INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT 10.7
EXECUTION VERSION
This INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), is dated as of June 27, 2008, and entered into by
and among DURA OPERATING CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), DURA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS,
INC., (f/k/a New Dura, Inc.) a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), certain SUBSIDIARIES OF PARENT AND
COMPANY, as Guarantors, WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, in its capacity as administrative agent for the
holders of the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations (as defined below), including its permitted
successors and assigns from time to time (the “Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent”), and as
collateral agent for the holders of the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, including its permitted
successors and assigns from time to time (the “Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent”) and GENERAL
ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION (“GECC”), in its capacity as administrative agent for the holders of
the Revolving Credit Obligations (as defined below), including its permitted successors and assigns
from time to time (the “Revolving Administrative Agent”) and as collateral agent for the holders of
the Revolving Credit Obligations, including its permitted successors and assigns from time to time
(the “Revolving Collateral Agent”). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement have the meanings
assigned to them in Section 1 below or, if not otherwise defined, the Revolving Credit Facility
Credit Documents or the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, as applicable (each such term is
defined below).
RECITALS
The Company, Parent, the Guarantors, the lenders and agents party thereto, the Second Lien
Term Loan Administrative Agent, and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent have entered into
that certain Term Loan and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, providing a term loan
facility to the Company (as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, replaced or refinanced from
time to time, the “Second Lien Term Loan Agreement”);
The Company, Parent, the Guarantors, the lenders and agents party thereto, the Revolving
Administrative Agent, the Revolving Collateral Agent, Wachovia Bank, National Association, as
syndication agent, and Bank of America, N.A. as documentation agent and issuing lender, have
entered into that certain Senior Secured Revolving Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of the
date hereof, providing a revolving credit and letter of credit facility to the Company (as amended,
restated, supplemented, modified, replaced or refinanced from time to time, the “Revolving Credit
Agreement”);
Pursuant to (i) the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement, the Guarantors have agreed to guaranty
(the “Second Lien Term Loan Guaranty”) the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations; (ii) the Second Lien
Term Loan Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors have agreed to cause certain future Domestic
Subsidiaries to agree to guaranty the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations pursuant to the Second Lien
Term Loan Guaranty; (iii) the Revolving Credit Agreement, the Guarantors have agreed to guaranty
(the “Revolving Credit Guaranty”) the Revolving Credit Obligations; and (iv) the Revolving Credit
Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors have agreed to cause certain future Domestic Subsidiaries
to agree to guaranty the Revolving Credit Obligations pursuant to the Revolving Credit Guaranty;
and
In order to induce the Revolving Administrative Agent, the Revolving Collateral Agent and the
Revolving Credit Lenders to enter into the Revolving Credit Agreement and in order to induce the
Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the
Second Lien Term Loan Lenders to enter into the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement, the Revolving
Collateral Agent, the Revolving Administrative Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent have agreed to the relative priority of
their respective Liens on the Collateral and certain other rights, priorities and interests as set
forth in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
In consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and obligations herein set forth and
for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Definitions.
1.1. Defined Terms. As used in the Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“Affiliate” means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person. For the purposes of this
definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling”, “controlled
by” and “under common control with”), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power (i) to vote 10% or more of the Securities having ordinary voting power for
the election of directors of such Person or (ii) to direct or cause the direction of the management
and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or
otherwise.
“Agents” means the Revolving Collateral Agent and/or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent, and “Agent” means either of the two Agents.
“Agreement” means this Intercreditor Agreement, as amended, restated, renewed, extended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Approved Counterparty” means, collectively, each Revolving Credit Facility Approved
Counterparty and each Second Lien Term Loan Approved Counterparty.
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy”, as now and
hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.
“Bankruptcy Law” means each of the Bankruptcy Code, any similar federal, state or foreign
laws, rules or regulations for the relief of debtors or any reorganization, insolvency, moratorium
or assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the assets and liabilities
of any Person and any similar laws, rules or regulations relating to or affecting the enforcement
of creditors’ rights generally.
“Business Day” means 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 authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.
“Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests
in a Person (other than a corporation), including, without limitation, partnership interests and
membership interests, and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase or other arrangements
or rights to acquire any of the foregoing.
“Cash Management Document” means any certificate, agreement or other document executed by any
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Party in respect of the Cash Management Obligations of such Credit
Party.
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“Cash Management Obligation” means, as applied to any Person, any direct or indirect
liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of cash management services
(including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and
other cash management arrangements) provided by any Revolving Credit Facility Approved Counterparty
(regardless of whether these or similar services were provided prior to the date hereof by such
Approved Counterparty), including obligations for the payment of fees, interest, charges, expenses,
attorneys’ fees and disbursements in connection therewith.
“Claimholder” means, collectively, the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Second Lien Term
Loan Claimholders.
“Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any Grantor, whether real, personal or
mixed, constituting either Revolving Credit Facility Collateral or Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral.
“Collateral Agents” means, collectively, the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Second Lien
Term Loan Collateral Agent.
“Collateral Enforcement Action” means, collectively or individually for one or both of the
Revolving Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, when a Revolving Credit
Facility Default or Second Lien Term Loan Default, as the case may be, has occurred and is
continuing, whether or not in consultation with any other Agent, to repossess or join any Person in
repossessing, or exercise or join any Person in exercising, or institute or maintain or participate
in any action or proceeding with respect to, any remedies with respect to any Collateral or
commence the judicial enforcement of any of the rights and remedies against the Collateral under
the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or under
any applicable law, but in all cases (i) including, without limitation, (a) instituting or
maintaining, or joining any Person in instituting or maintaining, any enforcement, contest,
protest, attachment, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding with respect
to any Collateral, whether under any Credit Document or otherwise, (b) exercising any right of
set-off with respect to any Credit Party, (c) exercising any right or remedy under any Deposit
Account Control Agreement, Securities Account Control Agreement (in each case as defined in the
Revolving Credit Agreement), landlord access agreement, bailee’s letter or similar agreement or
arrangement or (d) causing (or, after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Revolving
Credit Facility Default or Second Lien Term Loan Default, as the case may be, consenting to or
requesting) any sale or other disposition of any Collateral, and (ii) excluding the imposition of a
default rate or late fee.
“Commodity Swap Agreement” means any commodity or fuel exchange contract, futures contract,
option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is for the
purpose of hedging Parent’s and its Subsidiaries’ exposure to fluctuations in prices for
commodities or fuel and not for speculative purposes.
“Company” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble to this Agreement.
“Contingent Obligations” means at any time, any indemnification or other similar contingent
obligations which are not then due and owing at the time of determination.
“Credit Documents” means, collectively, the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and the
Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents.
“Credit Agreements” means, collectively, the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement and the Revolving
Credit Agreement.
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“Credit Party” means each Revolving Credit Facility Credit Party and each Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Party.
“Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures
contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which
is for the purpose of hedging the foreign currency risk associated with Parent’s and its
Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.
“Deposit Account” as defined in the UCC.
“Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations” means, except to the extent otherwise expressly
provided in Section 5.5:
(a) payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest on all Indebtedness outstanding
under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and constituting Revolving Credit Obligations;
(b) payment in full in cash of all other Revolving Credit Obligations that are due and payable
or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid (other
than any indemnification obligations for which no claim or demand for payment, whether oral or
written, has been made at such time);
(c) termination or expiration of all commitments, if any, to extend credit that would
constitute Revolving Credit Obligations; and
(d) termination of all letters of credit issued under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit
Documents and constituting Revolving Credit Obligations or providing cash collateral or backstop
letters of credit acceptable to the Revolving Administrative Agent in an amount equal to 105% of
the applicable outstanding reimbursement obligation (in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the
Revolving Administrative Agent).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the receipt of the distributions provided for under a plan of
reorganization approved by the Revolving Credit Claimholders shall be deemed a Discharge of
Revolving Credit Obligations.
“Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations” means, except to the extent otherwise
expressly provided in Section 5.5:
(a) payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest on all Indebtedness outstanding
under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents and constituting Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations;
(b) payment in full in cash of all other Second Lien Term Loan Obligations that are due and
payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid
(other than any indemnification obligations for which no claim or demand for payment, whether
oral or written, has been made at such time); and
(c) termination or expiration of all commitments, if any, to extend credit that would
constitute Second Lien Term Loan Obligations.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the receipt of the distributions provided for under a plan of
reorganization approved by the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders shall be deemed a Discharge of
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations.
“Disposition” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 5.1(b).
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of Parent organized under the laws of the United
States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of Parent that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, national or other government,
governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or political
subdivision thereof or any entity or officer exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government or any court, in each
case whether associated with a state of the United States, the United States, or a foreign entity
or government.
“Grantors” means the Company, Parent, each of the Guarantor Subsidiaries and each other Person
that has or may from time to time hereafter execute and deliver a Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Document or a Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Document as a “grantor” or “pledgor” (or the
equivalent thereof).
“Guarantor Subsidiary” means each Guarantor other than Parent.
“Hedge Agreement” means a Swap Contract entered into with a Revolving Credit Facility Approved
Counterparty or a Second Lien Term Loan Approved Counterparty.
“Hedging Obligation” of any Person means any obligation of such Person pursuant to any Hedge
Agreements.
“Indebtedness” means and includes all Obligations that constitute “Indebtedness” within the
meaning of the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement or the Revolving Credit Agreement, as applicable.
“Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding” means:
(a) any voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other
Bankruptcy Law with respect to any Grantor;
(b) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization, winding-up or bankruptcy
case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding with respect to any Grantor or with respect to a material portion of their respective
assets (other than any merger or consolidation, liquidation, windup or dissolution not involving
bankruptcy that is expressly permitted pursuant to Section 6.9 of each Credit Agreement);
(c) any liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or winding up of any Grantor whether
voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy (other than any
merger or consolidation, liquidation, windup or dissolution not involving bankruptcy that is expressly
permitted pursuant to Section 6.9 of each Credit Agreement);
(d) any case or proceeding seeking arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief or composition
of any debt or other property of any Grantor;
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(e) any case or proceeding seeking the entry of an order of relief or the appointment of a
custodian, receiver, trustee or other similar proceeding with respect to any Grantor or any
property or Indebtedness of any Grantor; or
(f) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and
liabilities of any Grantor.
“Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement,
interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or
arrangement, each of which is for the purpose of hedging the interest rate exposure associated with
Parent’s and its Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.
“Joint Venture” means a joint venture, partnership or other similar arrangement, whether in
corporate, partnership or other legal form; provided, in no event shall any corporate
Subsidiary of any Person be considered to be a Joint Venture to which such Person is a party.
“Lender” means each Second Lien Term Loan Lender and each Revolving Credit Lender.
“Lien” means any lien, mortgage, pledge, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind
(including any agreement to give any of the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, and any lease in the nature thereof) and any option, trust or other
preferential arrangement having the practical effect of any of the foregoing.
“New Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 5.5.
“New Debt Notice” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 5.5.
“Obligations” means all obligations of every nature of each Grantor from time to time owed to
any agent or trustee, the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, the Revolving Credit Claimholders or
any of them or their respective Affiliates under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, the
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or Hedge Agreements, whether for principal, interest or
payments for early termination of Interest Rate Agreements, fees, expenses (including reasonable
attorney fees and expenses), indemnification or otherwise and all guarantees of any of the
foregoing.
“Parent” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
“Person” means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited partnerships, general
partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies,
Joint Ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts, business
trusts or other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and Governmental Authorities.
