Petco Health and Wellness (WOOF) S-1IPO registration

Reference is made to that certain TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of January 26, 2016 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among initially PET ACQUISITION MERGER SUB LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (in its capacity as the borrower thereunder, and after the assignment of the obligations of initial borrower on the closing date pursuant to Section 10.22 therein and the merger and the LLC Conversion have been completed, in its capacity as Holdings thereunder) and after the consummation of the merger, and upon assumption of the initial borrower’s obligations thereunder pursuant to Section 10.22 therein, PETCO ANIMAL SUPPLIES, INC., a Delaware corporation, the Lenders party thereto from time to time and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent.

In consideration of the extensions of credit and other accommodations of the Lenders as set forth in the Credit Agreement, each Guarantor has agreed to guarantee the obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement and each Grantor has agreed to secure such Grantor’s obligations under the Loan Documents, in each case as set forth herein.

        Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement, and the following terms which are defined in the UCC are used herein as so defined (and if defined in more than one article of the UCC have the meaning specified in Article 9 thereof): Accounts, Account Debtor, Certificated Security, Chattel Paper, Commodity Account, Deposit Account, Documents, Equipment, Goods, Instruments, Inventory, Letter of Credit Rights, Money, Securities Account, Security Entitlement, Supporting Obligations, Tangible Chattel Paper and Uncertificated Security.

        The rules of construction specified in Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement also apply, mutatis mutandis, to this Agreement.

        all copyright rights in any work subject to the copyright laws of the United States or any other country or group of countries, whether as author, assignee, transferee or otherwise;

        all registrations and applications for registration of any such copyright in the United States or any other country or group of countries, including registrations, supplemental registrations and pending applications for registration in the United States Copyright Office and the right to obtain all renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule II;

        all claims for, and rights to sue for, past or future infringements of any of the foregoing; and

        all income, royalties, damages and payments now or hereafter due and payable with respect to any of the foregoing, including damages and payments for past or future infringement thereof.

        all fee simple Real Property interests with a fair market value (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower), less than $7.5 million on a per property basis;

        security interests to the extent the same would result in materially adverse tax consequences or materially adverse regulatory consequences, in each case, as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith and identified in writing to the Collateral Agent;

        any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations that are not permitted to be pledged under applicable law;

        any “intent-to-use” applications for trademark or service mark registrations filed pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051, unless and until an Amendment to Allege Use or a Statement of Use under Sections 1(c) and 1(d) of the Lanham Act has been filed, to the extent that, and solely during the period for which, any assignment of an “intent-to-use” application prior to such filing would violate the Lanham Act;

[reserved];

        any Grantor’s right, title or interest in any lease, license, contract or agreement to which such Grantor is a party or any of its right, title or interest thereunder to the extent, but only to the extent, that such a grant would, under the terms of such lease, license, contract or agreement, result in a breach of the terms of, or constitute a default under, or result in the abandonment, invalidation or unenforceability of or create a right of termination in favor of or require the consent of any other party thereto (other than Holdings, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries), such lease, license, contract or agreement (other than to the extent that any such term would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Section 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC or any other applicable law (including Title 11 of the United States Code) or principles of equity); provided, however, that the Collateral shall include (and such security interest shall attach and the definition of “Excluded Assets” shall not then include) immediately at such time as the contractual or legal provisions referred to above shall no longer be applicable and to the extent severable, and shall attach immediately to any portion of such lease, license, contract or agreement not subject to the provisions specified in this clause (12); provided further that the exclusions referred to in this

clause shall not include any proceeds of such lease, license, contract or agreement;

        assets to the extent the granting of a security interest therein would be prohibited or restricted by applicable law, rule or regulation (including any requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority which has not been obtained) other than to the extent that such prohibition or restriction would be overridden by the applicable Uniform Commercial Code;

        any assets to the extent the cost, burden, difficulty or consequence of obtaining or perfecting a security interest therein outweighs the benefit of the security afforded thereby as reasonably determined by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent; or

        (a) any assets and proceeds thereof subject to a Lien permitted under Section 6.02(3) of the Credit Agreement to the extent that the documents providing for the Indebtedness secured by such Liens do not permit such assets and proceeds thereof to be pledged to the Collateral Agent; provided further that the exclusions referred to in this clause (a) shall not include any proceeds of such document or (b) any assets subject to a Lien permitted by Section 6.02(7) so long as the documents providing for such Lien do not permit such assets to be pledged to the Collateral Agent.

        interests in partnerships, joint ventures and non-wholly owned subsidiaries which cannot be pledged without the consent of one or more unaffiliated third parties or not permitted by the terms of such person’s organizational or joint venture documents (so long as such prohibition did not arise as part of the acquisition or formation thereof or in anticipation of the Credit Agreement);

        interests in Immaterial Subsidiaries (except to the extent the security interest therein can be perfected by the filing of a Form UCC-1 financing statement), captive insurance subsidiaries, not-for-profit subsidiaries, special purpose entities used for securitization facilities and Unrestricted Subsidiaries;

        margin stock;

        voting Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary or any FSHCO, in excess of 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of such Foreign Subsidiary or FSHCO;

        subject to Section 7.15(5), any Equity Interests to the extent that a pledge of such Equity Interests would give rise to additional subsidiary reporting

requirements under Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Exchange Act;

        to the extent applicable law requires that a Subsidiary of such Grantor issue directors’ qualifying shares, nominee shares or similar shares which are required by applicable law to be held by persons other than the Grantors, such qualifying shares, nominee shares or similar shares held by Persons other than Grantors;

        any Equity Interests if, to the extent and for so long as the pledge of such Equity Interests hereunder is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including any requirement to obtain consent of any Governmental Authority which has not been obtained (other than to the extent such prohibition would be rendered ineffective under the UCC or any other applicable law); provided that such Equity Interests shall cease to be Excluded Equity Interests at such time as such prohibition ceases to be in effect; or

        Equity Interests to the extent the same would result in materially adverse tax consequences or materially adverse regulatory consequences, in each case, as reasonably determined by the Borrower.

    all letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country or jurisdiction, including those listed on Schedule II, and all applications for letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any other country or jurisdiction, including those listed on Schedule II;

        all provisionals, reissues, extensions, continuations, divisions, continuations-in-part, reexaminations or revisions thereof, and the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, including the right to make, use, import and/or sell the inventions disclosed or claimed therein;

        all claims for, and rights to sue for, past or future infringements of any of the foregoing; and

        all income, royalties, damages and payments now or hereafter due and payable with respect to any of the foregoing, including damages and payments for past or future infringement thereof.

            all trademarks, service marks, 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 thereof (if any), and all registration 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 (except for “intent-to-use” applications for trademark or service mark registrations filed pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051, unless and until an Amendment to Allege Use or a Statement of Use under Sections 1(c) and 1(d) of the Lanham Act has been filed, to the extent that, and solely during the period for which, any assignment of an “intent-to-use”

application prior to such filing would violate the Lanham Act), and all renewals thereof, including those listed on Schedule II;

            all goodwill associated therewith or symbolized thereby;

            all claims for, and rights to sue for, past or future infringements of any of the foregoing; and

            all income, royalties, damages and payments now or hereafter due and payable with respect to any of the foregoing, including damages and payments for past or future infringement thereof.

            funds used for payroll and payroll taxes and other employee benefit payments to or for the benefit of such Loan Party’s employees;

            all taxes required to be collected, remitted or withheld (including Federal and state withholding taxes (including the employer’s share thereof)); and

            any other funds which the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries holds in trust or as an escrow or fiduciary for another person which is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower.

               Except for termination of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided for in Section 7.15 and except as provided in Section 2.07, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder will not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and will not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Secured Obligations or otherwise (other than defense of payment or performance). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except for termination or release of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder in accordance with the terms of Section 7.15 the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, will not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by, and each Guarantor hereby waives any defense to the enforcement hereof by reason of:

            any failure or omission of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to assert or enforce or agreement or election not to assert or enforce, delay in enforcement, or stay or enjoining, by the order of court, by operation of law or otherwise, the exercise or enforcement of, any claim or demand or to exercise or enforce any right, power or remedy (whether arising under or in connection with any Loan Document, any Specified Hedge Agreement or any Cash Management Obligation, at law, in equity or otherwise) with respect to the Secured Obligations or any agreements relating thereto, or with respect to any other guaranty of or security for the payment of the Secured Obligations;

            the validity or enforceability or 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;

            any renewal, extension or acceleration of, or any increase in the amount of the Secured Obligations, or any amendment, supplement, modification or waiver of, or any consent to departure from, the Loan Documents or any Specified Hedge Agreement or Cash Management Obligation;

            the validity, perfection, the failure to perfect (or lapse in perfection) any security interest in, or the release of, any of the Collateral held by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party for the Secured Obligations;

            any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Secured Obligations;

            any illegality, lack of validity or enforceability of any Secured Obligation;

            any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of any Loan Party, or any insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Loan Party and any corresponding restructuring of the Secured Obligations;

            the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights that the Guarantors may have at any time against the Borrower, the Collateral Agent, any other Secured Party or any other person, whether in connection herewith, the other Loan Documents or any unrelated transactions; provided that nothing herein will prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim;

            any action permitted or authorized hereunder; or

            any other circumstance (including any statute of limitations) or any act or omission that may in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a defense to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, the Borrower or any Guarantor or any other guarantor or surety (other than the payment in full in cash or immediately available funds of the Secured Obligations).

               Each Guarantor expressly authorizes the Secured Parties to take and hold security 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.

               To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and except for termination or release of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder in accordance with the terms of Section 7.15 hereof, each Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of 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 any other Loan Party, other than, after all Commitments have been terminated, the payment in full in

cash or immediately available funds of all the Secured Obligations (other than Secured Obligations in respect of Specified Hedge Agreements, Cash Management Obligations and contingent indemnification and reimbursement obligations that are not yet due and payable and for which no claim has been asserted). The Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties may exercise any right or remedy available to them against any other Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Guarantor hereunder except to the extent that after giving effect thereto all Secured Obligations have been terminated and paid in full (other than contingent indemnity or expense reimbursement obligations that are not yet due and payable and for which no claim has been made). 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 to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Guarantor against any other Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security.

            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 any Loan Party to pay any Secured Obligation when and as the same becomes due and payable, 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 Collateral Agent for distribution to the applicable Secured Parties in cash the amount of such unpaid Secured Obligation.

            Subject to the foregoing clause (1), to the extent that any Guarantor, under this Agreement or the Credit Agreement as a joint and several obligor, repays any of the Secured Obligations constituting Loans or other advances made to or reimbursement obligations owed by another Loan Party under the Credit     Agreement (an “Accommodation Payment”), then the Guarantor making such Accommodation Payment shall be entitled to contribution and indemnification from, and be reimbursed by, each of the other Guarantors in an amount equal to a fraction of such Accommodation Payment, the numerator of which fraction is such other Guarantor’s Allocable Amount and the denominator of which is the sum of the Allocable Amounts of all of the Guarantors; provided that such rights of contribution and indemnification shall be subordinated to the discharge of Secured Obligations. As of any date of determination, the “Allocable Amount” of each Guarantor shall be equal to the maximum amount of liability for Accommodation Payments which could be asserted against such Guarantor hereunder and under the Credit Agreement without:

            rendering such Guarantor “insolvent” within the meaning of Section 101 (31) of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (“UFTA”) or Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (“UFCA”);

            leaving such Guarantor with unreasonably small capital or assets, within the meaning of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, Section 4 of the UFTA, or Section 5 of the UFCA; or

            leaving such Guarantor unable to pay its debts as they become due within the meaning of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or Section 4 of the UFTA, or Section 5 of the UFCA.

            the Equity Interests (a) directly owned by such Grantor as of the Closing Date and (b) obtained by such Grantor after the Closing Date and, in each case, the certificates representing all such Equity Interests, in each case, other than any Excluded Assets (the Equity Interests described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), collectively, but excluding any Excluded Assets, the “Pledged Stock”);

            the promissory notes and any instruments and any security certificates evidencing Indebtedness (a) owned by such Grantor as of the Closing Date and (b) issued to such Grantor after the Closing Date and having an aggregate principal amount in excess of $7.5 million, in each case, other than any Excluded Assets (the instruments described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), collectively, but excluding any Excluded Assets, the “Pledged Debt”);

            subject to Section 3.05 hereof, all payments of principal or interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other proceeds received in respect of, the securities referred to in the foregoing clauses (1) and (2);

            subject to Section 3.05 hereof, all rights and privileges of such Grantor with respect to the securities and other property referred to in the foregoing clauses (1), (2) and (3) above; and

            all proceeds of any of the foregoing items referred to in clauses (1) through (4) above, but excluding any Excluded Assets (the items referred to in clauses (1) through (5) of this Section 3.01, collectively, the “Pledged Collateral”).

            Each Grantor agrees promptly to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, any and all Pledged Securities to the extent such Pledged Securities, in the case of promissory notes or other instruments, are required to be delivered pursuant to paragraph (2) of this Section 3.02.

            Each Grantor will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any Indebtedness for borrowed money having an aggregate principal amount in excess of $7.5 million owed to such Grantor by any Person to be evidenced by a duly executed promissory note that is pledged and delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the terms hereof; provided that the foregoing requirement will not apply to (a) Indebtedness owed by another Grantor, (b) intercompany current liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the cash

management operations of Holdings, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or (c) to the extent that a pledge of such promissory note or instrument would violate applicable law. To the extent any such promissory note is a demand note, each Grantor party thereto agrees, if requested by the Collateral Agent, to immediately demand payment thereunder upon a Specified Event of Default unless such demand would not be commercially reasonable or would otherwise expose such Grantor to liability to the maker.

            Upon delivery to the Collateral Agent, (a) any Pledged Securities required to be delivered pursuant to the foregoing paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section 3.02 will be accompanied by stock powers or note powers, as applicable, duly executed in blank or other instruments of transfer reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and by such other instruments and documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request and (b) all other property composing part of the Pledged Collateral delivered pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be accompanied, to the extent necessary to perfect the security interest in or allow realization on the Pledged Collateral, by proper instruments of assignment duly executed by the applicable Grantor and such other instruments or documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request. Each delivery of Pledged Securities shall be accompanied by a schedule describing the securities, which schedule shall be attached hereto as Schedule I (or a supplement to Schedule I, as applicable) and made a part hereof; provided that failure to attach any such schedule hereto shall not affect the validity of such pledge of such Pledged Securities. Each schedule so delivered shall supplement any prior schedules so delivered.

            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, no Grantor will be required to take any action under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions for the purpose of perfecting the Security Interest in any Pledged Collateral of such Grantor.

            Schedule I correctly sets forth, as of the Closing Date, (a) the percentage of the issued and outstanding shares of each class of the Equity Interests of the issuer thereof represented by such Pledged Stock and (b) all debt securities and promissory notes or instruments evidencing Indebtedness required to be pledged pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement on the Closing Date;

            the Pledged Stock and Pledged Debt (solely with respect to Pledged Debt issued by a Person that is not a Subsidiary of Holdings or an Affiliate of any such Subsidiary, to the best of each Grantor’s knowledge) have been duly and validly authorized and issued by the issuers thereof and (a) in the case of Pledged Stock, are fully paid and non-assessable (to the extent such concepts are applicable to such Pledged Stock and other than with respect to Pledged Stock consisting of membership interests of limited liability

companies to the extent provided in Sections 18-502 and 18-607 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act) and (b) in the case of Pledged Debt (solely with respect to Pledged Debt issued by a Person that is not a Subsidiary of Holdings or an Affiliate of any such Subsidiary, to the best of each Grantor’s knowledge) are legal, valid and binding obligations of the issuers thereof, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing;

                 except for the security interests granted hereunder, each Grantor:

            is and, subject to any transfers made in compliance with the Credit Agreement, will continue to be the direct owner, beneficially and of record, of the Pledged Securities indicated on Schedule I as owned by such Grantor;

            holds the same free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens;

            will make no assignment, pledge, hypothecation or transfer of, or create or permit to exist any security interest in or other Lien on, the Pledged Collateral, other than pursuant to a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement and other than Permitted Liens; and

            subject to the rights of such Grantor under the Loan Documents to dispose of Pledged Collateral, will use commercially reasonable efforts to defend its title or interest hereto or therein against any and all Liens (other than Permitted Liens), however arising, of all persons;

                 other than as set forth in the Credit Agreement or the schedules thereto, and except for restrictions and limitations imposed by the Loan Documents or securities laws generally or otherwise permitted to exist pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Pledged Stock (other than Pledged Stock that is partnership interests) is and will continue to be freely transferable and assignable, and, except for limitations existing on the Closing Date in the articles or certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational documents of any Subsidiary that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary, none of the Pledged Stock is or will be subject to any option, right of first refusal, shareholders agreement, charter or by-law provisions or contractual restriction of any nature that would prohibit, impair, delay or otherwise affect the pledge of such Pledged Stock hereunder, the sale or disposition thereof pursuant hereto or the exercise by the Collateral Agent of rights and remedies hereunder;

                 each Grantor has the power and authority to pledge the Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder in the manner hereby done or contemplated;

                 other than as set forth in the Credit Agreement or the schedules thereto, no consent or approval of any Governmental Authority, any securities exchange or any other

Person was or is necessary to the validity of the pledge effected hereby (other than such as have been obtained and are in full force and effect);

        this Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral described herein and proceeds thereof;

        none of the Equity Interests in limited liability companies or partnerships that are pledged by the Grantors hereunder constitute a security under Section 8-103 of the UCC or the corresponding code or statute of any other applicable jurisdiction other than any Equity Interest represented by security certificates that have been delivered to the Collateral Agent; and

        the Grantors shall not amend, or permit to be amended, the limited liability company agreement (or operating agreement or similar agreement) or partnership agreement of any subsidiary of any Loan Party whose Equity Interests are, or are required to be, Collateral in a manner to cause such Equity Interests to constitute a security under Section 8-103 of the New York UCC or the corresponding code or statute of any other applicable jurisdiction unless such Loan Party shall have first delivered reasonable prior written notice to the Collateral Agent and shall have taken all actions contemplated hereby and as otherwise reasonably required by the Collateral Agent to maintain the security interest of the Collateral Agent therein as a valid, perfected, first priority security interest, subject to the relative priorities set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.

            Unless and until an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Collateral Agent has given written notice to the Borrower of the Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its rights hereunder:

            each Grantor will be entitled to exercise any and all voting and/or other consensual rights and powers inuring to an owner of Pledged Collateral or any

        the Collateral Agent will promptly execute and deliver to each Grantor, or cause to be executed and delivered to such Grantor, all such proxies, powers of attorney and other instruments as such Grantor may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such Grantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to subparagraph (a) above; and

        each Grantor will be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest, principal and other distributions paid on or distributed in respect of the Pledged Collateral to the extent and only to the extent that such dividends, interest, principal and other distributions are permitted by, and otherwise paid or distributed in accordance with, the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents and applicable laws; provided that (i) any noncash dividends, interest, principal or other distributions, payments or other consideration in respect thereof, including any rights to receive the same to the extent not so distributed or paid, that would constitute Pledged Securities, whether resulting from a subdivision, combination or reclassification of the outstanding Equity Interests of the issuer of any Pledged Securities, received in exchange for Pledged Securities or any part thereof, or in redemption thereof, as a result of any merger, consolidation, acquisition or other exchange of assets to which such issuer may be a party or otherwise and (ii) any noncash dividends and other distributions paid or payable in respect of any Pledged Securities that would constitute Pledged Securities in connection with a partial or total liquidation or dissolution or in connection with a reduction of capital, capital surplus or paid in surplus, will be and become part of the Pledged Collateral, and, if received by any Grantor, will not be commingled by such Grantor with any of its other funds or property, but will be held separate and apart therefrom, will be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and will be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the same form as so received (endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent).

            Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and after written notice by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower of the Administrative Agent’s intention to exercise its rights hereunder, all rights of any Grantor to dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor is authorized to receive pursuant to paragraph (1)(c) of this Section 3.05 will cease, and all such rights will thereupon become vested, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral Agent, which will have the

            All dividends, interest, principal or other distributions received by any Grantor contrary to the provisions of this Section 3.05 will not be commingled by such Grantor with any of its other funds or property, but will be held separate and apart therefrom, will be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and will be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the same form as so received (endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent). Any and all money and other property paid over to or received by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph (3) subject to the Intercreditor Agreement will be retained by the Collateral Agent in an account to be established by the Collateral Agent upon receipt of such money or other property and will be applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.02 hereof. After all such Events of Default have been cured or waived, the Collateral Agent will promptly repay to each Grantor (without interest) all dividends, interest, principal or other distributions that such Grantor would otherwise be permitted to retain pursuant to the terms of paragraph (1)(c) of this Section 3.05 and that remain in such account.

            Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and after the Collateral Agent shall have given written notice to the Borrower of the Collateral Agent’s intention to exercise its rights hereunder, all rights of any Grantor to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (1)(a) of this Section 3.05, and the obligations of the Collateral Agent under paragraph (1)(b) of this Section 3.05, will cease, and all such rights will thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, which will have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise such voting and consensual rights and powers (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement); provided that unless otherwise directed by the Required Lenders, the Collateral Agent will have the right from time to time following and during the continuance of an Event of Default to permit the Grantors to exercise such rights. After all such Events of Default have been cured or waived, each Grantor will have the right to exercise the voting and/or consensual rights and powers that such Grantor would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to the terms of paragraph (1)(a) above.

        As security for the payment or performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), as the case may be, in full of the Secured

Obligations, each Grantor hereby pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest (the “Security Interest”) in all of such Grantor’s right, title and 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 “Article 9 Collateral”):

all Accounts;

all Chattel Paper;

all cash, Cash Equivalents and Deposit Accounts;

all Documents;

all Equipment;

all General Intangibles;

all Goods

all Instruments;

all Inventory;

all Investment Property;

all Letter of Credit Rights;

all Intellectual Property;

all Commercial Tort Claims, including those described on Schedule IV hereto;

each of the following:

      Securities Accounts;

      Investment Property credited to Securities Accounts or Deposit Accounts from time to time and all Security Entitlements in respect thereof;

      all cash held in any Securities Account or Deposit Account; and

      all other Money in the possession of the Collateral Agent;

        all books and Records pertaining to the Article 9 Collateral; and

        all proceeds, Supporting Obligations 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.

            Each Grantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time to file in any relevant jurisdiction any financing statements (including fixture filings) with respect to the Article 9 Collateral (including all Article 9 Collateral consisting of Pledged Collateral) or any part thereof and amendments thereto that 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:

        whether such Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to such Grantor;

        in the case of a financing statement filed as a fixture filing, a sufficient description of the property to which such Article 9 Collateral relates; and

        a description of collateral that describes such property in any other manner as the Collateral Agent may reasonably determine is necessary to ensure the perfection of the security interest in the Article 9 Collateral granted under this Agreement, including describing such property as “all assets”, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or words of similar effect.

            The Collateral Agent is further authorized to file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office (or any successor office) such documents as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of perfecting, 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 Collateral Agent as secured party.

            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, no Grantor shall be required to take any action under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States (or any political subdivision thereof) and its territories and possessions for the purpose of perfecting the Security Interest in any Article 9 Collateral of such Grantor.

            The Security Interest is granted as security only and shall not subject the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to, or in any way alter or modify, any

obligation or liability of any Grantor with respect to or arising out of the Article 9 Collateral.

            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document, no Grantor will be required:

        to take, or cause to be taken, any actions to perfect the Security Interest by any means other than (to the extent reasonably applicable):

        filings pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code in the office of the Secretary of State (or equivalent filing office) of the relevant State(s) of the respective jurisdictions of organization of each Grantor;

        filings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office of an Intellectual Property Security Agreement;

        delivery of Collateral consisting of instruments, notes and debt securities in a principal amount in excess of $7.5 million; provided that such delivery shall not be required with respect to:

        instruments, notes and debt securities that are promptly deposited into an investment or securities account;

        checks received in the ordinary course of business;

        notes and debt securities issued in connection with the extension of trade creditor by a grantor of a security interest; and

        instruments, notes and debt securities issued by a Grantor;

        delivery of Collateral consisting of certificated Equity Interests included in the Collateral;

            to enter, or cause to be entered, any Control Agreements or similar arrangements with respect to any Deposit Accounts (except with respect to the Blocked Accounts (as defined under the ABL Credit Agreement) and the Asset Sale Proceeds Account), Securities Accounts, Commodities Accounts or other Collateral that requires perfection by Control;

            to take any actions outside the United States to create or perfect any security interests in any Collateral (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the laws of any foreign jurisdiction); or

            to take any actions to create or perfect any security interests in any (i) Vehicles, (ii) any Letter of Credit Rights to the extent not perfected as Supporting

Obligations by the filing of a UCC financing statement on, or possession of, the primary Collateral and (iii) any Commercial Tort Claim with a value not in excess of $7.5 million, as determined in good faith by the Borrower.

            Each Grantor has good and valid rights in and title to the Article 9 Collateral with respect to which it has purported to grant a Security Interest hereunder and has full power and authority to grant to the Collateral Agent the Security Interest in such Article 9 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 and is in full force and effect or has otherwise been disclosed herein or in the Credit Agreement.

            The Uniform Commercial Code financing statements containing a description of the Article 9 Collateral that have been prepared by the Collateral Agent for filing in the office specified in Schedule III constitute all the filings, recordings and registrations (except as set forth in the following clause (3)) that are, as of the Closing Date, necessary to publish notice of and protect the validity of and to establish a legal, valid and perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in respect of all Article 9 Collateral in which the Security Interest may be perfected by filing.

            A fully executed Intellectual Property Security Agreement containing a description of all Article 9 Collateral existing on the Closing Date and consisting of Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor with respect to United States Patents (and Patents for which United States applications are pending), United States registered Trademarks (and Trademarks for which United States registration applications are pending) and United States registered Copyrights (and Copyrights for which United States registration applications are pending) was delivered on the Closing Date to the Collateral Agent for recording with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 261, 15 U.S.C. § 1060 or 17 U.S.C. § 205 and the regulations thereunder, as applicable.

            The Security Interest constitutes (a) a legal and valid security interest in all the Article 9 Collateral securing the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations; (b) subject to the filings described in Section 4.02(2), a perfected security interest in all Article 9 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 (c) a security interest that shall be perfected in all Article 9 Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected upon the receipt and recording of an Intellectual Property Security Agreement

with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, as applicable. The Security Interest is and shall be prior to any other Lien on any of the Article 9 Collateral other than Permitted Liens.

            The Article 9 Collateral is owned by the Grantors free and clear of any Lien, other than Permitted Liens. None of the Grantors has filed or consented to the filing after the Closing Date of (a) any financing statement or analogous document under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other applicable laws covering any Article 9 Collateral; (b) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Article 9 Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office; or (c) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Article 9 Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any Article 9 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 Permitted Liens.

            None of the Grantors holds any Commercial Tort Claim individually in excess of $7.5 million as of the Closing Date except as indicated on Schedule IV.

            The names of the obligors, amounts owing, due dates and other information with respect to each Grantor’s Accounts and Chattel Paper that are Collateral are and will be correctly stated, at the time furnished, in all records of such Grantor relating thereto and in all invoices furnished to the Agent by such Grantor from time to time.

            As to itself and its Article 9 Collateral consisting of Intellectual Property (the “Intellectual Property Collateral”), to each Grantor’s knowledge, as of the Closing Date:

        The Intellectual Property Collateral set forth on Schedule II includes all of the material Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights owned by such Grantor as of the date hereof;

        The Intellectual Property Collateral owned by such Grantors has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in whole or part (except for office actions issued in the ordinary course by the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any similar office in any foreign jurisdiction), and is valid and enforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Such Grantor is not aware of any uses of any item of Intellectual Property Collateral that would be expected to lead to such item becoming invalid or unenforceable, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        Such Grantor has made or performed in the ordinary course of Grantor’s business, acts, including filings, recordings and payment of all required fees and taxes, required to maintain and protect its interest in each and every item of Intellectual Property Collateral owned by such Grantor in full force and effect in the United States, and such Grantor has used proper statutory notice in connection with its use of each Patent, Trademark and Copyright owned by such Grantor in

the Intellectual Property Collateral, in each case, except to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        With respect to each IP Agreement, the absence, termination or violation of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (A) such Grantor has not received any notice of termination or cancellation under such IP Agreement; (B) such Grantor has not received any notice of a breach or default under such IP Agreement, which breach or default has not been cured or waived; and (C) neither such Grantor nor any other party to such IP Agreement is in breach or default thereof in any material respect, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a breach or default or permit termination, modification or acceleration under such IP Agreement.

        Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no Grantor or Intellectual Property Collateral owned by such Grantor is subject to any outstanding consent, settlement, decree, order, injunction, judgment or ruling restricting the use of any Intellectual Property Collateral owned by such Grantor or that would impair the validity or enforceability of such Intellectual Property Collateral owned by such Grantor.

            Each Grantor agrees to comply with Section 5.10(3) of the Credit Agreement.

            Subject to the rights of such Grantor under the Loan Documents to dispose of Collateral and except as would otherwise be permitted by the Credit Agreement, each Grantor will, at its own expense, use commercially reasonable efforts to defend title to the Article 9 Collateral against all persons and to defend the Security Interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Article 9 Collateral and the priority thereof against any Lien that is not a Permitted Lien.

            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 Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request to 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 and the granting of the Security Interest and the filing of any financing statements (including fixture filings) or other documents in connection herewith or therewith.

            If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Article 9 Collateral that is in excess of $7.5 million is or becomes evidenced by any promissory note or other instrument, such note or instrument, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, will be promptly pledged and delivered to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, duly endorsed in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

            After the occurrence of an Event of Default and during the continuance thereof, the Collateral Agent will have the right to verify under reasonable procedures the validity, amount, quality, quantity, value, condition and status of, or any other matter relating to, the Article 9 Collateral, including, in the case of Accounts or Article 9 Collateral in the possession of any third person, by contacting Account Debtors or the third person possessing such Article 9 Collateral for the purpose of making such a verification. The Collateral Agent shall have the right to share any information it gains from such inspection or verification with any Secured Party.

            None of the Grantors will, without the Collateral Agent’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), grant any extension of the time of payment of any Accounts included in the Article 9 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, in each case, other than extensions, credits, discounts, compromises or settlements granted or made in the ordinary course of business and consistent with prudent business practices or as otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement.

            At its option after the occurrence of an Event of Default and during the continuance thereof, the Collateral Agent may discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees, Liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on the Article 9 Collateral and not a Permitted Lien, and may pay for the maintenance and preservation of the Article 9 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 Collateral Agent on demand for any reasonable payment made or any reasonable expense incurred by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the foregoing authorization; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 4.03(7) will excuse any Grantor from the performance of, or impose any obligation on the Collateral 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 interests or other encumbrances and maintenance as set forth herein or in the other Loan Documents.

            Each Grantor (rather than the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party) will remain liable for the observance and performance of all the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it under each contract, agreement or instrument relating to the Article 9 Collateral.

            Each Grantor irrevocably makes, constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent (and all officers, employees or agents designated by the Collateral Agent for such purpose) as such Grantor’s true and lawful agent (and attorney-in-fact) for the purpose, during the continuance of an Event of Default, of making, settling and adjusting claims in respect of Article 9 Collateral under policies of insurance, endorsing the name of such Grantor on any check, draft, instrument or other item of payment for the proceeds of such policies of insurance and for making all determinations and decisions with respect thereto.

            In the event that any Grantor at any time or times fails to obtain or maintain any of the policies of insurance required hereby or under the Credit Agreement or to pay any premium in whole or part relating thereto, the Collateral Agent may, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, without waiving or releasing any obligation or liability of the Grantors hereunder or any Event of Default, in its sole discretion, obtain and maintain such policies of insurance and pay such premium and take any other actions with respect thereto as the Collateral Agent reasonably deems advisable. All sums disbursed by the Collateral Agent in connection with this Section 4.03(10), including reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, expenses and other charges relating thereto, shall be payable, upon demand, by the Grantors to the Collateral Agent and shall be additional Secured Obligations secured hereby.

            Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper. If any Grantor at any time holds or acquires any Instruments (other than checks received and processed in the ordinary course of business) or Tangible Chattel Paper evidencing an amount in excess of $7.5 million, such Grantor will forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent (or a designated bailee, in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement), accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request.

            Investment Property. Except to the extent otherwise provided in Article III, if any Grantor at any time holds or acquires any Certificated Security constituting Pledged Collateral or Article 9 Collateral, such Grantor will forthwith endorse, assign and deliver the same to the Collateral Agent (or a designated bailee, in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement), accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably specify. If any security of a domestic issuer now owned or hereafter acquired by any Grantor is uncertificated and is issued to such Grantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent of such uncertificated securities and upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, such Grantor shall pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, either (a) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from the Collateral Agent (or a designated bailee, in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement) as to such security, without further consent of any Grantor or such nominee or (b) cause the issuer to register the Collateral Agent (or a designated bailee, in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement) as the registered owner of such security.

            Commercial Tort Claims.     If any Grantor shall at any time hold or acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in an amount reasonably estimated to exceed $7.5 million, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof in a writing signed by such

            Each Grantor agrees that it will not knowingly do any act or omit to do any act (and will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to contractually prohibit its licensees from doing any act or omitting to do any act) whereby any material Patent owned by such Grantor that is necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business may become prematurely invalidated, abandoned, lapsed or dedicated to the public, and agrees that it will take commercially reasonable steps with respect to any material products covered by any such Patent as necessary to establish and preserve its rights under applicable patent laws.

            Each Grantor will, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to contractually require its licensees and its sublicensees to, for each material Trademark owned by such Grantor and necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business:

            maintain such Trademark in full force free from any adjudication of abandonment or invalidity for non-use;

            maintain the quality of products and services offered under such Trademark;

            display such Trademark with notice of federal or foreign registration or claim of trademark or service mark as required under applicable law; and

            not knowingly use or knowingly permit its licensees’ use of such Trademark in violation of any third-party rights.

            Each Grantor will, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause its licensees and its sublicensees to, for each work covered by a material Copyright owned by such Grantor and necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business and that it publishes, displays and distributes, use a copyright notice as necessary and sufficient to establish and preserve its rights under applicable copyright laws.

            Each Grantor shall notify the Collateral Agent promptly if it knows that any material Patent, Trademark or Copyright owned by such Grantor and necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business may imminently become abandoned, lapsed or dedicated to the public, or of any materially adverse determination or development, excluding office actions and similar determinations or developments in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office, any court or any similar office of any country, regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any such material Patent, Trademark or Copyright or its right to register or to maintain the same.

            Each Grantor, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee or designee, will, upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, execute and deliver any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to evidence the Collateral Agent’s security interest in each Patent, Trademark, or Copyright listed in each updated Perfection Certificate (or in any applicable specified information contained in the Perfection Certificate) furnished pursuant to Section 5.04(6) of the Credit Agreement.

            Each Grantor will exercise its reasonable business judgment consistent with the practice in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office with respect to maintaining and pursuing each application owned by such Grantor relating to any material Patent, Trademark and/or Copyright (and obtaining the relevant grant or registration) necessary to the normal conduct of such Grantor’s business and to maintain (a) each such Patent and (b) the registrations of each such Trademark and each such Copyright, including, when applicable and necessary in such Grantor’s reasonable business judgment, timely filings of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and payment of maintenance fees, and, if any Grantor believes necessary in its reasonable business judgment, to initiate opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings against third parties.

            In the event that any Grantor knows or has reason to know that any Article 9 Collateral consisting of a material Patent, Trademark or Copyright necessary to the normal conduct of its business has been materially infringed, misappropriated or diluted by a third party, such Grantor will promptly notify the Collateral Agent and will, if such Grantor deems it necessary in its reasonable business judgment, promptly take actions as are reasonably appropriate under the circumstances.

                Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Agent will promptly apply the proceeds, moneys or balances of any collection or sale of Collateral, as well as any Collateral consisting of cash, in the following order of priority:

            first, to all amounts owing to the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent pursuant to any of the Loan Documents in its capacity as such in respect of (i) the preservation of Collateral or its security interest in the Collateral or (ii) with respect to enforcing the rights of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents;

            second, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clause (a), to all other amounts owing to the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent pursuant to any of the Loan Documents in its capacity as such;

            third, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clauses (a) through (b), to an amount equal to the outstanding Secured Obligations; and

            fourth, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clauses (a) through (c), inclusive, and following the payment in full of the Secured Obligations, to the relevant Loan Party, their successors or assigns, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct or as otherwise required by the Intercreditor Agreement.

                If any payment to any Secured Party pursuant to this Section 5.02 of its pro rata share of any distribution would result in overpayment to such Secured Party, such excess amount shall instead be distributed in respect of the unpaid Secured Obligations of the other Secured Parties, with each Secured Party whose Secured Obligations have not been paid in full to receive an amount equal to such excess amount multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the unpaid Secured Obligations of such Secured Party and the denominator of which is the unpaid Secured Obligations of all Secured Parties entitled to such distribution.

                Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, all payments required to be made hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Secured Parties or as the Administrative Agent may otherwise direct in accordance with the Loan Documents.

                For purposes of applying payments received in accordance with this Section 5.02, the Collateral Agent will be entitled to rely upon (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) the applicable Secured Parties with respect to payments of Specified Hedge Agreements or any Cash Management Obligations (which the Administrative Agent and each other

Secured Party agrees (or shall agree) to provide upon request of the Collateral Agent) of the outstanding Secured Obligations of the Loan Parties owed to the Secured Parties.

                Subject to the other limitations (if any) set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, it is understood that the Loan Parties will remain liable (as and to the extent set forth in herein except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct) to the extent of any deficiency between the amount of the proceeds of the Collateral and the aggregate amount of the Secured Obligations of the Loan Parties.

                It is understood and agreed by each Loan Party that the Collateral Agent will have no liability for any determinations made by it in this Section 5.02 except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its or such person’s own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. Each Loan Party also agrees that the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be required to), at any time and in its sole discretion, and with no liability resulting therefrom, petition a court of competent jurisdiction regarding any application of Collateral in accordance with the requirements hereof and of each Intercreditor Agreement, and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to wait for, and may conclusively rely on, any such determination.

                Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, the Collateral Agent will not be required to marshal the Collateral or any guarantee of the Secured Obligations or to resort to the Collateral or any such Guarantee in any particular order.

            Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the Guarantors under Sections 6.01 and 6.02 hereof and all other rights of indemnity, contribution or subrogation of the Guarantors under applicable law or

otherwise will be fully subordinated to the payment in full in cash or immediately available funds of the Secured Obligations (other than Secured Obligations in respect of Specified Hedge Agreements, Cash Management Obligations and contingent indemnification and reimbursement obligations that are not yet due and payable and for which no claim has been asserted) until such time as this Agreement has been terminated in accordance with Section 7.15(a). No failure on the part of the Borrower or any Guarantor to make the payments required by Sections 6.01 and 6.02 hereof (or any other payments required under applicable law or otherwise) will in any respect limit the obligations and liabilities of the Borrower with respect to the Secured Obligations or any Guarantor with respect to its obligations hereunder, and the Borrower shall remain liable for the full amount of the Secured Obligations and each Guarantor shall remain liable for the full amount of its obligations hereunder.

            The Borrower and each Guarantor hereby agree that all Indebtedness and other monetary obligations owed by it to the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any Subsidiary will be fully subordinated to the payment in full in cash or immediately available funds of the Secured Obligations (other than Secured Obligations in respect of Specified Hedge Agreements, Cash Management Obligations and contingent indemnification and reimbursement obligations that are not yet due and payable and for which no claim has been asserted).

             any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document, any agreement with respect to any of the Secured Obligations or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of the foregoing;

             any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Secured 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;

            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 Secured Obligations; or

            subject only to termination or release of a Guarantor’s obligations hereunder in accordance with the terms of Section 7.15 hereof any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the Secured Obligations or this Agreement (other than a defense of payment or performance).

        receive, endorse, assign or deliver any and all notes, acceptances, checks, drafts, money orders or other evidences of payment relating to the Collateral or any part thereof;

        demand, collect, receive payment of, give receipt for and give discharges and releases of all or any of the Collateral;

        ask for, demand, sue for, collect, receive and give acquittance for any and all moneys due or to become due under and by virtue of any Collateral;

sign the name of any Grantor on any invoice or bill of lading relating to any of the Collateral;

        send verifications of Accounts to any Account Debtor;

        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;

        settle, compromise, compound, adjust or defend any actions, suits or proceedings relating to all or any of the Collateral;

        notify, or to require any Grantor to notify, Account Debtors to make payment directly to the Collateral Agent; and

        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 Collateral Agent were the absolute owner of the Collateral for all purposes;

        No failure or delay by the Collateral Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document will operate as a waiver thereof, nor will any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right, power or remedy, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. The rights, powers and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights, powers 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 will in any event be effective unless the same is permitted by paragraph (2) of this Section 7.09, and then such waiver or consent will be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given.

        Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Collateral Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties with respect to which such waiver, amendment or modification is to apply, subject to any consent required in accordance with Section 10.08 of the Credit Agreement.

        Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York County, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding shall be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement will affect any right that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against any Grantor, or its properties, in the courts of any jurisdiction.

        Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any New York State or federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

        This Agreement, the guarantees made herein, the pledges made herein, the Security Interest and all other security interests granted hereby shall terminate when all the Secured Obligations (other than Secured Obligations in respect of Specified Hedge

        A Grantor that is a Subsidiary shall automatically be released from its obligations hereunder and the security interests in the Collateral of such Grantor shall be automatically released upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement as a result of which such Grantor ceases to be a Subsidiary Loan Party or otherwise ceases to be a Guarantor; provided that such portion of the Lenders as are required by the terms of the Credit Agreement to consent to such transaction shall have consented thereto; provided, further, to the extent the ABL Collateral Documents (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) are in effect on such date, such Grantor (and the security interests in the Collateral in respect thereof) shall be released under the ABL Collateral Documents concurrently with the release referred to in this clause (2).

        Upon any sale or other transfer by any Grantor of any Collateral that is permitted under the Credit Agreement to any person that is not a Grantor, upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest granted hereby in any Collateral pursuant to Sections 10.08 and 10.18 of the Credit Agreement or pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Intercreditor Agreement, the security interest in such Collateral shall be automatically released; provided to the extent the ABL Collateral Documents are in effect on such date, the security interests in such Collateral shall be released under the ABL Collateral Documents concurrently with the release referred to in this clause (3).

        In connection with any termination or release pursuant to paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of this Section 7.15, the Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver to any Grantor, at such Grantor’s expense, all documents that such Grantor reasonably requests to evidence such termination or release (including UCC termination statements) and will duly assign and transfer to such Grantor such of the Pledged Collateral that may be in the possession of the Collateral Agent and has not theretofore been sold or otherwise applied or released pursuant to this Agreement; provided that the Collateral Agent will not be required to take any action under this Section 7.15(4) unless such Grantor shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent together with such request, which may be incorporated into such request: (a) a reasonably detailed description of the Collateral, which in any event is sufficient to effect the appropriate termination or release without affecting any other Collateral and (b) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or such Grantor certifying that the transaction giving rise to such termination or release is permitted by the Credit Agreement and was or is consummated in compliance with the Loan Documents. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 7.15 shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Collateral Agent.

        In the event that Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act is amended, modified or interpreted by the SEC or any other relevant Governmental Authority to require (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is adopted, which would require) the filing with the SEC (or any other Governmental Authority) of separate financial statements of any Subsidiary of the Borrower due to the fact that the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary are pledged under this Agreement, then the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary shall automatically be deemed not to be part of the Collateral to the extent necessary not to be subject to such requirement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Equity Interests of any Subsidiary are not required to be pledged under this Agreement because Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act would require the filing of separate financial statements of such Subsidiary if its Equity Interests were so pledged, in the event that Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act is amended, modified or interpreted by the SEC or any other relevant Governmental Authority to no longer require (or is replaced with another rule or regulation that would not require) the filing of separate financial statements of such Subsidiary if some or all of its Equity Interests are pledged under this Agreement, then such Equity Interests of such Subsidiary shall automatically be deemed part of the Collateral and pledged under this Agreement.