SECURITY AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT
10.10
This
SECURITY
AGREEMENT, dated as of
November 30,
2007
(this “Agreement”),
is
among
Visual
Management Systems,
Inc., a Nevada
corporation
(the
“Company”),
all
of the Subsidiaries of the
Company (such
subsidiaries,
the “Guarantors”
and together with the
Company, the
“Debtors”)
and the holders of the Company’s
Original
Issue Discount 5%
Senior
Secured Convertible
Debentures
due May 30,
2010 and issued on November 30,
2007 in the original aggregate
principal amount of $3,750,000 (collectively,
the
“Debentures”)
signatory
hereto, their endorsees,
transferees and assigns
(collectively, the
“Secured
Parties”).
W
I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS,
pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement (as defined in the Debentures),
the Secured Parties have severally
agreed to extend the loans to the Company evidenced by the Debentures;
WHEREAS,
pursuant to a certain
Subsidiary Guarantee, dated
as of the date hereof (the
“Guarantee”),
the Guarantors
have jointly and
severally agreed to
guarantee and act as
surety
for payment of such
Debentures;
and
WHEREAS,
in order to induce the Secured Parties to extend the loans evidenced by the
Debentures, each Debtor has agreed to execute and deliver to the
Secured Parties this
Agreement and to grant the Secured Parties, pari passu
with each other Secured Party
and through the Agent, a security
interest in certain property of such
Debtor to secure the prompt payment, performance and discharge in full of
all of
the Company’s
obligations under the Debentures
and the Guarantors’
obligations under the
Guarantee.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements herein contained and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged,
the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1. Certain
Definitions. As
used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth
in
this Section 1. Terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement that
are defined in
Article 9 of the UCC (such as “account”,
“chattel
paper”, “commercial
tort claim”, “deposit
account”, “document”,
“equipment”,
“fixtures”,
“general
intangibles”, “goods”,
“instruments”,
“inventory”,
“investment
property”,
“letter-of-credit
rights”, “proceeds”
and “supporting obligations”)
shall have the respective meanings
given such terms in Article 9 of the UCC.
(a) “Collateral”
means the collateral in which the
Secured Parties are granted a security interest by this Agreement and which
shall include the
following personal property of the Debtors, whether presently owned or existing
or hereafter acquired or coming into existence, wherever situated, and all
additions and accessions thereto and all substitutions and replacements
thereof, and all proceeds,
products and accounts thereof, including, without limitation, all proceeds
from
the sale or transfer of the Collateral and of
insurance covering the same and of
any tort claims in connection therewith, and all dividends,
interest, cash, notes, securities,
equity interest or other property at any time and from time to time acquired,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange for, any
or
all of the Pledged Securities (as defined below):
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(i)
All goods,
including, without
limitation, (A) all
machinery, equipment, computers, motor vehicles, trucks, tanks, boats, ships,
appliances, furniture, special and general tools, fixtures, test and quality
control devices and other equipment of every kind and nature and wherever situated,
together
with all documents of title and documents representing the same, all additions
and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all parts therefor, and all
substitutes for any of the foregoing and all other items used and
useful in connection with any
Debtor’s
businesses and all improvements
thereto; and (B) all inventory;
(ii)
All contract rights
and
other general intangibles, including, without limitation, all partnership
interests, membership interests, stock or other securities, rights
under any of the Organizational
Documents, agreements related to the Pledged Securities, licenses, distribution
and other
agreements, computer software (whether “off-the-shelf”,
licensed from any third party or
developed by any Debtor),
computer software development rights, leases, franchises, customer lists,
quality control procedures, grants and rights, goodwill, trademarks, service
marks, trade styles, trade names, patents, patent applications, copyrights,
and
income tax refunds;
(iii)
All accounts, together
with
all instruments, all documents of title representing any of the foregoing,
all
rights in any merchandising, goods, equipment, motor vehicles and trucks
which
any of the same may represent, and all right, title, security and
guaranties with respect to each
account, including any right of stoppage in transit;
(iv)
All documents,
letter-of-credit rights, instruments and chattel paper;
(v)
All commercial tort
claims;
(vi)
All deposit accounts
and
all cash (whether or not deposited in such deposit
accounts);
(vii)
All investment
property;
(viii)
All supporting obligations;
and
(ix)
All files, records,
books
of account, business papers, and computer programs; and
(x)
the products and proceeds
of all of the foregoing Collateral set forth in
clauses (i)-(ix)
above.
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Without
limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the “Collateral”
shall include all investment property
and general intangibles respecting ownership and/or other equity interests
in
each Guarantor, including, without limitation,
the shares of
capital stock and the other equity interests listed on Schedule H
hereto (as the same may be modified
from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof), and any other shares of
capital
stock and/or other equity interests of any other direct or
indirect subsidiary
of any Debtor obtained in the future, and, in each case, all certificates
representing such shares and/or equity interests and, in each case, all rights,
options, warrants, stock, other securities and/or equity interests
that may hereafter be received,
receivable or distributed in respect of, or exchanged for, any of the foregoing
and all rights arising under or in connection with the Pledged Securities,
including, but not limited to, all dividends, interest and cash.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing
herein shall be deemed to constitute an assignment of any asset which, in
the
event of an assignment, becomes void by operation of applicable law or the
assignment of which is otherwise prohibited by applicable law (in each case to the
extent that such
applicable law is not overridden by Sections 9-406, 9-407 and/or 9-408 of
the
UCC or other similar applicable law); provided,
however,
that to the extent permitted by
applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid security interest in
such asset and, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid
security interest in the proceeds of such asset.
(b) “Intellectual
Property”
means the collective reference to all
rights, priorities and
privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United
States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without
limitation, (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States,
any
other country or any political
subdivision thereof, whether
registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished, all
registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection
therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings and
applications
in the United States Copyright
Office, (ii) all letters patent of the United States, any other country or
any
political subdivision thereof, all reissues and extensions thereof, and all
applications for letters patent of the United States or any other
country and all divisions,
continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, (iii) all trademarks, trade
names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business
names, trade dress, service marks, logos, domain names and other source
or
business identifiers, and all goodwill
associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all
registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection
therewith, whether in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
or
in any similar office or agency of the
United States, any State thereof or any other country or any political
subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common law rights related thereto,
(iv) all trade secrets arising under the laws of the United States,
any other country or any political
subdivision thereof, (v) all rights to obtain any reissues, renewals or
extensions of the foregoing, (vi) all licenses for any of the foregoing,
and
(vii) all causes of action for infringement of the
foregoing.
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(c)
“Majority
in Interest” means,
at any time of determination, the
majority in interest (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of Debentures
at the time of such determination) of the Secured Parties.
(d)
“Necessary
Endorsement” means
undated stock powers endorsed in blank
or other proper
instruments of assignment duly executed and such other instruments or documents
as the Agent (as that term is defined below) may reasonably
request.
(e) “Obligations”
means
all of the liabilities
and obligations
(primary, secondary, direct, contingent, sole, joint or several) due or to
become due, or that are now or may be hereafter contracted or acquired, or
owing
to, of any Debtor to the Secured Parties, including, without limitation,
all obligations under this
Agreement,
the Debentures, the
Guarantee and any other
instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in
connection herewith or therewith, in each case, whether now or hereafter
existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent,
liquidated or
unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not
from
time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred,
and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are
paid, to the extent all or any part
of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from any of
the
Secured Parties as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise as such
obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended or
modified from time to
time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term
“Obligations”
shall include, without limitation: (i)
principal of, and interest on the Debentures and the loans extended pursuant
thereto; (ii) any and all other fees,
indemnities, costs, obligations and
liabilities of the Debtors from time to time under or in connection with
this
Agreement, the Debentures,
the Guarantee and any other
instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in
connection herewith or
therewith; and (iii) all amounts (including but not limited to post-petition
interest) in respect of the foregoing that would be payable but for the fact
that the obligations to pay such amounts are unenforceable or not allowable
due
to the existence
of a bankruptcy, reorganization or
similar proceeding involving any Debtor.