“Pledged Collateral” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4.
“Proceeds” as defined in the UCC.
“Recovery” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1.
“Refinance” means, in respect of any Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, defease,
amend, amend and restate, modify, supplement, restructure, replace, refund or repay, or to issue
other
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indebtedness, in exchange or replacement for, such Indebtedness in whole or in part.
“Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.
“Revolving Administrative Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble of this
Agreement.
“Revolving Collateral Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble of this
Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Agent” means any of the Revolving Administrative Agent and the Revolving
Collateral Agent.
“Revolving Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this
Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of Revolving Credit
Obligations at that time, including the Revolving Credit Lenders, the Issuing Banks (as defined in
the Revolving Credit Agreement) and the agents under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
and any Revolving Credit Facility Approved Counterparties.
“Revolving Credit Facility Approved Counterparty” has the meaning given to the term “Lender
Counterparty” in the Revolving Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Facility Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any Grantor,
whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any
Revolving Credit Obligations.
“Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Documents” means the Collateral Documents (as defined in
the Revolving Credit Agreement) and any other agreement, document or instrument pursuant to which a
Lien is granted securing any Revolving Credit Obligations or under which rights or remedies with
respect to such Liens are governed.
“Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents” means the Revolving Credit Agreement and the
Credit Documents (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), each Cash Management Document,
each Hedge Agreement and each of the other agreements, documents and instruments providing for or
evidencing any other Revolving Credit Obligation, and any other document or instrument executed or
delivered at any time in connection with any Revolving Credit Obligations, including any
intercreditor or joinder agreement among holders of Revolving Credit Obligations to the extent such
are effective at the relevant time, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified,
renewed or extended from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Facility Credit Party” means “Credit Party” as defined in the Revolving
Credit Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Facility Default” means an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Revolving
Credit Agreement).
“Revolving Credit Guaranty” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this
Agreement.
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“Revolving Credit Lenders” means the “Lenders” under and as defined in the Revolving Credit
Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Obligations” means all Obligations outstanding under the Revolving Credit
Agreement and the other Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, including Cash Management
Documents and Hedge Agreements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount of
Indebtedness (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) constituting principal outstanding
under the Revolving Credit Agreement and the other Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
(other than Indebtedness in respect of Cash Management Obligations and Hedging Obligations) plus
(y) the aggregate face amount of any outstanding letters of credit issued under the Revolving
Credit Agreement, exceeds the sum of (A) the lesser of (I) $127,000,000 and (II) 115% of the sum of
(a) 85% of Adjusted Eligible Receivables, (b) the least of (i) 85% of the Net Orderly Liquidation
Value Percentage of Eligible Inventory, (ii) 65% of Eligible Inventory (valued at the lower of cost
and market on a first in, first out basis), and (iii) the Inventory Cap, plus (c) the
lesser of (i) the sum of (x) 50% of the Appraised Value of Eligible Real Estate Assets, (y) 85% of
the Appraised Value of Eligible Equipment and (z) 75% of the Appraised Value of Eligible Aircraft,
and (ii) the Fixed Asset Cap (as such term and each other capitalized term used in this sub-clause
(A)(II) is defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof) plus (B) the
amount of Protective Advances (as defined in and not exceeding the maximum amount permitted by the
Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof) outstanding at such time, (the
“Revolving Credit Facility Cap Amount”), then only that portion of such Indebtedness (as defined in
the Revolving Credit Agreement) and such aggregate face amount of letters of credit equal to the
Revolving Credit Facility Cap Amount plus Indebtedness in respect of Cash Management Obligations
and Hedging Obligations shall be included in Revolving Credit Obligations and interest, fees,
expenses and indemnification obligations with respect to such Indebtedness (as defined in the
Revolving Credit Agreement), letters of credit and Cash Management Obligations and Hedging
Obligations shall only constitute Revolving Credit Obligations to the extent related to
Indebtedness (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), face amounts of letters of credit,
Cash Management Obligations and Hedging Obligations included in the Revolving Credit Obligations.
“Revolving Credit Priority Collateral” means all Collateral other than the Second Lien Term
Loan Priority Collateral; provided, however, that to the extent that identifiable
Proceeds of Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral are deposited or held in any Deposit Account
or Securities Account that constitutes Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, then (as provided in
Section 3.3 below) such Collateral or other identifiable Proceeds shall be treated as Second Lien
Term Loan Priority Collateral for purposes of this Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Standstill Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a)(1).
“Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent” means the “Administrative Agent” under and as
defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents.
“Second Lien Term Loan Agent” means each of the Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent and
the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent.
“Second Lien Term Loan Agreement” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to
this Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Approved Counterparty” has the meaning given to the term “Lender
Counterparty” in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement.
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“Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders” means, at any relevant time, the holders of Second Lien
Term Loan Obligations at that time, including the Second Lien Term Loan Lenders and the agents
under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents and any Second Lien Term Loan Approved
Counterparties.
“Second Lien Term Loan Collateral” means all of the assets and property of any Grantor,
whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any Second
Lien Term Loan Obligations.
“Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Preamble
to this Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents” means the Collateral Documents (as defined in the
Second Lien Term Loan Agreement) and any other agreement, document or instrument pursuant to which
a Lien is granted securing any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or under which rights or remedies
with respect to such Liens are governed.
“Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents” means the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement and the
Credit Documents (as defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement), each Hedge Agreement and each
of the other agreements, documents and instruments providing for or evidencing any other Second
Lien Term Loan Obligation, and any other document or instrument executed or delivered at any time
in connection with any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, including any intercreditor or joinder
agreement among holders of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, to the extent such are effective at
the relevant time, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed or extended
from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Credit Party” means “Credit Party” as defined in the Second Lien Term
Loan Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Default” means an “Event of Default” (as defined in the Second Lien
Term Loan Agreement).
“Second Lien Term Loan Guaranty” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this
Agreement.
“Second Lien Term Loan Lenders” means the “Lenders” under and as defined in the Second Lien
Term Loan Credit Documents.
“Second Lien Term Loan Obligations” means all Obligations outstanding under the Second Lien
Term Loan Agreement and the other Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, including Hedge
Agreements.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness (as defined
in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement) constituting principal outstanding under the Second Lien
Term Loan Agreement and the other Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents (other than Hedge
Agreements) is in excess of the sum of (A) $115,000,000 plus (B) the aggregate amount of
interest capitalized as principal pursuant to the terms of the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement, in
the aggregate (the “Second Lien Term Loan Cap Amount”), then only that portion of such Indebtedness
(as defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement) equal to the Second Lien Term Loan Cap Amount
plus Indebtedness in respect of Hedging Obligations shall be included in Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations and interest, fees, expenses and indemnification obligations with respect to such
Indebtedness (as defined
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in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement) and Hedging Obligations shall only
constitute Second Lien Term Loan Obligations to the extent related to Indebtedness (as defined
in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement) and Hedging Obligations included in the Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations.
“Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral” means, collectively, that portion of the
Collateral now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by any Credit Party or in which any Credit
Party now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest, consisting of
(i) Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary and, (ii) intercompany Indebtedness (whether or not
evidenced by a promissory note) owed by any Foreign Subsidiary to any Credit Party.
“Second Lien Term Loan Standstill Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a)(1).
“Securities” means any stock, shares, partnership interests, voting trust certificates,
certificates of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement or arrangement, options,
warrants, bonds, debentures, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, secured or unsecured,
convertible, subordinated or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as
“securities” or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in temporary or interim
certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire,
any of the foregoing.
“Securities Accounts” as defined in the UCC.
“Swap Contracts” means collectively, each Interest Rate Agreement, each Currency Agreement and
each Commodity Swap Agreement.
“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of
New York; provided, however, that, in the event that, by reason of mandatory
provisions of law, any of the attachment, perfection or priority of any Collateral Agent’s or any
secured party’s security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as
in effect from time to time in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC”
shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the
provisions hereof relating to such attachment, perfection or priority and for purposes of
definitions related to such provisions.
1.2. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms in this Agreement shall apply equally
to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any
pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,”
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the
context requires otherwise:
(a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall
be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time
amended, restated, supplemented, modified, renewed or extended;
(b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s permitted
successors and assigns;
(c) the words “herein,” “hereof’ and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be
construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof;
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(d) all references herein to Sections shall be construed to refer to Sections of this
Agreement;
(e) all references to terms defined in the UCC in effect in the State of New York shall have
the meaning ascribed to them therein (unless otherwise specifically defined herein); and
(f) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect
and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash,
securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 2. Lien Priorities.
2.1. Relative Priorities. Notwithstanding the date, time, method, manner or order of
grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations granted
on the Collateral or of any Liens securing the Revolving Credit Obligations granted on the
Collateral and notwithstanding any provision of any UCC, or any other applicable law or the
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or any
defect or deficiencies in, or failure to perfect, the Liens securing the Revolving Credit
Obligations or Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or any other circumstance whatsoever, the
Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders hereby agree that:
(a) any Lien of the Revolving Collateral Agent on the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral
securing any Revolving Credit Obligations, whether now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the
Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholders or any agent or trustee therefor,
regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or
otherwise, shall be senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral securing any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations; and
(b) any Lien of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent on the Second Lien Term Loan
Priority Collateral securing any Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, whether now or hereafter held
by or on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, any Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders or any agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by grant,
possession, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be senior in all respects
and prior to all Liens on the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral securing any Revolving
Credit Obligations.
2.2. Prohibition on Contesting Liens. Each of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent, for itself and on behalf of each Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, and the Revolving
Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each Revolving Credit Claimholder, agrees that it
will not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any
proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), the perfection, priority, validity
or enforceability of a Lien held by or on behalf of any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders or any
of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders in the Collateral, or the provisions of this Agreement,
as the case may be; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent
or impair the rights of either Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholder or Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholder to enforce this Agreement,
including the provisions of this Agreement relating to the priority of the Liens securing the
Obligations as provided in Sections 2.1, 3.1 and 3.2.
2.3. No New Liens. So long as the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations and the
Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations have not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency
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or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against one or more of the Company or any other
Grantor, the parties hereto agree that neither the Company nor any other Grantor shall:
(a) grant or permit any additional Liens on any asset or property to secure any Second Lien
Term Loan Obligation unless it has granted or concurrently grants a Lien on such asset or property
to secure the Revolving Credit Obligations; or
(b) grant or permit any additional Liens on any asset or property to secure any Revolving
Credit Obligations (other than cash collateral with respect to letters of credit in an amount not
to exceed 105% of the aggregate face amount thereof) unless it has granted or concurrently grants a
Lien on such asset or property to secure the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations.
To the extent any additional Liens are granted on any asset or property pursuant to this Section
2.3, the priority of such additional Liens shall be determined in accordance with Section 2.1. In
addition, to the extent that the foregoing provisions are not complied with for any reason, without
limiting any other rights and remedies available hereunder, the Revolving Collateral Agent, on
behalf of the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on
behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agree that any amounts received by or distributed
to any of them pursuant to or as a result of Liens granted in contravention of this Section 2.3
shall be subject to Section 4.2.
