such
Collateral as to which the representations and warranties in this Section
3.1(a)(vii) would not be true solely by virtue of such Collateral having
been used or disposed of in a manner expressly permitted hereunder or
under any other Secured Debt Document, and (C) except to the extent that
such Security Interest may not be perfected by filing, registering,
recording or taking any other action in the United States.
(viii) It has not filed or consented to the filing of (A) any
financing statement or analogous document under the UCC or any other
applicable laws covering any such Collateral, (B) any assignment in which
it assigns any such Collateral or any security agreement or similar
instrument covering any such Collateral with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, or (C) any
assignment in which it assigns any such Collateral or any security
agreement or similar instrument covering any such Collateral with any
foreign governmental, municipal or other office, in each case, which
financing statement, analogous
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document, assignment or other instrument, as applicable, is still in
effect, except for Permitted Liens.
(ix) The Security Interest in the Collateral owned or held by
it or on its behalf (A) is effective to vest in the Collateral Agent, on
behalf of the Secured Parties, the rights of the Collateral Agent in such
Collateral as set forth herein and (B) does not violate Regulation T, U or
X as of the Applicable Date.
(x) No PageNet Foreign Subsidiary has any significant assets
and its business is not material to the business of the Parent and the
Subsidiaries taken as a whole. The Parent intends to dissolve each PageNet
Foreign Subsidiary or merge the same into a Grantor as soon as reasonably
practicable after the date hereof.
(b) Covenants and Agreements. Each Grantor hereby covenants and
agrees as follows:
(i) It will promptly notify the Collateral Agent in writing of
any change (A) in its legal name or in any trade name used to identify it
in the conduct of its business or in the ownership of its properties, (B)
in the location of its chief executive office, principal place of
business, any office in which it maintains books or records relating to
any of the Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf or, except to
the extent permitted by Section 3.1(b)(vii) or Section 3.2, any office or
facility at which any such Collateral is located (including the
establishment of any new office or facility), (C) in its identity or legal
or organizational structure or its jurisdiction of formation, or (D) in
its Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or Company Organization Number.
It agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding
sentence unless all filings have been made under the UCC or otherwise that
are required in order for the Collateral Agent to continue at all times
following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security
interest in all the Collateral with the priority required hereby.
(ii) It shall maintain, at its own cost and expense, such
complete and accurate Records with respect to the Collateral owned or held
by it or on its behalf as is consistent with its current practices and in
accordance with such prudent and standard practices used in industries
that are the same as or similar to those in which it is engaged, but in
any event to include complete accounting Records indicating all payments
and proceeds received with respect to any part of such Collateral, and, at
such time or times as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request,
promptly to prepare and deliver to the Collateral Agent a duly certified
schedule or schedules in form and detail satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent showing the identity and amount of any and all such Collateral.
(iii) It shall, at its own cost and expense, take any and all
actions necessary to defend title to the Collateral owned or held by it or
on its behalf against all Persons and to defend the Security Interest in
such Collateral and the priority thereof against any Lien or other
interest not expressly permitted by the Secured Debt Documents, and in
furtherance thereof, it shall not take, or permit to be taken, any action
not otherwise expressly permitted by the Secured Debt Documents that could
impair the Security Interest or the priority thereof or any Secured
Party's rights in or to such Collateral.
(iv) The Collateral Agent and such Persons as the Collateral
Agent may designate shall have the right, at the cost and expense of such
Grantor, to inspect all of its Records (and to make extracts and copies
from such Records), to discuss its affairs with its
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officers and independent accountants and to verify under reasonable
procedures the validity, amount, quality, quantity, value, condition and
status of, or any other matter relating to, the Collateral owned or held
by or on behalf of such Grantor, including, in the case of Receivables,
Pledged Notes, General Intangibles, Commercial Tort Claims or Collateral
in the possession of any third person, by contacting Account Debtors,
contract parties or other obligors thereon or any third person possessing
such Collateral for the purpose of making such a verification. The
Collateral Agent shall have the absolute right to share on a confidential
basis any information it gains from such inspection or verification with
any Secured Party.
(v) At its option and without any obligation whatsoever, the
Collateral Agent may discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees,
Liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or
placed on the Collateral owned or held by or on behalf of such Grantor,
and not permitted by the Secured Debt Documents, and may pay for the
maintenance and preservation of such Collateral to the extent such Grantor
fails to do so as required by the Secured Debt Documents, and such Grantor
agrees, jointly with the other Grantors and severally, to promptly
reimburse the Collateral Agent on demand for any payment made or any
expense incurred by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the foregoing
authorization; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be
interpreted as excusing any Grantor from the performance of, or imposing
any obligation on the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to cure
or perform, any covenants or other promises of any Grantor with respect to
taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other
encumbrances and maintenance as set forth herein or in the other Secured
Debt Documents.
(vi) It shall remain liable to observe and perform all the
conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it under each
contract, agreement or instrument relating to the Collateral owned or held
by it or on its behalf, all in accordance with the terms and conditions
thereof, and it agrees, jointly with the other Grantors and severally, to
indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and the other Secured
Parties from and against any and all liability for such performance.
(vii) It shall not make, or permit to be made, an assignment,
pledge or hypothecation of the Collateral owned or held by it or on its
behalf, or grant any other Lien in respect of such Collateral, except as
expressly permitted by the Secured Debt Documents. Except for Permitted
Liens, it shall not make or permit to be made any transfer of such
Collateral, and it shall remain at all times in possession of such
Collateral and the direct owner, beneficially and of record, of the
Pledged Stock included in such Collateral, except that (A) Inventory may
be sold in the ordinary course of business, (B) obsolete or worn out
Equipment may be sold or disposed of in the ordinary course of business,
and (C) unless and until a Notice of Default shall have been delivered, it
may use and dispose of such Collateral in any lawful manner not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Security Agreement or any other
Secured Debt Document; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph
shall be interpreted as prohibiting the merger or liquidation of any
Grantor (other than AWHI) into another Grantor, the transfer by the Parent
of any Stock or Stock Equivalents to Arch or AWHI or the transfer of any
assets of any Grantor to any Subsidiary of AWHI.
(viii) It shall, at its own cost and expense, maintain or
cause to be maintained insurance covering (A) physical loss or damage to
the Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf against all risks and
(B) liability arising from the use or intended use, or otherwise
attributable or relating to, such Collateral, in each case in accordance
with the provisions of the
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Secured Debt Documents. The policies covering such insurance (1) shall, in
the case of each policy under clause (A) of the immediately preceding
sentence, contain a standard loss payable clause and shall name the
Collateral Agent or its agent as sole loss payee in respect of each claim
relating to such Collateral and resulting in a payment thereunder, (2)
shall, in the case of each policy under clause (B) of the immediately
preceding sentence, be indorsed to provide, in respect of the interests of
the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, that the Collateral
Agent shall be an additional insured, and (3) shall, in the case of each
policy under such clauses (A) and (B), provide that 30 days' prior written
notice of any cancellation or modification thereof or any reduction of
amounts payable thereunder shall be given to the Collateral Agent, and in
the event that such Grantor at any time or times shall fail to pay any
premium in whole or part relating thereto, the Collateral Agent may, in
its sole discretion, but shall have no obligation whatsoever to, pay such
premium. Such Grantor irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the
Collateral Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the
Collateral Agent) as such Grantor's true and lawful agent (and
attorney-in-fact) for the purpose, during the continuance of a Default, of
making, settling and adjusting claims in respect of such Collateral under
policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Grantor on any check,
draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such
policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with
respect thereto. In the event that such Grantor at any time or times shall
fail to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required
hereby or to pay any premium in whole or part relating thereto, the
Collateral Agent may, without waiving or releasing any obligation or
liability of the Grantors hereunder or any Default, in its sole
discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such
premium and take any other actions with respect thereto as the Collateral
Agent deems advisable. All sums disbursed by the Collateral Agent in
connection with this subsection, including reasonable attorneys' fees and
expenses, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall
be payable, upon demand, by such Grantor to the Collateral Agent and shall
be additional Obligations secured hereby.
(ix) No later than 45 days after the end of each of the first
three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year and 90 days after the end of the
fourth fiscal quarter of each fiscal year, AWHI will deliver to the
Collateral Agent a certificate signed by a financial officer thereof (or
such other officer as is acceptable to the Collateral Agent) either (i)
certifying that there has been no change to information disclosed in the
schedules to this Security Agreement or, after the delivery of the first
certification delivered pursuant to this subsection as previously
certified or, if so, specifying all such changes and (ii) certifying that
all UCC financing statements or other appropriate filings, recordings or
registrations, including all refilings, rerecordings and reregistrations,
containing a description of the Collateral have been filed of record in
each governmental, municipal or other appropriate office in each
jurisdiction identified pursuant to Schedule 3.1(a)(vii) and each other
jurisdiction as is necessary to perfect the Liens in the Collateral.
Section 3.2 Equipment and Inventory
Each of the Grantors, jointly with the other Grantors and severally,
represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties
that, as of the Applicable Date, all of the Equipment and Inventory included in
the Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf (other than mobile goods and
Inventory and Equipment in transit) is kept only at the locations specified on
Schedule 3.2. In addition, each Grantor covenants and agrees that it shall not
permit any Equipment or Inventory owned or held by it or on its behalf to be in
the possession or control of any warehouseman, bailee, agent or processor for a
period of greater than thirty (30) consecutive days, unless such warehouseman,
bailee,
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agent or processor shall have been notified of the Security Interest and shall
have agreed in writing to hold such Equipment or Inventory subject to the
Security Interest and the instructions of the Collateral Agent (given at the
request of the Applicable Representative) and to waive and release any Lien held
by it with respect to such Equipment or Inventory, whether arising by operation
of law or otherwise.
Section 3.3 Receivables
(a) Each of the Grantors, jointly with the other Grantors and
severally, represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured
Parties that no Receivable is evidenced by an Instrument or Chattel Paper that
has not been delivered to the Collateral Agent.
(b) Each Grantor hereby covenants and agrees that:
(i) It shall maintain adequate records of its Receivables and
shall xxxx conspicuously, in form and manner reasonably satisfactory to
the Collateral Agent, all Chattel Paper, Instruments and other evidence of
any Receivables owned or held by it or on its behalf (other than any
delivered to the Collateral Agent as provided herein), as well as the
related Receivables Records, with an appropriate reference to the fact
that the Collateral Agent has a security interest therein.
(ii) It will not, without the Collateral Agent's prior written
consent acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), grant any extension of the
time of payment of any such Receivable, compromise, compound or settle the
same for less than the full amount thereof, release, wholly or partly, any
Supporting Obligation or Collateral Support relating thereto, or allow any
credit or discount whatsoever thereon, other than extensions, credits,
discounts, releases, compromises or settlements granted or made in the
ordinary course of business and consistent with its current practices and
in accordance with such practices reasonably believed by such Grantor to
be prudent.
(iii) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, it shall
continue to collect all amounts due or to become due to it under all such
Receivables and any Supporting Obligations or Collateral Support relating
thereto, and diligently exercise each material right it may have
thereunder, in each case at its own cost and expense. In connection with
such collections and exercise, at any time during the continuation of a
Default, it shall take such action as it or the Collateral Agent, acting
at the direction of the Applicable Representative or, after the occurrence
and during the continuance of an Actionable Default, Majority Creditors,
may reasonably deem necessary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time
during the continuation of a Default, the Collateral Agent shall have the
right at any time to notify, or require such Grantor to notify, any
Account Debtor with respect to any such Receivable, Supporting Obligation
or Collateral Support of the Collateral Agent's security interest therein,
and in addition, the Collateral Agent may: (i) direct such Account Debtor
to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor
thereunder directly to the Collateral Agent and (ii) enforce, at the cost
and expense of such Grantor, collection thereof and to adjust, settle or
compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the
same extent as such Grantor would be able to have done. If the Collateral
Agent notifies such Grantor that it has elected to collect any such
Receivable, Supporting Obligation or Collateral Support in accordance with
the preceding sentence, any payments thereof received by such Grantor
shall not be commingled with any of its other funds or property but shall
be held separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for
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the benefit of the Collateral Agent hereunder and shall be forthwith
delivered to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so received (with
any necessary indorsement), and such Grantor shall not grant any extension
of the time of payment thereof, compromise, compound or settle the same
for less than the full amount thereof, release the same, wholly or partly,
or allow any credit or discount whatsoever thereon.
(iv) It shall use its best efforts to keep in full force and
effect any Supporting Obligation or Collateral Support relating to any
Receivable.
(v) During the continuance of an Acceleration Default, at the
request of the Collateral Agent acting at the direction of the Applicable
Representative, or during the continuance of an Actionable Default, acting
at the direction of Majority Creditors, it shall direct each Account
Debtor to make payment on each Receivable to a Blocked Account or the
Concentration Account.
Section 3.4 Investment Property
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the Grantors, jointly
with the other Grantors and severally, represents and warrants to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties that:
(i) Schedule 3.4 sets forth, as of the Applicable Date, all of
the Pledged Collateral owned or held by or on behalf of such Grantor.
(ii) All Pledged Stock have been duly authorized and validly
issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and such Grantor is the
direct owner, beneficially and of record, thereof, free and clear of all
Liens (other than Permitted Liens).
(iii) All Pledged Notes have been duly authorized, issued and
delivered and, where necessary, authenticated, and constitutes the legal,
valid and binding obligation of the obligor with respect thereto,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium
and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights
generally, and general equitable principles (whether considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).
(iv) All Pledged Collateral consisting of certificated
securities or Instruments has been delivered to the Collateral Agent.
(v) All Pledged Collateral held by a Securities Intermediary
in a Securities Account or a commodities account is in a Control Account.
(vi) Other than the Pledged Partnership Interests and the
Pledged LLC Interests that constitute General Intangibles, there is no
Pledged Collateral other than that represented by certificated securities
or Instruments in the possession of the Collateral Agent or that
consisting of Financial Assets held in a Control Account.
(vii) No Person other than the Collateral Agent has "control"
(within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC) over any Investment Property
of such Grantor.
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(b) Registration in Nominee Name; Denominations. Each Grantor hereby
agrees that (i) without limiting Article 5, the Collateral Agent, on behalf of
the Secured Parties, shall have the right, upon the written direction of (x) the
Applicable Representative (in its sole and absolute discretion) after the
occurrence of an Acceleration Default or (y) Majority Creditors after the
occurrence of an Actionable Default, to hold any Pledged Stock in its own name
as pledgee, the name of its nominee (as pledgee or as sub-agent) or the name of
the applicable Grantor, endorsed or assigned, where applicable, in blank or in
favor of the Collateral Agent, (ii) at the Collateral Agent's request, such
Grantor will promptly give to the Collateral Agent copies of any material
notices or other communications received by it with respect to any Pledged Stock
registered in its name, and (iii) the Collateral Agent shall have the right,
upon the written direction of (x) the Applicable Representative (in its sole and
absolute discretion) after the occurrence of an Acceleration Default or (y)
Majority Creditors after the occurrence of an Actionable Default, to exchange
any certificates, instruments or other documents representing or evidencing any
Pledged Collateral or Investment Property owned or held by or on behalf of such
Grantor for certificates, instruments or other documents of smaller or larger
denominations for any purpose consistent with this Security Agreement.
(c) Voting and Distributions.
(i) Unless and until an (x) Acceleration Default shall have
occurred and be continuing or (y) an Actionable Default shall have
occurred and be continuing and Majority Creditors shall have directed to
the contrary:
(A) Each Grantor shall be entitled to exercise any and
all voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner
of the Pledged Stock, or any part thereof, for any purpose consistent with
the terms of this Security Agreement and the other Secured Debt Documents.
(B) The Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver to
each Grantor, or cause to be executed and delivered to each Grantor, all
such proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as such Grantor may
reasonably request for the purpose of enabling it to exercise the voting
and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to
subsection (c)(i)(A) and to receive the cash payments it is entitled to
receive pursuant to subsection (c)(i)(C).
(C) Each Grantor shall be entitled to receive, retain
and use any and all cash dividends, interest and principal paid on the
Pledged Stock owned or held by it or on its behalf to the extent and only
to the extent that such cash dividends, interest and principal are not
prohibited by, and otherwise paid in accordance with, the terms and
conditions of the Secured Debt Documents and applicable laws. All non-cash
dividends, interest and principal, and all dividends, interest and
principal paid or payable in cash or otherwise in connection with a
partial or total liquidation or dissolution, return of capital, capital
surplus or paid-in surplus, and all other distributions (other than
distributions referred to in the preceding sentence) made on or in respect
of the Pledged Stock whether paid or payable in cash or otherwise, whether
resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the
outstanding Pledged Stock in any issuer thereof in exchange for any
Pledged Stock, or any part thereof, or in redemption thereof, or as a
result of any merger, consolidation, acquisition or other exchange of
assets to which such issuer may be a party or otherwise, shall be and
become part of the Collateral, and, if received by such Grantor, shall not
be commingled with any of its other funds or property but shall be held
separate and apart therefrom, shall be held in trust for the benefit of
the Collateral Agent
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hereunder and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent in the
same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement).
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if the
Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of (x) the Applicable
Representative, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Acceleration Default, or (y) Majority Creditors, upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Actionable Default, shall so direct, then:
(A) All rights of each Grantor to dividends, interest or
principal that it is authorized to receive pursuant to subsection
(c)(i)(C) shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested
in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and exclusive right and
authority to receive and retain such dividends, interest or principal, as
applicable. All dividends, interest and principal received by or on behalf
of any Grantor contrary to the provisions of this Section shall be held in
trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, shall be segregated from
other property or funds of such Grantor and shall be forthwith delivered
to the Collateral Agent upon demand in the same form as so received (with
any necessary endorsement). Any and all money and other property paid over
to or received by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of this
subsection (c)(ii)(A) shall be retained by the Collateral Agent in the
Collateral Account for the benefit of the Secured Parties. After all
Defaults have been cured or waived, the Collateral Agent shall, within
five Business Days thereafter, repay to the applicable Grantor all cash
dividends, interest and principal (without interest) that such Grantor
would otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of subsection
(c)(i)(C) and which remain in the Collateral Account.
(B) All rights of each Grantor to exercise the voting
and consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to
subsection (c)(i)(A), and the obligations of the Collateral Agent under
subsection (c)(i)(B), shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon
become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall have the sole and
exclusive right and authority to exercise such voting and consensual
rights and powers; provided that unless otherwise directed by the
Collateral Agent acting pursuant to the directions of (1) the Applicable
Representative in the case of an Acceleration Default or (2) Majority
Creditors in the case of an Actionable Default, the Collateral Agent shall
have the right from time to time following and during the continuance of a
Default to permit such Grantor to exercise such rights. After all Defaults
have been cured or waived, the applicable Grantor will have the right to
exercise the voting and consensual rights and powers that it would
otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to the terms of subsection
(c)(i)(A).
Section 3.5 Deposit Accounts
(a) Representations and Warranties. The only Deposit Accounts
maintained by any Grantor on the Applicable Date are those listed on Schedule
3.5 which sets forth such information separately for each Grantor.
(b) Covenants and Agreements. Each Grantor hereby covenants and
agrees as follows:
(i) Each Grantor shall (A) cause all cash and all Proceeds
received by such Grantor to be deposited in, or swept into, either the
Mellon Account or, to the extent required by the Collateral Agent, acting
at the direction of the Applicable Representative, the Concentration
Account on a daily basis, except that cash to make Investments permitted
by the Secured Debt
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Documents may be deposited in a Control Account; provided that after
giving effect to such deposit and/or cash sweep, the amount of such cash
and Proceeds on deposit in accounts other than the Mellon Account or the
Concentration Account shall not exceed $1,000,000 (exclusive of the
amounts in accounts for unpaid payroll, payroll taxes and withholding
taxes), (B) to the extent required by the Collateral Agent, acting at the
direction of the Applicable Representative, and to the extent that such
cash and Proceeds are deposited in the Mellon Account and such cash and
Proceeds exceed an amount not to exceed $2,000,000, such cash and Proceeds
shall be deposited in, or swept into, the Concentration Account on a daily
basis, (C) not establish or maintain, or permit any other Grantor to
establish or maintain, any Securities Account or commodities account that
is not a Control Account, and (D) not establish or maintain, or permit any
other Grantor to establish or maintain, any account with any financial or
other institution in which Proceeds are deposited other than the accounts
listed on Schedule 3.5; provided that amounts in all such accounts are
deposited in, or swept into, the Mellon Account as set forth in clause
(A); provided, further, that the amount in the accounts so indicated on
Schedule 3.5 which are for unpaid payroll, payroll taxes and withholding
taxes are not required to be swept on a daily basis. So long as no Default
has occurred and is continuing, a Grantor may transfer funds from the
Blocked Account to any existing disbursement or Deposit Accounts of such
Grantor.
(ii) In the event (A) any Grantor or any Approved Securities
Intermediary or Blocked Account Bank shall, after the date hereof,
terminate an agreement with respect to the maintenance of a Control
Account or Blocked Account for any reason, (B) the Collateral Agent shall
demand the termination of an agreement with respect to the maintenance of
a Control Account or a Blocked Account as a result of the failure of an
Approved Securities Intermediary or Blocked Account Bank to comply with
the terms of the applicable Control Account Letter or Blocked Account
Letter, or (C) the Applicable Representative determines in its sole
discretion that the financial condition of an Approved Securities
Intermediary or Blocked Account Bank, as the case may be, has materially
deteriorated, such Grantor agrees to notify all of its obligors that were
making payments to such terminated Control Account or Blocked Account, as
the case may be, to make all future payments to another Control Account or
Blocked Account, as the case may be.
Section 3.6 Letter of Credit Rights
Each of the Grantors, jointly with the other Grantors and severally,
represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties
that Schedule 3.6 sets forth, as of the Applicable Date, each letter of credit
giving rise to a Letter of Credit Right included in the Collateral owned or held
by or on behalf of such Grantor.
Section 3.7 Intellectual Property
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the Grantors, jointly
with the other Grantors and severally, represents and warrants to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties that Schedule 3.7 sets forth, as of the
Applicable Date, all of the Material Intellectual Property owned or held by or
on behalf of such Grantor, specifically identifying that owned by the Grantors
and that licensed to the Grantors.
(b) Covenants and Agreements. Each Grantor hereby covenants and
agrees as follows:
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(i) It will not, nor will it permit any of its licensees (or
sublicensees) to, do any act, or omit to do any act, whereby any Patent
that is material to the conduct of its business may become invalidated or
dedicated to the public, and it shall continue to xxxx any products
covered by a Patent with the relevant patent number as necessary and
sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable
patent laws.
(ii) It will (either directly or through its licensees or its
sublicensees), for each Trademark that is material to the conduct of its
business, (A) maintain such Trademark in full force free from any claim of
abandonment or invalidity for non-use, (B) maintain the quality of
products and services offered under such Trademark, (C) display such
Trademark with notice of Federal or other analogous registration to the
extent necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its rights under
applicable law, and (D) not knowingly use or knowingly permit the use of
such Trademark in violation of any third party's valid and legal rights.
(iii) It will (either directly or through its licensees or its
sublicensees), for each work covered by a Copyright that is material to
the conduct of its business, continue to publish, reproduce, display,
adopt and distribute the work with appropriate copyright notice as
necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights
under applicable copyright laws.
(iv) It will promptly notify the Collateral Agent in writing
if it knows or has reason to know that any Material Intellectual Property
material to the conduct of its business may become abandoned, lost or
dedicated to the public, or of any adverse determination or development
(including the institution of, or any such determination or development
in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the
United States Copyright Office, or any similar offices or tribunals in the
United States or any other country) regarding such Grantor's ownership of
any such Material Intellectual Property, its right to register the same,
or to keep and maintain the same.
(v) In no event shall it, either directly or through any
agent, employee, licensee or designee, file an application for any
Material Intellectual Property with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar offices in the
United States or any other country, unless it promptly notifies the
Collateral Agent in writing thereof and executes and delivers any and all
agreements, instruments, documents and papers as are necessary or
appropriate to evidence the Collateral Agent's security interest in such
Material Intellectual Property, and such Grantor hereby appoints the
Collateral Agent as its attorney-in-fact to execute and file such writings
for the foregoing purposes, all acts of such attorney being hereby
ratified and confirmed; such power, being coupled with an interest, is
irrevocable.
(vi) It will take all necessary steps that are consistent with
the practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and
Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar
offices or tribunals in the United States or any other country, to
maintain and pursue each application relating to the Material Intellectual
Property owned or held by it or on its behalf (and to obtain the relevant
grant or registration) and to maintain each issued Patent and each
registered Trademark and Copyright that is material to the conduct of its
business, including timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits
of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees,
and, if consistent, in good faith, with good business judgment, to
initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against
third parties. In the event that it has reason to believe that any
Material Intellectual Property has been or is about to be
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infringed, misappropriated or diluted by a third party, it promptly shall
notify the Collateral Agent in writing and shall, if consistent with good
business judgment, promptly xxx for infringement, misappropriation or
dilution and to recover any and all damages for such infringement,
misappropriation or dilution, and take such other actions as are
appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Intellectual Property.
(vii) During the continuance of a Default, it shall use its
best efforts to obtain all requisite consents or approvals by the licenser
of each License to effect the assignment (as collateral security) of all
of its right, title and interest thereunder to the Collateral Agent or its
designee.
(viii) It shall take all steps reasonably necessary to protect
the secrecy of all Trade Secrets that is material to the conduct of its
business relating to the products and services sold or delivered under or
in connection with the Material Intellectual Property owned or held by or
on its behalf, including entering into confidentiality agreements with
employees and labeling and restricting access to secret information and
documents.
(ix) It shall continue to collect all amounts due or to become
due to such Grantor under all Intellectual Property, and diligently
exercise each material right it may have thereunder, in each case at its
own cost and expense, and in connection with such collections and
exercise, it shall, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of (A)
an Acceleration Default, take such action as it or the Collateral Agent
acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative, may reasonably
deem necessary or (B) an Actionable Default, take such action as it or the
Collateral Agent acting at the direction of Majority Creditors may
reasonably deem necessary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, the Collateral Agent,
acting at the direction of (A) the Applicable Representative in the case
of an Acceleration Default or (b) Majority Creditors in the case of an
Actionable Default, shall have the right to notify, or require such
Grantor to notify, any relevant obligors with respect to such amounts of
the Collateral Agent's security interest therein.
Section 3.8 Commercial Tort Claims
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the Grantors, jointly
with the other Grantors and severally, represents and warrants to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties that Schedule 3.8 sets forth, as of the
Applicable Date, all Commercial Tort Claims involving an amount in excess of
$500,000 made by it or on its behalf or, to the best of its knowledge, to which
it otherwise has any right, title or interest.
(b) Covenants and Agreements. Each Grantor hereby covenants and
agrees that promptly after the same shall have been commenced, written notice of
any Commercial Tort Claim and any judgment, settlement or other disposition
thereof shall be given to the Collateral Agent.
Section 3.9 Real Property
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the Grantors, jointly
with the other Grantors and severally, represents and warrants to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties that:
(i) Owned Real Property.
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(A) Schedule 3.9(a)(i) sets forth a complete list of all
Real Property owned by each of the Grantors as of the Applicable Date
(individually, an "Owned Real Property" and collectively, the "Owned Real
Properties") as well as all contracts, agreements or options to acquire
other Real Property, or to sell or lease Owned Real Property, in each case
binding on each of the Grantors showing, as of the Applicable Date, the
street address, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, and record
owner.
(B) Each of the Grantors has good, indefeasible,
marketable and insurable fee simple title to all Owned Real Properties
owned by it and all buildings, structures and other improvements located
thereon, free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens.
(ii) Leased Real Property.
(A) Schedule 3.9(a)(ii)(A) sets forth, as of the
Applicable Date, a complete list of all Real Property leased, subleased,
or otherwise occupied or used by each of the Grantors as lessee other than
tower site leases (individually, a "Leased Real Property" and
collectively, the "Leased Real Properties") showing, the street address,
county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, and leasehold owner.
(B) Each of the Grantors has valid, binding and
enforceable leasehold interests in, good marketable and insurable
leasehold title to, and actual and exclusive possession of the Leased Real
Properties leased, subleased or otherwise occupied or used by it free and
clear of all Liens of any nature whatsoever, other than Permitted Liens,
and all buildings, structures or other improvements located thereon
pursuant to the leases, subleases, licenses and occupancy agreements
listed on Schedule 3.9(a)(ii)(B) (each, a "Real Property Lease" and
collectively, the "Real Property Leases").
(C) Each of the Real Property Leases is in full force
and effect and, except as set forth on Schedule 3.9(a)(ii)(B), has not
been amended, modified, supplemented or assigned.
(D) Except for the Real Property Leases set forth on
Schedule 3.9(b)(ii)(D), there are no Real Property Leases which, if
terminated, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) Covenants and Agreements.
(i) Each Grantor hereby covenants and agrees that if at any
time on or after the date hereof, it shall acquire any Owned Real
Property, then it shall, at its own cost and expense, promptly (A) notify
the Collateral Agent thereof in writing and (B) execute and deliver to the
Collateral Agent (1) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to such Owned
Real Property, signed on behalf of the record owner of such Owned Real
Property, (2) a policy or policies of title insurance issued by a
nationally recognized title insurance company, insuring the Lien of each
such Mortgage as a valid first Lien on such Owned Real Property described
therein, free of any other Liens other than Permitted Liens, in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Applicable Representative, together
with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Applicable
Representative or the Majority Creditors may reasonably request, (3) such
surveys as may be required pursuant to such Mortgages or as the Applicable
Representative or the Majority Creditors may reasonably request, (4) a
copy of the original permanent certificate or temporary
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certificate of occupancy as the same may have been amended or issued from
time to time, covering each improvement located upon such Real Property
that were required to have been issued by the appropriate Governmental
Authority for such improvement, (5) written confirmation from the
applicable zoning commission or other appropriate Governmental Authority
stating that, with respect to Real Property as built, it complies with
existing land use and zoning ordinances, regulations and restrictions
applicable to such Real Property, (6) a copy of a phase I environmental
report issued for each such Real Property, each such report to be
satisfactory to the Applicable Representative, (7) a Mortgage Opinion of
Counsel and (8) such other customary documentation with respect to the
Mortgages and the Real Property, including copies of all appraisals issued
with respect thereto, as the Applicable Representative or the Majority
Creditors may reasonably request.
(ii) Each Grantor agrees that no later than 90 days after the
date hereof, it will use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to the
Collateral Agent, a Mortgage with respect to each Leased Real Property
listed on Schedule 3.9(a)(ii)(D), together with a landlord's consent
thereto substantially in the form of Exhibit D, a recorded memorandum of
lease and such other customary documentation with respect thereto as the
Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative
may reasonably request. In addition, each Grantor hereby covenants and
agrees that if at any time on or after the date hereof, it shall become
the lessee with respect to any Leased Real Property which, if terminated,
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, then
it shall, at its own cost and expense, promptly (A) notify the Collateral
Agent thereof in writing and (B) use commercially reasonable efforts to
deliver to the Collateral Agent, a Mortgage thereon together with a
landlord's consent thereto substantially in the form of Exhibit D, a
recorded memorandum of lease, a Mortgage Opinion of Counsel and such other
customary documentation with respect thereto as the Collateral Agent,
acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative may reasonably
request.
ARTICLE 4. FURTHER ASSURANCES
Section 4.1 Further Assurances
Each Grantor hereby covenants and agrees, at its own cost and
expense, to execute, acknowledge, deliver and/or cause to be duly filed all such
further agreements, instruments, Foreign Pledge Agreements and other documents
(including favorable legal opinions in connection with the pledge of the Stock
in Foreign Subsidiaries as provided in Section 4.2), and take all such further
actions, that the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request to
preserve, protect and perfect (including as a result of any change in applicable
law) the Security Interest granted by it and the rights and remedies created
hereby, including the payment of any fees and taxes required in connection with
its execution and delivery of this Security Agreement, the granting by it of the
Security Interest and the filing of any financing statements or other documents
in connection herewith or therewith. In addition, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent
to file one or more financing or continuation statements and amendments thereto
(and to use the power of attorney granted in Article 5 to sign such statements,
if required), relative to all or any part of the Collateral owned or held by it
or on its behalf without the signature of such Grantor and agrees that a
photographic or other reproduction of this Security Agreement or of a financing
statement signed by such Grantor shall be sufficient as a financing statement
and may be filed as a financing statement in any and all jurisdictions. Each
Grantor hereby further irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent to file a
Record or Records, including financing statements, in all jurisdictions and with
all filing offices as are necessary, advisable or prudent to perfect the
Security Interest granted by it and agrees that such financing
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statements may describe the Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf in
the same manner as described herein or may contain an indication or description
of collateral that describes such property in any other manner that the
Applicable Representative may determine, in its sole and absolute discretion, is
necessary, advisable or prudent to perfect the Security Interest granted by such
Grantor, including describing such property as "all assets" or "all personal
property."
Section 4.2 Additional Subsidiaries; Foreign Subsidiaries
(a) If any Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary (other
than AWHI, a Domestic Subsidiary or a Material Foreign Subsidiary that is a
party to the Security Documents) is formed or acquired (or otherwise becomes a
Subsidiary for purposes of this Security Agreement) after the date of this
Security Agreement, or a Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Material
Foreign Subsidiary, the Parent will notify the Collateral Agent in writing
thereof not later than the fifth Business Day after the date on which such
Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary is formed or acquired (or
otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes of this Security Agreement) or such
Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Material Foreign Subsidiary, as
applicable, and, in addition, the Parent will cause such new Domestic Subsidiary
or Material Foreign Subsidiary or such Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary that has
become a Material Foreign Subsidiary, as applicable, to become an Additional
Grantor in accordance with Article 13 not later than the fifth Business Day
after the date on which such new Domestic Subsidiary or Material Foreign
Subsidiary is formed or acquired (or otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes
of this Security Agreement) or such Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary becomes a
Material Foreign Subsidiary, as applicable. In connection therewith, the Parent
will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent such agreements
and other documents as may be necessary or appropriate to grant a first priority
security interest in (i) the outstanding Stock of such Material Foreign
Subsidiary which is owned by or on behalf of a Grantor (including one or more
Foreign Pledge Agreements) and (ii) the assets of such Material Foreign
Subsidiary constituting Collateral, together with (A) such UCC-1 financing
statements or amendments thereto and other documents as requested by the
Collateral Agent, together with either (x) satisfactory evidence that all taxes
payable in connection with the filing of the UCC-1 financing statements have
been paid or (y) a check payable to each applicable Governmental Authority in
payment of each such tax, and (B) opinions of counsel (including foreign counsel
opinions) as the Collateral Agent may request.
(b) If any Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary is formed or acquired (or
otherwise becomes a Subsidiary for purposes of this Security Agreement) after
the date of this Security Agreement, the Parent will notify the Collateral Agent
in writing thereof not later than the fifth Business Day after the date on which
such Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary is formed or acquired (or otherwise becomes
a Subsidiary for purposes of this Security Agreement) and, in addition, the
Parent will pledge or cause to be pledged to the Collateral Agent as additional
Collateral not later than the fifth Business Day after the date on which such
Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary is formed or acquired (or otherwise becomes a
Subsidiary for purposes of this Security Agreement) (x) if such Non-Material
Foreign Subsidiary is a "controlled foreign corporation" as defined in the Code,
Stock representing 65% of the voting power of all classes of Stock of such
Non-Material Foreign Subsidiary entitled to vote and (y) in all other cases,
100% of the Stock thereof, together with (i) such UCC-1 financing statements or
amendments thereto and other documents as requested by the Collateral Agent,
together with either (x) satisfactory evidence that all taxes payable in
connection with the filing of the UCC-1 financing statements have been paid or
(y) a check payable to each applicable Governmental Authority in payment of each
such tax, (ii) all promissory notes evidencing Indebtedness of such Non-Material
Foreign Subsidiary to any Grantor, and (iii) such agreements (including one or
more Foreign Pledge Agreements), certificates, instruments and opinions of
counsel (including foreign counsel opinions) as the Collateral Agent may
request.
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Section 4.3 Opinion of Counsel
AWHI and the Guarantors shall furnish to the Collateral Agent and
each of the Representatives within three months after each anniversary of the
date of this Security Agreement, an Opinion of Counsel dated as of such date,
stating either that (i) in the opinion of such counsel all action has been taken
with respect to the recording, registering, filing, re-recording, re-registering
and refiling of all financing statements, continuation statements or other
instruments of further assurance as is necessary to perfect the Security
Interest and to maintain the Liens of the Security Documents and reciting the
details of such action, subject to customary assumptions and exclusions or (ii)
in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to maintain such
Liens, which Opinion of Counsel also shall state what actions it then believes
are necessary to maintain the effectiveness of such Liens during the next year,
subject to customary assumptions and exclusions.
ARTICLE 5. COLLATERAL AGENT APPOINTED ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
Each Grantor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent and any officer or agent
thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful agent and
attorney-in-fact for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Security
Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument that the Collateral
Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which
appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest, and without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, upon the occurrence and during the continuance
of an Acceleration Default the Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of the
Applicable Representative, and an Actionable Default, acting at the direction of
Majority Creditors, shall have the right, with power of substitution for such
Grantor and in such Grantor's name or otherwise, for the use and benefit of the
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, upon the occurrence and during
the continuance of a Default and at such other time or times permitted by the
Secured Debt Documents, (i) to receive, endorse, assign and/or deliver any and
all notes, acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of
payment relating to the Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf or any
part thereof; (ii) to demand, collect, receive payment of, give receipt for, and
give discharges and releases of, any of such Collateral; (iii) to sign the name
of such Grantor on any invoice or xxxx of lading relating to any of such
Collateral; (iv) to send verifications of Receivables owned or held by it or on
its behalf to any Account Debtor; (v) to commence and prosecute any and all
suits, actions or proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent
jurisdiction to collect or otherwise realize on any of the Collateral owned or
held by it or on its behalf or to enforce any rights in respect of any of such
Collateral; (vi) to settle, compromise, compound, adjust or defend any actions,
suits or proceedings relating to any of such Collateral; (vii) to notify, or to
require such Grantor to notify, Account Debtors and other obligors to make
payment directly to the Collateral Agent, and (viii) to use, sell, assign,
transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with any
of such Collateral, and to do all other acts and things necessary to carry out
the purposes of this Security Agreement, as fully and completely as though the
Collateral Agent were the absolute owner of such Collateral for all purposes;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring
o r obligating the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to make any
commitment or to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment
received by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party, or to present or
file any claim or notice, or to take any action with respect to any of the
Collateral or the moneys due or to become due in respect thereof or any property
covered thereby, and no action taken or omitted to be taken by the Collateral
Agent or any other Secured Party with respect to any of the Collateral shall
give rise to any defense, counterclaim or offset in favor of such Grantor or to
any claim or action against the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party. The
provisions of this Article shall in no event relieve any Grantor of any of its
obligations hereunder or under the other Secured Debt Documents with respect to
any of the Collateral or impose any obligation on the Collateral Agent or any
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Secured Party to proceed in any particular manner with respect to any of the
Collateral, or in any way limit the exercise by the Collateral Agent or any
other Secured Party of any other or further right that it may have on the date
of this Security Agreement or hereafter, whether hereunder, under any other
Secured Debt Document, by law or otherwise. Any sale pursuant to the provisions
of this paragraph shall be deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable
standards as provided in Section 9-504(3) of the UCC as in effect in the State
of New York or its equivalent in other jurisdictions (or any successor
provision, including those contained in Part 6 of Article 9 of the UCC).
ARTICLE 6. REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT
Section 6.1 Remedies Generally
(a) General Rights. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance
of a Default and the demand of the Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of
the Applicable Representative in the case an Acceleration Default, and Majority
Creditors, in the case of an Actionable Default, each Grantor agrees to deliver
each item of Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf to the Collateral
Agent on demand, and it is agreed that the Collateral Agent shall have the right
to take any of or all the following actions at the same or different times: (i)
with respect to any Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property or Commercial
Tort Claims, on demand, to cause the Security Interest to become an assignment,
transfer and conveyance of any such Collateral by the applicable Grantors to the
Collateral Agent, or, in the case of Intellectual Property, to license or
sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive
or non-exclusive basis, any such Collateral throughout the world on such terms
and conditions and in such manner as the Collateral Agent shall determine (other
than in violation of any then-existing licensing arrangements to the extent that
waivers cannot be obtained), and (ii) with or without legal process and with or
without prior notice or demand for performance, to take possession of the
Collateral owned or held by it or on its behalf and without liability for
trespass to enter any premises where such Collateral may be located for the
purpose of taking possession of or removing such Collateral and, generally, to
exercise any and all rights afforded to a secured party under the UCC or other
applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor
agrees that the Collateral Agent shall have the right, subject to the mandatory
requirements of applicable law, to sell or otherwise dispose of any of the
Collateral owned or held by or on behalf of such Grantor, at public or private
sale or at any broker's board or on any securities exchange, for cash, upon
credit or for future delivery as the Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate.
The Collateral Agent shall be irrevocably authorized at any such sale of such
Collateral constituting securities (if it deems it advisable to do so) to
restrict the prospective bidders or purchasers to Persons who will represent and
agree that they are purchasing such Collateral for their own account for
investment and not with a view to the distribution or sale thereof, and upon
consummation of any such sale, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to
assign, transfer and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof the
Collateral so sold. Each such purchaser at any such sale shall hold the property
sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of the applicable
Grantor, and such Grantor hereby waives (to the extent permitted by law) all
rights of redemption, stay, valuation and appraisal which such Grantor now has
or may at any time in the future have under any rule of law or statute now
existing or hereafter enacted.
(b) Sale of Collateral. The Collateral Agent shall give each Grantor
ten days' written notice (which such Grantor agrees is reasonable notice within
the meaning of Section 9-504(3) of the UCC as in effect in the State of New York
or its equivalent in other jurisdictions (or any successor provisions, including
those contained in Part 6 of Article 9 of the UCC)) of the Collateral Agent's
intention to make any sale of any of the Collateral owned or held by or on
behalf of such Grantor. Such notice, in the case of a public sale, shall state
the time and place for such sale and, in the case of a sale at
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a broker's board or on a securities exchange, shall state the board or exchange
at which such sale is to be made and the day on which such Collateral will first
be offered for sale at such board or exchange. Any such public sale shall be
held at such time or times within ordinary business hours and at such place or
places as the Collateral Agent may fix and state in the notice (if any) of such
sale. At any such sale, the Collateral to be sold may be sold in one lot as an
entirety or in separate parcels, as the Collateral Agent may (in its sole and
absolute discretion) determine. The Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to
make any sale of any Collateral if it shall determine not to do so, regardless
of the fact that notice of sale of such Collateral shall have been given. The
Collateral Agent may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or
private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement
at the time and place fixed for sale, and such sale may, without further notice,
be made at the time and place to which the same was so adjourned. In case any
sale of any of the Collateral is made on credit or for future delivery, the
Collateral so sold may be retained by the Collateral Agent until the sale price
is paid by the purchaser or purchasers thereof, but the Collateral Agent shall
not incur any liability in case any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to
take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in case of any such failure,
such Collateral may be sold again upon like notice. At any public (or, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, private) sale made pursuant to this Section,
any Secured Party may bid for or purchase, free (to the extent permitted by
applicable law) from any right of redemption, stay, valuation or appraisal on
the part of such Grantor (all said rights being also hereby waived and released
to the extent permitted by law), any of the Collateral offered for sale and may
make payment on account thereof by using any claim then due and payable to such
Secured Party from such Grantor as a credit against the purchase price, and such
Secured Party may, upon compliance with the terms of sale, hold, retain and
dispose of such property without further accountability to such Grantor
therefor. For purposes hereof, (i) a written agreement to purchase any of the
Collateral shall be treated as a sale thereof, (ii) the Collateral Agent shall
be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement, and (iii) no Grantor
shall be entitled to the return of any of the Collateral subject thereto,
notwithstanding the fact that after the Collateral Agent shall have entered into
such an agreement all Defaults shall have been remedied and the Obligations paid
in full. As an alternative to exercising the power of sale herein conferred upon
it, the Collateral Agent may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to
foreclose upon any of the Collateral and to sell any of the Collateral pursuant
to a judgment or decree of a court or courts having competent jurisdiction or
pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed receiver. Any sale pursuant to the
provisions of this Article shall be deemed to conform to the commercially
reasonable standards as provided in Section 9-504(3) of the UCC as in effect in
the State of New York or its equivalent in other jurisdictions (or any successor
provisions, including those contained in Part 6 of Article 9 of the UCC).
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor agrees as
follows: (A) if the proceeds of any sale of the Collateral owned or held by it
or on its behalf pursuant to this Article are insufficient to pay all the
Obligations, it shall be liable for the resulting deficiency and the fees,
charges and disbursements of any counsel employed by the Collateral Agent or any
other Secured Party to collect such deficiency, (B) it hereby waives any claims
against the Collateral Agent arising by reason of the fact that the price at
which any such Collateral may have been sold at any private sale pursuant to
this Article was less than the price that might have been obtained at a public
sale, even if the Collateral Agent accepts the first offer received and does not
offer such Collateral to more than one offeree, (C) there is no adequate remedy
at law for failure by it to comply with the provisions of this Section and that
such failure would not be adequately compensible in damages, and therefore
agrees that its agreements in this Section may be specifically enforced, (D) the
Collateral Agent may sell any such Collateral without giving any warranties as
to such Collateral, and the Collateral Agent may specifically disclaim any
warranties of title or the like, and (E) the Collateral Agent shall have no
obligation to xxxxxxxx any such Collateral.
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(c) FCC Licenses. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in any Secured Debt Document or in any other agreement, instrument or document
executed by any Grantor and delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral
Agent will not take any action pursuant to any Secured Debt Document or any
other document referred to above which would constitute or result in any
assignment of any FCC Licenses or, to the extent failure to obtain such approval
could reasonably be expected to have or cause a Material Adverse Effect, from
any other applicable Governmental Authority, or any change of control (whether
de jure or de facto) of such Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries if such
assignment of any such FCC Licenses or change of control would require, under
then existing law, the prior approval of the FCC or, to the extent failure to
obtain such approval could reasonably be expected to have or cause a Material
Adverse Effect, from any other applicable Governmental Authority, without first
obtaining such prior approval of the FCC or such other Governmental Authority.
(d) Upon the occurrence of a Default or at any time thereafter
during the continuance thereof, such Grantor agrees to take any action which the
Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative, in
the case of an Acceleration Default, or Majority Creditors, in the case of an
Actionable Default, may reasonably request in order to obtain from the FCC or
any other Governmental Authority such approval as may be necessary to enable the
Collateral Agent to exercise and enjoy the full rights and benefits granted to
the Collateral Agent by this Security Agreement and the other documents referred
to above, including specifically, at the cost and expense of such Grantor, the
use of commercially reasonable efforts to assist in obtaining approval of the
FCC or such other Governmental Authority for any action or transaction
contemplated by this Security Agreement for which such approval is or shall be
required by law, and specifically, without limitation, upon request, to prepare,
sign and file with the FCC or such other Governmental Authority the assignor's
or transferor's portion of any application or applications for consent to the
assignment of license, FCC Licenses or transfer of control necessary or
appropriate under the FCC's or such other Governmental Authority's rules and
regulations for approval of (i) any sale or other disposition of the Pledged
Stock by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent, or (ii) any assumption by the
Collateral Agent of voting rights in the Pledged Stock effected in accordance
with the terms of this Security Agreement. It is understood and agreed that all
foreclosure and related actions will be made in accordance with the
Communications Act and applicable regulations and published policies and
decisions of the FCC, and the statutes, regulations and published policies and
decisions enforced by such other Governmental Authorities pertaining to such
foreclosure and related actions.
Section 6.2 Pledged Stock
In view of the position of each Grantor in relation to the Pledged
Stock or because of other current or future circumstances, a question may arise
under the Securities Act of 1933, as now or hereafter in effect, or any similar
statute hereafter enacted analogous in purpose or effect (such Act and any such
similar statute as from time to time in effect being called the "Federal
securities laws") with respect to any disposition of the Pledged Stock permitted
hereunder. Each Grantor understands that compliance with the Federal securities
laws might very strictly limit the course of conduct of the Collateral Agent if
the Collateral Agent were to attempt to dispose of all or any part of the
Pledged Stock, and might also limit the extent to which or the manner in which
any subsequent transferee of any Pledged Stock could dispose of the same.
Similarly, there may be other legal restrictions or limitations affecting the
Collateral Agent in any attempt to dispose of all or part of the Pledged Stock
under applicable Blue Sky or other state securities laws or similar laws
analogous in purpose or effect. Each Grantor recognizes that in light of such
restrictions and limitations the Collateral Agent may, with respect to any sale
of the Pledged Stock, limit the purchasers to those who will agree, among other
things, to acquire such Pledged Stock for their own account, for investment, and
not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Grantor acknowledges
and agrees that in light of such restrictions and limitations, the Collateral
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Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, (i) may proceed to make such a sale
whether or not a registration statement for the purpose of registering such
Pledged Stock, or any part thereof, shall have been filed under the Federal
securities laws and (ii) may approach and negotiate with a single potential
purchaser to effect such sale. Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that any
such sale might result in prices and other terms less favorable to the seller
than if such sale were a public sale without such restrictions. In the event of
any such sale, the Collateral Agent shall incur no responsibility or liability
for selling all or any part of the Pledged Stock at a price that the Collateral
Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, may in good xxxxx xxxx reasonable
under the circumstances, notwithstanding the possibility that a substantially
higher price might have been realized if the sale were deferred until after
registration as aforesaid or if more than a single purchaser were approached.
The provisions of this Section will apply notwithstanding the existence of a
public or private market upon which the quotations or sales prices may exceed
substantially the price at which the Collateral Agent sells any such Pledged
Stock.
Section 6.3 Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property
For the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise rights
and remedies under this Article, at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be
lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each Grantor hereby
grants to the Collateral Agent an irrevocable, non-exclusive license
(exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to such Grantor)
to use, license or sub-license any of the Collateral consisting of Intellectual
Property now owned or held or hereafter acquired or held by or on behalf of such
Grantor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license
reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be
recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the
compilation or printout thereof. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation
of a Default, the use of such license by the Collateral Agent shall be exercised
by the Collateral Agent at the direction of the Applicable Representative, in
the case of an Acceleration Default, and Majority Creditors, in the case of an
Actionable Default; provided that any license, sub-license or other transaction
entered into by the Collateral Agent in accordance herewith shall be binding
upon such Grantor notwithstanding any subsequent cure of a Default. Any
royalties and other payments received by the Collateral Agent shall be applied
in accordance with the Collateral Agent Agreement.
Section 6.4 Registration, etc.
Each Grantor agrees that, upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of a Default, if for any reason the Collateral Agent desires to sell
any of the Investment Property owned or held by or on behalf of such Grantor at
a public sale, it will, at any time and from time to time, upon the written
request of the Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of the Applicable
Representative, in the case of an Acceleration Default, and Majority Creditors,
in the case of an Actionable Default, use its best efforts to take or to cause,
where applicable, the issuer of such Investment Property to take such action and
prepare, distribute and/or file such documents, as are required or advisable in
the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Collateral Agent to permit the public
sale of such Investment Property. Each Grantor further agrees to indemnify,
defend and hold harmless the Collateral Agent, each other Secured Party, any
underwriter and their respective officers, directors, affiliates and controlling
Persons from and against all loss, liability, expenses, costs of counsel
(including reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), and claims (including
the costs of investigation) that they may incur, insofar as such loss,
liability, expense or claim, as applicable, relates to such Grantor or any of
its property, and arises out of or is based upon any alleged untrue statement of
a material fact contained in any prospectus (or any amendment or supplement
thereto) or in any notification or offering circular, or arises out of or is
based upon any alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements in any thereof not
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misleading, except insofar as the same may have been caused by any untrue
statement or omission based upon information furnished in writing to such
Grantor or the issuer of such Investment Property, as applicable, by the
Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party expressly for use therein. Each
Grantor further agrees, upon such written request referred to above, to use its
best efforts to qualify, file or register, or cause, where applicable, the
issuer of such Investment Property to qualify, file or register, any of the
Investment Property owned or held by or on behalf of such Grantor under the Blue
Sky or other securities laws of such states as are necessary or appropriate
under the circumstances and keep effective, or cause to be kept effective, all
such qualifications, filings or registrations. Each Grantor will bear all costs
and expenses of carrying out its obligations under this Section. Each Grantor
acknowledges that there is no adequate remedy at law for failure by it to comply
with the provisions of this Section and that such failure would not be
adequately compensable in damages, and therefore agrees that its agreements
contained in this Section may be specifically enforced.
Section 6.5 Cash Proceeds
In addition to the rights of the Collateral Agent specified in
Section 3.3 with respect to payments of Receivables, if directed by the
Collateral Agent acting at the direction of (i) the Applicable Representative
upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Acceleration Default or
(ii) Majority Creditors upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Actionable Default, all proceeds of any Collateral received by any Grantor
consisting of cash, checks and other near-cash items shall be held by such
Grantor in trust for the Collateral Agent, segregated from other funds of such
Grantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Grantor, be turned over to
the Collateral Agent in the exact form received by such Grantor (duly indorsed
by such Grantor to the Collateral Agent, if required) for application to the
Obligations.
Section 6.6 Application of Proceeds
All proceeds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of any
sale, any collection from, or other realization upon all or any part of the
Collateral shall be applied as provided in the Collateral Agent Agreement.
ARTICLE 7. THE COLLATERAL AGENT
The Collateral Agent has been appointed to act as Collateral Agent
hereunder pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Agent Agreement. The duties,
powers, rights, limitations of liability, the standard of care, the disclaimers
and indemnifications in favor of the Collateral Agent are set forth in the
Collateral Agent Agreement, the provisions for which are incorporated herein as
if fully set forth herein. In the event of a conflict between any of the
provisions of this Security Agreement and any of the provisions of the
Collateral Agent Agreement, the provisions of the Collateral Agent Agreement
shall control.
ARTICLE 8. SECURITY INTEREST ABSOLUTE
All rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder, the Security Interest
and all obligations of each Grantor hereunder shall be absolute and
unconditional irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any
Secured Debt Document, any agreement with respect to any of the Obligations, or
any other agreement or instrument relating to any of the foregoing, (ii) any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all
or any of the Obligations, or any other waiver, amendment, supplement or other
modification of, or any consent to any departure from, any Secured Debt
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Document or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of the foregoing,
(iii) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Lien on any other
collateral, or any release or waiver, amendment, supplement or other
modification of, or consent under, or departure from, any guaranty, securing or
guaranteeing all or any of the Obligations, or (iv) any other circumstance that
might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any
Grantor in respect of the Obligations or in respect of this Security Agreement
or any other Secured Debt Document.
ARTICLE 9. TERMINATION; RELEASE
This Security Agreement and the Security Interest shall terminate at
such time as the Collateral Agent releases the Security Interest pursuant to the
provisions of Section 8.1 of the Collateral Agent Agreement. All releases of
Collateral shall be subject to the provisions of Article 8 of the Collateral
Agent Agreement. In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this
Section, the Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver to the applicable
Grantor, at such Grantor's own cost and expense, all UCC termination statements
and similar documents that such Grantor may reasonably request to evidence such
termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this
Article shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Collateral Agent or any
other Secured Party.
ARTICLE 10. STANDARD OF CARE; COLLATERAL AGENT MAY PERFORM
The powers conferred on the Collateral Agent hereunder are solely to
protect its interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon it to
exercise any such powers. Except for the exercise of reasonable care in the
custody of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys
actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to
any Collateral or as to the taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights
against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral. The
Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the
custody and preservation of Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is
accorded treatment substantially equal to that which the Collateral Agent
accords its own property. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any Related Party
shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon all or any part
of the Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation
to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any Grantor
or otherwise. If any Grantor fails to perform any agreement contained herein,
the Collateral Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, itself perform, or
cause performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of the Collateral Agent
incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by each Grantor as an
additional Obligation secured by the Collateral.
ARTICLE 11. INDEMNITY AND EXPENSES
Section 11.1 Indemnification
Each Grantor agrees:
(a) to defend (subject to the Indemnitees' selection of counsel),
indemnify, pay and hold harmless each Indemnitee, from and against any and all
claims, losses and liabilities in any way relating to, growing out of or
resulting from this Security Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby
(including without limitation enforcement of this Security Agreement), except to
the extent such claims, losses or liabilities result from such Indemnitee's
gross negligence or willful misconduct; and
(b) to pay to the Collateral Agent promptly following written demand
therefor, all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the
Collateral Agent, including the reasonable
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fees and expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, in connection
with (i) the administration of the Security Documents, any workout,
restructuring or negotiations in respect of the Secured Debt Documents and any
amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not
the transactions contemplated thereby shall be consummated) and (ii) the
enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with the Security
Documents, including its rights under this Section.
Section 11.2 Survival
The obligations of each Grantor in this Article 11 shall survive the
resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent and the termination of this
Security Agreement and the discharge of such Grantor's other obligations under
this Security Agreement and the Secured Debt Documents.
ARTICLE 12. NOTICES
All notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in
writing and given as provided in Section 10.2 of the Collateral Agent Agreement.
ARTICLE 13. ADDITIONAL GRANTORS
Upon execution and delivery after the date hereof by the Collateral
Agent and a Subsidiary of a Supplement, such Subsidiary shall become a Grantor
hereunder and under the Collateral Agent Agreement with the same force and
effect as if originally named as a Grantor herein and therein (each an
"Additional Grantor"). The execution and delivery of any Supplement shall not
require the consent of any other Grantor. The rights and obligations of each
Grantor hereunder and under the other Secured Debt Documents shall remain in
full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any Additional Grantor as
a party to this Security Agreement and the Collateral Agent Agreement.
ARTICLE 14. BINDING EFFECT; SEVERAL AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS
Whenever in this Security Agreement any of the parties hereto is
referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the successors and
assigns of such party, and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on
behalf of any Grantor that are contained in this Security Agreement shall bind
and inure to the benefit of each party hereto and its successors and assigns.
This Security Agreement shall become effective as to the Grantors at such time
as the Credit Agreement and the Indentures have become effective and when a
counterpart hereof executed on behalf of the Grantors shall have been delivered
to the Collateral Agent and a counterpart hereof shall have been executed on
behalf of the Collateral Agent, and thereafter shall be binding upon the
Grantors and the Collateral Agent and their respective successors and assigns,
and shall inure to the benefit of the Grantors, the Collateral Agent and the
other Secured Parties, and their respective successors and assigns, except that
no Grantor shall have the right to assign its rights or obligations hereunder or
any interest herein or in any of the Collateral (and any such attempted
assignment shall be void), except as expressly contemplated by this Security
Agreement. This Security Agreement shall be construed as a separate agreement
with respect to each of the Grantors and may be amended, supplemented, waived or
otherwise modified or released with respect to any Grantor without the approval
of any other Grantor and without affecting the obligations of any other Grantor
hereunder.
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ARTICLE 15. SURVIVAL OF AGREEMENT; SEVERABILITY
All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by
the Grantors herein and in the certificates or other instruments prepared or
delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Security Agreement shall be
considered to have been relied upon by the Collateral Agent and the other
Secured Parties and shall survive the execution and delivery hereof regardless
of any investigation made by the Secured Parties or on their behalf, and shall
continue in full force and effect until this Security Agreement shall terminate.
In the event any one or more of the provisions contained in this Security
Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained
herein or therein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby (it being
understood that the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular
jurisdiction shall not in and of itself affect the validity of such provision in
any other jurisdiction). The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations
to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid
provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of
the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
ARTICLE 16. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
This Security Agreement may not be amended, revised, restated or
supplemented (other than by a Supplement) or any provision hereof waived without
the prior written consent of AWHI, acting for itself and each other Grantor, and
the Collateral Agent, acting with the consent of Majority Creditors.
ARTICLE 17. GOVERNING LAW
THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO
APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF
THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
ARTICLE 18. COUNTERPARTS
This Security Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by
different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which, when taken together, shall constitute
but one contract (subject to Article 14), and shall become effective as provided
in Article 14. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Security Agreement by
facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Security Agreement.
ARTICLE 19. HEADINGS
Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein
are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Security Agreement
and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in
interpreting, this Security Agreement.
ARTICLE 20. JURISDICTION; VENUE; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS
Each Grantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for
itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State
court or Federal court of the United States of
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America sitting in New York City, and any appellate court thereof, in any action
or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Security Agreement or the other
Secured Debt Documents, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and
each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that,
to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims in respect of any such
action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court
or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, in such Federal court. Each of
the parties hereto 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 shall affect any right that the Collateral Agent or any other Secured
Party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this
Security Agreement or the other Secured Debt Documents against such Grantor or
any of its property in the courts of any jurisdiction. Each of the parties
hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it
may legally and effectively do so, any objection that 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 the other Secured Debt Documents in any
foregoing court referred to in this Article. Each of the parties hereto hereby
irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the
defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding
in any such court. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to service of
process in the manner provided for notices in Article 12. Nothing in this
Security Agreement will affect the right of any party hereto to serve process in
any other manner permitted by law.
ARTICLE 21. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY 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 SECURITY AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HERETO (I) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE,
AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HERETO HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR
OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO
ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (II) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES
HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS ARTICLE.
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ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
SECURITY AGREEMENT
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this
Security Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
ARCH WIRELESS, INC.
ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
ARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
ARCH CONNECTICUT VALLEY, INC.
ARCH COMMUNICATIONS ENTERPRISES, LLC
ARCHTEL, INC.
MOBILEMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
MOBILEMEDIA LICENSE CO., L.L.C.
XXXXXX INVESTMENTS, INC.
PAGING NETWORK, INC.
PAGENET, INC.
PAGING NETWORK FINANCE CORP.
PAGING NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF AMERICA, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF COLORADO, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF MICHIGAN, INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA,
INC.
PAGING NETWORK OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC.
PAGING NETWORK CANADIAN HOLDINGS, INC.
PAGENET SMR SUB, INC.
AS TO EACH OF THE FOREGOING
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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ARCH WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
SECURITY AGREEMENT
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as
Collateral Agent
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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