(f)
“Organizational
Documents”
means with respect to any Debtor, the
documents by which such Debtor was organized (such as a certificate of
incorporation, certificate of limited partnership
or articles of
organization, and including, without limitation, any certificates of designation
for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity) and which relate
to the
internal governance of such Debtor (such as bylaws, a partnership
agreement or an operating, limited
liability or members agreement).
(g) “Pledged
Securities”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such
term in Section 4(i).
(h)
“UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of New
York and or any other
applicable law of any state
or states which has jurisdiction with respect to all, or any portion of,
the
Collateral or this Agreement, from time to time. It is the
intent
of the parties that defined terms
in the UCC should be construed in their broadest sense so that the term “Collateral”
will be construed in its broadest
sense. Accordingly if there are, from time to time, changes to
defined terms in the UCC that broaden the definitions, they are incorporated
herein and if existing definitions in the UCC are broader
than the amended definitions,
the existing ones shall be controlling.
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2. Grant
of Security
Interest
in
Collateral. As an
inducement for the Secured Parties to extend the loans as evidenced by the
Debentures and to secure the complete and timely payment, performance
and discharge
in full, as the case may be, of all of the Obligations, each Debtor hereby
unconditionally and irrevocably pledges, grants and hypothecates to the Secured
Parties a security
interest in and to, a lien upon and a
right of set-off against
all of their respective right, title and interest of whatsoever kind and
nature in and to, the
Collateral (a“Security
Interest”
and,
collectively, the “Security Interests”).
3. Delivery
of Certain
Collateral. Contemporaneously
or
prior to the execution
of
this Agreement, each Debtor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Agent
(a) any and all certificates and other instruments representing or evidencing
the Pledged Securities, and (b) any and all certificates and other
instruments
or documents representing any of
the other Collateral, in each case, together with all Necessary
Endorsements. The Debtors are, contemporaneously with the execution
hereof, delivering to Agent, or have previously delivered to Agent, a true
and
correct
copy of each Organizational Document
governing any of the Pledged Securities.
4. Representations,
Warranties,
Covenants and Agreements of the Debtors. Except
as set forth under the
corresponding section of the disclosure schedules delivered to the Secured
Parties concurrently
herewith (the “Disclosure Schedules”),
which Disclosure Schedules shall be
deemed a part hereof, each
Debtor represents and warrants to, and
covenants and agrees with, the Secured Parties as follows:
(a) Each
Debtor has the requisite
corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other power and authority
to enter into this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations
hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance by each Debtor of this
Agreement and
the filings contemplated therein
have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Debtor
and
no further action is required by such Debtor. This Agreement has been
duly executed by each Debtor. This Agreement constitutes the
legal,
valid and binding obligation of each
Debtor, enforceable against each Debtor in accordance with its terms except
as
such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization and similar laws of general application relating to
or affecting the rights and remedies
of creditors and by general principles of equity.
(b)
The
Debtors have no place of business or
offices where their respective books of account and records are kept (other
than
temporarily at the offices of its attorneys or accountants)
or places where
Collateral is stored or located, except as set forth on Schedule A
attached hereto. Except as
specifically set forth on Schedule A,
each Debtor is the record owner of the
real property where such Collateral is located, and there exist
no mortgages or
other liens on any such real property except for Permitted Liens (as
defined
in the
Debentures). Except as disclosed on Schedule A,
none of such Collateral is in the
possession of any consignee, bailee, warehouseman, agent or processor.
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(c) Except
for Permitted Liens (as defined
in the Debentures) and except as set forth on Schedule B
attached hereto, the Debtors are the
sole owner of the Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by
any
Debtor in the ordinary
course of business), free and clear of any liens, security interests,
encumbrances, rights or claims, and are fully authorized to grant the Security
Interests. Except as set forth
on
Schedule
B attached hereto,
there is not on file
in any
governmental or regulatory
authority, agency or recording office an effective financing statement, security
agreement, license or transfer or any notice of any of the foregoing (other
than
those that will be filed in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to this
Agreement)
covering or affecting any of the
Collateral. Except as set forth on Schedule B
attached hereto and except pursuant to
this Agreement, as long as
this Agreement shall be in effect, the Debtors shall not execute and shall
not
knowingly permit to be on
file in any such office or
agency any other financing
statement or other document or instrument (except to the extent filed or
recorded in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement).
(d) No
written claim has been received
that any Collateral
or
Debtor's use of any Collateral violates the rights of any third party. There
has
been no adverse decision to any Debtor's claim of ownership rights in or
exclusive rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to any Debtor's
right
to keep and maintain such
Collateral in full force and effect, and there is no proceeding
involving said rights
pending or, to the best knowledge of any Debtor, threatened before any court,
judicial body, administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other governmental
authority.
(e) Each
Debtor shall at all times maintain
its books of account and records relating to the Collateral at its principal
place of business and its Collateral at the locations set forth on Schedule A
attached hereto and may not relocate such
books of account
and records or tangible Collateral unless it delivers to the Secured Parties
at
least 30 days prior to such relocation (i) written notice of such relocation
and
the new location thereof (which must be within the United
States) and (ii) evidence that
appropriate financing statements under the UCC and other necessary documents
have been filed and recorded and other steps have been taken to perfect the
Security Interests
to create in favor of the Secured
Parties a valid, perfected
and continuing perfected first priority lien in the
Collateral.
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(f) This
Agreement creates in
favor of the Secured
Parties a valid security
interest in the Collateral, subject
only to Permitted Liens (as defined in the Debentures) securing the payment and performance
of the
Obligations. Upon making the filings described in the immediately
following paragraph, all security interests created hereunder in any Collateral
which may be perfected by filing Uniform Commercial Code financing
statements
shall have been duly
perfected. Except for the filing of the Uniform Commercial Code
financing statements referred to in the immediately following paragraph,
the
recordation of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement (as defined
below)
with respect to copyrights and
copyright
applications in the United States Copyright Office referred to in paragraph
(m),
the execution and delivery
of deposit account control agreements satisfying the requirements of Section
9-104(a)(2) of the UCC with respect to each
deposit account of the
Debtors, and the delivery
of the certificates and other instruments provided in Section 3, no action is necessary
to create,
perfect or protect the security interests created hereunder. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, except for the
filing of said
financing statements, the recordation of said Intellectual Property Security
Agreement, and the execution and delivery of said deposit account control
agreements, no consent of any third parties and no authorization, approval
or other action by, and no notice
to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body is required
for
(i) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, (ii) the creation
or perfection of the Security Interests created hereunder
in the Collateral or (iii) the
enforcement of the rights of the Agent and the Secured
Parties
hereunder.
(g) Each
Debtor hereby authorizes the
Agent
to file one or more financing
statements under the UCC, with respect to the Security Interests,
with the proper filing
and recording
agencies in any jurisdiction deemed proper
by
it.
(h) The
execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement by the Debtors does not (i) violate any of the provisions
of
any Organizational Documents of any Debtor or any judgment, decree,
order or award
of any court, governmental body or arbitrator or any applicable law, rule
or
regulation applicable to any Debtor or (ii) conflict with, or constitute
a
default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would
become a default) under, or give to
others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation
(with
or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility,
debt or other instrument (evidencing any Debtor's debt or
otherwise) or other understanding to
which any Debtor is a party or by which any property or asset of any
Debtor is bound or
affected. If any, all required consents
(including, without limitation, from
stockholders or creditors
of any Debtor) necessary
for any Debtor to enter
into and perform its obligations hereunder have been obtained.
(i) The
capital stock and other equity
interests listed on Schedule H
hereto (the “Pledged
Securities”)
represent
all of the capital stock and
other equity interests of
the Guarantors, and represent all capital stock and other equity interests
owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company. All of the Pledged
Securities are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and the Company
is
the legal and beneficial owner of
the Pledged Securities, free and clear
of any lien, security interest or other encumbrance except for the security
interests created by this Agreement and other Permitted Liens (as defined
in the
Debentures).
(j) The
ownership and other equity
interests in partnerships
and limited liability companies (if any) included in the Collateral
(the “Pledged Interests”)
by their express terms do not provide
that they are securities governed by Article 8 of the UCC and are not held
in a
securities account or by
any financial intermediary.