2.4. Similar Liens and Agreements. The parties hereto agree that it is their
intention that the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral be
identical (other than cash collateral with respect to letters of credit constituting Revolving
Credit Obligations in an amount not to exceed 105% of the aggregate face amount thereof). In
furtherance of the foregoing and of Section 7.10, the parties hereto agree, subject to the other
provisions of this Agreement:
(a) upon request by the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent, to cooperate in good faith (and to direct their counsel to cooperate in good faith) from
time to time in order to determine the specific items included in the Revolving Credit Facility
Collateral and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral and the steps taken to perfect their respective
Liens thereon and the identity of the respective parties obligated under the Revolving Credit
Facility Credit Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents; and
(b) that the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Documents and guarantees for the Revolving Credit Obligations and the Second Lien Term
Loan Obligations, subject to Sections 5.3(a) and 5.3(b), shall be in all material respects the same
forms of documents other than with respect to differences to reflect the nature of the lending
arrangements and the first and second lien nature of the Obligations thereunder with respect to the
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral and the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral.
2.5. No Payment Subordination. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to
subordinate any debt claim by a Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder to a debt claim by a Revolving
Credit Claimholder. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to subordinate any debt claim
by a Revolving Credit Claimholder to a debt claim by a Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder. All debt
claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and Revolving Credit Claimholders are intended to
be pari passu.
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SECTION 3. Enforcement.
3.1. Exercise of Remedies — Restrictions on Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent.
(a) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Second Lien
Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders:
(1) will not exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral (including the exercise of any right of setoff or any
right under any lockbox agreement or any control agreement with respect to Deposit Accounts
or Securities Accounts) or institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or
remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided, however, that the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent may exercise any or all such rights or remedies after
the passage of a period of at least 135 days has elapsed since the later of: (A) the date
on which the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent declared the existence of a Second Lien
Term Loan Default and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of the Second Lien
Term Loan Obligations; and (B) the date on which the Revolving Collateral Agent received
notice from the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent of such declaration of a Second Lien
Term Loan Default (the “Second Lien Term Loan Standstill Period”); provided,
further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in
no event shall the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholder exercise any rights or remedies with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral (unless (x) the final step triggering the “one action rule” or any similar legal
provision in any applicable state has occurred and (y) the applicable Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholder has provided written notice to the Revolving Credit Claimholders no later than
ten (10) Business Days prior to the commencement of such final step of its exercise of any
rights or remedies permitted hereunder) if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Second
Lien Term Loan Standstill Period, the Revolving Collateral Agent or Revolving Credit
Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing the exercise of their rights or
remedies with respect to all or any material portion of such Collateral (prompt notice of
such exercise to be given to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to, or otherwise interfere with, any
foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving
Credit Claimholder or any other exercise by the Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving
Credit Claimholder of any rights and remedies relating to the Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral, whether under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or otherwise; and
(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in
Section 3.1(c), will not object to the forbearance by the Revolving Collateral Agent or any
of the Revolving Credit Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any Collateral Enforcement
Action with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral;
provided, however, that, in the case of (1), (2) and (3) above, the
Liens granted to secure the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations of the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders shall attach to the Proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities
described in Section 2.
(b) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, whether or not any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, subject to
Section 3.1(a)(1), the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the
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Credit Claimholders shall have the right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off
and the right to credit bid their debt) and, in connection therewith (including voluntary
Dispositions of Revolving Credit Priority Collateral by the respective Grantors after a Revolving
Credit Facility Default) make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions
with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral (including, without limitation, exercising
remedies under Deposit Account Control Agreements and Securities Account Control Agreements (in
each case as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement)) without any consultation with or the
consent of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder;
provided, however, that the Lien securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations
shall remain on the Proceeds (other than those properly applied to the Revolving Credit
Obligations) of such Collateral released or disposed of subject to the relative priorities
described in Section 2. In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Revolving Credit
Priority Collateral, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving
Credit Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the
exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an
agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral
upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise
all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the
Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and any Second
Lien Term Loan Claimholder may:
(1) file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect its Lien on any of
the Collateral; provided that such action shall not be inconsistent with the terms
of this Agreement and shall not be adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, or the rights of the Revolving Collateral Agent or the
Revolving Credit Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect thereof;
(3) file any pleadings in opposition to any pleading made by any Person objecting to or
otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders,
including any claims secured by the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, if any, in each
case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) file any pleadings, objections, motions or enter into any agreements which assert
rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under either
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law (including filing
any involuntary petitions), in each case not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(5) vote on and file any plan of reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other
filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations and the
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral;
(6) make any debtor-in-possession financing loan to the Grantors consistent with the
provisions of Section 5.6 in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and
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(7) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to any of the Collateral after
the termination of the Second Lien Term Loan Standstill Period to the extent permitted by
Section 3.1(a)(1).
The Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders, agrees that it will not take or receive any Revolving Credit Priority Collateral or
any Proceeds of such Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including
set-off) with respect to any such Collateral in its capacity as a creditor in violation of this
Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until, the Discharge of
Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Section 3.1(a) and this
Section 3.1(c), the sole right of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien
on such Collateral pursuant to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents for the period and to
the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the Proceeds thereof, if any, after the
Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.1(a) and (c):
(1) the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second
Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders will not, except as not prohibited herein, take any
action that would hinder any exercise of remedies with regard to the Revolving Credit
Priority Collateral under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or that is
otherwise prohibited hereunder, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other
disposition of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, whether by foreclosure or
otherwise;
(2) except as expressly set forth herein, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent,
for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, hereby waives any and
all rights it or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor
with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral or otherwise to object to the
manner in which the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders seek to
enforce or collect on the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral securing the Revolving Credit
Obligations granted in any of the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or undertaken
in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or
on behalf of the Revolving Collateral Agent or Revolving Credit Claimholders is adverse to
the interest of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders; and
(3) the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no
covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Documents or any other Second Lien Term Loan Credit Document (other than this Agreement)
shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the Revolving Collateral
Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the Revolving Credit Facility Credit
Documents.
(e) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in Sections 3.1(a), (d) and 3.3, the Second
Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may exercise rights and
remedies as unsecured creditors against any Grantor, in accordance with the terms of the Second
Lien Term Loan Credit Documents and applicable law; provided, however, that in the
event that any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured
creditor with respect
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to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms of
this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the Revolving Credit Obligations) as the
other Liens securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders of payments of interest, principal and
other amounts owed in respect of the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations so long as such receipt is
not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or
any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders of rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including
set-off) in respect of Revolving Credit Priority Collateral or enforcement of any Lien on Revolving
Credit Priority Collateral held by any of them, in each case in contravention of this Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the
Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders may have against the Grantors under
the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, other than with respect to the Second Lien Term
Loan Priority Collateral solely to the extent expressly provided herein.
3.2. Exercise of Remedies — Restrictions on Revolving Collateral Agent.
(a) Until the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, whether or not any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, the Revolving
Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders:
(1) will not exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral or institute any action or proceeding with respect
to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure); provided,
however, that the Revolving Collateral Agent may exercise any or all such rights or
remedies after the passage of a period of at least 135 days has elapsed since the later of:
(A) the date on which the Revolving Collateral Agent declared the existence of any Revolving
Credit Facility Default and demanded the repayment of all the principal amount of the
Revolving Credit Obligations; and (B) the date on which the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent received notice from the Revolving Collateral Agent of such declaration of a Revolving
Credit Facility Default (the “Revolving Credit Standstill Period”); provided,
further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in
no event shall the Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholder exercise
any rights or remedies with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral (unless
(x) the final step triggering the “one action rule” or any similar legal provision in any
applicable state has occurred and (y) the applicable Revolving Credit Claimholder has
provided written notice to the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders no later than ten (10)
Business Days prior to the commencement of such final step of its exercise of any rights or
remedies permitted hereunder) if, notwithstanding the expiration of the Revolving Credit
Standstill Period, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders shall have commenced and be diligently pursuing the exercise of their rights or
remedies with respect to all or any material portion of such Collateral (prompt notice of
such exercise to be given to the Revolving Collateral Agent);
(2) will not contest, protest or object to, or otherwise interfere with, any
foreclosure proceeding or action brought by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or
any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder or any other exercise by the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder of any rights and remedies
relating to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, whether under the Second Lien
Term Loan Credit Documents or otherwise; and
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(3) subject to their rights under clause (a)(1) above and except as may be permitted in
Section 3.2(c), will not object to the forbearance by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders from bringing or pursuing any Collateral
Enforcement Action with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral;
provided, however, that in the case of (1), (2) and (3) above, the
Liens granted to secure the Revolving Credit Obligations of the Revolving Credit
Claimholders shall attach to the Proceeds thereof subject to the relative priorities
described in Section 2.
(b) Until the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, whether or not any
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, subject to
Section 3.2(a)(1), the Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit
Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders shall have the right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including set-off and the
right to credit bid their debt) and, in connection therewith (including voluntary Dispositions of
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral by the respective Grantors after a Second Lien Term Loan
Default) make determinations regarding the release, disposition, or restrictions with respect to
the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the
Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholder; provided, however,
that the Lien securing the Revolving Credit Obligations shall remain on the Proceeds (other than
those properly applied to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations) of such Collateral released or
disposed of subject to the relative priorities described in Section 2. In exercising rights and
remedies with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, the Revolving Collateral
Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may enforce the provisions of the
Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in
such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and
enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of
the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection
with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured creditor
under the UCC and of a secured creditor under the Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Revolving Collateral Agent and any Revolving Credit
Claimholder may:
(1) file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the Revolving Credit
Obligations;
(2) take any action in order to create, perfect, preserve or protect its Lien on any of
the Collateral; provided that such action shall not be inconsistent with the terms
of this Agreement and shall not be adverse to the priority status of the Liens on the Second
Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, or the rights of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or any of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders to exercise remedies in respect
thereof;
(3) file any pleadings in opposition to any pleading made by any Person objecting to or
otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
including any claims secured by the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, if any, in
each case in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(4) file any pleadings, objections, motions or enter into any agreements which assert
rights or interests available to unsecured creditors of the Grantors arising under
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either any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or applicable non-bankruptcy law
(including filing any involuntary petitions), in each case not inconsistent with the terms
of this Agreement;
(5) vote on and file any plan of reorganization, file any proof of claim, make other
filings and make any arguments and motions that are, in each case, in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement, with respect to the Revolving Credit Obligations and the Revolving
Credit Priority Collateral;
(6) make any debtor-in-possession financing loan to the Grantors consistent with the
provisions of Section 5.6 in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and
(7) exercise any of its rights or remedies with respect to any of the Collateral after
the termination of the Revolving Credit Standstill Period to the extent permitted by Section
3.2(a)(1).
The Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
agrees that it will not take or receive any Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral or any
Proceeds of such Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including
set-off) with respect to any such Collateral in its capacity as a creditor in violation of this
Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in Sections 3.2(a) and
this Section 3.2(c), the sole right of the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit
Claimholders with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral is to hold a Lien on
such Collateral pursuant to the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Documents for the period and
to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the Proceeds thereof, if any, after the
Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred.
(d) Subject to Sections 3.2(a) and (c):
(1) the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit
Claimholders, agrees that the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit
Claimholders will not, except as not prohibited herein, take any action that would hinder
any exercise of remedies with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral under
the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or that is otherwise prohibited hereunder,
including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Second Lien Term
Loan Priority Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise;
(2) except as expressly set forth herein, the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself
and on behalf of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, hereby waives any and all rights it or
the Revolving Credit Claimholders may have as a junior lien creditor with respect to the
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral or otherwise to object to the manner in which the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders seek to
enforce or collect on the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral securing the Second Lien
Term Loan Obligations granted in any of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or
undertaken in accordance with this Agreement, regardless of whether any action or failure to
act by or on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term
Loan Claimholders is adverse to the interest of the Revolving Credit Claimholders; and
(3) the Revolving Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant,
agreement or restriction contained in any of the Revolving Credit Facility Collateral
Documents or any other Revolving Credit Facility Credit Document (other than this Agreement)
shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the Second Lien Term Loan
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Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders with respect to the Second
Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Documents.
(e) Except as otherwise specifically set forth in Sections 3.2(a) and (d) and 3.3, the
Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders may exercise rights and remedies
as unsecured creditors against any Grantor, in accordance with the terms of the Revolving Credit
Facility Credit Documents and applicable law; provided, however, that in the event
that any Revolving Credit Claimholder becomes a judgment Lien creditor in respect of Second Lien
Term Loan Priority Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor
with respect to the Revolving Credit Obligations, such judgment Lien shall be subject to the terms
of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations)
as the other Liens securing the Revolving Credit Obligations are subject to this Agreement.
(f) Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Revolving Collateral Agent or
any Revolving Credit Claimholders of payments of interest, principal and other amounts owed in
respect of the Revolving Credit Obligations so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect
result of the exercise by the Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholders of
rights or remedies as a secured creditor (including set-off) in respect of Second Lien Term Loan
Priority Collateral or enforcement of any Lien on any Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral
held by any of them, in each case in contravention of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement
impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may have against the Grantors under the Second Lien
Term Loan Credit Documents, other than with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral
solely to the extent expressly provided herein.
3.3. Exercise of Remedies — Set Off and Tracing of and Priorities in Proceeds.
(a) The Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit
Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that, to the extent the Revolving Collateral Agent or any
Revolving Credit Claimholder exercises its rights of setoff against any Grantors’ Deposit Accounts
or Securities Accounts that contain identifiable Proceeds of Second Lien Term Loan Priority
Collateral, a percentage of the amount of such setoff equal to the percentage that such Proceeds
bear to the total amount on deposit in or credited to the balance of such Deposit Accounts or
Securities Accounts shall be deemed to constitute Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, which
amount shall be held and distributed pursuant to Section 4.3; provided, however that the foregoing
shall not apply to any setoff by the Revolving Collateral Agent against any Revolving Credit
Priority Collateral to the extent applied to the payment of Revolving Credit Obligations.
(b) The Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders, also agrees that all funds deposited in an account subject to a Deposit
Account Control Agreement or a Securities Account Control Agreement (in each case as defined in the
Revolving Credit Agreement) that constitute Revolving Credit Priority Collateral and then applied
to the Revolving Credit Obligations shall be treated as Revolving Credit Priority Collateral and,
unless the Revolving Collateral Agent is notified by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or
any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder or otherwise has knowledge to the contrary, any claim that
payments made to the Revolving Collateral Agent through the Deposit Accounts and Securities
Accounts that are subject to such Deposit Account Control Agreements or Securities Account Control
Agreements, respectively, are Proceeds of or otherwise constitute Second Lien Term Loan Priority
Collateral are waived by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders.
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3.4. Buy-Out Right. Without prejudice to the enforcement of the Revolving Credit
Claimholders’ remedies, the Revolving Credit Claimholders agree at any time following an
acceleration of the Revolving Credit Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Revolving
Credit Agreement or, if any Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding,
following a determination by the Revolving Administrative Agent to agree to permit a sale of the
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral free and clear of Liens or other claims under Section 363 of
the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, the Revolving Credit Claimholders will offer the Second Lien Term
Loan Claimholders the option to purchase the entire aggregate amount of outstanding Revolving
Credit Obligations (including unfunded commitments under the Revolving Credit Agreement) at par
plus accrued interest, without warranty or representation or recourse, on a pro rata basis across
Revolving Credit Claimholders. The Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders shall irrevocably accept or
reject such offer within ten (10) Business Days of the receipt thereof and the parties shall
endeavor to close promptly thereafter. If the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders accept such
offer, it shall be exercised pursuant to documentation mutually acceptable to each of the Revolving
Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent; provided, that such
purchase and sale documentation shall not impose additional obligations or liabilities on Parent or
its Subsidiaries, or make any applicable Credit Document more restrictive on Parent or its
Subsidiaries, without the consent of the Company; and provided, further, that to
the extent that any purchased Revolving Credit Obligations constitute letters of credit, the
applicable purchaser shall be reasonably acceptable to the issuing bank with regard thereto. If
the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders reject such offer (or do not so irrevocably accept such
offer within the required timeframe), the Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have no further
obligations pursuant to this Section 3.4.
SECTION 4.
Payments.
4.1. Application of Proceeds.
(a) So long as the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has not occurred, whether or not
any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, all
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral or Proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or
other disposition of, or collection on, such Collateral upon the exercise of remedies by the
Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholder, shall be applied by the Revolving
Collateral Agent to the Revolving Credit Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents. Upon the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations,
(A) if the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has not occurred, the Revolving
Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent any Collateral and
Proceeds of Collateral held by it as a result of the exercise of remedies in the same form as
received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct to be applied by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent to the Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations in such order as specified in the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or (B) if the
Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, the Revolving Collateral Agent shall
direct and deliver such Collateral and Proceeds of Collateral held by it as a result of the
exercise of remedies as a court of competent jurisdiction directs.
(b) So long as the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has not occurred, whether or
not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, all
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral or Proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale
or other disposition of, or collection on, such Collateral upon the exercise of remedies by the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder, shall be applied
by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations in such
order as specified in the relevant Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents. Upon the Discharge of
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, (A) if the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has not
occurred, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Revolving Collateral
Agent any Collateral
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and Proceeds of Collateral held by it as a result of the exercise of remedies in the same form
as received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct to be applied by the Revolving Collateral Agent to the Revolving Credit Obligations in such
order as specified in the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or (B) if the Discharge of
Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent shall direct
and deliver such Collateral and Proceeds of Collateral held by it as a result of the exercise of
remedies as a court of competent jurisdiction directs.
4.2. Payments Over in Violation of Agreement. So long as neither the Discharge of
Revolving Credit Obligations nor the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred,
whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against any
Grantor, any Collateral or Proceeds thereof (including assets or Proceeds subject to Liens referred
to in the final sentence of Section 2.3) received by either Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders or Revolving Credit Claimholders in connection with the exercise of any right or
remedy (including set-off) relating to the Collateral in contravention of this Agreement shall be
segregated and held in trust and forthwith paid over to the appropriate Agent for the benefit of
the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or the Revolving Credit Claimholders, as the case may be, in
the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction
may otherwise direct. Each Agent is hereby authorized by the other Agent to make any such
endorsements as agent for the other Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or Revolving
Credit Claimholders, as the case may be. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is
irrevocable until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations and Discharge of Second Lien Term
Loan Obligations.
4.3. Application of Payments. Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, all
payments received by (a) the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders may be
applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to the Revolving Credit Obligations to the
extent provided for in the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and (b) the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may be applied, reversed and
reapplied, in whole or in part, to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations to the extent provided for
in the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents.
4.4. Reinstatement.
(a) To the extent any payment with respect to any Revolving Credit Obligation (whether by or
on behalf of any Grantor, as Proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of setoff or otherwise)
is declared to be a fraudulent conveyance or a preference in any respect, set aside or required to
be paid to a debtor in possession, any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, receiver or similar
Person, whether in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise, then the
obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall, for the purposes of this
Agreement and the rights and obligations of the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders, be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment had not
occurred. To the extent that any interest, fees, expenses or other charges to be paid pursuant to
the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents are disallowed by order of any court, including,
without limitation, by order of a Bankruptcy Court in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding,
such interest, fees, expenses and charges shall, as between the Revolving Credit Claimholders and
the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, be deemed to continue to accrue and be added to the amount
to be calculated as the “Revolving Credit Obligations”.
(b) To the extent any payment with respect to any Second Lien Term Loan Obligation (whether by
or on behalf of any Grantor, as Proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of setoff or
otherwise) is declared to be a fraudulent conveyance or a preference in any respect, set aside or
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required to be paid to a debtor in possession, any Revolving Credit Claimholders, receiver or
similar Person, whether in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise,
then the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall, for the purposes of
this Agreement and the rights and obligations of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and the
Revolving Credit Claimholders, be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment had
not occurred. To the extent that any interest, fees, expenses or other charges to be paid pursuant
to the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents are disallowed by order of any court, including,
without limitation, by order of a Bankruptcy Court in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding,
such interest, fees, expenses and charges shall, as between the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders
and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, be deemed to continue to accrue and be added to the amount
to be calculated as the “Second Lien Term Loan Obligations”.
SECTION 5.
Other Agreements.
5.1. Releases.
(a) (i) If in connection with the exercise of the Revolving Collateral Agent’s remedies in
respect of any Collateral as provided for in Section 3.1, the Revolving Collateral Agent, for
itself or on behalf of any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any
part of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, then the Liens, if any, of the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent, for itself or for the benefit of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, on
the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral sold or disposed of in connection with such exercise,
shall be automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released. The Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any such Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, promptly
shall execute and deliver to the Revolving Collateral Agent or such Grantor such termination
statements, releases and other documents as the Revolving Collateral Agent or such Grantor may
reasonably request in writing to effectively confirm such release.
(ii) If in connection with the exercise of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent’s
remedies in respect of any Collateral as provided for in Section 3.2, the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders,
releases any of its Liens on any part of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, then the
Liens, if any, of the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself or for the benefit of the Revolving
Credit Claimholders, on the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral sold or disposed of in
connection with such exercise, shall be automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released.
The Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any such Revolving Credit Claimholders,
promptly shall execute and deliver to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or such Grantor
such termination statements, releases and other documents as the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or such Grantor may reasonably request in writing to effectively confirm such release.
(b) If in connection with any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of any
Collateral (collectively, a “Disposition”) permitted under the terms of both the Revolving Credit
Facility Credit Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents (other than in connection
with the exercise of the respective Agent’s rights and remedies in respect of the Collateral as
provided for in Sections 3.1 and 3.2), (i) the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf
of any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any part of the Revolving
Credit Priority Collateral, in each case other than (A) in connection with the Discharge of
Revolving Credit Obligations or (B) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Second
Lien Term Loan Default, then the Liens, if any, of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for
itself or for the benefit of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, on such Collateral shall be
automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released, and (ii) the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent, for itself or on behalf of any of the Second Lien Term
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Loan Claimholders, releases any of its Liens on any part of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority
Collateral, in each case other than (A) in connection with the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations or (B) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Revolving Credit Facility
Default, then the Liens, if any, of the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself or for the benefit
of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, on such Collateral (or, if such Collateral includes the
Capital Stock of any Subsidiary, the Liens on Collateral owned by such Subsidiary) shall be
automatically, unconditionally and simultaneously released. The Revolving Collateral Agent and
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, each for itself and on behalf of any such Revolving Credit
Claimholders or Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, as the case may be, promptly shall execute and
deliver to the other Agent or such Grantor such termination statements, releases and other
documents as the other Agent or such Grantor may reasonably request in writing to effectively
confirm such release.
(c) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations and Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations shall occur, the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving
Credit Claimholders, and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of
the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, as the case may be, hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints the other Agent and any officer or agent of the other Agent, with full power of
substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in
the place and stead of the other Agent or such holder or in the Agent’s own name, from time to time
in such Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.1, to take
any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may be
necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.1, including any endorsements or other
instruments of transfer or release.
