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Exhibit 10.27

 

 

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

dated as of

 

December 18, 2013

 

among

 

LANNETT COMPANY, INC.,

 

THE SUBSIDIARIES OF LANNETT COMPANY, INC.
IDENTIFIED HEREIN,

 

and

 

CITIBANK, N.A.,

 

as Administrative Agent

 

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE I Definitions

 

1

 

 

 

Section 1.01

 

Capitalized Terms and Construction

 

1

Section 1.02

 

Other Defined Terms

 

1

 

 

 

ARTICLE II Guarantee

 

3

 

 

 

Section 2.01

 

Guarantee

 

3

Section 2.02

 

Guarantee of Payment

 

4

Section 2.03

 

No Limitations

 

4

Section 2.04

 

Reinstatement

 

5

Section 2.05

 

Agreement To Pay; Subrogation

 

5

 

 

 

ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties

 

5

 

 

 

Section 3.01

 

Representations and Warranties

 

5

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV Security Interests in Personal Property

 

7

 

 

 

Section 4.01

 

Security Interest

 

7

Section 4.02

 

Covenants

 

8

Section 4.03

 

Other Actions

 

10

Section 4.04

 

Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral

 

12

 

 

 

ARTICLE V Remedies

 

13

 

 

 

Section 5.01

 

Remedies Upon Default

 

13

Section 5.02

 

Application of Proceeds

 

14

Section 5.03

 

Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property

 

15

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination

 

15

 

 

 

Section 6.01

 

Indemnity and Subrogation

 

15

Section 6.02

 

Contribution and Subrogation

 

15

Section 6.03

 

Subordination

 

16

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII Miscellaneous

 

16

 

 

 

Section 7.01

 

Notices

 

16

Section 7.02

 

Waivers; Amendment

 

16

Section 7.03

 

Administrative Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification

 

17

Section 7.04

 

Successors and Assigns

 

17

Section 7.05

 

Survival of Agreement

 

17

Section 7.06

 

Counterparts; Effectiveness; Several Agreement

 

17

Section 7.07

 

Severability

 

18

Section 7.08

 

Right of Set-Off

 

18

Section 7.09

 

Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process

 

18

Section 7.10

 

Headings

 

20

Section 7.11

 

Security Interest Absolute

 

20

Section 7.12

 

Termination or Release

 

20

 

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Section 7.14

 

Future Subsidiaries

 

20

Section 7.15

 

Administrative Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact

 

20

Section 7.16

 

Patriot Act Information

 

21

 

Schedules

 

Schedule I                                                                                       Guarantors

Schedule II                                                                                  Pledged Debt Securities

Schedule III                                                                             Intellectual Property

Schedule IV                                                                              Commercial Tort Claims

 

Exhibits

 

Exhibit I                                                                                                 Form of Supplement

 

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GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT dated as of December 18, 2013 (this “Agreement”) among LANNETT COMPANY, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), Cody Laboratories, Inc., a Wyoming corporation (“Cody”), Lannett Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”) all other Subsidiaries of the Borrower party hereto from time to time (collectively with Cody and Holdings, the “Guarantors” and together with the Borrower, each individually a “Grantor” and collectively, the “Grantors”), and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined herein).

 

BACKGROUND

 

A.                                    Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

 

B.                                    The Lenders have agreed to extend credit to the Borrower on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement.

 

C.                                    The obligations of the Lenders to extend such credit are conditioned upon, among other things, the execution and delivery by the parties hereto of this Agreement.

 

NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration and intending to be bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01                             Capitalized Terms and Construction.

 

(a)  Capitalized terms used in this Agreement (including the preamble hereto) and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings specified in the Credit Agreement.

 

(b)                                 All terms defined in the U.C.C. and not defined in this Agreement or in the Credit Agreement have the meanings specified therein; the term “instrument” shall have the meaning specified in Articles 8 and 9 of the U.C.C., as applicable.

 

(c)                                  The rules of construction specified in Section 1.3 of the Credit Agreement shall also apply to this Agreement.

 

Section 1.02                             Other Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

 

Account Debtor” means any Person who is or who may become obligated to any Grantor under, with respect to or on account of an Account.

 

Claiming Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.

 

Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.

 

Contributing Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.02.

 

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Copyright License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting any right to any third party under any copyright now or hereafter owned by any Grantor or that such Grantor otherwise has the right to license, or granting any right to any Grantor under any copyright now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of such Grantor under any such agreement.

 

Copyright Security Agreement” means any Copyright Security Agreement, executed and delivered by any Grantor to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

 

Copyrights” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor:  (a) all copyright rights in any work subject to the copyright laws of the United States or any other country, whether as author, assignee, transferee or otherwise, and (b) all registrations and applications for registration of any such copyright in the United States or any other country, including registrations, recordings, supplemental registrations and pending applications for registration in the United States Copyright Office, including those listed on Schedule III.

 

Excluded Property” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01(a).

 

General Intangibles” means all choses in action and causes of action, all other intangible personal property of every kind and nature (other than Accounts) now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor and all other “general intangibles”, as defined in the U.C.C. (other than Accounts), including corporate or other business records, indemnification claims, contract rights (including rights under leases, whether entered into as lessor or lessee, Swap Agreements and other agreements), Intellectual Property, goodwill, registrations, franchises, tax refund claims and any letter of credit, guarantee, claim, security interest or other security held by or granted to any Grantor to secure payment by an Account Debtor of any of the Accounts.

 

Intellectual Property” means all intellectual and similar property of every kind and nature now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor, including inventions, designs, Patents, Copyrights, Licenses, Trademarks, trade secrets, confidential or proprietary technical and business information, know-how, show-how or other data or information, software and databases and all embodiments or fixations thereof and related documentation, registrations and franchises, and all additions, improvements and accessions to, and books and records describing or used in connection with, any of the foregoing.

 

IP Security Agreements” means the Patent Security Agreements, Trademark Security Agreements and Copyright Security Agreements.

 

License” means any Patent License, Trademark License, Copyright License or other license or sublicense agreement to which any Grantor is a party, including those listed on Schedule III.

 

Patent License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting to any third party any right to make, use or sell any invention on which a patent, now or hereafter owned by any Grantor or that any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, is in existence, or granting to any Grantor any right to make, use or sell any invention on which a patent, now or hereafter owned by any third party, is in existence, and all rights of any Grantor under any such agreement.

 

Patent Security Agreement” means any Patent Security Agreement executed and delivered by a Grantor to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

 

Patents” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor:  (a) all letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country, all registrations

 

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and recordings thereof, and all applications for letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country, including registrations, recordings and pending applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in any other country, including those listed on Schedule III, and (b) all reissues, continuations, divisions, continuations-in-part, renewals or extensions thereof, and the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, including the right to make, use and/or sell the inventions disclosed or claimed therein.

 

Perfection Certificate” means the certificate, dated the date hereof, completed and supplemented with the schedules and attachments contemplated thereby, and duly executed by an officer of each Grantor.

 

Pledged Debt Securities” means all intercompany Indebtedness held by a Grantor on the date hereof (including all such intercompany Indebtedness listed on Schedule II) and any intercompany Indebtedness in the future issued to or held by such Grantor, and the promissory notes and any other instruments evidencing such intercompany Indebtedness.

 

Secured Parties” means (a) the Lenders, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each L/C Issuer, (d) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (e) any other Person to which any Secured Obligation is owed and (f) the successors and permitted assigns of each of the foregoing.

 

Security Interest” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01.

 

Trademark License” means any written agreement, now or hereafter in effect, granting to any third party any right to use any trademark now or hereafter owned by any Grantor or that any Grantor otherwise has the right to license, or granting to any Grantor any right to use any trademark now or hereafter owned by any third party, and all rights of any Grantor under any such agreement.

 

Trademark Security Agreement” means any Trademark Security Agreement executed and delivered by a Grantor to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

 

Trademarks” means all of the following now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor:  (a) all trademarks, service marks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, trade dress, logos, other source or business identifiers, designs and general intangibles of like nature, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all registration and recording applications filed in connection therewith, including registrations and registration applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar offices in any State of the United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, and all extensions or renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule III, (b) all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized thereby and (c) all other assets, rights and interests that uniquely reflect or embody such goodwill.

 

ARTICLE II

 

GUARANTEE

 

Section 2.01                             Guarantee.  Each Guarantor unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance of the Secured Obligations.  Each of the Guarantors further agrees that the Secured Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any

 

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Secured Obligation.  Each of the Guarantors waives presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the Borrower or any other Loan Party of any of the Secured Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment.

 

Section 2.02                             Guarantee of Payment.  Each of the Guarantors further agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due and not of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to any security held for the payment of the Secured Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party in favor of the Borrower or any other Person.

 

Section 2.03                             No Limitations.  (a)  Except for termination of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in Section 7.12, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Secured Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (i) the failure of the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, any Loan Document or any other agreement, including with respect to any other Guarantor under this Agreement; (iii) the release of, or any impairment of or failure to perfect any Lien on or security interest in, any security held by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party for the Secured Obligations or any of them; (iv) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Secured Obligations; or (v) any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Secured Obligations). Each Guarantor expressly authorizes the Secured Parties to take and hold security in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, to exchange, waive or release any or all such security (with or without consideration), to enforce or apply such security and direct the order and manner of any sale thereof in their sole discretion or to release or substitute any one or more other guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of the Secured Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder.

 

(b)                                 To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of the Secured Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Secured Obligations.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Secured Obligations, make any other accommodation with the Borrower or any other Loan Party or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against the Borrower or any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Secured Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in full in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or

 

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to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Guarantor against the Borrower or any other Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security.

 

Section 2.04                             Reinstatement.  Each of the Guarantors agrees that its guarantee hereunder shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Secured Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or otherwise.

 

Section 2.05                             Agreement To Pay; Subrogation.  In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to pay any Secured Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the applicable Secured Parties in cash the amount of such unpaid Secured Obligation. Upon payment by any Guarantor of any sums to the Administrative Agent as provided above, all rights of such Guarantor against the Borrower or any other Loan Party arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to Article VI.

 

ARTICLE III

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

Section 3.01                             Representations and Warranties.  The Grantors jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties that:

 

(a)                                 Each Grantor has good and valid rights in and title to the Collateral with respect to which it purports to grant a Security Interest hereunder and has full power and authority to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Security Interest in such Collateral pursuant hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without the consent or approval of any other Person other than any consent or approval that has been obtained.

 

(b)                                 The Perfection Certificate has been duly prepared, completed and executed and the information set forth therein, including the exact legal name of each Grantor, is correct and complete in all material respects as of the Effective Date.  The Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (including fixture filings, as applicable) or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations prepared by the Administrative Agent based upon the information provided to the Administrative Agent in the Perfection Certificate for filing in each governmental, municipal or other office specified in Schedule 2 to the Perfection Certificate, are all the filings, recordings and registrations (other than filings required to be made in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office in order to perfect the Security interest in Collateral consisting of United States Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights) that are necessary to publish notice of and protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in respect of all Collateral in which the Security Interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary in any such jurisdiction, except as provided under applicable law with respect to the filing of continuation statements.   In addition to the filings,

 

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recordings or registrations described above, each Grantor represents and warrants that a fully executed copy of each IP Security Agreement, containing a description of all Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property with respect to United States Patents and United States registered Trademarks (and Trademarks for which United States registration applications are pending) and United States registered Copyrights, has been delivered to the Administrative Agent for recording by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. ss. 261, 15 U.S.C. ss. 1060 or 17 U.S.C. ss. 205 and the regulations thereunder, as applicable, and otherwise as may be required pursuant to the laws of any other necessary jurisdiction, to protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in respect of all Collateral consisting of registered or issued Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registration in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions, and no further or subsequent filing, refiling, recording, rerecording, registration or reregistration is necessary (other than such actions as are necessary to perfect the Security Interest with respect to any Collateral consisting of Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights (or registration or application for registration thereof) other than with respect to Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights acquired or developed after the date hereof).

 

(c)                                  The Security Interest constitutes (i) a legal and valid security interest in all the Collateral securing the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, (ii) subject to the filings described in and limitations set forth in Section 3.01(b), a perfected security interest in all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, recording or registering a financing statement or analogous document in the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law in such jurisdictions and (iii) subject to the filings described in and limitations set forth in Section 3.01(b), a security interest that shall be perfected in all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected upon the receipt and recording of each IP Security Agreement with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, and otherwise as may be required pursuant to the laws of any other necessary jurisdiction. The Security Interest is and shall be prior to any other Lien on any of the Collateral, other than Liens permitted under the Credit Agreement.

 

(d)                                 The Collateral is owned by the Grantors free and clear of any Lien, except for Liens expressly permitted pursuant to Section 7.2.3 of the Credit Agreement.  None of the Grantors has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing statement or analogous document under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable laws covering any Collateral, (ii) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, other than Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.2.3 of the Credit Agreement, or (iii) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or other office, which financing statement or analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument is still in effect, except, in each case, for Liens expressly permitted pursuant to Section 7.2.3 of the Credit Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE IV

 

SECURITY INTERESTS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY

 

Section 4.01                             Security Interest.  (a)  As security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in full of the Secured Obligations, each Grantor hereby assigns and pledges to the Administrative Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the “Security Interest”) in, all right, title or interest in or to any and all of the following assets and properties now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Grantor or in which such Grantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the “Collateral”):

 

(i)                                     all Accounts;

 

(ii)                                  all Chattel Paper;

 

(iii)                               all Deposit Accounts;

 

(iv)                              all Documents;

 

(v)                                 all Equipment;

 

(vi)                              all General Intangibles;

 

(vii)                           all Goods not covered by the other clauses of this Section 4.01;

 

(viii)                        all Instruments;

 

(ix)                              all Intellectual Property;

 

(x)                                 all Inventory;

 

(xi)                              all Letter-of-Credit rights;

 

(xii)                           all Pledged Debt Securities;

 

(xiii)                        all rights and claims in respect of Federal, state or other tax refunds;

 

(xiv)                       all commercial tort claims set forth in Schedule IV;

 

(xv)                          all books and records pertaining to the Collateral; and

 

(xvi)                       to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing and all collateral security and guarantees given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing.

 

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Collateral include or the security interest granted under Section 4.01 hereof attach to (i) the shares of capital stock of a corporation, limited liability company interests, partnership interests and other ownership or equity interests of any class in any Subsidiary of Grantor or (ii) any lease, license, contract, property rights or

 

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agreement to which any Grantor is a party or any of its rights or interests thereunder if and for so long as the grant of such security interest shall constitute or result in (x) the abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability of any right, title or interest of any Grantor therein or (y) in a breach or termination pursuant to the terms of, or a default under, any such lease, license, contract property rights or agreement (other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC (or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable law (including the Bankruptcy Code) or principles of equity); provided, however, that the Collateral shall include and such security interest shall attach immediately at such time as the condition causing such abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability shall be remedied and to the extent severable, shall attach immediately to any portion of such Lease, license, contract, property rights or agreement that does not result in any of the consequences specified in (x) or (y) above (such property, collectively, the “Excluded Property”); provided, however, that Excluded Property shall not include any Proceeds, substitutions or replacements for any Excluded Property (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or replacements would constitute Excluded Property).

 

(b)                                 Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent at any time and from time to time to file in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements (including fixture filings) with respect to the Collateral or any part thereof and amendments thereto that (i) indicate the Collateral as all assets of such Grantor or words of similar effect as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail, and (ii) contain the information required by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of each applicable jurisdiction for the filing of any financing statement or amendment, including (a) whether such Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Grantor and (b) in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or covering Collateral constituting minerals or the like to be extracted or timber to be cut, a sufficient description of the real property to which such Collateral relates. Each Grantor agrees to provide such information to the Administrative Agent promptly upon request.

 

Each Grantor also ratifies its authorization for the Administrative Agent to have filed in any relevant jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto filed prior to the date hereof.

 

The Administrative Agent is further authorized to file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office (or any successor office or any similar office in any other country) such documents as may be necessary or advisable for the purpose of perfecting, confirming, continuing, enforcing or protecting the Security Interest granted by each Grantor, without the signature of any Grantor, and naming any Grantor or the Grantors as debtors and the Administrative Agent as secured party.

 

(c)                                  The Security Interest is granted as security only and shall not subject the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any obligation or liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the Collateral.

 

Section 4.02                             Covenants.  (a)  Each Grantor agrees promptly to notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any change (i) in corporate name, (ii) in its identity or type of organization or corporate structure, (iii) in its Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or organizational identification number or (iv) in its jurisdiction of organization.  Each Grantor agrees to promptly provide the Administrative Agent with certified organizational documents reflecting any of the changes described in the first sentence of this paragraph.  Each Grantor agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all filings have been made under the Uniform Commercial Code or otherwise that are required in order for the Administrative Agent to continue at all times following such

 

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change to have a valid, legal and perfected first priority security interest in all the Collateral.  Each Grantor agrees promptly to notify the Administrative Agent if any material portion of the Collateral owned or held by such Grantor is damaged or destroyed.

 

(b)                                 Each Grantor agrees to maintain, at its own cost and expense, such complete and accurate records with respect to the Collateral owned by it as is consistent with its current practices.

 

(c)                                  Each Grantor shall, at its own expense, take any and all actions reasonably necessary to defend title to the Collateral against all Persons and to defend the Security Interest of the Administrative Agent in the Collateral and the priority thereof against any Lien not expressly permitted pursuant to Section 7.2.3 of the Credit Agreement.

 

(d)                                 Each Grantor agrees, at its own expense, to execute, acknowledge, deliver and cause to be duly filed all such further instruments and documents and take all such actions as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request to better assure, preserve, protect and perfect the Security Interest and the rights and remedies created hereby, including the payment of any fees and taxes required in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the granting of the Security Interest and the filing of any financing statements (including fixture filings) or other documents in connection herewith or therewith.

 

(e)                                  The Administrative Agent and such Persons as the Administrative Agent may reasonably designate shall have the right, (upon the occurrence of and during the continuance of an Event of Default at the Grantors’ own cost and expense) with at least 10 Business Days prior notice, to inspect the Collateral, all records related thereto (and to make extracts and copies from such records) and the premises upon which any of the Collateral is located, to discuss the Grantors’ affairs with the officers of the Grantors and their independent accountants and to verify under reasonable procedures the validity, amount, quality, quantity, value, condition and status of, or any other matter relating to, the Collateral, including, in the case of Accounts or Collateral in the possession of any third person, upon the occurrence of and during the continuance of an Event of Default by contacting Account Debtors or the third person possessing such Collateral for the purpose of making such a verification; provided, however, that (i) such inspection, discussion and verification shall be during normal business hours and shall not be materially disruptive to the business of the applicable Grantor, (ii) unless a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, there shall be no more than two separate instances of such inspections, discussions and verifications in any calendar year and (iii) no prior notice in respect of any such inspections, discussions and verifications shall be required if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. The Administrative Agent shall have the absolute right to share any information it gains from such inspection or verification with any Secured Party.

 

(f)                                   At its option and upon at least five (5) prior days’ written notice to such Grantor, the Administrative Agent may discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on the Collateral and not permitted pursuant to Section 7.2.3 of the Credit Agreement, and may pay for the maintenance and preservation of the Collateral to the extent any Grantor fails to do so as required by the Credit Agreement or this Agreement, and each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent on demand for any payment made or any expense incurred by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the foregoing authorization; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be interpreted as excusing any Grantor from the performance of, or imposing any obligation on the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party to cure or perform, any covenants or other promises of any Grantor with respect to taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security

 

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interests or other encumbrances and maintenance as set forth herein or in the other Loan Documents.

 

(g)                                  If at any time any Grantor shall take a security interest in any property of an Account Debtor or any other Person to secure payment and performance of an Account, such Grantor shall promptly assign such security interest to the Administrative Agent.  Such assignment need not be filed of public record unless necessary to continue the perfected status of the security interest against creditors of and transferees from the Account Debtor or other Person granting the security interest.

 

(h)                                 Each Grantor shall remain liable to observe and perform all the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it under each contract, agreement or instrument relating to the Collateral, all in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof, and each Grantor jointly and severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties from and against any and all liability for such performance.

 

(i)                                     Except as permitted by the Credit Agreement, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, none of the Grantors shall make or permit to be made an assignment, pledge or hypothecation of the Collateral, shall grant any other Lien in respect of the Collateral or make or permit to be made any transfer of the Collateral, and except for any Collateral in-transit or in the control or possession of any warehouseman, bailee, agent or processor, the Collateral owned by each Grantor shall remain at all times in possession of the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower.  Each Grantor agrees that it shall not permit any Inventory to be in the possession or control of any warehouseman, agent, bailee, or processor at any time unless such warehouseman, bailee, agent or processor shall have been notified of the Security Interest and shall have acknowledged in writing, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, that such warehouseman, agent, bailee or processor holds the Inventory for the benefit of the Administrative Agent subject to the Security Interest and shall act upon the instructions of the Administrative Agent without further consent from the Grantor, and that such warehouseman, agent, bailee or processor further agrees to waive and release any Lien held by it with respect to such Inventory, whether arising by operation of law or otherwise.

 

(j)                                    None of the Grantors will, without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent, grant any extension of the time of payment of any Accounts included in the Collateral, compromise, compound or settle the same for less than the full amount thereof, release, wholly or partly, any Person liable for the payment thereof or allow any credit or discount whatsoever thereon, other than extensions, compromises, settlements, releases, credits or discounts granted or made in the ordinary course of business and consistent with its current practices and in accordance with such prudent and standard practice used in industries that are the same as or similar to those in which such Grantor is engaged.

 

(k)                                 Each Grantor shall maintain, in form and manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, records of its Chattel Paper and its books, records and documents evidencing or pertaining thereto.

 

Section 4.03                             Other Actions.  In order to further ensure the attachment, perfection and priority of, and the ability of the Administrative Agent to enforce, the Security Interest, each Grantor agrees, in each case at such Grantor’s own expense, to take the following actions with respect to the following Collateral:

 

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(a)                                 Deposit Accounts.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, as to each such Deposit Account that any Grantor at such time maintains, such Grantor shall cooperate fully in taking such actions as any Secured Party may reasonably request in order to cause the Deposit Account Bank or to agree to comply with instructions from the Administrative Agent to such Deposit Account Bank directing the disposition of funds, as applicable, from time to time credited to such Deposit Account, without further consent of such Grantor or any other Person, pursuant to a control agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to be entered into subsequent to the occurrence of an Event of Default.  The Administrative Agent agrees with each Grantor that the Administrative Agent shall not give any such instructions or withhold any withdrawal rights from any Grantor unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

(b)                                 Pledged Debt Securities.  If any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire any notes evidencing Pledged Debt Securities, such Grantor shall forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Administrative Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify.

 

(c)                                  Electronic Chattel Paper and Transferable Records.  If any Grantor at any time holds or acquires an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any “transferable record,” as that term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof and, at the request of the Administrative Agent, shall take such action as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to vest in the Administrative Agent control under U.C.C. Section 9-105 of such electronic chattel paper or control under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as so in effect in such jurisdiction, of such transferable record.  The Administrative Agent agrees with such Grantor that the Administrative Agent will arrange, pursuant to procedures reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and so long as such procedures will not result in the Administrative Agent’s loss of control, for the Grantor to make alterations to the electronic chattel paper or transferable record permitted under UCC Section 9-105 or, as the case may be, Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act for a party in control to allow alterations without loss of control, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur after taking into account any action by such Grantor with respect to such electronic chattel paper or transferable record.

 

(d)                                 Letter-of-Credit Rights.  If any Grantor is at any time a beneficiary under a letter of credit now or hereafter issued in favor of such Grantor, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof and such Grantor shall, pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, either (i) arrange for the issuer and any confirmer of such letter of credit to consent to an assignment to the Administrative Agent of the proceeds of any drawing under the letter of credit or (ii) arrange for the Administrative Agent to become the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, with the Administrative Agent agreeing, in each case, that the proceeds of any drawing under the letter of credit are to be paid to the applicable Grantor unless an Event of Default has occurred or is continuing.

 

(e)                                  Commercial Tort Claims.  If any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire a commercial tort claim in an amount reasonably estimated to exceed $500,000 the Grantor shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof in a writing signed by such Grantor including a summary description of such claim and grant to the Administrative Agent in such writing a

 

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security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement shall require the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to obtain the Administrative Agent’s consent with respect to any settlement, or the terms thereof, entered into by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any commercial tort claim between the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any third party.

 

Section 4.04                             Covenants Regarding Patent, Trademark and Copyright Collateral.  (a)  Each Grantor agrees that it will not do any act, or omit to do any act (and will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to prevent its licensees from doing any act or omitting to do any act), whereby any Patent that is material to the conduct of such Grantor’s business may become invalidated or dedicated to the public, and agrees that it shall continue to mark any products covered by a Patent with the relevant patent number and notice as necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable patent laws.

 

(b)                                 Each Grantor will (and will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees to), for each Trademark material to the conduct of such Grantor’s business, (i) maintain such Trademark in full force free from any valid claim of abandonment or invalidity for non-use, (ii) maintain the quality of products and services offered under such Trademark, (iii) display such Trademark with notice of Federal or foreign registration to the extent necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable law and (iv) not knowingly use or knowingly permit the use of such Trademark in violation of any third party rights.

 

(c)                                  For each work covered by a material Copyright, each Grantor will (and will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees and sublicenses to), continue to publish, reproduce, display, adopt and distribute the work with appropriate copyright notice as necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its maximum rights under applicable copyright laws.

 

(d)                                 Each Grantor shall notify the Administrative Agent promptly if it knows or has reason to know that any Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the conduct of its business may become abandoned, lost or dedicated to the public, or of any materially adverse determination or development (including the institution of, or any such determination or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any court or similar office of any country) regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any such Patent, Trademark or Copyright, its right to register the same, or its right to keep and maintain the same.

 

(e)                                  In no event shall any Grantor, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, file an application for any Patent, Trademark or Copyright (or for the registration of any Trademark or Copyright) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States, unless it promptly informs the Administrative Agent, and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, executes and delivers any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to evidence the Administrative Agent’s security interest in such Patent, Trademark or Copyright, and each Grantor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent as its attorney-in-fact to execute and file such writings for the foregoing purposes, all acts of such attorney being hereby ratified and confirmed; such power, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable.

 

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(f)                                   Each Grantor will take all reasonably necessary steps that are consistent with the practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office or any office or agency in any political subdivision of the United States or in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue each material application relating to the Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyrights (and to obtain the relevant grant or registration) and to maintain each issued Patent and each registration of the Trademarks and Copyrights that is material to the conduct of any Grantor’s business, including timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if consistent with good business judgment, to initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties.

 

(g)                                  In the event that any Grantor has reason to believe that any Collateral consisting of a Patent, Trademark or Copyright material to the conduct of any Grantor’s business has been or is about to be infringed, misappropriated or diluted by a third party, such Grantor promptly shall notify the Administrative Agent and shall, if consistent with good business judgment, promptly sue for infringement, misappropriation or dilution and to recover any and all damages for such infringement, misappropriation or dilution, and take such other actions as are appropriate under the circumstances to protect such Collateral.

 

(h)                                 Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain all requisite consents or approvals by the licensor of each Copyright License, Patent License or Trademark License to effect the assignment of all such Grantor’s right, title and interest thereunder to the Administrative Agent or its designee.

 

ARTICLE V

 

REMEDIES

 

Section 5.01                             Remedies Upon Default.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor agrees to deliver each item of Collateral to the Administrative Agent on demand, and it is agreed that the Administrative Agent shall have the right to take any of or all the following actions at the same or different times:  (a) with respect to any Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property, on demand, to cause the Security Interest to become an assignment, transfer and conveyance of any of or all such Collateral by the applicable Grantors to the Administrative Agent, or to license or sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and whether on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis, any such Collateral throughout the world on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably determine (other than in violation of any applicable laws or regulations or then-existing licensing arrangements to the extent that waivers cannot be obtained), and (b) with or without legal process and with or without prior notice or demand for performance, to take possession of the Collateral and enter any premises where the Collateral may be located for the purpose of taking possession of or removing the Collateral and, generally, to exercise any and all rights afforded to a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor agrees that the Administrative Agent shall have the right, subject to the mandatory requirements of applicable law, to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Collateral at a public or private sale or at any broker’s board or on any securities exchange, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate.  The Administrative Agent shall be authorized at any such sale of securities (if it deems it advisable to do so) to restrict the prospective bidders or purchasers to Persons who will represent and agree that they are purchasing the Collateral for their own account for investment and not with a view to the distribution or sale thereof, and upon consummation of any such sale the Administrative Agent shall have the right to assign, transfer and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof the Collateral so sold. Each such

 

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purchaser at any sale of Collateral shall hold the property sold absolutely, free from any claim or right on the part of any Grantor, and each Grantor hereby waives (to the extent permitted by law) all rights of redemption, stay and appraisal which such Grantor now has or may at any time in the future have under any rule of law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted.

 

The Administrative Agent shall give the applicable Grantors 10 days’ written notice (which each Grantor agrees is reasonable notice within the meaning of Section 9-611 of the U.C.C. or its equivalent in other jurisdictions) of the Administrative Agent’s intention to make any sale of Collateral.  Such notice, in the case of a public sale, shall state the time and place for such sale and, in the case of a sale at a broker’s board or on a securities exchange, shall state the board or exchange at which such sale is to be made and the day on which the Collateral, or portion thereof, will first be offered for sale at such board or exchange.  Any such public sale shall be held at such time or times within ordinary business hours and at such place or places as the Administrative Agent may fix and state in the notice (if any) of such sale.  At any such sale, the Collateral, or portion thereof, to be sold may be sold in one lot as an entirety or in separate parcels, as the Administrative Agent may (in its sole and absolute discretion) determine.  The Administrative Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of any Collateral if it shall determine not to do so, regardless of the fact that notice of sale of such Collateral shall have been given.  The Administrative Agent may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed for sale, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which the same was so adjourned.  In case any sale of all or any part of the Collateral is made on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Administrative Agent until the sale price is paid by the purchaser or purchasers thereof, but the Administrative Agent shall not incur any liability in case any such purchaser or purchasers shall fail to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in case of any such failure, such Collateral may be sold again upon like notice.  At any public (or, to the extent permitted by law, private) sale made pursuant to this Agreement, any Secured Party may bid for or purchase, free (to the extent permitted by law) from any right of redemption, stay, valuation or appraisal on the part of any Grantor (all said rights being also hereby waived and released to the extent permitted by law), the Collateral or any part thereof offered for sale and may make payment on account thereof by using any claim then due and payable to such Secured Party from any Grantor as a credit against the purchase price and such Secured Party may, upon compliance with the terms of sale, hold, retain and dispose of such property without further accountability to any Grantor therefor.  For purposes hereof, a written agreement to purchase the Collateral or any portion thereof shall be treated as a sale thereof; the Administrative Agent shall be free to carry out such sale pursuant to such agreement and no Grantor shall be entitled to the return of the Collateral or any portion thereof subject thereto, notwithstanding the fact that after the Administrative Agent shall have entered into such an agreement all Events of Default shall have been remedied and the Obligations paid in full.  As an alternative to exercising the power of sale herein conferred upon it, the Administrative Agent may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose this Agreement and to sell the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court or courts having competent jurisdiction or pursuant to a proceeding by a court-appointed receiver.  Any sale pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.01 shall be deemed to conform to the commercially reasonable standards as provided in Section 9-610(b) of the U.C.C. or its equivalent in other jurisdictions.

 

Section 5.02                             Application of Proceeds.  The Administrative Agent shall apply the proceeds of any collection or sale of Collateral, including any Collateral consisting of cash, as follows:

 

FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with such collection or sale or otherwise in connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the Secured Obligations, including all court costs and the fees and expenses of its agents and legal counsel, the repayment of all advances made by the Administrative Agent hereunder or

 

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under any other Loan Document on behalf of any Grantor and any other costs or expenses incurred in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document;

 

SECOND, to the payment in full of the Secured Obligations secured by such Collateral (the amounts so applied to be distributed among the Secured Parties pro rata in accordance with the amounts of such Secured Obligations owed to them on the date of any such distribution); and

 

THIRD, to the Grantors, their successors or assigns, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.

 

Upon any sale of Collateral by the Administrative Agent (including pursuant to a power of sale granted by statute or under a judicial proceeding), the receipt of the Administrative Agent or of the officer making the sale shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the Collateral so sold and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obligated to see to the application of any part of the purchase money paid over to the Administrative Agent or such officer or be answerable in any way for the misapplication thereof.

 

Section 5.03                             Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property.  For the purpose of enabling the Administrative Agent to exercise rights and remedies under this Agreement at such time as the Administrative Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each Grantor hereby grants to the Administrative Agent an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to the Grantors) to use, license or sublicense any of the Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof. The use of such license by the Administrative Agent may be exercised, at the option of the Administrative Agent, solely upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default; provided that any license, sublicense or other transaction entered into by the Administrative Agent in accordance herewith shall be binding upon the Grantors notwithstanding any subsequent cure of an Event of Default.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

INDEMNITY, SUBROGATION AND SUBORDINATION

 

Section 6.01                             Indemnity and Subrogation.  In addition to all such rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Guarantors may have under applicable law (but subject to Section 6.03), the Borrower agrees that (a) in the event a payment of an obligation shall be made by any Guarantor under this Agreement, the Borrower shall indemnify such Guarantor for the full amount of such payment and such Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Person to whom such payment shall have been made to the extent of such payment and (b) in the event any assets of any Grantor shall be sold pursuant to this Agreement or any other Security Document to satisfy in whole or in part an obligation owed to any Secured Party, the Borrower shall indemnify such Grantor in an amount equal to the greater of the book value or the fair market value of the assets so sold.

 

Section 6.02                             Contribution and Subrogation.  Each Guarantor (a “Contributing Party”) agrees (subject to Section 6.03) that, in the event a payment shall be made by any other Guarantor hereunder in respect of any Secured Obligation or assets of any other Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to any Security Document to satisfy any Secured Obligation owed to any Secured Party and such other Guarantor (the “Claiming Party”) shall not have been fully indemnified by the Borrower as provided in Section 6.01, the Contributing Party shall indemnify the Claiming Party in an amount equal to the amount

 

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of such payment or the greater of the book value or the fair market value of such assets, as the case may be, in each case multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the net worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof and the denominator shall be the aggregate net worth of all the Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to Section 7.13, the date of the supplement hereto executed and delivered by such Guarantor). Any Contributing Party making any payment to a Claiming Party pursuant to this Section 6.02 shall be subrogated to the rights of such Claiming Party under Section 6.01 to the extent of such payment.

 

Section 6.03                             Subordination.  (a)  Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the Guarantors and Grantors under Sections 6.01 and 6.02 and all other rights of indemnity, contribution or subrogation under applicable law or otherwise shall be fully subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations.  No failure on the part of the Borrower or any Guarantor or Grantor to make the payments required by Sections 6.01 and 6.02 (or any other payments required under applicable law or otherwise) shall in any respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor or Grantor with respect to its obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor and Grantor shall remain liable for the full amount of the obligations of such Guarantor or Grantor hereunder.

 

(b)                                 Each Guarantor and Grantor hereby agrees that all Indebtedness and other monetary obligations owed by it to any other Guarantor, Grantor or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower shall be subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations to the extent set forth in the following sentence.  If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, then no Guarantor or Grantor shall accept any payment from any other Guarantor or Grantor until all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 7.01                             Notices.  All communications and notices hereunder shall (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein) be in writing and given as provided in Section 10.2 of the Credit Agreement.  All communications and notices hereunder to any Guarantor shall be given to it in care of the Borrower as provided in Section 10.2 of the Credit Agreement.

 

Section 7.02                             Waivers; Amendment.  (a)  No failure or delay by any Secured Party in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power.  The rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have.  No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 7.02, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default or Event of Default, regardless of whether any Secured Party may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.  No notice or demand on any Loan Party in any case shall entitle any Loan Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.

 

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amendment or modification is to apply, subject to any consent required in accordance with Section 10.1 of the Credit Agreement.

 

Section 7.03                             Administrative Agent’s Fees and Expenses; Indemnification.  (a)  The parties hereto agree that the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to reimbursement of its expenses incurred hereunder as provided in Section 10.3 of the Credit Agreement.

 

(b)                                 Without limitation of any Grantor or Guarantor’s indemnification obligations under the other Loan Documents, each Grantor and each Guarantor jointly and severally agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent and the other Indemnified Parties against, and hold each Indemnified Party harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees and out-of-pocket expenses of legal counsel and consultants to any Indemnified Party, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnified Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, or to the Collateral, (including any such claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding brought by or on behalf of any Grantor, Guarantor or any Related Party of a Grantor or Guarantor) whether or not any Indemnified Party is a party thereto, except in each case for those (A) arising from the relevant Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or (B) that result from a claim brought by any Grantor against an Indemnified Party for breach in bad faith of such Indemnified Party’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the such Grantor has obtained a judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(c)                                  Any such amounts payable as provided hereunder shall be additional Obligations secured hereby and by the other Security Documents.  The provisions of this Section 7.03 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of any of the Obligations, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party.  All amounts due under this Section 7.03 shall be payable on written demand therefor.

 

Section 7.04                             Successors and Assigns.  Whenever in this Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the permitted successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of any Guarantor, Grantor or the Administrative Agent that are contained in this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.

 

Section 7.05                             Survival of Agreement.  All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by each Loan Party in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the Lender Parties and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Credit Extension, regardless of any investigation made by any Lender Party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that any Lender Party may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder.

 

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and all of which shall constitute together but one and the same agreement.  This Agreement shall become effective as to any Loan Party when a counterpart hereof executed on behalf of such Loan Party shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and a counterpart hereof shall have been executed on behalf of the Administrative Agent, and thereafter shall be binding upon such Loan Party and the Administrative Agent and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of such Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns, except that no Loan Party shall have the right to assign or transfer its rights or obligations hereunder or any interest herein or in the Collateral (and any such assignment or transfer shall be void) except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement or the Credit Agreement.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement and each other Loan Document by facsimile or electronic means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement or such Loan Document, as applicable.  This Agreement shall be construed as a separate agreement with respect to each Loan Party and may be amended, modified, supplemented, waived or released with respect to any Loan Party without the approval of any other Loan Party and without affecting the obligations of any other Loan Party hereunder.

 

Section 7.07                             Severability.  Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such provision and such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction

 

Section 7.08                             Right of Set-Off.  If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Guarantor against any of and all the obligations of such Guarantor now or hereafter existing under this Agreement owed to such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement. The rights of each Lender under this Section 7.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of set-off) which such Lender may have.

 

Section 7.09                             Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process; Process Agent.

 

(a)                       THIS AGREEMENT SHALL EACH BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE EXTENT NOT PREEMPTED, THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.

 

(b)                                 ANY LITIGATION BASED HEREON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THIS AGREEMENT, OR ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, STATEMENTS (WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN) OR ACTIONS OF THE SECURED PARTIES OR THE GRANTORS SHALL BE BROUGHT AND MAINTAINED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF NEW YORK LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK OR THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY SUIT SEEKING ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ANY COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE BROUGHT, AT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S OPTION, IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE FOUND.  EACH GRANTOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ANY SUCH LITIGATION AS SET FORTH ABOVE AND

 

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IRREVOCABLY AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH LITIGATION.  EACH GRANTOR HEREBY FURTHER IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS BY REGISTERED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, OR BY PERSONAL SERVICE WITHIN OR WITHOUT THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  EACH GRANTOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY HAVE OR HEREAFTER MAY HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY SUCH LITIGATION BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT REFERRED TO ABOVE AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH LITIGATION HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.  TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY GRANTOR HAS OR HEREAFTER MAY ACQUIRE ANY IMMUNITY FROM JURISDICTION OF ANY COURT OR FROM ANY LEGAL PROCESS (WHETHER THROUGH SERVICE OR NOTICE, ATTACHMENT PRIOR TO JUDGMENT, ATTACHMENT IN AID OF EXECUTION OR OTHERWISE) WITH RESPECT TO ITSELF OR ITS PROPERTY, SUCH GRANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES SUCH IMMUNITY IN RESPECT OF ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.

 

(c)                                  THE SECURED PARTIES AND THE GRANTORS EACH HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVE ANY RIGHTS THEY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION BASED HEREON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THIS AGREEMENT, OR ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, STATEMENTS (WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN) OR ACTIONS OF THE SECURED PARTIES OR THE GRANTORS.  EACH GRANTOR ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT HAS RECEIVED FULL AND SUFFICIENT CONSIDERATION FOR THIS PROVISION AND THAT THIS PROVISION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE SECURED PARTIES ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.

 

(d)                                 TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NO PARTY HERETO SHALL ASSERT, AND EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, ANY CLAIM AGAINST EACH OTHER PARTY HERETO ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY FOR SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (AS OPPOSED TO DIRECT OR ACTUAL DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, OR AS A RESULT OF, THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY AGREEMENT OR INSTRUMENT CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.  NO LENDER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE BY UNINTENDED RECIPIENTS OF ANY INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED BY IT THROUGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ELECTRONIC OR OTHER INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED.

 

(e)                                  Each Grantor hereby irrevocably designates, appoints and empowers 80 State Street, Albany NY 12207-2543, Albany County (the “Process Agent”), in the case of any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United States of America as its designee, appointee and agent to receive, accept and acknowledge for and on its behalf, and in respect of its property, service of any and all legal process, summons, notices and documents that may be served in any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any Loan Document.  Such service may be made by mailing (by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) or delivering a copy of such process to the applicable Grantor in care of the Process Agent at the Process Agent’s

 

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above address, and such Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs the Process Agent to accept such service on its behalf.  As an alternative method of service, each Grantor irrevocably consents to the service of any and all process in any such action or proceeding by the mailing (by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) of copies of such process to the Process Agent or such Grantor at its address specified in Section 7.01.  Each Grantor agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.

 

Section 7.10                             Headings.  Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

 

Section 7.11                             Security Interest Absolute.  All rights of the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Security Interest, the grant of a security interest in the Collateral and all obligations of each Grantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document, any agreement with respect to any of the Obligations or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of the foregoing, (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument, (c) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Lien on other collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent under or departure from any guarantee, securing or guaranteeing all or any of the Obligations, or (d), any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the Obligations or this Agreement.

 

Section 7.12                             Termination or Release.  This Agreement, the Guarantees made herein, the Security Interest and all other security interests granted hereby shall terminate automatically hereunder and all rights to the Collateral shall automatically revert to the Grantors with no further action on the part of any Person when all the Obligations (other than Obligations in respect of any Swap Agreement) have been indefeasibly paid in full and the Lenders have no further commitment to lend under the Credit Agreement, the Letter of Credit Outstandings have been reduced to zero and each L/C Issuer has no further obligations to issue Letters of Credit under the Credit Agreement and, as of such date, the Administrative Agent shall be deemed to have authorized each Grantor to file financing statements, including amendments and terminations, to evidence such termination.

 

(a)                                 In connection with any termination or release pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 7.12, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to any Grantor, at such Grantor’s sole cost and expense, all documents that such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release.  Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 7.12 shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.

 

Section 7.13                             Future Subsidiaries.  Each Person required to become a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1.9 of the Credit Agreement shall executed and deliver to the Administrative Agent an instrument in the form of Exhibit I hereto, such Person shall become a Guarantor hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Guarantor herein.  The execution and delivery of any such instrument shall not require the consent of any other Loan Party.  The rights and obligations of each Loan Party hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any Person as a party to this Agreement.

 

Section 7.14                             Administrative Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact.  Each Grantor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent the attorney-in-fact of such Grantor, exercisable solely upon the

 

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occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall have the right, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, with full power of substitution either in the Administrative Agent’s name or in the name of such Grantor (a) to receive, endorse, assign and/or deliver any and all notes, acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of payment relating to the Collateral or any part thereof; (b) to demand, collect, receive payment of, give receipt for and give discharges and releases of all or any of the Collateral; (c) to sign the name of any Grantor on any invoice or bill of lading relating to any of the Collateral; (d) to send verifications of Accounts Receivable to any Account Debtor; (e) to commence and prosecute any and all suits, actions or proceedings at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect or otherwise realize on all or any of the Collateral or to enforce any rights in respect of any Collateral; (f) to settle, compromise, compound, adjust or defend any actions, suits or proceedings relating to all or any of the Collateral; (g) to notify, or to require any Grantor to notify, Account Debtors to make payment directly to the Administrative Agent; and (h) to use, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with all or any of the Collateral, and to do all other acts and things necessary to carry out the purposes of this Agreement, as fully and completely as though the Administrative Agent were the absolute owner of the Collateral for all purposes; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring or obligating the Administrative Agent to make any commitment or to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Administrative Agent, or to present or file any claim or notice, or to take any action with respect to the Collateral or any part thereof or the moneys due or to become due in respect thereof or any property covered thereby. The Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts actually received as a result of the exercise of the powers granted to them herein, and neither they nor their officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or failure to act hereunder, except if (A) arising from the relevant Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or (B) a result from a claim brought by any Grantor against an Indemnified Party for breach in bad faith of such Indemnified Party’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the such Grantor has obtained a judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

Section 7.15                             Patriot Act Information.  The Administrative Agent hereby notifies each Grantor that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Loan Parties, which information includes the name and address of the Loan Parties and other information that will allow the Administrative Agent to identify the Loan Parties in accordance with the Patriot Act.  Each Grantor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, provide such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by any Secured Party in order to assist such Secured Party in maintaining compliance with the Patriot Act

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Guaranty and Security Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

 

LANNETT COMPANY, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Arthur P. Bedrosian

 

 

Name:

Arthur P. Bedrosian

 

 

Title:

President and CEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LANNETT HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Arthur P. Bedrosian

 

 

Name:

Arthur P. Bedrosian

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CODY LABORATORIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Arthur P. Bedrosian

 

 

Name:

Arthur P. Bedrosian

 

 

Title:

Interim CEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CITIBANK, N.A.,

 

 

AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Luke Hirneisen

 

 

Name:

Luke Hirneisen

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

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Exhibit I to the Guaranty and Security Agreement

 

SUPPLEMENT NO. [   ], dated as of [                 ], 201[   ], to the Guaranty and Security Agreement (the “Guaranty and Security Agreement”) dated as of December     , 2013, among LANNETT COMPANY, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the Subsidiaries of the Borrower identified therein and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).

 

A.                                    Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of December 18, 2013 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

 

B.                                    Capitalized terms used herein (including in this preamble) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement and the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

 

C.                                    The Grantors have entered into the Guaranty and Security Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to make Loans and each L/C Issuer to issue Letters of Credit.  Section 7.1.9 of the Credit Agreement and Section 7.13 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement provides that additional Subsidiaries of the Borrower may become Guarantors under the Guaranty and Security Agreement by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Supplement.  The undersigned Subsidiary of the Borrower (the “New Subsidiary”) is executing this Supplement in accordance with the requirements of the Credit Agreement and the Guaranty and Security Agreement to become a Guarantor under the Guaranty and Security Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to make additional Loans and each L/C Issuer to issue additional Letters of Credit and as consideration for Loans previously made and Letters of Credit previously issued.

 

Accordingly, the Administrative Agent and the New Subsidiary agree as follows:

 

SECTION 1.                            In accordance with Section 7.13 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, the New Subsidiary by its signature below becomes a Guarantor (and accordingly, becomes a Guarantor and a Grantor) under the Guaranty and Security Agreement with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Guarantor and the New Subsidiary hereby (a) agrees to all the terms and provisions of the Guaranty and Security Agreement applicable to it as a Guarantor, Grantor and Guarantor thereunder and (b) represents and warrants that the representations and warranties made by it as a Grantor and Guarantor thereunder are true and correct on and as of the date hereof. In furtherance of the foregoing, the New Subsidiary, as security for the payment and performance in full of the Secured Obligations, does hereby create and grant to the Administrative Agent, its successors and assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, their successors and assigns, a security interest in and lien on all of the New Subsidiary’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral of the New Subsidiary and subject to the provisions of the Guaranty and Security Agreement. Each reference to a “Guarantor” or “Grantor” in the Guaranty and Security Agreement shall be deemed to include the New Subsidiary.  The Guaranty and Security Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

 

SECTION 2.                            The New Subsidiary represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties that this Supplement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.

 

SECTION 3.                            This Supplement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  This Supplement shall become effective when the Administrative Agent shall have received a counterpart of this Supplement that bears the signature of the

 

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New Subsidiary and the Administrative Agent has executed a counterpart hereof.  Delivery of an executed signature page to this Supplement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Supplement.

 

SECTION 4.                            The New Subsidiary hereby represents and warrants that (a) set forth on Schedule I attached hereto is a true and correct schedule of the location of any and all Collateral of the New Subsidiary and (b) set forth under its signature hereto, is the true and correct legal name of the New Subsidiary, its jurisdiction of formation and the location of its chief executive office.

 

SECTION 5.                            Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Guaranty and Security Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

 

SECTION 6.                            THIS SUPPLEMENT SHALL EACH BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE EXTENT NOT PREEMPTED, THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.

 

SECTION 7.                            In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and in the Guaranty and Security Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby (it being understood that the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not in and of itself affect the validity of such provision in any other jurisdiction).  The parties hereto shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

 

SECTION 8.                            All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section 7.01 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

 

SECTION 9.                            The New Subsidiary agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in connection with this Supplement, including the including the fees and out-of-pocket expenses of legal counsel and consultants to the Administrative Agent.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Subsidiary and the Administrative Agent have duly executed this Supplement to the Guaranty and Security Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

 

[NAME OF NEW SUBSIDIARY]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Name:

 

 

Jurisdiction of Formation:

 

 

Location of Chief Executive office:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CITIBANK, N.A.,

 

 

AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

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