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(k) Except
for Permitted Liens (as defined in
the Debentures), each
Debtor shall at all times maintain the liens and Security Interests
provided for hereunder as valid and
perfected first priority liens and security interests in the Collateral
in favor of the
Secured Parties until this Agreement and the Security Interest hereunder
shall
be terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof. Each Debtor hereby
agrees to defend the same against the claims of any and all persons and
entities.
Each Debtor shall safeguard and
protect all Collateral for the account of the Secured
Parties. At
the request of the
Agent, each Debtor will
sign and deliver to the
Agent on behalf of the
Secured Parties at any time or from time to time one or more financing statements
pursuant to the UCC
in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent
and will pay the cost of filing the
same in all public offices wherever filing is, or is deemed by the Agent
to be, necessary or desirable to effect
the rights and obligations
provided for herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each
Debtor shall pay all fees, taxes and other amounts necessary to maintain
the
Collateral and the Security Interests
hereunder, and each Debtor shall obtain
and furnish to the Agent
from time to time, upon demand, such
releases and/or subordinations of claims and liens which may be required
to
maintain the priority of the Security Interests
hereunder.
(l) No
Debtor will transfer, pledge,
hypothecate, encumber, license, sell or otherwise dispose
of any of the
Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by a Debtor in its
ordinary course of business and sales of inventory by a Debtor in its ordinary
course of business) without the prior written consent of a Majority in Interest.
(m)
Each Debtor shall keep and
preserve its equipment, inventory and other tangible Collateral in good
condition, repair and order and shall not operate or locate any such Collateral
(or cause to be operated or located) in any area excluded from insurance coverage.
(n) Each
Debtor shall maintain with
financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to the
Collateral, including
Collateral hereafter acquired, against loss or damage
of the kinds and
in the amounts customarily insured against by entities
of established
reputation having similar properties similarly situated and in such amounts
as
are customarily carried under similar circumstances by other such entities
and
otherwise as is prudent for entities engaged in similar businesses
but in any event sufficient to
cover the full replacement cost thereof. Each Debtor shall cause each
insurance policy issued in connection herewith to provide, and the insurer
issuing such policy to certify to the Agent,
that (a) the Agent will be named as lender loss
payee and
additional insured under each such insurance policy; (b) if such insurance
be
proposed to be cancelled or materially changed for any reason whatsoever,
such
insurer will promptly notify the Agent and such cancellation or change
shall not be effective as to the
Agent for at least thirty (30) days after receipt by the Agent of such notice,
unless the effect of such change is to extend or increase coverage under
the
policy; and (c) the Agent will have the right (but no obligation)
at its election to remedy any default
in the payment of premiums within thirty (30) days of notice from the insurer
of
such default. If no Event of Default (as defined in the
Debentures)
exists, loss payments in each instance
will be applied by the applicable Debtor to the
repair and/or
replacement of property with respect to which the
loss was incurred to the extent
reasonably feasible, and any loss payments or the balance thereof remaining,
to
the extent not so applied, shall be payable to the applicable
Debtor; provided,
however,
that payments received by any Debtor
after an Event of Default occurs and is continuing shall
be paid to the Agent on behalf of the Secured
Parties
and, if received by
such
Debtor, shall be held in trust for the Secured Parties
and
immediately paid over to the Agent
unless otherwise directed in writing by the Agent. Copies of
such policies or the related certificates, in each case, naming the Agent
as
lender loss payee and additional insured shall be delivered to the Agent
at least annually and
at
the time any new policy of insurance is issued.
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(o) Each
Debtor shall, within ten (10) days
of obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Secured Parties promptly, in
sufficient detail, of any
material adverse change in
the Collateral, and of the
occurrence of any event which would have a material adverse effect on the
value
of the Collateral or on the Secured Parties’
security interest, through the Agent,
therein.
(p) Each
Debtor shall promptly execute and
deliver to the Agent
such further deeds, mortgages,
assignments, security agreements, financing statements or other instruments,
documents, certificates and assurances and take such further action as the Agent
may from time to time request and may
in its sole discretion deem necessary to perfect,
protect or enforce
the Secured
Parties’
security interest in the Collateral
including, without limitation, if applicable, the execution and delivery
of a
separate security agreement with respect to each Debtor’s
Intellectual Property (“Intellectual
Property Security
Agreement”)
in which the Secured Parties have been
granted a security interest hereunder, substantially in a form reasonably acceptable
to the Agent,
which Intellectual Property Security
Agreement, other than as stated therein, shall be subject
to all of the terms
and conditions hereof.
(q) Each
Debtor shall permit the Agent and its
representatives and agents to inspect
the Collateral during
normal business hours and upon reasonable prior notice, and to make copies
of
records pertaining to the
Collateral as may be reasonably requested
by the
Agent from time to
time.
(r) Each
Debtor shall take all steps
reasonably necessary to diligently pursue and seek to preserve, enforce and
collect any rights, claims, causes of action and accounts receivable
in respect of
the Collateral.
(s) Each
Debtor shall promptly notify the
Secured Parties in sufficient detail upon becoming aware of any attachment,
garnishment, execution or other legal process levied against any Collateral
and
of any other information
received by such Debtor that may materially affect the value of the Collateral,
the Security Interest or the rights and remedies of the Secured Parties
hereunder.
(t) All
information heretofore, herein or
hereafter supplied to the
Secured Parties by or on behalf of any Debtor with respect to the Collateral
is
accurate and complete in all material respects as of the date
furnished.
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(u) The
Debtors shall at all times preserve
and keep in full force and effect their respective valid existence and good
standing and any
rights and franchises material to its business.
(v) No
Debtor will change its name, type of
organization, jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification
number
(if it has one), legal or corporate structure, or identity,
or add any new
fictitious name unless it provides at least 30 days prior written notice
to the
Secured Parties of such change and, at the time of such written notification,
such Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings
necessary to perfect and continue the
perfection of the Security
Interests
granted and evidenced by this
Agreement.
(w) Except
in the ordinary course of
business, no
Debtor may consign any of its inventory
or sell any of its inventory on xxxx and
hold, sale or return, sale
on approval, or
other conditional terms of sale without the consent of the Agent
which shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
(x) No
Debtor may relocate its chief
executive office to a new location without providing 30 days prior
written notification
thereof to the Secured Parties and so long as, at the time of such written
notification, such Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings
necessary to perfect and continue the perfection of the
Security
Interests
granted and evidenced by this
Agreement.
(y) Each
Debtor was organized and remains
organized solely under the laws of the state set forth next to such
Debtor’s
name in Schedule D
attached hereto, which Schedule
D sets forth each
Debtor’s
organizational identification number or, if any
Debtor does not
have one, states that one does not exist.
(z)
(i) The actual name of each Debtor is
the name set forth in Schedule
D attached hereto;
(ii) no Debtor has any trade names
except as set forth on Schedule E
attached hereto; (iii) no Debtor
has used any name
other than that stated in the preamble hereto or as set forth on Schedule E
for the preceding five years; and (iv)
no entity has merged into any Debtor or been acquired by any Debtor within
the
past five years except as
set forth on Schedule
E.
(aa) At
any time and from time to time that
any Collateral consists of instruments, certificated securities or other
items
that require or permit possession by the secured party to perfect the security
interest created hereby, the applicable Debtor
shall deliver such
Collateral to the Agent.
(bb) Each
Debtor, in its capacity as issuer,
hereby agrees to comply with any and all orders and instructions of Agent
regarding the Pledged Interests consistent with the terms of this Agreement without the
further consent of
any Debtor as contemplated by Section 8-106 (or any successor section) of
the
UCC. Further, each Debtor agrees that it shall
not enter into a similar agreement
(or one that would confer “control”
within the meaning of Article 8 of the
UCC) with any other
person or entity.
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(cc) Each
Debtor shall cause all tangible
chattel paper constituting Collateral to be delivered to the Agent, or, if
such
delivery is not possible, then to cause such tangible chattel paper to
contain a legend noting
that it is subject to the security interest created by this
Agreement. To the extent that any Collateral consists of electronic
chattel paper, the applicable Debtor shall cause the underlying chattel paper
to
be “marked”
within the meaning
of Section 9-105 of the UCC (or
successor section thereto).
(dd) If
there is any investment property or
deposit account included as Collateral that can be perfected by “control”
through an account control agreement,
the applicable Debtor shall cause such an account control
agreement, in form
and substance in each case satisfactory to the Agent,
to be entered into and delivered to
the Agent for the benefit
of the Secured
Parties.
(ee) To
the extent that any Collateral
consists of letter-of-credit rights, the applicable Debtor
shall cause the
issuer of each underlying letter of credit to consent to an assignment of
the
proceeds thereof to the Secured Parties.
(ff) To
the extent that any Collateral is in
the possession of any third party, the applicable Debtor
shall join with the
Agent in notifying such
third party of the Secured Parties’
security interest in such Collateral
and shall use its best efforts to obtain an acknowledgement and agreement
from
such third party with respect to the Collateral, in form and substance
reasonably
satisfactory
to the Agent.
(gg) If
any Debtor shall at any time hold or
acquire a commercial tort claim, such Debtor shall promptly notify the Secured
Parties in a writing signed by such Debtor of the particulars thereof
and grant to the Secured
Parties in such writing a security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof,
all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be in form and
substance satisfactory to
the Agent.
(hh) Each
Debtor shall immediately
provide written notice to
the Secured Parties of any and all accounts which arise out of contracts
with
any governmental authority and, to the extent necessary to perfect or continue
the perfected status of the Security Interests
in such accounts and proceeds
thereof, shall execute
and deliver to the
Agent an assignment of
claims for such accounts and cooperate with the Agent
in taking any other steps required,
in its
judgment, under the
Federal
Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state or local statute or rule to perfect
or continue the
perfected status of the Security Interests
in such accounts and proceeds
thereof.
(ii) Each
Debtor shall cause each
subsidiary
of such Debtor to immediately become a
party hereto (an “Additional Debtor”),
by executing and delivering an
Additional Debtor
Joinder in substantially the form of Annex A
attached hereto and comply with the
provisions hereof applicable to the Debtors. Concurrent therewith,
the Additional Debtor shall deliver replacement schedules for, or supplements to all other
Schedules to (or
referred to in) this Agreement, as applicable, which replacement
schedules
shall supersede, or
supplements shall modify, the Schedules then in effect. The
Additional Debtor shall also deliver such opinions of counsel, authorizing resolutions,
good
standing certificates, incumbency certificates, organizational documents,
financing statements and other information and documentation as the Agent
may reasonably request. Upon
delivery of the foregoing
to the Agent, the
Additional Debtor shall
be
and become a party to this Agreement with the same rights and obligations
as the
Debtors, for all purposes hereof as fully and to the same extent as if it
were
an original signatory hereto and shall be deemed to have made the
representations,
warranties and covenants
set forth herein as of the date of execution and delivery of such Additional
Debtor Joinder, and all references herein to the “Debtors”
shall be deemed to include each
Additional Debtor.
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(jj) Each
Debtor shall vote the Pledged Securities
to comply with
the covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the
Debentures.
(kk) Each
Debtor shall register the pledge of
the applicable Pledged Securities on the books of such Debtor. Each
Debtor shall notify each issuer of Pledged Securities
to register the
pledge of the applicable Pledged Securities in the name of the Secured Parties
on the books of such issuer. Further, except with respect to
certificated securities delivered to the Agent, the applicable Debtor shall
deliver
to Agent an acknowledgement of
pledge (which, where appropriate, shall comply with the requirements of the
relevant UCC with respect to perfection by registration) signed by the issuer
of
the applicable Pledged Securities, which acknowledgement shall
confirm that: (a) it has registered the
pledge on its books and records; and (b) at any time directed by Agent during
the continuation of an Event of Default, such issuer will transfer the record
ownership of such Pledged Securities into the name of any designee
of Agent, will take such steps
as may be necessary to effect the transfer, and will comply with all other
instructions of Agent regarding such Pledged Securities without the further
consent of the applicable Debtor.
(ll) In
the event that, upon an occurrence of an
Event of Default,
Agent shall sell all or any of the Pledged Securities to another party or
parties (herein called the “Transferee”)
or shall purchase or retain all or any
of the Pledged Securities, each Debtor shall, to the extent applicable: (i) deliver
to Agent or the
Transferee, as the case may be, the articles of incorporation, bylaws, minute
books, stock certificate books, corporate seals, deeds, leases, indentures,
agreements, evidences of indebtedness, books of account, financial
records and all other Organizational
Documents and records of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries;
(ii) use its best efforts to obtain resignations of the persons then serving
as
officers and directors of the Debtors and their direct and
indirect subsidiaries, if so
requested; and (iii) use its best efforts to obtain any approvals that are
required by any governmental or regulatory body in order to permit the sale
of
the Pledged Securities to the Transferee or the purchase or retention
of
the Pledged Securities by Agent and
allow the Transferee or Agent to continue the business of the Debtors and
their
direct and indirect subsidiaries.
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(mm) Without
limiting the generality of the
other obligations of the Debtors hereunder, each Debtor shall promptly (i) cause
to be registered at
the United States
Copyright
Office all of its material
copyrights, (ii) cause the security interest contemplated hereby with respect
to
all Intellectual Property registered at the United States Copyright Office
or
United States Patent
and
Trademark Office to be duly recorded at the applicable office, and (iii)
give
the Agent notice whenever it acquires (whether absolutely or by license)
or
creates any additional material Intellectual Property.
(nn) Each
Debtor will from time to time,
at the joint and
several expense of the Debtors, promptly execute and deliver all such further
instruments and documents, and take all such further action as may be necessary
or desirable, or as the Agent
may reasonably request, in
order to perfect and
protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or
to
enable the Secured Parties to exercise and enforce their rights and remedies
hereunder and with respect to any Collateral or to otherwise carry out the
purposes of
this Agreement.
(oo) Schedule
F attached hereto
lists all of the
patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, registered
copyrights, and domain names owned by any of the Debtors as of the date
hereof. Schedule F
lists all material licenses in favor
of any Debtor for the
use of any patents, trademarks, copyrights and domain names as of the date
hereof. All material patents and trademarks of the Debtors have been
duly recorded at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and
all
material copyrights of the Debtors have
been duly recorded at the United States Copyright Office.
(pp) Except
as set forth on Schedule G
attached hereto, none of the account
debtors or other persons or entities obligated on any of the Collateral is
a
governmental authority
covered by the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state
or
local statute or rule in respect of such Collateral.
5.
Effect of Pledge
on Certain
Rights. If
any of the Collateral subject to this
Agreement consists of
nonvoting equity or ownership interests (regardless of class, designation,
preference or rights) that may be converted into voting equity or ownership
interests upon the occurrence of certain events (including, without limitation,
upon the transfer of all
or any of the other stock or assets
of the issuer), it is agreed that the pledge of such equity or ownership
interests pursuant to this Agreement or the enforcement of any of
Agent’s
rights hereunder shall not be deemed
to be the type of event which would
trigger such conversion rights
notwithstanding any provisions in the Organizational Documents or agreements
to
which any Debtor is subject or to which any Debtor is party.
6.
Defaults.
The following events shall be
“Events of
Default”:
(a) The occurrence of an Event
of Default (as
defined in the Debentures)
under the Debentures;
(b) Any representation or warranty of any Debtor in this
Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when
made;
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(c) The
failure by any
Debtor to observe or
perform any of its obligations hereunder for five (5) days after delivery
to
such Debtor of notice of such failure by or on behalf of a Secured Party
unless
such default is capable of cure but cannot be cured within such time frame
and
such
Debtor is using best efforts to cure
same in a timely fashion; or
(d) If
any provision of
this Agreement shall at any time for any reason be declared to be null and
void,
or the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested
by any
Debtor, or a proceeding
shall be commenced by any
Debtor, or by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over any Debtor,
seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or any Debtor
shall deny that any Debtor has any liability or obligation purported
to be created under this
Agreement.
7.
Duty To Hold In
Trust.
(a) Upon
the occurrence of any Event of
Default and at any time thereafter, each Debtor shall, upon receipt of any
revenue, income, dividend,
interest or other sums
subject to the Security
Interests,
whether payable pursuant to the
Debentures
or otherwise, or of any check, draft,
note, trade acceptance or other instrument evidencing an obligation to pay
any
such sum, hold the same in trust for the Secured Parties and shall forthwith endorse
and transfer any
such sums or instruments, or both, to the Secured Parties, pro-rata in
proportion to their respective then-currently
outstanding
principal amount of
Debentures for application to the satisfaction of the Obligations
(and if any Debenture
is
not outstanding, pro-rata in proportion to the initial purchases of the
remaining Debentures).
(b) If
any Debtor shall become entitled to
receive or shall receive any securities or other property (including, without
limitation, shares of
Pledged Securities or instruments representing Pledged Securities acquired
after
the date hereof, or any options, warrants, rights or other similar property
or
certificates representing a dividend, or any distribution in connection with
any
recapitalization,
reclassification or increase
or reduction of capital, or issued in connection with any reorganization
of such
Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries) in respect of the Pledged
Securities (whether as an addition to, in substitution of,
or in exchange for, such Pledged
Securities or otherwise), such Debtor agrees to (i) accept the same as the
agent
of the Secured Parties; (ii) hold the same in trust on behalf of and for
the
benefit of the Secured Parties; and (iii) to deliver any and all
certificates or instruments
evidencing the same to Agent on or before the close of business on the fifth
business day following the receipt thereof by such Debtor, in the exact form
received together with the Necessary Endorsements, to be held by
Agent subject
to the terms of this Agreement
as Collateral.
8.
Rights and
Remedies Upon Default.
(a) Upon
the occurrence of any Event of
Default and at any time thereafter, the Secured Parties, acting through
the Agent,
shall have the right to exercise all of
the remedies
conferred hereunder and under the Debentures, and the Secured Parties
shall
have
all the rights and remedies of a
secured party under the UCC. Without limitation, the Agent, for the benefit
of the
Secured Parties,
shall have the following rights
and
powers:
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(i) The
Agent shall have the right
to take possession
of the Collateral and, for that purpose, enter, with the aid and assistance
of
any person, any premises where the Collateral, or any part thereof, is or
may be
placed and remove the same,
and each Debtor shall assemble the Collateral and make it available to the Agent
at places which the Agent
shall reasonably select, whether at
such Debtor's premises or elsewhere, and make available to the Agent,
without rent, all of such Debtor’s
respective premises and facilities for
the purpose of the
Agent taking possession
of,
removing or putting the Collateral in saleable or disposable
form.
(ii) Upon
notice to the Debtors by Agent, all
rights of each Debtor to exercise the voting and other consensual
rights which
it would otherwise be entitled to exercise and all rights of each Debtor
to
receive the dividends and interest which it would otherwise be authorized
to
receive and retain, shall cease. Upon such notice, Agent
shall have
the right to receive, for the benefit of
the Secured
Parties, any interest, cash
dividends or other payments on the Collateral and, at the option of Agent,
to
exercise in such Agent’s
discretion all voting rights
pertaining thereto. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, Agent
shall have the right (but not the obligation) to exercise all rights with
respect to the Collateral as it were the sole and absolute
owner thereof, including,
without limitation, to vote and/or to exchange, at its sole discretion, any or
all of the
Collateral in connection with a merger, reorganization, consolidation,
recapitalization or other readjustment concerning or involving the Collateral
or
any Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries.
(iii) The
Agent
shall have the right to operate the
business of each Debtor using the Collateral and shall have the right to
assign,
sell, lease or otherwise dispose of and deliver all or any part of the
Collateral, at public or private sale or otherwise, either with or without special
conditions or
stipulations, for cash or on credit or for future delivery, in such parcel
or
parcels and at such time or times and at such place or places, and upon
such terms and conditions
as the Agent may deem
commercially reasonable,
all without (except as shall be required by applicable statute and cannot
be
waived) advertisement or demand upon or notice to any Debtor or right of
redemption of a Debtor, which are hereby expressly waived. Upon each
such sale, lease, assignment or other
transfer of Collateral, the
Agent, for the benefit
of
the Secured
Parties,
may, unless prohibited by applicable
law which cannot be waived, purchase all or any part of the Collateral being
sold, free from and discharged of all trusts, claims, right of redemption and equities
of any Debtor,
which are hereby waived and released.
(iv) The
Agent shall have the right
(but not the
obligation) to notify any account debtors and any obligors under instruments
or
accounts to make payments
directly to the Agent, on
behalf of the Secured Parties,
and to enforce the Debtors’
rights against such account debtors and
obligors.
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(v) The
Agent,
for the benefit of the
Secured Parties,
may (but is not obligated to)
direct any financial
intermediary or any other person or entity holding any investment
property to
transfer the same to the Agent, on behalf of
the Secured Parties,
or its designee.
(vi)
The
Agent may (but is
not obligated to) transfer any or all
Intellectual Property registered in the name of any Debtor at the United States Patent
and Trademark Office
and/or Copyright Office into the name of the Secured Parties or any designee
or
any purchaser of any Collateral.
(b) The
Agent shall comply with any applicable
law in
connection with a disposition of Collateral and such compliance will
not be considered
adversely to affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the
Collateral. The Agent may sell the Collateral without giving any
warranties and may specifically disclaim such warranties. If the
Agent sells any
of the Collateral on credit, the
Debtors will only be credited with payments actually made by the
purchaser. In addition, each Debtor waives any and all rights that it
may have to a judicial hearing in advance of the enforcement of any of the
Agent’s
rights
and remedies hereunder, including,
without limitation, its right following an Event of Default to take immediate
possession of the Collateral and to exercise its rights and remedies with
respect thereto.
(c) For
the purpose of enabling the Agent to
further exercise rights
and
remedies under this Section 8 or elsewhere provided by agreement or applicable
law, each Debtor hereby grants to the Agent, for the benefit of the Agent
and
the Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable
without
payment of royalty or other
compensation to such Debtor) to use, license or sublicense following an Event
of
Default, any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such
Debtor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such
license access to all media in which
any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software
and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof.
9.
Applications of
Proceeds. The
proceeds of any such sale, lease or other disposition
of the
Collateral hereunder or
from payments made on account of any insurance policy insuring any portion
of
the Collateral shall be
applied first, to the expenses of retaking, holding, storing, processing
and
preparing for sale,
selling, and the like (including, without limitation, any taxes, fees and
other
costs incurred in connection therewith) of the Collateral, to the reasonable
attorneys’
fees and expenses incurred by the
Agent in enforcing
the
Secured Parties’
rights hereunder and in connection
with collecting,
storing and disposing of the Collateral, and then to satisfaction of the
Obligations pro rata among the Secured Parties (based on then-outstanding
principal amounts of Debentures at the time of any such
determination),
and to the payment of any other
amounts required by applicable law, after which the Secured Parties shall
pay to
the applicable Debtor any surplus proceeds. If, upon the sale, license or
other
disposition of the Collateral, the proceeds thereof are insufficient
to pay all amounts to which the
Secured Parties are legally entitled, the Debtors will be liable for the
deficiency, together with interest
thereon, at the rate of
18% per annum or the
lesser
amount permitted by applicable law (the “Default Rate”),
and the reasonable fees of any
attorneys employed by the Secured Parties to collect such
deficiency. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each Debtor
waives all claims, damages and demands against the Secured Parties arising
out
of the repossession,
removal, retention or sale of the
Collateral, unless due solely to the gross negligence or willful misconduct
of
the Secured Parties as determined by a final judgment (not subject to further
appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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10.
Securities
Law
Provision. Each Debtor
recognizes that
Agent may be limited in its ability to effect a sale to the public of all
or
part of the Pledged Securities by reason of certain prohibitions in the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or other federal or state securities laws (collectively,
the
“Securities
Laws”),
and may be compelled to resort to one
or more sales to a restricted group of purchasers who may be required to
agree
to acquire the Pledged Securities for their own account, for investment and
not
with a view to the
distribution or resale thereof. Each Debtor agrees that sales so made
may be at prices and on terms less favorable than if the Pledged Securities
were
sold to the public, and that Agent has no obligation to delay the sale of
any
Pledged Securities
for the period of time necessary
to register the Pledged Securities for sale to the public under the Securities
Laws. Each Debtor shall cooperate with Agent in its attempt to
satisfy any requirements under the Securities Laws (including, without
limitation,
registration thereunder if
requested by Agent) applicable to the sale of the Pledged Securities by
Agent.
11. Costs
and
Expenses. Each
Debtor agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket fees, costs and expenses
incurred in connection with
any filing required hereunder, including without limitation, any financing
statements pursuant to the UCC, continuation statements, partial releases
and/or
termination statements related thereto or any expenses of any searches
reasonably required
by the Agent. The
Debtors shall also pay
all other claims and charges which in the reasonable opinion of the Agent is reasonably
likely
to prejudice, imperil
or
otherwise affect the Collateral or the Security Interests
therein. The Debtors will
also, upon demand, pay to
the Agent
the amount of any and all reasonable
expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel and of
any
experts and agents, which the Agent, for the benefit
of the
Secured Parties,
may incur in connection with (i) the
enforcement of this
Agreement, (ii) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of, collection
from,
or other realization upon, any of the Collateral, or (iii) the exercise or
enforcement of any of the rights of the Secured Parties under the Debentures.
Until
so paid, any fees payable hereunder
shall be added to the principal amount of the Debentures and shall bear interest
at the Default Rate.
12. Responsibility
for
Collateral. The
Debtors assume all liabilities and responsibility in connection with all Collateral,
and the
Obligations shall in no way be affected or diminished by reason of the loss,
destruction, damage or theft of any of the Collateral or its unavailability
for
any reason. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
(a)
neither the Agent nor any Secured
Party (i) has any duty (either before or after an Event of Default) to collect
any amounts in respect of the Collateral or to preserve any rights relating
to
the Collateral, or (ii) has any obligation to clean-up or otherwise
prepare the Collateral for sale,
and (b) each Debtor shall remain obligated and liable under each contract
or
agreement included in the Collateral to be observed or performed by such
Debtor
thereunder. Neither the Agent nor any Secured Party shall have
any obligation or liability under
any such contract or agreement by reason of or arising out of this Agreement
or
the receipt by the Agent or any Secured Party of any
payment relating to any of the
Collateral, nor shall the Agent or any Secured Party be obligated in any
manner to perform
any of the obligations of any Debtor under or pursuant to any such contract
or
agreement, to make inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment
received by the Agent or any Secured Party in respect of the Collateral
or as to the sufficiency of any
performance by any party under any such contract or agreement, to present
or
file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to collect
the
payment of any amounts which may have been assigned to the Agent
or to which the Agent or any
Secured Party may be entitled at any time or times.
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13.
Security
Interests
Absolute. All rights
of the Secured Parties and
all obligations of the Debtors hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional,
irrespective of: (a) any
lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the Debentures or any
agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing, or any portion hereof
or thereof; (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment or
performance of, or in
any other term of, all or any of the
Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure
from the Debentures or any other agreement entered into in connection with
the
foregoing; (c) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any
of the Collateral, or any release or
amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other collateral for, or
any
guarantee, or any other
security, for all or any of the Obligations; (d) any action by the Secured
Parties to obtain, adjust, settle and cancel in its
sole discretion any
insurance claims or matters made or arising in connection with the Collateral;
or (e) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute any legal
or
equitable defense available to a Debtor, or a discharge of all
or any part of the Security
Interests
granted hereby. Until the
Obligations shall have been paid and performed in full, the rights of the
Secured Parties shall continue even if the Obligations are barred for any
reason, including, without limitation, the running of the statute
of limitations
or bankruptcy. Each Debtor expressly waives presentment, protest,
notice of protest, demand, notice of nonpayment and demand for performance.
In
the event that at any time any transfer of any Collateral or any
payment
received by the Secured Parties
hereunder shall be deemed by final order of a court of competent jurisdiction
to
have been a voidable preference or fraudulent conveyance under the bankruptcy
or
insolvency laws of the United States, or shall be deemed to
be otherwise due to any party other
than the Secured Parties, then, in any such event, each Debtor’s
obligations hereunder shall survive
cancellation of this Agreement, and shall not be discharged or satisfied
by any
prior payment thereof and/or cancellation
of this Agreement, but shall remain
a valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with the terms and
provisions hereof. Each Debtor waives all right to require the
Secured Parties to proceed against any other person or entity or to
apply any Collateral which
the Secured Parties
may hold at any time, or to marshal assets, or to pursue any other remedy.
Each
Debtor waives any defense arising by reason of the application of the statute
of
limitations to any obligation secured hereby.
14.
Term of
Agreement. This
Agreement and the Security Interests
shall terminate on the date on which
all payments under the Debentures have been indefeasibly paid in full and
all
other Obligations have been paid or discharged; provided, however, that
all indemnities of
the
Debtors contained in this Agreement (including, without limitation, Annex
B
hereto) shall survive and remain operative and in full force and effect
regardless of the termination of this Agreement.
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15.
Power of Attorney;
Further
Assurances.
(a) Each
Debtor authorizes the Agent,
and does hereby make,
constitute and appoint the
Agent and its officers,
agents, successors or assigns
with full power of substitution, as such Debtor’s
true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with
power, in the name
of the Agent or such Debtor, to,
after the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i) endorse
any
note, checks, drafts, money orders or other instruments of payment (including
payments payable under or in respect of any policy of insurance) in respect
of the
Collateral that may come into possession of the Agent;
(ii) to sign and endorse any financing
statement pursuant to the UCC or any invoice, freight or express xxxx, xxxx
of
lading, storage or warehouse receipts, drafts against debtors, assignments,
verifications
and notices in connection with accounts, and other documents relating to
the
Collateral; (iii) to pay or discharge taxes, liens, security interests or
other
encumbrances at any time levied or placed on or threatened against
the Collateral; (iv) to demand,
collect, receipt for, compromise, settle and xxx for monies due in respect
of
the Collateral; (v) to transfer any Intellectual Property or provide licenses
respecting any Intellectual Property; and (vi) generally, at the
option of the Agent, and at the expense
of the Debtors, at
any time, or from time to time, to execute and deliver any and all documents
and
instruments and to do all acts and things which the Agent
deems
necessary to protect, preserve and
realize upon the Collateral
and the Security Interests
granted therein in order to effect the
intent of this Agreement and the Debentures all as fully and effectually
as the
Debtors might or could do; and each Debtor hereby ratifies all that said
attorney shall lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney is
coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for the term of this Agreement
and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations shall be
outstanding. The
designation set forth herein shall be deemed to amend
and supersede
any inconsistent provision in the Organizational Documents or other documents
or
agreements to which any Debtor is subject or to which any Debtor is a
party. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, after the occurrence and during
the continuance
of an Event of Default, each Secured Party is specifically authorized to
execute
and file any applications for or instruments of transfer and assignment of
any
patents, trademarks, copyrights or other Intellectual Property
with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office.
(b) On
a continuing basis, each Debtor will
make, execute, acknowledge, deliver, file and record, as the case may be,
with
the proper filing and recording agencies in any jurisdiction,
including,
without limitation, the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule C
attached hereto, all such instruments,
and take all such action as may reasonably be deemed necessary or advisable,
or
as reasonably requested by
the Agent,
to perfect the Security
Interests
granted hereunder and otherwise to
carry out the intent and purposes of this Agreement, or for assuring and
confirming to the
Agent the grant or
perfection of a perfected security
interest in all the Collateral under
the
UCC.
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(c) Each
Debtor hereby irrevocably appoints the Agent
as such Debtor’s
attorney-in-fact, with full authority
in the place and instead of such Debtor and in the name of such Debtor, from
time to time in the
Agent’s
discretion, to take any action
and to
execute any instrument which the Agent
may deem necessary or advisable to
accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including the filing, in its sole
discretion, of one or more financing or continuation statements and amendments
thereto, relative to any of
the Collateral without the signature of such Debtor where permitted by law,
which financing statements may (but need not) describe the Collateral as
“all assets”
or “all personal property”
or words of like import, and ratifies
all such actions
taken by the
Agent. This
power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for
the
term of this Agreement and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations shall
be
outstanding.
16. Notices.
All notices, requests, demands
and other communications
hereunder shall be subject to the notice provision of the Purchase Agreement
(as
such term is defined in the Debentures).
17. Other
Security. To the
extent that the Obligations are now or hereafter secured by
property other than the
Collateral or by the guarantee, endorsement or property of any other person,
firm, corporation or other entity, then the Agent
shall have the right, in its sole
discretion, to pursue, relinquish, subordinate, modify or take any other
action with respect
thereto, without in any way modifying or affecting any of the Secured
Parties’
rights and remedies
hereunder.
18.
Appointment of
Agent. The
Secured Parties hereby appoint
[Enable
Growth
Partners L.P.] to
act as their agent (“Enable”
or “Agent”)
for purposes of exercising any and all
rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder. Such appointment shall
continue until revoked in writing by a Majority in Interest,
at which time a
Majority in Interest
shall appoint a new Agent,
provided
that Enable may
not be removed as Agent unless
Enable shall
then hold less than $100,000 in
principal
amount of
Debentures; provided, further,
that such removal may occur only if
each of the other Secured Parties shall then hold
not less than an aggregate of $500,000 in
principal
amount of Debentures.
The Agent shall have
the
rights, responsibilities and immunities set forth in Annex B
hereto.
19. Miscellaneous.
(a) No
course of dealing between the Debtors
and the Secured Parties, nor any failure to exercise,
nor any
delay in exercising, on the part of the Secured Parties, any right, power
or
privilege hereunder or under the Debentures shall operate as a waiver thereof;
nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege
hereunder or thereunder
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right, power or privilege.
(b) All
of the rights and remedies of the
Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral, whether established
hereby or by the Debentures
or by any other agreements, instruments or documents or by law shall be
cumulative and may be exercised singly or concurrently.
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(c) This
Agreement, together with the
exhibits and schedules hereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede
all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to
such
matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into this Agreement
and
the exhibits and schedules hereto. No
provision of this
Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written
instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Debtors and Secured
Parties holding at least 67% principal amount of Debentures then outstanding
or,
in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such
waived provision is sought.
(d) If
any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by
a
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable,
the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth
herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected,
impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially
reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the
same
or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision,
covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the
intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms,
provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that
may be
hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
(e) No
waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement
of
this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or
a
waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition
or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise
any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such
right.
(f)
This
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and
their successors and permitted assigns. The Company and the
Guarantors may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder
without the prior written consent of each Secured Party (other than by
merger). Any Secured Party may assign any or all of its rights under
this Agreement to any Person to whom such Secured Party assigns or transfers
any
Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with
respect
to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of this Agreement that apply
to
the “Secured Parties.”
(g) Each
party shall take such further
action and execute and
deliver such further documents as may be necessary or appropriate in order
to
carry out the provisions and purposes of this Agreement.
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(h) All
questions
concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of
this
Agreement shall be governed
by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the
State
of New York,
without regard to the principles of
conflicts of law thereof. Each Debtor agrees that all proceedings
concerning the interpretations, enforcement
and defense of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the Debentures
(whether brought against a party hereto
or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners,
members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and
federal courts
sitting in the City of New
York, Borough
of Manhattan. Each Debtor hereby
irrevocably submits
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting
in the
City of
New York, Borough of
Manhattan for the
adjudication of any
dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated
hereby
or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert
in
any proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction
of any such court, that such
proceeding is improper. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives personal
service of process and consents to process being served in any such proceeding
by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or
overnight delivery (with evidence of
delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under
this
Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient
service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein
shall be deemed to limit in any way any
right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Each party
hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising
out of or relating to this Agreement
or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence a
proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing
party in such proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its
reasonable attorney’s
fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such
proceeding.
(i) This
Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be
deemed to be an original
and, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
In
the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, such
signature shall create a valid binding obligation of the party executing
(or on
whose
behalf such signature is executed)
the same with the same force and effect as if such facsimile signature were
the
original thereof.
(j) All
Debtors shall jointly and severally
be liable for the obligations of each Debtor to the Secured Parties
hereunder.
(k) Each
Debtor shall indemnify, reimburse
and hold harmless the Agent
and the Secured Parties and
their respective partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees
and agents (and any other
persons with other titles that have similar functions) (collectively,
“Indemnitees”)
from and against any and all losses,
claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs and expenses, of any
kind
or nature, (including fees relating to the cost of investigating and defending
any of the foregoing)
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee in any way related
to or arising from or alleged to arise from this Agreement or the Collateral,
except any such losses, claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs
and expenses which
result from the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of the Indemnitee as determined by a final, nonappealable
decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. This indemnification
provision is in addition to, and not in limitation of, any other
indemnification
provision in the Debentures,
the Purchase Agreement (as such term is defined in the Debentures) or any
other
agreement, instrument or other document executed or delivered in connection
herewith or therewith.
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(l) Nothing
in this Agreement shall
be construed to subject
Agent or any Secured Party to liability as a partner in any Debtor or any
if its
direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a partnership or as a member in any
Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a limited
liability
company, nor shall Agent or any
Secured Party be deemed to have assumed any obligations under any partnership
agreement or limited liability company agreement, as applicable, of any such
Debtor or any if its direct or indirect subsidiaries or otherwise,
unless and until any such Secured
Party exercises its right to be substituted for such Debtor as a partner
or
member, as applicable, pursuant hereto.
(m) To
the extent that the grant of the
security interest in the Collateral and the enforcement of the terms hereof require
the consent,
approval or action of any partner or member, as applicable, of any Debtor
or any
direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor or compliance with any provisions
of
any of the Organizational Documents, the Debtors hereby grant
such consent and approval and waive
any such noncompliance with the terms of said documents.
[SIGNATURE
PAGES
FOLLOW]
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Security Agreement
to be duly executed on the day
and year first above
written.
VISUAL
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS, INC.
By:
___________________________________
Name:
Title:
VISUAL
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS HOLDING, INC.
By:
___________________________________
Name:Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: President
VISUAL
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS, LLC
By: Visual
Management Systems Holding, Inc.
Managing
Member
By: ___________________________________
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: President
VISUAL
MANAGEMENT
PDG, LLC
By: Visual
Management Systems Holding, Inc.
Managing
Member
By:
___________________________________
Name:Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: President
VMS
FINANCIAL
SERVICES, LLC
By: Visual Management Systems Holding, Inc.
Managing
Member
By:
___________________________________
Name:Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Title: President
[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS
FOLLOWS]
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS TO VMSY
SA]
Name
of Investing Entity: Enable Opportunity
Partners LP
Signature
of Authorized Signatory of
Investing entity:
_________________________
Name
of Authorized Signatory:
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Title
of Authorized Signatory:
Principal
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS TO VMSY
SA]
Name
of Investing Entity: Enable Growth Partners
LP
Signature
of Authorized Signatory of
Investing
entity:
_________________________
Name
of Authorized Signatory:
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Title
of Authorized Signatory:
Principal
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS TO VMSY
SA]
Name
of Investing Entity: Xxxxxx
Diversified Strategy Master Fund
LLC,
Signature
of Authorized
Signatory of Investing
entity:
_________________________
Name
of Authorized Signatory:
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Title
of Authorized Signatory:
Principal
[SIGNATURE
PAGE OF HOLDERS
FOLLOWS]
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SCHEDULE
A
Principal
Place of Business of
Debtors:
Locations
Where Collateral is Located or
Stored:
SCHEDULE
B
SCHEDULE
C
SCHEDULE
D
Legal
Names and Organizational
Identification Numbers
SCHEDULE
E
Names;
Mergers and
Acquisitions
SCHEDULE
F
Intellectual
Property
SCHEDULE
G
Account
Debtors
SCHEDULE
H
Pledged
Securities
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ANNEX
A
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT
FORM
OF ADDITIONAL DEBTOR
JOINDER
Security
Agreement dated as of
November 30,
2007
made by
Visual
Management Systems,
Inc.
and
its subsidiaries party
thereto from time to time,
as Debtors
to
and in favor of
the
Secured Parties identified therein
(the “Security
Agreement”)
Reference
is made to the Security
Agreement as defined above; capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein shall have
the meanings given to such terms in, or by reference in, the Security
Agreement.
The
undersigned hereby agrees that upon
delivery of this Additional Debtor Joinder to the Secured Parties referred
to
above, the undersigned shall (a) be an Additional Debtor under the Security
Agreement, (b)
have all the rights and obligations of the Debtors under the Security Agreement
as fully and to the same extent as if the undersigned was an original signatory
thereto and (c) be deemed to have made the representations and
warranties set forth therein as of
the date of execution and delivery of this Additional Debtor
Joinder. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE
UNDERSIGNED SPECIFICALLY GRANTS TO THE SECURED PARTIES A SECURITY INTEREST
IN
THE COLLATERAL
AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE SECURITY
AGREEMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THE WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL PROVISIONS
SET
FORTH THEREIN.
Attached
hereto are supplemental and/or
replacement Schedules to the Security Agreement, as
applicable.
An
executed copy of this Joinder
shall be delivered
to the Secured Parties, and the Secured Parties may rely on the matters set
forth herein on or after the date hereof. This Joinder shall not be
modified, amended or terminated without the prior written consent of
the
Secured Parties.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has
caused this Joinder to be executed in the name and on behalf of the
undersigned.
[Name
of Additional
Debtor]
|
By:
|
Name:
|
Title:
|
Address:
|
Dated:
ANNEX
B
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT
THE
AGENT
1. Appointment. The
Secured Parties (all capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings
provided in the Security Agreement to which this Annex B is attached (the
"Agreement")),
by their acceptance of the benefits
of the Agreement,
hereby designate Enable
Growth Partners, L.P. (“Enable”
or “Agent”) as
the Agent to act as specified herein
and in the Agreement. Each Secured Party shall be deemed irrevocably
to authorize the Agent to take such action on its behalf
under the provisions
of the Agreement and any other Transaction Document (as such term is defined
in
the Debentures) and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder
and thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required
of the Agent by the terms hereof
and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto. The Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by or
through its agents or employees.
2.
Nature
of
Duties. The
Agent shall have no
duties or responsibilities
except those expressly set forth in the Agreement. Neither the Agent
nor any of its partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees
or agents shall be liable for any action taken or omitted by it as such under
the Agreement
or hereunder or in connection
herewith or therewith, be responsible for the consequence of any oversight
or
error of judgment or answerable for any loss, unless caused solely by its
or
their gross negligence or willful misconduct
as determined by a
final judgment (not subject
to further appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction. The duties
of the Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature; the Agent
shall
not have by reason of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document a
fiduciary relationship
in respect of any Debtor or
any Secured Party; and nothing in the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as
to
impose upon the Agent any obligations in respect of the Agreement
or any other Transaction Document
except as expressly set forth herein and therein.
3.
Lack
of Reliance on the
Agent. Independently
and without
reliance upon the Agent, each Secured Party, to the extent it deems appropriate,
has made and shall continue
to make (i) its own independent investigation of the financial condition
and
affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries in connection with such Secured
Party’s
investment in the Debtors, the
creation and continuance of the Obligations, the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction
Documents, and the taking or not taking of any action in connection therewith,
and (ii) its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Company and its
subsidiaries, and of the value of the Collateral from time to time,
and
the Agent shall have no duty or
responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide any
Secured Party with any credit, market or other information with respect thereto,
whether coming into its possession before any Obligations are incurred
or at
any time or times
thereafter. The Agent shall not be responsible to the Debtors or any
Secured Party for any recitals, statements, information, representations
or
warranties herein or in any document, certificate or other writing delivered
in
connection herewith, or
for
the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, perfection,
collectibility, priority or sufficiency of the Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, or for the financial condition of the Debtors or the
value
of any of the Collateral, or be
required to make any inquiry concerning either the performance or observance
of
any of the terms, provisions or conditions of the Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, or the financial condition of the Debtors, or
the
value of any of the Collateral, or the
existence or possible existence of any default or Event of Default under
the
Agreement, the Debentures or any of the other Transaction
Documents.
4.
Certain
Rights of the
Agent. The Agent
shall have the
right to take any action
with respect to the Collateral, on behalf of all of the Secured
Parties. To the extent practical, the Agent shall request
instructions from the Secured Parties with respect to any material act or
action
(including failure to act) in connection
with the Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, and shall be entitled to act or refrain from acting
in
accordance with the instructions of Secured Parties holding a majority in
principal amount of Debentures (based on then-outstanding principal amounts
of Debentures at the time of any
such determination); if such instructions are not provided despite the
Agent’s
request therefor, the Agent shall be
entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action, and if such action
is
taken, shall be entitled
to appropriate indemnification from
the Secured Parties in respect of actions to be taken by the Agent; and the
Agent shall not incur liability to any person or entity by reason of so
refraining. Without limiting the foregoing, (a) no Secured Party
shall
have any right of action whatsoever
against the Agent as a result of the Agent acting or refraining from acting
hereunder in accordance with the terms of the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, and the Debtors shall have no right to question or
challenge the authority of, or the
instructions given to, the Agent pursuant to the foregoing and (b) the Agent
shall not be required to take any action which the Agent believes (i) could
reasonably be expected to expose it to personal liability or (ii)
is contrary to this Agreement, the
Transaction Documents or applicable law.
5. Reliance. The
Agent shall be entitled
to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, resolution,
notice, statement, certificate, telex, teletype or telecopier message, cablegram,
radiogram,
order or other document or telephone message signed, sent or made by the
proper
person or entity, and, with respect to all legal matters pertaining to the
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and its duties thereunder,
upon advice of counsel
selected by it and upon all other matters pertaining to this Agreement and
the
other Transaction Documents and its duties thereunder, upon advice of other
experts selected by it. Anything
to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Agent
shall have no obligation whatsoever to any Secured Party to assure that the
Collateral exists or is owned by the Debtors or is cared for, protected or
insured or that the liens granted pursuant to the Agreement have been properly
or sufficiently or
lawfully created, perfected, or
enforced or are entitled to any particular priority.
6. Indemnification. To
the extent that the Agent
is not reimbursed and indemnified by the Debtors, the Secured Parties will
jointly and severally reimburse and indemnify the Agent, in
proportion to their
initially purchased respective principal amounts of Debentures, from and
against
any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind
or nature whatsoever which may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Agent in performing its duties
hereunder or under the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or in
any
way relating to or arising out of the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document except for those
determined by a final judgment (not subject to further appeal) of a court
of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted solely from the Agent's own gross
negligence or willful misconduct. Prior to taking any action
hereunder
as Agent, the Agent may require each
Secured Party to deposit with it sufficient sums as it determines in good
faith
is necessary to protect the Agent for costs and expenses associated with
taking
such action.
7. Resignation
by the
Agent.
(a) The
Agent may resign from the performance
of all its functions and duties under the Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents at any time by giving 30 days' prior written notice (as provided
in
the Agreement) to the Debtors and the Secured
Parties. Such
resignation shall take effect upon the
appointment of a successor Agent pursuant to clauses (b) and (c)
below.
(b) Upon
any such notice of
resignation, the Secured Parties, acting by a Majority
in Interest, shall appoint a successor
Agent
hereunder.
(c)
If a successor Agent shall not have
been so appointed within said 30-day period, the Agent shall then appoint
a
successor Agent who shall serve as Agent until such time, if any, as the
Secured
Parties appoint a successor Agent as provided above. If a
successor
Agent has not been appointed
within such 30-day period, the Agent may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction or may interplead the Debtors and the Secured Parties in a
proceeding for the appointment of a successor Agent, and all fees,
including,
but not limited to, extraordinary
fees associated with the filing of interpleader and expenses associated
therewith, shall be payable by the Debtors on demand.
8. Rights
with respect to
Collateral. Each
Secured Party agrees
with all other Secured Parties and the Agent
(i) that it shall
not, and shall not attempt to, exercise any rights with respect to its security
interest in the Collateral, whether pursuant to any other agreement or otherwise
(other than pursuant to this Agreement), or take or institute
any action against the Agent or
any of the other Secured Parties in respect of the Collateral or its rights
hereunder (other than any such action arising from the breach of this Agreement)
and (ii) that such Secured Party has no other rights with respect
to the Collateral other than as set
forth in this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents. Upon
the acceptance of any appointment
as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such
successor
Agent shall thereupon succeed
to and become vested with all the rights, powers,
privileges and
duties of the retiring Agent and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from
its
duties and obligations under the Agreement. After any retiring
Agent’s
resignation or removal hereunder as
Agent, the provisions of the Agreement
including this Annex B shall
inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it
while
it was Agent.