(d) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations and Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations shall occur, to the extent that the Agents or the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders (i) have released any Lien on Collateral and such Lien is later
reinstated or (ii) obtain any new Liens from any Grantor, then the other Agent, for itself and for
the Revolving Credit Claimholders or Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, as the case may be, shall
be granted a Lien on any such Collateral, subject to the lien priority provisions of this
Agreement.
5.2. Insurance.
(a) Unless and until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, subject to
the terms of, and the rights of the Grantors under, the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents,
the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders agrees, that (i) the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders
shall have the sole and exclusive right to adjust settlement for any insurance policy covering the
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and to approve any award
granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding (or any deed in lieu of condemnation) affecting
such Collateral; (ii) all Proceeds of any such policy and any such award (or any payments with
respect to a deed in lieu of condemnation) if in respect of such Collateral and to the extent
required by the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents shall be paid to the Revolving
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Revolving Credit Claimholders pursuant to the terms of the
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents (including, without limitation, for purposes of cash
collateralization of letters of credit) and thereafter, to the extent no Revolving Credit
Obligations are outstanding, and subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Documents, to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Second
Lien Term Loan Claimholders to the extent required under the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Documents and then, to the extent no Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are outstanding, to the
owner of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, and (iii) if the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders shall, at any time, receive any
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Proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award or payment in contravention of this
Agreement, it shall segregate and hold in trust and forthwith pay such Proceeds over to the
Revolving Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of Section 4.2.
(b) Unless and until the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, subject
to the terms of, and the rights of the Grantors under, the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents,
the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
agrees that (i) the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders shall have the sole and exclusive right to adjust settlement for any insurance policy
covering the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and to
approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding (or any deed in lieu of
condemnation) affecting such Collateral; (ii) all Proceeds of any such policy and any such award
(or any payments with respect to a deed in lieu of condemnation) if in respect of such Collateral
and to the extent required by the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents shall be paid to the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders
pursuant to the terms of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents and thereafter, to the extent
no Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are outstanding, and subject to the rights of the Grantors
under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, to the Revolving Collateral Agent for the
benefit of the Revolving Credit Claimholders to the extent required under the Revolving Credit
Facility Collateral Documents and then, to the extent no Revolving Credit Obligations are
outstanding, to the owner of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or
as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, and (iii) if the Revolving Collateral
Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholders shall, at any time, receive any Proceeds of any such
insurance policy or any such award or payment in contravention of this Agreement, it shall
segregate and hold in trust and forthwith pay such Proceeds over to the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of Section 4.2.
(c) To effectuate the foregoing, the Agents shall each receive separate lender’s loss payable
endorsements naming themselves as loss payee and additional insured, as their interests may appear,
with respect to policies which insure Collateral hereunder. To the extent any Proceeds are
received for business interruption or for any liability or indemnification and those Proceeds are
not compensation for a casualty loss with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral,
such Proceeds shall first be applied to repay the Revolving Credit Obligations (to the extent
required pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement) and then be applied, to the extent required by
the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, to the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations.
5.3. Amendments to Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and Second Lien Term Loan
Credit Documents; Refinancing.
(a) The Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified in accordance with their terms and the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement may be Refinanced,
in each case, without notice to, or the consent of the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving
Credit Claimholders, all without affecting the lien priority or other provisions of this Agreement;
provided, however, that the holders of such Refinancing debt bind themselves in a
writing addressed to the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders to the
terms of this Agreement and any such amendment, supplement, modification or Refinancing shall not:
(1) increase the sum of the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Second
Lien Term Loan Agreement in excess of the Second Lien Term Loan Cap Amount;
(2) increase the “Applicable Margin” or similar component of the interest rate by more
than 2% per annum at any level of the pricing grid applicable thereto (excluding
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increases resulting from the accrual of interest at the default rate and any increase
resulting from the election to pay interest in kind rather than in cash pursuant to the
Second Lien Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the date hereof);
(3) modify (or have the effect of a modification of) the mandatory prepayment
provisions of the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement in a manner adverse to the lenders under
the Revolving Credit Agreement;
(4) modify (or have the effect of a modification of) the granting clauses (and the
exclusions therefrom) of any Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Document (or the definitions
of the terms contained in any such granting clauses) in any manner adverse to the Revolving
Credit Claimholders; or
(5) contravene any provision of this Agreement.
(b) The Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified in accordance with their terms and the Revolving Credit Agreement may be Refinanced, in
each case, without notice to, or the consent of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, all without affecting the lien priority or other provisions of
this Agreement; provided, however, that the holders of such Refinancing debt bind
themselves in a writing addressed to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders to the terms of this Agreement and any such amendment, supplement,
modification or Refinancing shall not:
(1) increase the aggregate commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders to an amount
greater than the Revolving Credit Facility Cap Amount;
(2) increase the “Applicable Margin” or similar component of the interest rate by more
than 2% per annum at any level of the pricing grid applicable thereto (excluding increases
resulting from the accrual of interest at the default rate);
(3) modify (or have the effect of a modification of) the mandatory prepayment
provisions of the Revolving Credit Agreement in a manner adverse to the lenders under the
Second Lien Term Loan Agreement;
(4) modify (or have the effect of a modification of) the granting clauses (and the
exclusions therefrom) of any Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Document (or the
definitions of the terms contained in any such granting clauses) in any manner adverse to
the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders;
(5) extend the scheduled maturity of the Revolving Credit Agreement or any Refinancing
thereof beyond the scheduled maturity of the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement or any
Refinancing thereof; or
(6) contravene any provision of this Agreement.
(c) The Revolving Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent shall each
use good faith efforts to notify the other party of any written amendment or modification to the
Revolving Credit Agreement or the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement, but the failure to do so shall
not create a cause of action against the party failing to give such notice or create any claim or
right on behalf of any third party.
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5.4. Bailees for Perfection.
(a) Each Agent agrees to hold that part of the Collateral that is in its possession or control
(or in the possession or control of its agents or bailees) to the extent that possession or control
thereof is taken to perfect a Lien thereon under the UCC (such Collateral being the “Pledged
Collateral”) as collateral agent for the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders, as the case may be, and as bailee for the other Agent (such bailment being intended,
among other things, to satisfy the requirements of Sections 8-106(d)(3), 8-301(a)(2) and 9-313(c)
of the UCC and any other similar provision of similar laws) and any assignee solely for the purpose
of perfecting the security interest granted under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
and the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, respectively, subject to the terms and conditions
of this Section 5.4.
(b) Neither Agent shall have any obligation whatsoever to the other Agent, to any Revolving
Credit Claimholder, or to any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder to ensure that the Pledged
Collateral is genuine or owned by any of the Grantors or to preserve rights or benefits of any
Person except as expressly set forth in this Section 5.4. The duties or responsibilities of the
respective Agents under this Section 5.4 shall be limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral
as bailee in accordance with this Section 5.4 and delivering the Pledged Collateral upon a
Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations or Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, as the
case may be, as provided in paragraph (d) below.
(c) Neither Agent acting pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall have by reason of the Revolving
Credit Facility Credit Documents, the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, this Agreement or any
other document a fiduciary relationship in respect of the other Agent, or any Revolving Credit
Claimholders or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders.
(d) Upon the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations or the Discharge of Second Lien Term
Loan Obligations, as the case may be, the Agent under the credit facility which has been discharged
shall deliver the remaining Pledged Collateral (if any) together with any necessary endorsements
and without recourse or warranty, first, to the other Agent to the extent the other
Obligations (other than Contingent Obligations) remain outstanding, and second, to the
applicable Grantor to the extent no Revolving Credit Obligations or Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations, as the case may be, remain outstanding (in each case, so as to allow such Person to
obtain possession or control of such Pledged Collateral). Each Agent further agrees, to the extent
that any other Obligations (other than applicable Contingent Obligations) remain outstanding, to
take all other commercially reasonable action as shall be reasonably requested in writing by the
other Agent, at the sole cost and expense of such other Agent or the Credit Parties, to permit such
other Agent to obtain, for the benefit of the Revolving Credit Claimholders or Second Lien Term
Loan Claimholders, as applicable, a first-priority interest in the Collateral or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.
(e) Subject to the terms of this Agreement (including the provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.2 and
3.3), (i) so long as the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has not occurred, the Revolving
Collateral Agent shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged Collateral or Collateral within its
“control” in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and other Revolving Credit Facility Credit
Documents, but only to the extent that such Collateral constitutes Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral, as if the Liens of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders did not exist and (ii) so long as the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations
has not occurred, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent shall be entitled to deal with the
Pledged Collateral or Collateral within its “control” in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and other Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, but only to the extent that such
Collateral constitutes Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, as if the Liens of the Revolving
Collateral Agent and Revolving Credit Claimholders did not
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exist. In furtherance of the foregoing, promptly following the Discharge of Revolving Credit
Obligations, unless a New Debt Notice in respect of new Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
shall have been delivered as provided in Section 5.5 below, the Revolving Collateral Agent hereby
agrees to deliver, at the cost and expense of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the
Credit Parties, to each bank and securities intermediary, if any, that is counterparty to a Deposit
Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement (in each case as defined in the
Revolving Credit Agreement), as applicable, written notice as contemplated in such Deposit Account
Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement, as applicable, directing such bank or
securities intermediary, as applicable, to comply with the instructions of the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent, unless the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred (as
certified to the Revolving Collateral Agent by Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent), in which
case, such Deposit Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement, as the case
may be, shall be terminated.
(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary:
(1) the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit
Claimholders, agrees that any requirement under any Revolving Credit Facility Collateral
Document that any Grantor deliver any Collateral that constitutes Second Lien Term Loan
Priority Collateral to the Revolving Collateral Agent, or that requires any Grantor to vest
the Revolving Collateral Agent with possession or “control” (as defined in the UCC) of any
Collateral that constitutes Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, in each case, shall
be deemed satisfied to the extent that, prior to the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations (other than Contingent Obligations), such Collateral is delivered to the Second
Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent shall have
been vested with such possession or (unless, pursuant to the UCC, control may be given
concurrently to the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent) “control”, in each case, subject to the provisions of Section 5.4; and
(2) the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second
Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that any requirement under any Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Document that any Grantor deliver any Collateral that constitutes Revolving
Credit Priority Collateral to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, or that requires
any Grantor to vest the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent with possession or “control”
(as defined in the UCC) of any Collateral that constitutes Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral, in each case, shall be deemed satisfied to the extent that, prior to the
Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations (other than Contingent Obligations), such
Collateral is delivered to the Revolving Collateral Agent, or the Revolving Collateral Agent
shall have been vested with such possession or (unless, pursuant to the UCC, control may be
given concurrently to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Revolving
Collateral Agent) “control”, in each case, subject to the provisions of Section 5.4.
5.5. When Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations and Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan
Obligations Deemed to Not Have Occurred. If in connection with the Discharge of Revolving
Credit Obligations or the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, the Company substantially
concurrently enters into any Refinancing of any Revolving Credit Obligation or Second Lien Term
Loan Obligation as the case may be, which Refinancing is permitted by both the Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Documents and the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, then such Discharge of
Revolving Credit Obligations or the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, shall
automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than with
respect to any actions taken pursuant to this Agreement as a result of the occurrence of such
Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations or Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, as
applicable) and,
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from and after the date on which the New Debt Notice is delivered to the appropriate Agent in
accordance with the next sentence, the obligations under such Refinancing shall automatically be
treated as Revolving Credit Obligations or Second Lien Term Loan Obligations for all purposes of
this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of Collateral
set forth herein, and the Revolving Collateral Agent or Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, as
the case may be, under such new Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or new Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Documents shall be the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent for all purposes of this Agreement. Upon receipt of a notice (the “New Debt
Notice”) stating that the Company has entered into new Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
or new Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents (which notice shall include a complete copy of the
relevant new documents and provide the identity of the new collateral agent, such agent, the “New
Agent”), the other Agent shall promptly (a) enter into such documents and agreements (including
amendments or supplements to this Agreement) as the Company or such New Agent shall reasonably
request in order to provide to the New Agent the rights contemplated hereby, in each case
consistent in all material respects with the terms of this Agreement and (b) deliver to the New
Agent any Pledged Collateral (that is Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, in the case of a
New Agent that is the agent under any new Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or that is
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, in the case of a New Agent that is the agent under any new
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents) held by it together with any necessary endorsements (or
otherwise allow the New Agent to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral). The New Agent shall
agree in a writing addressed to the other Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Second
Lien Term Loan Claimholders, as the case may be, to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If
the new Revolving Credit Obligations under the new Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or
the new Second Lien Term Loan Obligations under the new Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents are
secured by assets of the Grantors constituting Collateral that do not also secure the other
Obligations, then the other Obligations shall be secured at such time by a Lien on such assets to
the same extent provided in the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Documents and this Agreement.
5.6. Finance and Sale Issues during Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
(a) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, if any Grantor shall be
subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the Revolving Administrative Agent shall
agree to permit (i) the use of “Cash Collateral” (as such term is defined in Section 363(a) of the
Bankruptcy Code), other than the identifiable cash Proceeds of any Second Lien Term Loan Priority
Collateral, on which a Lien has been granted to the Revolving Collateral Agent pursuant to the
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents; or (ii) any Grantor to obtain financing, whether from
the Revolving Credit Claimholders or any other Person, under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or
any similar Bankruptcy Law (“DIP Financing”); then each of the Second Lien Term Loan Administrative
Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders agrees
that it will raise no objection to (nor support any other Person objecting) or contest such Cash
Collateral use or DIP Financing so long as such Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing meets the
following requirements: (1) it is on commercially reasonable terms, (2) the Second Lien Term Loan
Administrative Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders retain the right to object to any agreements or arrangements regarding the Cash
Collateral use or the DIP Financing that are materially prejudicial to their interests in the
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, (3) the principal amount of such DIP Financing plus the
principal amount of pre-petition Revolving Credit Obligations remaining outstanding after giving
effect to such DIP Financing shall not in the aggregate exceed the Revolving Credit Facility Cap
Amount (it being understood and agreed that a “roll-up” of the pre-petition Revolving Credit
Obligations into such DIP Financing would not violate this clause (3) as long as the total
principal amount thereof shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility Cap Amount), (4) the terms
of such DIP Financing (A) do not compel the applicable Grantor to seek confirmation of a specific
plan of
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reorganization for which all or a substantial portion of the terms are set forth in such DIP
Financing documentation or a related document (other than the repayment in full in cash of the DIP
Financing) and (B) do not expressly require the liquidation of the Collateral prior to a default
under the DIP Financing documentation or Cash Collateral order; (5) the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent retains Liens on the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral (including the Proceeds
thereof arising after the commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) with the same
priority vis-à-vis the Liens securing the Revolving Credit Obligations as existed prior to the
commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; (6) the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent receives replacement Liens on post-petition assets to the same extent granted to the
Revolving Collateral Agent with the same priority vis-à-vis the Liens securing the Revolving Credit
Obligations as existed prior to the commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; and
(7) to the extent the Revolving Credit Obligations remain outstanding, such DIP Financing is
secured by a Lien that is senior or pari passu with the Liens securing the Revolving Credit
Obligations. To the extent Liens securing the Revolving Credit Obligations are subordinate to or
pari passu with the Liens securing such DIP Financing, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent
will subordinate its Liens on the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral to Liens securing such DIP
Financing and to any “carve-out”, including for debtors’ professionals, to which the Revolving
Credit Obligations are subordinated. The foregoing shall not prevent the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders from exercising their rights to vote for or against a, or file any, plan of
reorganization or from filing motions or making arguments that an unsecured creditor may make.
(b) Until the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, if any Grantor
shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the Second Lien Term Loan
Administrative Agent shall agree to permit (i) the use of “Cash Collateral” (as such term is
defined in Section 363(a) of the Bankruptcy Code), consisting solely of the identifiable cash
Proceeds of any Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral on which a Lien has been granted to the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent pursuant to the Second Lien Term Loan Documents; or (ii) any
Grantor to obtain DIP Financing, whether from the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or any other
Person; then each of the Revolving Administrative Agent, the Revolving Collateral Agent and the
Revolving Credit Claimholders agrees that it will raise no objection to or contest such Cash
Collateral use or DIP Financing so long as such Cash Collateral use meets the following
requirements: (1) it is on commercially reasonable terms; (2) the Revolving Administrative Agent,
the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders retain the right to object to
any agreements or arrangements regarding the Cash Collateral use that are materially prejudicial to
their interests in the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral; (3) the principal amount of such DIP
Financing plus the principal amount of pre-petition Second Lien Term Loan Obligations remaining
outstanding after giving effect to such DIP financing shall not in the aggregate exceed the Second
Lien Term Loan Cap Amount (it being understood and agreed that a “roll-up” of the pre-petition
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations into such DIP financing would not violate this clause (3) as long
as the total principal amount thereof shall not exceed the Second Lien Term Loan Cap Amount); (4)
the terms of such DIP financing (A) do not compel the applicable Grantor to seek confirmation of a
specific plan of reorganization for which all or a substantial portion of the terms are set forth
in such DIP Financing documentation or a related document (other than the repayment in full in cash
of the DIP Financing) and (B) do not expressly require the liquidation of the Collateral prior to a
default under such DIP Financing documentation or Cash Collateral order; (5) the Revolving
Collateral Agent retains Liens on the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral (including the
Proceeds thereof arising after the commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) with
the same priority vis-à-vis the Liens securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations as existed
prior to the commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding; (6) the Revolving
Collateral Agent receive replacement Liens on post-petition assets to the same extent granted to
the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent with the same priority vis-à-vis the Lien securing the
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations as existed prior to the commencement of such Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding; and (7) to the extent the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations remain
outstanding, such DIP financing is secured by a Lien that is senior or pari
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passu with the Liens securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations. To the extent Liens
securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are subordinate to or pari passu with the Liens
securing such DIP Financing, the Revolving Collateral Agent will subordinate its Liens on the
Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral to Liens securing such DIP Financing and to any
“carve-out”, including for debtors’ professionals, to which the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations
are subordinated. The foregoing shall not prevent the Revolving Credit Claimholders from
exercising their rights to vote for or against a, or file any, plan of reorganization or from
filing motions or making arguments that an unsecured creditor may make.
(c) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred, if any Grantor shall be
subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the Revolving Administrative Agent shall
agree to permit a sale of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral free and clear of Liens or other
claims, under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, then each of the Second Lien Term
Loan Administrative Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders agrees that it will not raise any objection to or contest such sale or request
adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith as long as the net cash Proceeds of
such sale are applied to reduce permanently the Revolving Credit Obligations.
(d) Until the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred, if any Grantor
shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the Second Lien Term Loan
Administrative Agent shall agree to permit a sale of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral
free and clear of Liens or other claims, under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise,
then each of the Revolving Administrative Agent, the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving
Credit Claimholders agrees that it will not raise any objection to or contest such sale or request
adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith as long as the net cash Proceeds of
such sale are applied to reduce permanently the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations.
5.7. Adequate Protection.
(a) The Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent, Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and
each of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders agrees that none of them shall contest (or support
any other Person contesting): (1) any request by the Revolving Administrative Agent, the Revolving
Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders for adequate protection with respect to the
Revolving Credit Priority Collateral; or (2) any objection by the Revolving Administrative Agent,
the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders to any motion, relief, action
or proceeding claiming a lack of adequate protection with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority
Collateral.
(b) The Revolving Administrative Agent, Revolving Collateral Agent and each of the Revolving
Credit agrees that none of them shall contest (or support any other Person contesting): (1) any
request by the Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders for adequate protection with respect to the Second
Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral; or (2) any objection by the Second Lien Term Loan
Administrative Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders to any motion, relief, action or proceeding claiming a lack of adequate protection
with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions in this Section 5.7, if the Revolving Credit
Claimholders (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate protection with respect to the Revolving
Credit Priority Collateral in the form of additional collateral (even if such collateral is not of
a type which would otherwise have constituted Revolving Credit Priority Collateral) in connection
with any Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing, then the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on
behalf of itself or
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any of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, may seek or request adequate protection with
respect to its interests in such Collateral in the form of a Lien on the same additional collateral
(and the Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Revolving Credit
Claimholders, agrees that it will raise no objection thereto), which Lien will be subordinated
(except to the extent that the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent already had a Lien on such
Collateral (in which case the priorities established by Section 2.1 shall apply)) to the Liens
securing the Revolving Credit Obligations and such Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing (and all
Obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens of the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent on Revolving Credit Priority Collateral.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions in this Section 5.7, if the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate protection with respect to the Second
Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral in the form of additional collateral (even if such collateral is
not of a type which would otherwise have constituted Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral) in
connection with any Cash Collateral use or DIP Financing, then the Revolving Collateral Agent, on
behalf of itself or any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, may seek or request adequate
protection with respect to its interests in such Collateral in the form of a Lien on the same
additional collateral (and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the
other Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that it will raise no objection thereto), which
Lien will be subordinated (except to the extent that the Revolving Collateral Agent already had a
Lien on such Collateral (in which case the priorities established by Section 2.1 shall apply)) to
the Liens securing the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations and such Cash Collateral use or DIP
Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens of the
Revolving Collateral Agent on Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral.
(e) If the Revolving Credit Claimholders (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate
protection with respect to the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral in the form of interest on the
pre-petition Revolving Credit Obligations or the payment of their reasonable out-of-pocket fees and
expenses in respect of the pre-petition Revolving Credit Obligations, then the Second Term Loan
Administrative Agent, on behalf of itself or any of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, may
seek or request adequate protection in the form of interest on the pre-petition Second Lien Term
Loan Obligations or the payment of their reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses in respect of
the pre-petition Second Lien Term Loan Obligations. The Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of
itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, agrees that none of them shall contest any such
request.
(f) If the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate
protection with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral in the form of interest on
the pre-petition Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or the payment of their reasonable out-of-pocket
fees and expenses in respect of the pre-petition Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, then Revolving
Administrative Agent, on behalf of itself or any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, may seek or
request adequate protection in the form of interest on the pre-petition Revolving Credit
Obligations or the payment of their reasonable out-of pocket fees and expenses in respect of the
pre-petition Revolving Credit Obligations. The Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf
of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that none of them shall contest any
such request.
(g) Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Section 5.7, (i) so long as the Discharge
of Revolving Credit Obligations has not occurred, none of the Second Lien Term Loan Administrative
Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders shall
seek adequate protection with respect to their rights in the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral
in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and (ii) so long as the Discharge of Second Lien Term
Loan Obligations has not occurred, none of the Revolving Administrative Agent, the Revolving
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Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders shall seek adequate protection with
respect to their rights in the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding.
SECTION 6. Reliance; Waivers, Etc.
6.1. Reliance. Other than any reliance on the terms of this Agreement, the Revolving
Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders under its Revolving
Credit Facility Credit Documents, acknowledges that it and such Revolving Credit Claimholders have,
independently and without reliance on the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or any Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders, and based on documents and information deemed by them appropriate, made
their own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Revolving Credit Facility Credit
Documents and be bound by the terms of this Agreement and they will continue to make their own
credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the Revolving Credit Agreement or this
Agreement. Other than any reliance on the terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, acknowledges that
it and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders have, independently and without reliance on the
Revolving Collateral Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholder, and based on documents and
information deemed by them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into
each of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents and be bound by the terms of this Agreement and
they will continue to make their own credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the
Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or this Agreement.
6.2. No Warranties or Liability. The Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself
and the Revolving Credit Claimholders under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents,
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders have made no express or implied representation or warranty, including with
respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any
of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, the ownership of any Collateral or the perfection or
priority of any Liens thereon. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Second Lien
Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders will be entitled to manage
and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under the Second Lien Term Loan
Credit Documents in accordance with law and the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, as they
may, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate. The Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on
behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that each of
the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders have made no express or
implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality,
completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any of the Revolving Credit Facility Credit
Documents, the ownership of any Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon.
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving
Credit Claimholders will be entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions
of credit under their respective Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents in accordance with law
and the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, as they may, in their sole discretion, deem
appropriate. The Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders
shall have no duty to the Revolving Collateral Agent or any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
and the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders shall have no duty to the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or any of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, to act or
refrain from acting in a manner which allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an
event of default or default under any agreements with any Grantor (including the Revolving Credit
Facility Credit Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents), regardless of any
knowledge thereof which they may have or be charged with.
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6.3. No Waiver of Lien Priorities.
(a) No right of the Agents, the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders to enforce any provision of this Agreement or any Revolving Credit Facility Credit
Document or Term Loan Credit Document shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
act or failure to act on the part of any Grantor or by any act or failure to act by such Agents,
Revolving Credit Claimholders or Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or by any noncompliance by any
Person with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Agreement, any of the Revolving Credit
Facility Credit Documents or any of the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, regardless of any
knowledge thereof which the Agents or the Revolving Credit Claimholders or Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders, or any of them, may have or be otherwise charged with.
(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph (but subject to the
rights of the Grantors under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Documents and subject to the provisions of Sections 2.3, 2.4 and 5.3), the Agents, the
Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders may, at any time and from
time to time in accordance with the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and Second Lien Term
Loan Credit Documents and/or applicable law, without the consent of, or notice to, the other Agent
or the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders (as the case may
be), without incurring any liabilities to such Persons and without impairing or releasing the Lien
priorities and other benefits provided in this Agreement (even if any right of subrogation or other
right or remedy is affected, impaired or extinguished thereby) do any one or more of the following:
(1) change the manner, place or terms of payment or change or extend the time of
payment of, or amend, renew, exchange, increase or alter, the terms of any of the
Obligations or any Lien or guaranty thereof or any liability of any Grantor, or any
liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof (including any increase in or
extension of the Obligations, without any restriction as to the tenor or terms of any such
increase or extension) or otherwise amend, renew, exchange, extend, modify or supplement in
any manner any Liens held by the Agents or any rights or remedies under any of the Revolving
Credit Facility Credit Documents or the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents;
provided that any such increase in the Revolving Credit Obligations or the Second
Lien Term Loan Obligations, as applicable, shall not increase the sum of the Indebtedness
(as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement or Second Lien Term Loan Agreement, as
applicable) constituting principal under the Revolving Credit Agreement or Second Lien Term
Loan Agreement, as applicable, and, the face amount of any letters of credit issued and not
reimbursed to an amount in excess of the Revolving Credit Facility Cap Amount or Second Lien
Term Loan Cap Amount, as applicable;
(2) sell, exchange, release, surrender, realize upon, enforce or otherwise deal with in
any manner and in any order any part of the Collateral (except to the extent provided in
this Agreement) or any liability of any Grantor or any liability incurred directly or
indirectly in respect thereof;
(3) settle or compromise any Obligation or any other liability of any Grantor or any
security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof and
apply any sums by whomsoever paid and however realized to any liability in any manner or
order that is not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement; and
(4) exercise or delay in or refrain from exercising any right or remedy against any
security or any Grantor or any other Person, elect any remedy and otherwise deal freely with
any Grantor.
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(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, the Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself
and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, also agrees that the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and
the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent shall have no liability to the Revolving Collateral
Agent or any Revolving Credit Claimholders, and the Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself
and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, hereby waives any claim against any Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholder or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, arising out of any and all actions which
the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent may take or
permit or omit to take with respect to the foreclosure upon, or sale, liquidation or other
disposition of, any Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral. The Revolving Collateral Agent, on
behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent have no duty to them in respect of the
maintenance or preservation of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral, the Second Lien Term
Loan Obligations or otherwise.
(d) Except as otherwise provided herein, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf
of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, also agrees that the Revolving Credit
Claimholders and the Revolving Collateral Agent shall have no liability to the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, and the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Lenders, hereby waives any
claim against any Revolving Credit Claimholder or the Revolving Collateral Agent, arising out of
any and all actions which the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Revolving Collateral Agent may
take or permit or omit to take with respect to the foreclosure upon, or sale, liquidation or other
disposition of, any Revolving Credit Priority Collateral. The Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees that the Revolving
Credit Claimholders and the Revolving Collateral Agent have no duty to them in respect of the
maintenance or preservation of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral, the Revolving Credit
Obligations or otherwise.
(e) Until the Discharge of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, the Revolving Collateral Agent,
on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, agrees not to assert and hereby waives,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, any right to demand, request, plead or otherwise assert or
otherwise claim the benefit of, any marshalling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that
may otherwise be available under applicable law with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Priority
Collateral or any other similar rights a junior secured creditor may have under applicable law.
(f) Until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, agrees not to assert and
hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any right to demand, request, plead or
otherwise assert or otherwise claim the benefit of, any marshalling, appraisal, valuation or other
similar right that may otherwise be available under applicable law with respect to the Revolving
Credit Priority Collateral or any other similar rights a junior secured creditor may have under
applicable law.
6.4. Obligations Unconditional. All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of
the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, respectively, hereunder shall remain
in full force and effect irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents
or any Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents;
(b) except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, any change in the time, manner
or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all or any of the Revolving Credit Obligations or
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Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, or any amendment or waiver or other modification, including
any increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, of the terms of any
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Document or any Second Lien Term Loan Credit Document;
(c) except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, any exchange of any security
interest in any Collateral or any other collateral, or any amendment, waiver or other modification,
whether in writing or by course of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the Revolving Credit
Obligations or Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or any guaranty thereof;
(d) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the any
Grantor; or
(e) any other circumstances which otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a
discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the Revolving Collateral Agent, the Revolving Credit
Obligations, any Revolving Credit Claimholder, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, the
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations or any Second Lien Term Loan Claimholder in respect of this
Agreement.
SECTION 7. Miscellaneous.
7.1. Avoidance Issues. If any Revolving Credit Claimholder or Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholder is required in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or
otherwise pay to the estate of the applicable Grantor any amount paid in respect of Revolving
Credit Obligations or the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, as the case may be (a “Recovery”),
then such Revolving Credit Claimholders or Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders shall be entitled to
a reinstatement of Revolving Credit Obligations or the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, as the
case may be, with respect to all such recovered amounts. If this Agreement shall have been
terminated prior to such Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and
such prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the
obligations of the parties hereto from such date of reinstatement.
7.2. Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classification.
(a) Each of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second
Lien Term Loan Claimholders, and the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the
Revolving Credit Claimholders, acknowledges and agrees that the grants of Liens pursuant to the
Revolving Credit Facility Collateral Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Documents
constitute separate and distinct grants of Liens, and because of, among other things, their
differing rights in the Collateral, the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations are fundamentally
different from the Revolving Credit Obligations and must be separately classified in any plan of
reorganization proposed or adopted in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. In furtherance of
the foregoing, each of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, and the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of
the Revolving Credit Claimholders, agrees that the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and the
Revolving Credit Claimholders will vote as separate classes in connection with any plan of
reorganization in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and that neither any Agent nor any
Claimholder will seek to vote with the other as a single class in connection with any plan of
reorganization in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.
(b) To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in this Section 7.2, if it is
held that the claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and the Revolving Credit
Claimholders in respect of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral constitute only one
secured
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claim (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then each of the
Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders and the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit
Claimholders, hereby acknowledges and agrees that, subject to Sections 2.1 and 4.1, all
distributions shall be made as if there were separate classes of senior and junior secured claims
against the Grantors in respect of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral (with the effect
being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the Second Lien Term Loan Priority Collateral
is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Revolving Credit Claimholders), the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed
to them in respect of principal, interest and other claims, including any additional interest
payable pursuant to the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement, arising from or related to a default)
before any distribution is made in respect of the claims held by the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
with the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
hereby acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for
itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, amounts otherwise received or
receivable by them to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such
turnover has the effect of reducing the claim or recovery of the Revolving Credit Claimholders).
(c) To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in this Section 7.2, if it is
held that the claims of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and the Revolving Credit
Claimholders in respect of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral constitute only one secured
claim (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then each of the Second
Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders
and the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Credit Claimholders,
hereby acknowledges and agrees that, subject to Sections 2.1 and 4.1, all distributions shall be
made as if there were separate classes of senior and junior secured claims against the Grantors in
respect of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral (with the effect being that, to the extent that
the aggregate value of the Revolving Credit Priority Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose
ignoring all claims held by the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders), the Revolving Credit
Claimholders shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of
principal, interest and other claims, including any additional interest payable pursuant to the
Revolving Credit Agreement, arising from or related to a default) before any distribution is made
in respect of the claims held by the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, with the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, hereby
acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the Revolving Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf
of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, amounts otherwise received or receivable by them to the
extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of
reducing the claim or recovery of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders).
(d) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, each of the Second Lien Term
Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, on the one hand, and the
Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, on the other hand, shall retain
the right to vote and otherwise act in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (including the
right to vote to accept or reject any plan of reorganization) to the extent not inconsistent with
the provisions hereof.
7.3. Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement
and the provisions of any Revolving Credit Facility Credit Document or any Second Lien Term Loan
Credit Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern and control. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the parties hereto acknowledge that, except as set forth herein, this Agreement shall
not impose any obligations on the Credit Parties and shall not negate any rights granted to the
Credit Parties in the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents or the Second Lien Term Loan
Credit Documents.
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7.4. Effectiveness; Continuing Nature of this Agreement; Severability. This
Agreement shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties hereto. This is a
continuing agreement of lien subordination and the Revolving Credit Claimholders and Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders may continue, at any time and without notice to any Agent, to extend credit
and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of any Grantor in reliance
hereon. Each of the Agents, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, as the case may be, hereby waives any right it may have under
applicable law to revoke this Agreement or any of the provisions of this Agreement. The terms of
this Agreement shall survive, and shall continue in full force and effect, in any Insolvency or
Liquidation Proceeding. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in
any other jurisdiction. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect:
(a) with respect to the Revolving Collateral Agent, the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the
Revolving Credit Obligations, on the date of the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations, subject
to the rights of the Revolving Credit Claimholders under Section 7.1; and
(b) with respect to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders and the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations, on the date of the Discharge of Second Lien
Term Loan Obligations, subject to the rights of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders under
Section 7.1.
7.5. Amendments; Waivers. No amendment, modification or waiver of any of the
provisions of this Agreement by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent (acting at the direction
of the “Requisite Lenders” as defined in the Second Lien Term Loan Agreement) or the Revolving
Collateral Agent shall be deemed to be made unless the same shall be in writing signed on behalf of
each party hereto or its authorized agent and each waiver, if any, shall be a waiver only with
respect to the specific instance involved and shall in no way impair the rights of the parties
making such waiver or the obligations of the other parties to such party in any other respect or at
any other time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Grantor shall have any right to consent to or
approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement except to the
extent that such amendment, modification or waiver (i) adversely affects or impairs its rights
hereunder, under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents or under the Revolving Credit Facility
Credit Documents or (ii) imposes any additional obligation or liability upon it.
7.6. Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Grantors and their
Subsidiaries. The Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, on the one
hand, and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, on
the other hand, shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a) the financial
condition of the Grantors and their Subsidiaries and all endorsers and/or guarantors of the
Revolving Credit Obligations or the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations and (b) all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Revolving Credit Obligations or the Second
Lien Term Loan Obligations. Neither the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit
Claimholders, on the one hand, nor the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien
Term Loan Claimholders, on the other hand, shall have any duty to advise the other of information
known to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event
that either the Revolving Collateral Agent or any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders, on the one
hand, or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, on
the other hand, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to any
of the others, it or they shall be under no obligation:
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(a) to make, and shall not make, any express or implied representation or warranty, including
with respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of any such information so
provided;
(b) to provide any additional information or to provide any such information on any subsequent
occasion;
(c) to undertake any investigation; or
(d) to disclose any information, which pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance
practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain
confidential.
7.7. Subrogation.
(a) With respect to the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other
assets that any of the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders or the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent pays over to the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders under the
terms of this Agreement, the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent shall be subrogated to the rights of the Revolving Collateral Agent and the
Revolving Credit Claimholders; provided, however, that, the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, hereby agrees not
to assert or enforce all such rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment
hereunder until the Discharge of Revolving Credit Obligations has occurred. The Grantors
acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the value of any payments or
distributions in cash, property or other assets received by the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders that are paid over to the Revolving Collateral
Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders pursuant to this Agreement shall not reduce any of the
Second Lien Term Loan Obligations.
(b) With respect to the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other
assets that any of the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Revolving Collateral Agent pays over to
the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders under the
terms of this Agreement, the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the Revolving Collateral Agent shall
be subrogated to the rights of the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Term
Loan Claimholders; provided, however, that, the Revolving Collateral Agent, on
behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, hereby agrees not to assert or enforce all
such rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge
of Second Lien Term Loan Obligations has occurred. The Grantors acknowledge and agree that, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or
other assets received by the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders that
are paid over to the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan
Claimholders pursuant to this Agreement shall not reduce any of the Revolving Credit Obligations.
7.8. SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION, WAIVERS.
(a) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY CONSENTS AND AGREES THAT XXX XXXXXX XX XXX XXXXX XX XXX XXXX
LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SHALL HAVE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY CLAIMS
OR DISPUTES PERTAINING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR TO ANY MATTER ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
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AGREEMENT; PROVIDED, THAT THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY APPEALS FROM ANY SUCH COURT MAY
HAVE TO BE HEARD BY A COURT IN A DIFFERENT JURISDICTION; PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT NOTHING IN THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED OR OPERATE TO PRECLUDE ANY AGENT FROM BRINGING SUIT OR TAKING OTHER LEGAL
ACTION IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION TO REALIZE ON THE COLLATERAL OR ANY OTHER SECURITY, OR TO ENFORCE
A JUDGMENT OR OTHER COURT ORDER IN FAVOR OF ANY AGENT. EACH PARTY EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS
IN ADVANCE TO SUCH JURISDICTION IN ANY ACTION OR SUIT COMMENCED IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND EACH PARTY
HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE BASED UPON LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION,
IMPROPER VENUE OR FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE GRANTING OF SUCH LEGAL OR
EQUITABLE RELIEF AS IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY SUCH COURT. EACH PARTY HEREBY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE
OF ANY AND ALL LEGAL PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS AND OTHER SERVICE OF PROCESS OF
ANY KIND AND CONSENTS TO SUCH SERVICE IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA WITH RESPECT TO OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT
BY ANY MEANS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF LAW, INCLUDING BY THE MAILING THEREOF (BY
REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID) TO THE ADDRESS OF SUCH PARTY PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 7.9 (AND SHALL BE EFFECTIVE WHEN SUCH MAILING SHALL BE EFFECTIVE, AS PROVIDED
THEREIN).
(b) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF
ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING HEREUNDER. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED
TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO
THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL
OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A
MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS
WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN ITS
RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED
THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL
RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE; MEANING THAT IT MAY
NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY
REFERRING TO THIS SECTION 7.8(b) AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL
APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS HERETO. IN THE EVENT OF
LITIGATION, THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.
7.9. Notices. All notices to the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and the Revolving
Credit Claimholders permitted or required under this Agreement shall also be sent to the Second
Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent and the Revolving Collateral Agent, respectively. Unless otherwise
specifically provided herein, any notice hereunder shall be in writing and may be personally served
or sent by telefacsimile or United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed to have been
given when delivered in person or by courier service and signed for against receipt thereof, upon
receipt
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of telefacsimile or three Business Days after depositing it in the United States mail with
postage prepaid and properly addressed. For the purposes hereof, the addresses of the parties
hereto shall be as set forth below each party’s name on the signature pages hereto, or, as to each
party, at such other address as may be designated by such party in a written notice to all of the
other parties.
7.10. Further Assurances. The Revolving Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the
Revolving Credit Claimholders under the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents, and the Second
Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders
under the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, and the Grantors, agree that each of them shall
take such further action and shall execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments
(in recordable form, if requested) as the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent may reasonably request to effectuate the terms of and the Lien priorities
contemplated by this Agreement.
7.11. APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
7.12. Binding on Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the
Revolving Collateral Agent, the Revolving Credit Claimholders, the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral
Agent, the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and their respective successors and assigns.
7.13. Specific Performance. Each of the Revolving Collateral Agent and the Second
Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent may demand specific performance of this Agreement. The Revolving
Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Claimholders, and the Second Lien
Term Loan Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, hereby
irrevocably waive any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense which
might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action which may be brought by
the Revolving Collateral Agent or the Revolving Credit Claimholders or the Second Lien Term Loan
Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, as the case may be.
7.14. Headings. Section headings in this Agreement are included herein for
convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other
purpose or be given any substantive effect.
7.15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different
parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of
which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart
of a signature page of this Agreement or any document or instrument delivered in connection
herewith by telecopy or other electronic image scan transmission (e.g. “PDF” via e-mail) shall be
effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement or such other document
or instrument, as applicable.
7.16. Authorization. By its signature, each Person executing this Agreement on behalf
of a party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that it is duly authorized to
execute this Agreement.
7.17. No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof
shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties hereto and its respective successors and assigns
and shall inure to the benefit of each of the Agents, the Revolving Credit Claimholders and the
Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders and, to the extent expressly applicable, the Grantors. Nothing
in this Agreement shall impair, as between the Grantors and the Revolving Collateral Agent and the
Revolving
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Credit Claimholders, or as between the Grantors and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent
and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders, the obligations of the Grantors to pay principal,
interest, fees and other amounts as provided in the Revolving Credit Facility Credit Documents and
the Second Lien Term Loan Credit Documents, respectively.
7.18. Provisions to Define Relative Rights. The provisions of this Agreement are and
are intended for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Revolving Collateral Agent and
the Revolving Credit Claimholders on the one hand and the Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent
and the Second Lien Term Loan Claimholders on the other hand. Nothing in this Agreement is
intended to or shall impair the obligations of any Grantor, which are absolute and unconditional,
to pay the Revolving Credit Obligations and the Second Lien Term Loan Obligations as and when the
same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms. The Grantors may rely on
Sections 5.4 and 7.5 hereof with respect to matters set forth therein applicable to the Grantors
and to the extent that any provision hereof governs the priority of security interests, the
Grantors may rely on such provision in making representations and warranties relating to priority
of security interests in the Revolving Credit Facility Documents and the Second Lien Term Loan
Credit Documents.
[Signature Page Follows]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Intercreditor Agreement as of the
date first written above.
SECOND LIEN TERM LOAN COLLATERAL AGENT AND SECOND LIEN TERM LOAN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT: | ||||
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Second Lien Term Loan Administrative Agent and Second Lien Term Loan Collateral Agent |
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
Wilmington Trust Company | ||||
Xxxxxx Square North | ||||
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000 | ||||
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||||
Telecopier: (000) 000-0000 |
REVOLVING ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND REVOLVING COLLATERAL AGENT: | ||||
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, as Revolving Administrative Agent and Revolving Collateral Agent |
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
General Electric Capital Corporation | ||||
500 West Monroe Street | ||||
Chicago, IL 60661 | ||||
Attention: Dura Account Officer | ||||
Telecopier: 000-000-0000 |
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED TO BY: | ||||
DURA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC. (f/k/a New Dura, Inc.) | ||||
NEW DURA HOLDCO, INC. | ||||
NEW DURA OPCO, INC. | ||||
DURA OPERATING CORP. | ||||
DURA SPICEBRIGHT, INC. | ||||
ADWEST ELECTRONICS, INC. | ||||
XXXXXX AUTOMOTIVE, INC. | ||||
XXXXXX MOBILE PRODUCTS, INC. | ||||
DURA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CABLE OPERATIONS, INC. | ||||
DURA GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | ||||
CREATION GROUP, INC. | ||||
CREATION GROUP HOLDINGS, INC. | ||||
CREATION GROUP TRANSPORTATION, INC. | ||||
XXXXXXXX, INC. | ||||
CREATION WINDOWS, INC. |
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
DURA SHIFTER L.L.C. | ||||||
By: DURA OPERATING CORP., | ||||||
Its: SOLE MEMBER | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
DURA AIRCRAFT OPERATING COMPANY, LLC | ||||||
By: DURA OPERATING CORP., | ||||||
Its: SOLE MEMBER | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
DURA BRAKE SYSTEMS, L.L.C. | ||||||
By: DURA OPERATING CORP., | ||||||
Its: SOLE MEMBER | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
DURA CABLES NORTH LLC | ||||||
By: XXXXXX AUTOMOTIVE, INC., | ||||||
Its: SOLE MEMBER | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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Name: | ||||||
Title: |
DURA CABLES SOUTH LLC | ||||||
By: XXXXXX AUTOMOTIVE, INC., | ||||||
Its: SOLE MEMBER | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
DURA FREMONT L.L.C. | ||||||
DURA GLADWIN L.L.C. | ||||||
DURA MANCELONA L.L.C. | ||||||
DURA SERVICES L.L.C. | ||||||
By: | ||||||
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Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
DURA G.P. | ||||||
By: DURA OPERATING CORP., | ||||||
Its: MANAGING GENERAL PARTNER | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |