FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
THIS FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of October 21, 2021 is among THE MIDDLEBY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Parent”), MIDDLEBY MARSHALL INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each of the entities listed as “DEBTORS” on the signature pages hereof (such entities, together with the Parent and the Company, each a “Debtor” and collectively the “Debtors”) and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. (“Bank of America”), in its capacity as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Parent, the Company, certain Subsidiaries of Parent, various financial institutions and Bank of America, as administrative agent, are parties to the Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of January 31, 2020 (as amended or otherwise modified through, but not including, the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement, (a) the Parent has guaranteed certain obligations of the other Loan Parties, (b) various subsidiaries of the Company have entered into certain subsidiary guaranties (as amended or otherwise modified through, but not including, the date hereof, each, an “Existing Subsidiary Guaranty”) guaranteeing certain obligations of certain of the Loan Parties and (c) the obligations of the Parent, the Company and the other Borrowers under the Existing Credit Agreement and various other agreements and the obligations of the applicable subsidiaries (collectively with the Parent and the Company, the “Existing Debtors”) under each applicable Existing Subsidiary Guaranty are secured pursuant to the security agreements listed on Exhibit A hereto (as amended or otherwise modified through, but not including, the date hereof, each, an “Existing Security Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Company, the Parent, the other Borrowers party thereto, various financial institutions (the “Lenders”) and the Administrative Agent have agreed to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement pursuant to the Eighth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of October 21, 2021 (the “Credit Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, in connection with the closing of the Credit Agreement, (a) the Debtors (other than the Parent and the Company) and the Administrative Agent have agreed to amend and restate each Existing Subsidiary Guaranty to which they are a party pursuant to a Fourth Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty dated as of October 21, 2021 (the “Subsidiary Guaranty”) and (b) the Existing Debtors have agreed to amend and restate each Existing Security Agreement to which it is a party and each other Debtor has agreed to enter into this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Definitions; Interpretation. (a) When used herein, (i) the terms Account, Account Debtor, Certificated Security, Chattel Paper, Commodity Account, Commodity Contract, Deposit Account, Document, Electronic Chattel Paper, Equipment, Fixture, Goods, Instrument, Inventory, Investment Property, Money, Proceeds, Security, Security Entitlement, Securities Account and Uncertificated Security have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the UCC (as defined below), (ii) capitalized terms that are not defined have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement and (iii) the following terms have the following meanings: