Exhibit 10.3

AMENDED AND RESTATED PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of May 4, 2007, by
J. CREW OPERATING CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Operating”), J. CREW INC., a
New Jersey corporation (“J. Crew”), GRACE HOLMES, INC., a Delaware corporation
doing business as J. CREW RETAIL (“Retail”), H.F.D. NO. 55, INC., a Delaware
corporation doing business as J. Crew Factory (“Factory”), Madewell Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“Madewell”, and together with Factory, J. Crew, Retail,
and Operating, each individually a “Borrower” and collectively, the
“Borrowers”), J. CREW GROUP INC. (“Holdings”), J. CREW INTERNATIONAL, INC.
(“JCI”, a “Guarantor” and together with Holdings, the “Guarantors”) and each of
the other entities listed on the signature pages hereof or that becomes a party
hereto pursuant to Section 7.11 (Additional Grantors) (each a “Grantor” and,
collectively, with the Borrowers and the Guarantors, the “Grantors”), in favor
of Citicorp USA, Inc. (“CUSA”), as agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative
Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to
below).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Guarantors, the lenders and issuers from time to
time party thereto, Wachovia Bank, National Association, as administrative agent
(the “Existing Agent”), Congress Financial Corporation, as collateral agent (the
“Existing Collateral Agent”), Bank of America, as the syndication agent and
certain other parties thereto, are parties to the Amended and Restated Loan and
Security Agreement, dated as of December 23, 2004 (as amended, modified, or
supplemented prior to the Effective Date (as defined below), the “Existing
Credit Agreement”);

WHEREAS, the Existing Agent and the Existing Collateral Agent desire to resign
from each of their respective capacities as administrative agent and collateral
agent under the Existing Credit Agreement, and Citicorp desires to be appointed
as the successor Administrative Agent and as Swing Loan Lender and as Collateral
Agent under the Credit Agreement, each effective as of the Effective Date (as
defined below), pursuant to a master assignment and resignation agreement dated
on or prior to the date hereof (the “Master Assignment and Resignation
Agreement”), among the Existing Agent, the Existing Collateral Agent, Citicorp,
the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties; and

WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Guarantors, the Lenders and the Issuers have entered
into the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof (as amended, restated, supplemented, modified, increased, renewed,
refunded, replaced or refinanced from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”)
which amends and restates, together with this Agreement, the Existing Credit
Agreement in its entirety;

WHEREAS, the Grantors are party to the Guaranty pursuant to which they have
guaranteed the Obligations;

WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Credit
Agreement that the Grantors shall have executed and delivered this Agreement to
the Administrative Agent;

WHEREAS, the Loan Parties hereby reaffirm the Liens granted pursuant to the
Financing Agreements (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) to the
Existing Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined in the
Existing Credit Agreement), which Liens shall continue in full force and effect
during the term of this Agreement and any renewals thereof and

 

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shall cover the collateral securing the Obligations (as defined in the Existing
Credit Agreement) under the Financing Agreements (as defined under the Existing
Credit Agreement) and shall continue to secure the Secured Obligations; and

WHEREAS, each Grantor will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from
the making of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters of Credit and the granting
of the other financial accommodations to the Borrowers under the Credit
Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Lenders, the
Issuers and the Administrative Agent to enter into the Credit Agreement and to
induce the Lenders and the Issuers to make their respective extensions of credit
to the Borrowers thereunder, each Grantor hereby agrees with the Administrative
Agent as follows:

ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS

Section 1.1 Definitions

(a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and
used herein have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

(b) Terms used herein without definition that are defined in the UCC have the
meanings given to them in the UCC, including the following terms (which are
capitalized herein):

“Account Debtor”

“Account”

“Certificated Security”

“Chattel Paper”

“Commercial Tort Claim”

“Commodity Account”

“Deposit Account”

“Documents”

“Entitlement Holder”

“Entitlement Order”

“Equipment”

“Financial Asset”

“General Intangible”

“Goods”

“Instruments”

“Inventory”

“Investment Property”

“Letter-of-Credit Right”

“Proceeds”

“Securities Account”

“Securities Intermediary”

“Security”

“Security Entitlement”

“Supporting Obligation”

(c) The following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

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“Additional Pledged Collateral” means any Pledged Collateral acquired by any
Grantor after the date hereof (subject to Section 7.11 (Additional Collateral
and Guaranties) of the Credit Agreement) and in which a security interest is
granted pursuant to Section 2.2 (Grant of Security Interest in Collateral),
including, to the extent a security interest is granted therein pursuant to
Section 2.2 (Grant of Security Interest in Collateral), (i) all Stock and Stock
Equivalents of any Person that are acquired by any Grantor after the date
hereof, together with all certificates, instruments or other documents
representing any of the foregoing and all Security Entitlements of any Grantor
in respect of any of the foregoing, (ii) all additional Indebtedness from time
to time owed to any Grantor by any obligor on the Pledged Debt Instruments and
the Instruments evidencing such Indebtedness and (iii) all interest, cash,
Instruments and other property or Proceeds from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any of the
foregoing. “Additional Pledged Collateral” may be General Intangibles,
Instruments or Investment Property.

“Agreement” means this Pledge and Security Agreement.

“Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 (Collateral).

“Deposit Account Control Agreement” means a letter agreement, substantially in
the form of Annex 1 (Form of Deposit Account Control Agreement) (with such
changes as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent), executed by the
Grantor, the Administrative Agent and the relevant financial institution;
provided, however, that the deposit account control agreements executed and
delivered in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement shall also be
included in this definition.

“Excluded Property” means, collectively, (i) any rights or interests in any
contract, lease, permit, license, charter or license agreement covering real or
personal property, as such, if under the terms of such contract, lease, permit,
license, charter or license agreement, or applicable law with respect thereto,
the valid grant of a security interest or lien therein to Administrative Agent
is prohibited and such prohibition has not been or is not waived or the consent
of the other party to such contract, lease, permit, license, charter or license
agreement has not been or is not otherwise obtained or under applicable law such
prohibition cannot be waived; provided, that, the foregoing exclusion shall in
no way be construed (A) to apply if any such prohibition is unenforceable under
Sections 9-406, 9-407 or 9-408 of the UCC or other applicable law or (B) so as
to limit, impair or otherwise affect Administrative Agent’s unconditional
continuing security interests in and liens upon any rights or interests of a
Grantor in or to monies due or to become due under any such contract, lease,
permit, license, charter or license agreement (including any Receivables) and
(ii) the Stock of J. Crew Japan, Inc. (“J. Crew Japan”).

“Intellectual Property” shall mean, as to each Grantor, such Grantor’s now owned
and hereafter arising or acquired: patents, patent rights, patent applications,
copyrights, works which are the subject matter of copyrights, copyright
registrations, trademarks, trade names, trade styles, trademark and service mark
applications, and licenses and rights to use any of the foregoing; all
extensions, renewals, reissues, divisions, continuations, and
continuations-in-part of any of the foregoing; all rights to sue for past,
present and future infringement of any of the foregoing; inventions, trade
secrets, formulae, processes, compounds, drawings, designs, blueprints, surveys,
reports, manuals, and operating standards; goodwill (including any goodwill
associated with any trademark or the license of any trademark); customer and
other lists in whatever form maintained; trade secret rights, copyright rights,
rights in works of authorship, domain names and domain name registration;
software and contract rights relating to computer software programs, in whatever
form created or maintained.

 

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“LLC” means each limited liability company in which a Grantor has an interest,
including those set forth on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).

“LLC Agreement” means each operating agreement with respect to a LLC, as each
agreement has heretofore been, and may hereafter be, amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Material Intellectual Property” means Intellectual Property owned by or
licensed to a Grantor and material to the conduct of any Grantor’s business.

“Partnership” means each partnership in which a Grantor has an interest,
including those set forth on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).

“Partnership Agreement” means each partnership agreement governing a
Partnership, as each such agreement has heretofore been, and may hereafter be,
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified.

“Pledged Certificated Stock” means all Certificated Securities and any other
Stock and Stock Equivalent of a Person evidenced by a certificate, Instrument or
other equivalent document, in each case owned by any Grantor, including all
Stock listed on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).

“Pledged Collateral” means, collectively, the Pledged Stock, Pledged Debt
Instruments, any other Investment Property of any Grantor, all Chattel Paper,
certificates or other Instruments representing any of the foregoing and all
Security Entitlements of any Grantor in respect of any of the foregoing. Pledged
Collateral may be General Intangibles, Instruments or Investment Property.

“Pledged Debt Instruments” means all right, title and interest of any Grantor in
Instruments evidencing any Indebtedness owed to such Grantor, including all
Indebtedness described on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral), issued by the
obligors named therein.

“Pledged Stock” means all Pledged Certificated Stock and all Pledged
Uncertificated Stock. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Pledged Stock”
shall not include any Excluded Equity.

“Pledged Uncertificated Stock” means any Stock or Stock Equivalent of any Person
that is not a Pledged Certificated Stock, including all right, title and
interest of any Grantor as a limited or general partner in any Partnership or as
a member of any LLC and all right, title and interest of any Grantor in, to and
under any Partnership Agreement or LLC Agreement to which it is a party.

“Receivables” means all of the following now owned or hereafter arising or
acquired property of each Grantor: (a) all Accounts; (b) all interest, fees,
late charges, penalties, collection fees and other amounts due or to become due
or otherwise payable in connection with any Account; (c) all payment intangibles
of such Grantor; (d) letters of credit, indemnities, guarantees, security or
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otherwise in favor of or delivered to any Grantor in connection with any Account
or any Credit Card Receivables; or (e) all other Accounts, contract rights,
Chattel Paper, Instruments, notes, General Intangibles and other forms of
obligations owing to any Grantor, whether from the sale and lease of goods or
other property, licensing of any property (including Intellectual Property or
other General Intangibles), rendition of services or from loans or advances by
any Grantor or to or for the benefit of any third person (including loans or
advances to any Affiliates or Subsidiaries of any Grantor) or otherwise
associated with any Accounts, Inventory or General Intangibles of any Grantor
(including, without limitation, choses in action, causes of action, tax refunds,
tax refund claims, any funds which may become payable to any Grantor in
connection with the termination of any Title IV Plan or other employee benefit
plan and any other amounts payable to any Grantor from any Title IV Plan or
other employee benefit plan, rights and claims against carriers and shippers,
rights to indemnification, business interruption insurance and proceeds thereof,
casualty or any similar types of insurance and any proceeds thereof and proceeds
of insurance covering the lives of employees on which any Grantor is a
beneficiary).

“Records” means, as to each Grantor, all of such Grantor’s present and future
books of account of every kind or nature, purchase and sale agreements,
invoices, ledger cards, bills of lading and other shipping evidence, statements,
correspondence, memoranda, credit files and other data relating to the
Collateral or any account debtor, together with the tapes, disks, diskettes and
other data and software storage media and devices, file cabinets or containers
in or on which the foregoing are stored (including any rights of any Grantor
with respect to the foregoing maintained with or by any other person).

“Securities Account Control Agreement” means a letter agreement, substantially
in the form of Annex 2 (Form of Securities Account Control Agreement) (with such
changes as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent), executed by the
relevant Grantor, the Administrative Agent and the relevant Approved Securities
Intermediary; provided, however, that the securities account control agreements
executed and delivered in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement shall
also be included in this definition.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the
State of New York; provided, however, that, in the event that, by reason of
mandatory provisions of law, any of the attachment, perfection or priority of
the Administrative Agent’s and the Secured Parties’ security interest in any
Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a
jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of
the provisions hereof relating to such attachment, perfection or priority and
for purposes of definitions related to such provisions.

Section 1.2 Certain Other Terms

(a) In this Agreement, in the computation of periods of time from a specified
date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and
the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding” and the word “through”
means “to and including.”

(b) The terms “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder” and similar terms
refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section,
subsection or clause in this Agreement.

 

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(c) References herein to an Annex, Schedule, Article, Section, subsection or
clause refer to the appropriate Annex or Schedule to, or Article, Section,
subsection or clause in this Agreement.

(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to
both the singular and plural forms of such terms.

(e) Where the context requires, provisions relating to any Collateral, when used
in relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such Grantor’s Collateral or any
relevant part thereof.

(f) Any reference in this Agreement to a Financing Agreement shall include all
appendices, exhibits and schedules thereto, and, unless specifically stated
otherwise all amendments, restatements, supplements or other modifications
thereto, and as the same may be in effect at any time such reference becomes
operative.

(g) The term “including” means “including without limitation” except when used
in the computation of time periods.

(h) The terms “Lender,” “Issuer,” “Administrative Agent” and “Secured Party”
include their respective successors.

(i) References in this Agreement to any statute shall be to such statute as
amended or modified and in effect from time to time.

ARTICLE II GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST

Section 2.1 Collateral

For the purposes of this Agreement, all of the following property now owned or
at any time hereafter acquired by a Grantor or in which a Grantor now has or at
any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interests is collectively
referred to as the “Collateral”:

(a) all Accounts;

(b) all General Intangibles, including, without limitation, all Intellectual
Property;

(c) all Goods, including, without limitation, Inventory and Equipment;

(d) all Real Property subject to the Mortgages and fixtures;

(e) all Chattel Paper, including, without limitation, all tangible and
electronic chattel paper;

(f) all Instruments, including, without limitation, all promissory notes;

(g) all Documents;

(h) all Deposit Accounts;

 

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(i) all letters of credit, banker’s acceptances and similar instruments and
including all Letter-of-Credit Rights;

(j) all Supporting Obligations and all present and future liens, security
interests, rights, remedies, title and interest in, to and in respect of
Receivables and other Collateral, including (A) rights and remedies under or
relating to guaranties, contracts of suretyship, letters of credit and credit
and other insurance related to the Collateral, (B) rights of stoppage in
transit, replevin, repossession, reclamation and other rights and remedies of an
unpaid vendor, lienor or secured party, (C) goods described in invoices,
documents, contracts or instruments with respect to, or otherwise representing
or evidencing, Receivables or other Collateral, including returned, repossessed
and reclaimed goods, and (D) deposits by and property of Account Debtors or
other persons securing the obligations of Account Debtors;

(k) all (A) Investment Property (including Securities, whether Certificated
Securities or uncertificated Securities, Securities Accounts, Security
Entitlements, commodity contracts or Commodity Accounts) and (B) monies, credit
balances, deposits and other property of any Grantor now or hereafter held or
received by or in transit to Administrative Agent, any Lender or its Affiliates
or at any other depository or other institution from or for the account of any
Grantor, whether for safekeeping, pledge, custody, transmission, collection or
otherwise;

(l) all Commercial Tort Claims, including, without limitation, those described
on Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims) and on any supplement thereto received by
the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 4.9 (Notice of Commercial Tort
Claims);

(m) to the extent not otherwise described above, all Receivables;

(n) all Records; and

(o) all products and proceeds of the foregoing, in any form, including insurance
proceeds and all claims against third parties for loss or damage to or
destruction of or other involuntary conversion of any kind or nature of any or
all of the other Collateral;

provided, however, that “Collateral” shall not include any Excluded Property;
and provided, further, that if and when any property shall cease to be Excluded
Property, such property shall be deemed at all times from and after the date
hereof to constitute Collateral.

Section 2.2 Grant of Security Interest in Collateral

To secure payment and performance of all Obligations, each Grantor hereby grants
to Administrative Agent, for itself and the benefit of Lenders, a continuing
security interest in, a lien upon, and a right of set off against, and hereby
assigns to the Administrative Agent, for itself and the benefit of Lenders, as
security (and hereby confirms, reaffirms and restates the prior grant thereof to
the Existing Agent, for itself and Lenders, pursuant to the Existing Credit
Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties), the
Collateral.

Section 2.3 Cash Collateral Accounts

The Administrative Agent has established a Deposit Account at Citibank, N.A.,
designated as “Citicorp USA, Inc. – J. Crew Cash Collateral Account”. Such
Deposit Account shall be a Cash Collateral Account.

 

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ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

To induce the Lenders, the Issuers and the Administrative Agent to enter into
the Credit Agreement, each Grantor hereby represents and warrants each of the
following to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuers and the other
Secured Parties:

Section 3.1 Title; No Other Liens

Except for the Lien granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this
Agreement and the other Liens permitted to exist on the Collateral under the
Credit Agreement, such Grantor (a) is the record and beneficial owner of the
Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder constituting Instruments or
Certificated Securities, (b) is the Entitlement Holder of all such Pledged
Collateral constituting Investment Property held in a Securities Account and
(c) has rights in or the power to transfer each other item of Collateral in
which a Lien is granted by it hereunder, free and clear of any other Lien, other
than Liens permitted by Section 8.2 (Liens, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement.

Section 3.2 Perfection and Priority

The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement shall constitute a
valid and continuing perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative
Agent in the Collateral for which perfection is governed by the UCC or filing
with the United States Copyright Office upon (i) in the case of all Collateral
in which a security interest may be perfected by filing a financing statement
under the UCC, the completion of the filings and other actions specified on
Schedule 3 (Filings) (which, in the case of all filings and other documents
referred to on such schedule, have been delivered to the Administrative Agent in
completed and duly executed form), (ii) the delivery to the Administrative Agent
of all Collateral consisting of Instruments and Certificated Securities, in each
case properly endorsed for transfer to the Administrative Agent or in blank (it
being acknowledged by the Administrative Agent that delivery of the Pledged
Stock constituting Term Loan Primary Collateral (as defined in the Intercreditor
Agreement) is subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement), (iii) the
execution of the Master Assignment and Resignation Agreement, (A) the assignment
of existing Securities Account Control Agreements with respect to Investment
Property not in certificated form that have been executed and delivered in
connection with the Existing Credit Agreement and (B) the assignment of existing
Deposit Account Control Agreements with respect to each Deposit Account of a
Grantor with respect to which a Deposit Account Control Agreement is required by
Section 7.12 (Control Accounts; Approved Deposit Accounts) of the Credit
Agreement that have been executed and delivered in connection with the Existing
Credit Agreement, and (iv) all appropriate filings having been made with the
United States Copyright Office. Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, such
security interest shall be prior to all other Liens on the Collateral.

Section 3.3 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office

Such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization, legal name, organizational
identification number, if any, and the location of such Grantor’s chief
executive office or sole place of business, in each case as of the date hereof,
is specified on Schedule 1 (Jurisdiction of Organization; Principal Executive
Office) and such Schedule 1 (Jurisdiction of Organization; Principal Executive
Office) also lists all jurisdictions of incorporation, legal names and locations
of such Grantor’s chief executive office or sole place of business for the five
years preceding the date hereof.

 

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Section 3.4 Inventory and Equipment

On the date hereof, such Grantor’s Inventory and Equipment (other than mobile
goods and Inventory or Equipment in transit) are kept at the locations listed on
Schedule 4 (Location of Inventory and Equipment) and such Schedule 4 (Location
of Inventory and Equipment) also list the locations of such Inventory and
Equipment for the five years preceding the date hereof.

Section 3.5 Pledged Collateral

(a) The Pledged Stock pledged hereunder by such Grantor is listed on Schedule 2
(Pledged Collateral) and constitutes that percentage of the issued and
outstanding equity of all classes of each issuer thereof as set forth on
Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).

(b) All of the Pledged Stock (other than Pledged Stock in limited liability
companies and partnerships) has been duly authorized, validly issued and is
fully paid and nonassessable.

(c) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, each of the Pledged Debt Instruments
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the obligor with respect
thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights
generally, and general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding
in equity or at law).

(d) All Pledged Collateral and, if applicable, any Additional Pledged
Collateral, consisting of Certificated Securities or Instruments has been
delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 4.3(a) (Pledged
Collateral) and Section 7.11 of the Credit Agreement (it being acknowledged by
the Administrative Agent that delivery of all Certificated Securities
constituting Term Loan Primary Collateral (as defined in the Intercreditor
Agreement) is subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement).

(e) All Pledged Collateral held by a Securities Intermediary in a Securities
Account is subject to a Securities Account Control Account.

(f) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, other than Pledged Stock
constituting General Intangibles, there is no Pledged Collateral other than that
represented by Certificated Securities or Instruments in the possession of the
Administrative Agent or that consist of Financial Assets held in a Securities
Account that is subject to a Securities Account Control Agreement.

Section 3.6 Accounts

No amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any Account is
evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel Paper that has not been delivered to the
Administrative Agent, properly endorsed for transfer, to the extent delivery is
required by Section 4.3 (Pledged Collateral).

 

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Section 3.7 Intellectual Property

(a) Each Grantor owns all right, title and interest in and to, or has valid and
continuing rights to use, sell and license, all Intellectual Property used in
the conduct of its business. Schedule 5 (Intellectual Property) lists all
Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor that is the subject of a
registration or application for registration in the United States or any foreign
jurisdiction, and all other Material Intellectual Property of such Grantor on
the date hereof, separately identifying that owned by such Grantor and that
licensed to such Grantor. The Intellectual Property set forth on Schedule 5
(Intellectual Property) for such Grantor constitutes all of the intellectual
property rights necessary to conduct its business.

(b) All Material Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor is valid,
subsisting, unexpired and enforceable, has not been adjudged invalid and has not
been abandoned, and to the knowledge of such Grantor, no third party is
infringing, misappropriating, diluting or otherwise violating such Material
Intellectual Property.

(c) Except as set forth in Schedule 5 (Intellectual Property), none of the
Material Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor is the subject of any
licensing or franchise agreement pursuant to which such Grantor is the licensor
or franchisor.

(d) The operation and conduct of the business of such Grantor does not infringe,
misappropriate, dilute or violate the intellectual property rights of any other
Person.

(e) No holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any Governmental
Authority that would limit, cancel or question the validity of, or such
Grantor’s rights in, any Material Intellectual Property.

(f) No actions or proceedings seeking to limit, cancel or question the validity
of any Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor or such Grantor’s ownership
interest therein is pending or, to the knowledge of such Grantor, threatened,
that, in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. There are no claims, judgments or settlements to be paid by such Grantor
relating to the Intellectual Property that, in the aggregate, could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.8 Deposit Accounts; Securities Accounts

The only Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts maintained by any Grantor on
the date hereof are those listed on Schedule 6 (Bank Accounts; Control
Accounts).

Section 3.9 Commercial Tort Claims

The only Commercial Tort Claims in excess of $1,000,000 of any Grantor existing
on the date hereof (regardless of whether the amount, defendant or other
material facts can be determined and regardless of whether such Commercial Tort
Claim has been asserted, threatened or has otherwise been made known to the
obligee thereof or whether litigation has been commenced for such claims) are
those listed on Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims), which sets forth such
information separately for each Grantor.

 

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Section 3.10 Letters of Credit

[Intentionally Omitted].

Section 3.11 Collateral Access Agreements, Bailee Letters, etc.

Schedule 3.11 (Collateral Access Agreements, Bailee Letters, etc.) sets forth
all collateral access agreements, bailee letters, third party agreements
relating to the location of the Collateral, or equivalent documents of each Loan
Party as of the date hereof. In the event that any Collateral is at any time
after the date hereof located on premises (other than a store location or a
factory store location) for which a collateral access agreement, bailee letter,
third party agreement relating to the location of the Collateral, or equivalent
document has not been obtained, Grantors shall promptly notify the
Administrative Agent thereof in writing. Within 30 days of Administrative
Agent’s request, Grantors shall deliver to Administrative Agent a collateral
access agreement, bailee letter, third party agreement relating to the location
of the Collateral or equivalent document duly authorized, executed and delivered
by such person and the Grantors that is the owner of such Collateral.

ARTICLE IV COVENANTS

Each Grantor agrees with the Administrative Agent to the following, as long as
any Obligation or Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding and, in each
case, unless the Requisite Lenders otherwise consent in writing:

Section 4.1 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation

(a) Such Grantor shall maintain the security interest created by this Agreement
as a first priority perfected security interest, subject to the Intercreditor
Agreement and shall defend such security interest and such priority against the
claims and demands of all Persons.

(b) Such Grantor shall furnish to the Administrative Agent from time to time
statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral and
such other reports in connection with the Collateral as the Administrative Agent
may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(c) At any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the
Administrative Agent, and at the sole expense of such Grantor, such Grantor
shall promptly and duly execute and deliver, and have recorded, such further
instruments and documents and take such further action as the Administrative
Agent may reasonably request for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full
benefits of this Agreement and of the rights and powers herein granted,
including the filing of any financing or continuation statement under the UCC
(or other similar laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the
security interest created hereby and the execution and delivery of Deposit
Account Control Agreements and Securities Account Control Agreements (other than
with respect to those deposit accounts and securities accounts that are subject
to existing Deposit Account Control Agreements and Securities Account Control
Agreements as of the date hereof).

 

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Section 4.2 Changes in Locations, Name, Etc.

(a) Except upon 30 days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and
delivery to the Administrative Agent of (i) all additional financing statements
and other documents reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to maintain
the validity, perfection and priority of the security interests provided for
herein and (ii) if applicable, a written supplement to Schedule 4 (Location of
Inventory and Equipment) showing (A) any additional locations at which Inventory
or Equipment shall be kept or (B) any changes in any location where Inventory or
Equipment shall be kept that would require the Administrative Agent to take any
action to maintain a perfected security interest in such Collateral, such
Grantor shall not do any of the following:

(i) permit any Inventory or Equipment that, in the aggregate, has a Fair Market
Value in excess of $100,000 ,to be kept at a location other than those listed on
Schedule 4 (Location of Inventory and Equipment), except for: (a) Inventory or
Equipment in transit, (b) Inventory sold in the ordinary course of such
Grantor’s business, (c) Equipment that is undergoing repairs or maintenance in
the ordinary course of such Grantor’s business and (d) Inventory or Equipment
located at a store location or factory store location;

(ii) change its jurisdiction of organization or its location, in each case from
that referred to in Section 3.3 (jurisdiction of organization; chief executive
office); or

(iii) change its legal name or organizational identification number, if any, or
corporation, limited liability company or other organizational structure to such
an extent that any financing statement filed in connection with this Agreement
would become seriously misleading.

Section 4.3 Pledged Collateral

Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement:

(a) Such Grantor shall (i) deliver to the Administrative Agent, all certificates
and Instruments representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral (including
Additional Pledged Collateral), whether now existing or hereafter acquired, in
suitable form for transfer by delivery or, as applicable, accompanied by such
Grantor’s endorsement, where necessary, or duly executed instruments of transfer
or assignment in blank, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, together, in respect of any Additional Pledged Collateral,
with a Pledge Amendment, duly executed by the Grantor, in substantially the form
of Annex 3 (Form of Pledge Amendment), an acknowledgment and agreement to a
Joinder Agreement duly executed by the Grantor, in substantially the form in the
form of Annex 4 (Form of Joinder Agreement), or such other documentation
acceptable to the Administrative Agent (it being acknowledged by the
Administrative Agent that delivery of the Pledged Collateral constituting Term
Loan Primary Collateral (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) is subject
to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement) and (ii) maintain all other Pledged
Collateral constituting Investment Property in a Control Account. Such Grantor
authorizes the Administrative Agent to attach each Pledge Amendment to this
Agreement. After the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default, the Administrative Agent shall have the right, at any time in its
discretion and without notice to the Grantor, to transfer to or to register in
its name or in the name of its nominees any Pledged Collateral. The
Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time to exchange any
certificate or instrument representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral for
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(b) Except as provided in Article V (Remedial Provisions), such Grantor shall be
entitled to receive all cash dividends paid in respect of the Pledged Collateral
(other than liquidating or distributing dividends) with respect to the Pledged
Collateral. After the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default, any sums paid upon or in respect of any Pledged Collateral upon the
liquidation or dissolution of any issuer of any Pledged Collateral, any
distribution of capital made on or in respect of any Pledged Collateral or any
property distributed upon or with respect to any Pledged Collateral pursuant to
the recapitalization or reclassification of the capital of any issuer of Pledged
Collateral or pursuant to the reorganization thereof shall, unless otherwise
subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent,
be delivered to the Administrative Agent to be held by it hereunder as
additional collateral security for the Secured Obligations. If any sum of money
or property paid or distributed as described in the immediately preceding
sentence in respect of any Pledged Collateral shall be received by such Grantor,
such Grantor shall, until such money or property is paid or delivered to the
Administrative Agent, hold such money or property in trust for the
Administrative Agent, segregated from other funds of such Grantor, as additional
security for the Secured Obligations.

(c) Except as provided in Article V (Remedial Provisions), such Grantor shall be
entitled to exercise all voting, consent and corporate, partnership, limited
liability company and similar rights with respect to the Pledged Collateral;
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast, consent given or right exercised
or other action taken by such Grantor that would impair the Collateral, be
inconsistent with or result in any violation of any provision of the Credit
Agreement, this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement or, without prior
notice to the Administrative Agent, enable or permit any issuer of Pledged
Collateral to issue any Stock or other equity Securities of any nature or to
issue any other securities convertible into or granting the right to purchase or
exchange for any Stock or other equity Securities of any nature of any issuer of
Pledged Collateral.

(d) Such Grantor shall not grant “control” (within the meaning of such term
under Article 9-106 of the UCC) over any Investment Property to any Person other
than the Administrative Agent, subject to the Interecreditor Agreement;
provided, however, that the mere establishment of a Control Account shall not be
deemed a violation of this clause (d).

(e) In the case of each Grantor that is an issuer of Pledged Collateral, such
Grantor agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement relating to the
Pledged Collateral issued by it and shall comply with such terms insofar as such
terms are applicable to it. In the case of any Grantor that is a holder of any
Stock or Stock Equivalent in any Person that is an issuer of Pledged Collateral,
such Grantor consents to (i) the exercise of the rights granted to the
Administrative Agent hereunder (including those described in Section 5.3
(Pledged Collateral)), and (ii) the pledge by each other Grantor, pursuant to
the terms hereof, of the Pledged Stock in such Person and to the transfer of
such Pledged Stock to the Administrative Agent or its nominee and to the
substitution of the Administrative Agent or its nominee as a holder of such
Pledged Stock with all the rights, powers and duties of other holders of Pledged
Stock of the same class and, if the Grantor having pledged such Pledged Stock
hereunder had any right, power or duty at the time of such pledge or at the time
of such substitution beyond that of such other holders, with all such additional
rights, powers and duties. Such Grantor agrees to execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent such certificates, agreements and other documents as may be
necessary to evidence, formalize or otherwise give effect to the consents given
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Section 4.4 Accounts

Except as permitted by the Credit Agreement, such Grantor shall not, other than
in the ordinary course of business consistent with its past practice, settle,
adjust or compromise any claim, offset, counterclaim or dispute with any Account
Debtor, Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor.

Section 4.5 Delivery of Instruments and Chattel Paper

If any amount in excess of $250,000 payable under or in connection with any
Collateral owned by such Grantor shall be or become evidenced by an Instrument
or Chattel Paper, such Grantor shall immediately deliver such Instrument or
Chattel Paper to the Administrative Agent, duly indorsed in a manner
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, or, if consented to by the
Administrative Agent, shall mark all such Instruments and Chattel Paper with the
following legend: “This writing and the obligations evidenced or secured hereby
are subject to the security interest of Citicorp USA, Inc., as Administrative
Agent”.

Section 4.6 Intellectual Property

(a) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) shall (i) continue to use
each trademark that is Material Intellectual Property in order to maintain such
trademark in full force and effect with respect to each class of goods for which
such trademark is currently used, free from any claim of abandonment for
non-use, (ii) use such trademark that is Material Intellectual Property with the
appropriate notice of registration and all other notices and legends required by
applicable Requirements of Law and (iii) not (and not permit any licensee or
sublicensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby such
trademark that is Material Intellectual Property (or any goodwill associated
therewith) may become destroyed, invalidated, impaired or harmed in any way.

(b) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) shall not do any act, or
omit to do any act, whereby any patent that is Material Intellectual Property
may become forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to the public.

(c) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) (i) shall not (and shall
not permit any licensee or sublicensee thereof to) do any act or omit to do any
act whereby any portion of the copyrights that is Material Intellectual Property
may become invalidated or otherwise impaired and (ii) shall not (either itself
or through licensees) do any act whereby any portion of the copyrights that is
Material Intellectual Property may fall into the public domain.

(d) Such Grantor (either itself or through licensees) shall not do any act that
knowingly infringes, misappropriates, or violates the intellectual property
rights of any other Person.

(e) Such Grantor shall notify the Administrative Agent immediately if it knows,
or has reason to know, that any application or registration relating to any
Material Intellectual Property may become forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to
the public, or of any 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, the United States Copyright
Office or any court or tribunal in any country) regarding such Grantor’s
ownership of, right to use, interest in, or the validity of, any Material
Intellectual Property or such Grantor’s right to register the same or to own and
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(f) Whenever such Grantor, either by itself or through any agent, licensee or
designee, shall file an application for the registration of any Material
Intellectual Property with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the
United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency within or outside
the United States, such Grantor shall report such filing to the Administrative
Agent within five Business Days after the last day of the fiscal quarter in
which such filing occurs. Upon request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor
shall execute and deliver, and have recorded, all agreements, instruments,
documents and papers as the Administrative Agent may request to evidence the
Administrative Agent’s security interest in any such Material Intellectual
Property and the goodwill and general intangibles of such Grantor relating
thereto or represented thereby.

(g) Such Grantor shall take all reasonable actions necessary or requested by the
Administrative Agent, including in any proceeding before the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar
office or agency, to maintain and pursue each application (and to obtain the
relevant registration) and to maintain each registration of Material
Intellectual Property, including filing of applications for renewal, affidavits
of use, affidavits of incontestability and opposition and interference and
cancellation proceedings.

(h) In the event that any Material Intellectual Property is or has been
infringed upon or misappropriated or diluted by a third party, such Grantor
shall notify the Administrative Agent promptly after such Grantor learns
thereof. Such Grantor shall take appropriate action in response to such
infringement, misappropriation of dilution, including promptly bringing suit for
infringement, misappropriation or dilution and to recover all damages for such
infringement, misappropriation of dilution, and shall take such other actions
may be appropriate in its reasonable judgment under the circumstances to protect
such Material Intellectual Property.

(i) Unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent, such Grantor shall
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent for filing in (i) the United
States Copyright Office a short-form copyright security agreement in the form
attached hereto as Annex 5 (Form of Short Form Intellectual Property Security
Agreement), (ii) in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and with the
Secretary of State of all appropriate States of the United States a short-form
patent security agreement in the form attached hereto as Annex 5 (Form of Short
Form Intellectual Property Security Agreement) and (iii) the United States
Patent and Trademark Office a short-form trademark security agreement in form
attached hereto as Annex 5 (Form of Short Form Intellectual Property Security
Agreement) (together with appropriate supporting documentation as may be
requested by the Administrative Agent) in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Section 4.7 License Agreements

(a) With respect to a License Agreement applicable to Material Intellectual
Property that is owned by a third party and licensed to a Grantor and that is
affixed to or otherwise used in connection with the manufacture, sale or
distribution of any Inventory, each Grantor shall (i) give the Administrative
Agent not less than ninety (90) days prior written notice of its intention to
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License Agreement, or to amend any such License Agreement or related
arrangements to limit the scope of the right of such Grantor to use the Material
Intellectual Property subject to such License Agreement, either with respect to
product, territory, term or otherwise, or to increase the amounts to be paid by
such Grantor thereunder or in connection therewith (and the Administrative Agent
may establish such Reserves as a result of any of the foregoing as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably determine), (ii) give the Administrative
Agent prompt written notice of any such License Agreement entered into by such
Grantor after the date hereof, or any material amendment to any such License
Agreement existing on the date hereof, in each case together with a true,
correct and complete copy thereof and such other information with respect
thereto as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, (iii) give the
Administrative Agent prompt written notice of any material breach of any
obligation, or any default, by the third party that is the licensor or by the
Grantor that is the licensee or any other party under any such License
Agreement, and deliver to the Administrative Agent (promptly upon the receipt
thereof by such Grantor in the case of a notice to such Grantor and concurrently
with the sending thereof in the case of a notice from such Grantor) a copy of
each notice of default and any other notice received or delivered by such
Grantor in connection with any such a License Agreement that relates to the
scope of the right, or the continuation of the right, of such Grantor to use the
Material Intellectual Property subject to such License Agreement or the amounts
required to be paid thereunder.

(b) With respect to a License Agreement applicable to Material Intellectual
Property that is owned by a third party and licensed to a Grantor and that is
affixed to or otherwise used in connection with the manufacture, sale or
distribution of any Inventory, at any time an Event of Default shall exist or
have occurred and be continuing or if after giving effect to any Reserves, or
the reduction in the applicable Borrowing Base as a result of Eligible Inventory
using such licensed Material Intellectual Property ceasing to be Eligible
Inventory, the Administrative Agent shall have, and is hereby granted, the
irrevocable right and authority, at its option, to renew or extend the term of
such License Agreement, whether in its own name and behalf, or in the name and
behalf of a designee or nominee of the Administrative Agent or in the name and
behalf of such Grantor, subject to and in accordance with the terms of such
License Agreement. The Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to,
perform any or all of such obligations of such Grantor under any of the License
Agreements, including, but not limited to, the payment of any or all sums due
from such Grantor thereunder. Any sums so paid by the Administrative Agent shall
constitute part of the Secured Obligations.

Section 4.8 Insurance

[Intentionally Omitted]

Section 4.9 Notice of Commercial Tort Claims

Such Grantor agrees that, if it shall acquire any interest in any Commercial
Tort Claim in excess of $1,000,000 (whether from another Person or because such
Commercial Tort Claim shall have come into existence), (i) such Grantor shall,
immediately upon such acquisition, deliver to the Administrative Agent, in each
case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
a notice of the existence and nature of such Commercial Tort Claim and deliver a
supplement to Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims) containing a specific
description of such Commercial Tort Claim, (ii) the provision of Section 2.1
(Collateral) shall apply to such Commercial Tort Claim and (iii) such Grantor
shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, in each case in form and
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deemed by the Administrative Agent to be reasonably necessary or appropriate for
the Administrative Agent to obtain, on behalf of the Lenders, subject to the
Intercreditor Agreement, a first-priority, perfected security interest in all
such Commercial Tort Claims. Any supplement to Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort
Claims) delivered pursuant to this Section 4.9 (Notice of Commercial Tort
Claims) shall, after the receipt thereof by the Administrative Agent, become
part of Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims) for all purposes hereunder other
than in respect of representations and warranties made prior to the date of such
receipt.

Section 4.10 Credit Card Agreements

Each Grantor shall (a) observe and perform all material terms, covenants,
conditions and provisions of the Credit Card Agreements to be observed and
performed by it at the times set forth therein; and (b) at all times maintain in
full force and effect the Credit Card Agreements and not terminate, cancel,
surrender, modify, amend, waive or release any of the Credit Card Agreements, or
consent to or permit to occur any of the foregoing; except, that, (i) any
Grantor may terminate or cancel any of the Credit Card Agreements in the
ordinary course of the business of such Grantor; provided, that, such Grantor
shall give the Administrative Agent not less than fifteen (15) days prior
written notice of its intention to so terminate or cancel any of the Credit Card
Agreements; (c) not enter into any new Credit Card Agreements with any new
Credit Card Issuer unless (i) the Administrative Agent shall have received not
less than thirty (30) days prior written notice of the intention of such Grantor
to enter into such agreement (together with such other information with respect
thereto as the Administrative Agent may request) and (ii) such Grantor delivers,
or causes to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, a Credit Card
Acknowledgment in favor of the Administrative Agent, (d) give the Administrative
Agent immediate written notice of any Credit Card Agreement entered into by such
Grantor after the date hereof, together with a true, correct and complete copy
thereof and such other information with respect thereto as the Administrative
Agent may request; and (e) furnish to the Administrative Agent, promptly upon
the request of the Administrative Agent, such information and evidence as the
Administrative Agent may require from time to time concerning the observance,
performance and compliance by such Grantor or the other party or parties thereto
with the terms, covenants or provisions of the Credit Card Agreements.

Section 4.11 Inventory Covenants

(a) Such Grantor shall at all times maintain Inventory records reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, keeping correct and accurate records
itemizing and describing the kind, type, quality and quantity of Inventory, such
Grantor’s cost therefor and daily withdrawals therefrom and additions thereto;

(b) Such Grantor shall produce, use, store and maintain the Inventory, with all
reasonable care and caution and in accordance with applicable standards of any
insurance and in conformity with applicable laws (including the requirements of
the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended and all rules,
regulations and orders related thereto);

(c) Such Grantor assumes all responsibility and liability arising from or
relating to the production, use, sale or other disposition of the Inventory;

(d) Such Grantor shall not sell Inventory to any customer on approval, or any
other basis which entitles the customer to return or may obligate any Grantor to
repurchase such Inventory except for the right of return given to retail
customers of such Grantor in the ordinary course of the business of such Grantor
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(e) Such Grantor shall keep the Inventory in good and marketable condition;

(f) Such Grantor shall not, without prior written notice to the Administrative
Agent or the specific identification of such Inventory in a report with respect
thereto provided by Borrower Agent to Administrative Agent, acquire or accept
any Inventory on consignment or approval.

ARTICLE V REMEDIAL PROVISION

Section 5.1 Code and Other Remedies

During the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent may
exercise, in addition to all other rights and remedies granted to it in this
Agreement and in any other instrument or agreement securing, evidencing or
relating to the Secured Obligations, all rights and remedies of a secured party
under the UCC or any other applicable law. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, the Administrative Agent, without demand of performance or other
demand, presentment, protest, advertisement or notice of any kind (except any
notice required by law referred to below) to or upon any Grantor or any other
Person (all and each of which demands, defenses, advertisements and notices are
hereby waived), may in such circumstances forthwith collect, receive,
appropriate and realize upon any Collateral, and may forthwith sell, lease,
assign, give option or options to purchase, or otherwise dispose of and deliver
any Collateral (or contract to do any of the foregoing), in one or more parcels
at public or private sale or sales, at any exchange, broker’s board or office of
the Administrative Agent or any Lender or elsewhere upon such terms and
conditions as it may deem advisable and at such prices as it may deem best, for
cash or on credit or for future delivery without assumption of any credit risk.
The Administrative Agent shall have the right upon any such public sale or
sales, and, to the extent permitted by the UCC and other applicable law, upon
any such private sale or sales, to purchase the whole or any part of the
Collateral so sold, free of any right or equity of redemption of any Grantor,
which right or equity is hereby waived and released. Each Grantor further
agrees, at the Administrative Agent’s request, to assemble the Collateral and
make it available to the Administrative Agent at places that the Administrative
Agent shall reasonably select, whether at such Grantor’s premises or elsewhere.
The Administrative Agent shall apply the net proceeds of any action taken by it
pursuant to this Section 5.1, after deducting all reasonable costs and expenses
of every kind incurred in connection therewith or incidental to the care or
safekeeping of any Collateral or in any way relating to the Collateral or the
rights of the Administrative Agent and any other Secured Party hereunder,
including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements, to the payment in whole
or in part of the Secured Obligations, in such order as the Credit Agreement
shall prescribe, and only after such application and after the payment by the
Administrative Agent of any other amount required by any provision of law, need
the Administrative Agent account for the surplus, if any, to any Grantor. To the
extent permitted by applicable law, each Grantor waives all claims, damages and
demands it may acquire against the Administrative Agent or any other Secured
Party arising out of the exercise by them of any rights hereunder. If any notice
of a proposed sale or other disposition of Collateral shall be required by law,
such notice shall be deemed reasonable and proper if given at least 10 days
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Section 5.2 Accounts and Payments in Respect of General Intangibles

(a) In addition to, and not in substitution for, any similar requirement in the
Credit Agreement, if required by the Administrative Agent at any time during the
continuance of an Event of Default, any payment of Accounts or payment in
respect of General Intangibles, when collected by any Grantor, shall be
forthwith (and, in any event, within two Business Days) deposited by such
Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the
Administrative Agent, in an Approved Deposit Account or a Cash Collateral
Account, subject to withdrawal, and shall be applied by the Administrative Agent
in respect of any Obligations as provided in Section 5.4 (Proceeds to be Turned
Over To Administrative Agent). Until so turned over or turned over, such payment
shall be held by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent, segregated
from other funds of such Grantor. Such deposits of Proceeds of Accounts and
payments in respect of General Intangibles shall, at the request of the
Administrative Agent after the occurrence and during the continuation of an
Event of Default, be summarized by a report identifying in reasonable detail the
nature and source of the payments included in such deposits.

(b) At the Administrative Agent’s request, during the continuance of an Event of
Default, each Grantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent all original and
other documents evidencing, and relating to, the agreements and transactions
that gave rise to the Accounts or payments in respect of General Intangibles,
including all original orders, invoices and shipping receipts (other than with
respect to the sale of Inventory in the ordinary course, which shall be
summarized in a report at the request of the Administrative Agent.

(c) The Administrative Agent may, without notice, at any time during the
continuance of an Event of Default, limit or terminate the authority of a
Grantor to collect its Accounts or amounts due under General Intangibles or any
thereof.

(d) The Administrative Agent in its own name or in the name of others may at any
time during the continuance of an Event of Default communicate with Account
Debtors to verify with them to the Administrative Agent’s satisfaction the
existence, amount and terms of any Account or amounts due under any General
Intangible.

(e) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent at any time during the
continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor shall notify Account Debtors
that the Accounts or General Intangibles have been collaterally assigned to the
Administrative Agent and that payments in respect thereof shall be made directly
to the Administrative Agent. In addition, the Administrative Agent may at any
time during the continuance of an Event of Default enforce such Grantor’s rights
against such Account Debtors and obligors of General Intangibles.

(f) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each Grantor shall remain
liable under each of the Accounts and payments in respect of General Intangibles
to observe and perform all the conditions and obligations to be observed and
performed by it thereunder, all in accordance with the terms of any agreement
giving rise thereto. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Secured
Party shall have any obligation or liability under any agreement giving rise to
an Account or a payment in respect of a General Intangible by reason of or
arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Administrative Agent nor any
other Secured Party of any payment relating thereto, nor shall the
Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party be obligated in any manner to
perform any obligation of any Grantor under or pursuant to any agreement giving
rise to an Account or a payment in respect of a General Intangible, to make any
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it or as to the sufficiency of any performance by any party thereunder, to
present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to
collect the payment of any amounts that may have been assigned to it or to which
it may be entitled at any time or times.

Section 5.3 Pledged Collateral

Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement:

(a) During the continuance of an Event of Default, upon notice by the
Administrative Agent to the relevant Grantor or Grantors, (i) the Administrative
Agent shall have the right to receive any Proceeds of the Pledged Collateral and
make application thereof to the Obligations in the order set forth in the Credit
Agreement and (ii) the Administrative Agent or its nominee may exercise (A) any
voting, consent, corporate and other right pertaining to the Pledged Collateral
at any meeting of shareholders, partners or members, as the case may be, of the
relevant issuer or issuers of Pledged Collateral or otherwise and (B) any right
of conversion, exchange and subscription and any other right, privilege or
option pertaining to the Pledged Collateral as if it were the absolute owner
thereof (including the right to exchange at its discretion any of the Pledged
Collateral upon the merger, amalgamation, consolidation, reorganization,
recapitalization or other fundamental change in the corporate or equivalent
structure of any issuer of Pledged Stock, the right to deposit and deliver any
Pledged Collateral with any committee, depositary, transfer agent, registrar or
other designated agency upon such terms and conditions as the Administrative
Agent may determine), all without liability except to account for property
actually received by it; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall
have no duty to any Grantor to exercise any such right, privilege or option and
shall not be responsible for any failure to do so or delay in so doing.

(b) In order to permit the Administrative Agent to exercise the voting and other
consensual rights that it may be entitled to exercise pursuant hereto and to
receive all dividends and other distributions that it may be entitled to receive
hereunder, in each case after the occurrence and during the continuation of an
Event of Default, (i) each Grantor shall promptly execute and deliver (or cause
to be executed and delivered) to the Administrative Agent all such proxies,
dividend payment orders and other instruments as the Administrative Agent may
from time to time reasonably request and (ii) without limiting the effect of
clause (i) above, such Grantor hereby grants to the Administrative Agent an
irrevocable proxy to vote all or any part of the Pledged Collateral and to
exercise all other rights, powers, privileges and remedies to which a holder of
the Pledged Collateral would be entitled (including giving or withholding
written consents of shareholders, partners or members, as the case may be,
calling special meetings of shareholders, partners or members, as the case may
be, and voting at such meetings), which proxy shall be effective, automatically
and without the necessity of any action (including any transfer of any Pledged
Collateral on the record books of the issuer thereof) by any other person
(including the issuer of such Pledged Collateral or any officer or agent
thereof) during the continuance of an Event of Default and which proxy shall
only terminate upon the payment in full of the Secured Obligations.

(c) Each Grantor hereby expressly authorizes and instructs each issuer of any
Pledged Collateral pledged hereunder by such Grantor to (i) comply with any
instruction received by it from the Administrative Agent in writing that
(A) states that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (B) is
otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without any other or
further instructions from such Grantor, and each Grantor agrees that such issuer
shall be fully protected in so complying and (ii) unless otherwise expressly
permitted hereby, pay any dividend or other payment with respect to the Pledged
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Section 5.4 Proceeds to be Turned Over To Administrative Agent

Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, unless
otherwise expressly provided in the Credit Agreement, all Proceeds received by
the Administrative Agent hereunder in cash or Cash Equivalents shall be held by
the Administrative Agent in a Cash Collateral Account. All Proceeds while held
by the Administrative Agent in a Cash Collateral Account (or by such Grantor in
trust for the Administrative Agent) shall continue to be held as collateral
security for the Secured Obligations and shall not constitute payment thereof
until applied as provided in the Credit Agreement.

Section 5.5 Registration Rights

[Intentionally Omitted]

Section 5.6 Deficiency

Each Grantor shall remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds of any sale
or other disposition of the Collateral are insufficient to pay the Secured
Obligations and the fees and disbursements of any attorney employed by the
Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to collect such deficiency.

ARTICLE VI THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

Section 6.1 Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact

(a) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, each Grantor hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints the Administrative Agent and any officer or agent
thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful
attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and
stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or in its own name, for
the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Agreement, to take any appropriate
action and to execute any document or instrument that may be necessary or
desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, and, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor hereby gives the Administrative
Agent the power and right, on behalf of such Grantor, without notice to or
assent by such Grantor, to do any of the following:

(i) in the name of such Grantor or its own name, or otherwise, take possession
of and indorse and collect any check, draft, note, acceptance or other
instrument for the payment of moneys due under any Account or General Intangible
or with respect to any other Collateral and file any claim or take any other
action or proceeding in any court of law or equity or otherwise deemed
appropriate by the Administrative Agent for the purpose of collecting any such
moneys due under any Account or General Intangible or with respect to any other
Collateral whenever payable;

(ii) in the case of any Intellectual Property, execute and deliver, and have
recorded, any agreement, instrument, document or paper as the Administrative
Agent may request to evidence the Administrative Agent’s security interest in
such Intellectual Property and the goodwill and General Intangibles of such
Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby;

 

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(iii) pay or discharge taxes and Liens levied or placed on or threatened against
the Collateral, effect any repair or pay any insurance called for by the terms
of this Agreement (including all or any part of the premiums therefor and the
costs thereof);

(iv) execute, in connection with any sale provided for in Section 5.1 (Code and
Other Remedies), any endorsement, assignment or other instrument of conveyance
or transfer with respect to the Collateral; or

(v)(A) direct any party liable for any payment under any Collateral to make
payment of any moneys due or to become due thereunder directly to the
Administrative Agent or as the Administrative Agent shall direct, (B) ask or
demand for, collect, and receive payment of and receipt for, any moneys, claims
and other amounts due or to become due at any time in respect of or arising out
of any Collateral, (C) sign and indorse any invoice, freight or express bill,
bill of lading, storage or warehouse receipt, draft against debtors, assignment,
verification, notice and other document in connection with any Collateral,
(D) commence and prosecute any suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity in
any court of competent jurisdiction to collect any Collateral and to enforce any
other right in respect of any Collateral, (E) defend any suit, action or
proceeding brought against such Grantor with respect to any Collateral,
(F) settle, compromise or adjust any such suit, action or proceeding and, in
connection therewith, give such discharges or releases as the Administrative
Agent may deem appropriate, (G) assign any Intellectual Property (along with the
goodwill of the business related thereto) throughout the world for such term or
terms, on such conditions, and in such manner as the Administrative Agent shall
in its sole discretion determine, including the execution and filing of any
document necessary to effectuate or record such assignment and (H) generally,
sell, transfer, pledge and make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal
with any Collateral as fully and completely as though the Administrative Agent
were the absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and do, at the Administrative
Agent’s option and such Grantor’s expense, at any time, or from time to time,
all acts and things that the Administrative Agent deems necessary to protect,
preserve or realize upon the Collateral and the Administrative Agent’s and the
other Secured Parties’ security interests therein and to effect the intent of
this Agreement, all as fully and effectively as such Grantor might do.

Anything in this clause (a) to the contrary notwithstanding, the Administrative
Agent agrees that it shall not exercise any right under the power of attorney
provided for in this clause (a) unless an Event of Default shall be continuing.

(b) If any Grantor fails to perform or comply with any of its agreements
contained herein, the Administrative Agent, at its option, but without any
obligation so to do, may perform or comply, or otherwise cause performance or
compliance, with such agreement.

(c) The expenses of the Administrative Agent incurred in connection with actions
undertaken as provided in this Section 6.1, together with interest thereon at a
rate per annum equal to the rate per annum at which interest would then be
payable on past due Loans that are Base Rate Loans under the Credit Agreement,
from the date of payment by the Administrative Agent to the date reimbursed by
the relevant Grantor, shall be payable by such Grantor to the Administrative
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(d) Each Grantor hereby ratifies all that said attorneys shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof. All powers, authorizations and agencies
contained in this Agreement are coupled with an interest and are irrevocable
until this Agreement is terminated and the security interests created hereby are
released.

Section 6.2 Duty of Administrative Agent

The Administrative Agent’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safekeeping
and physical preservation of the Collateral in its possession shall be to deal
with it in the same manner as the Administrative Agent deals with similar
property for its own account. Neither the Administrative Agent, any other
Secured Party nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees or
agents shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any
Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell
or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any Grantor or any
other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any
Collateral. The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent hereunder are
solely to protect the Administrative Agent’s interest in the Collateral and
shall not impose any duty upon the Administrative Agent or any other Secured
Party to exercise any such powers. The Administrative Agent and the other
Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts that they actually receive
as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither they nor any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any
Grantor for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for their own gross
negligence or willful misconduct.

Section 6.3 Authorization of Financing Statements

Each Grantor authorizes the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, counsel and
other representatives, at any time and from time to time, to file or record
financing statements, amendments to financing statements, and other filing or
recording documents or instruments with respect to the Collateral in such form
and in such offices as the Administrative Agent reasonably determines
appropriate to perfect the security interests of the Administrative Agent under
this Agreement. Each Grantor hereby also authorizes the Administrative Agent and
its Affiliates, counsel and other representatives, at any time and from time to
time, to file continuation statements with respect to previously filed financing
statements. A photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement shall be
sufficient as a financing statement or other filing or recording document or
instrument for filing or recording in any jurisdiction.

Section 6.4 Authority of Administrative Agent

Each Grantor acknowledges that the rights and responsibilities of the
Administrative Agent under this Agreement with respect to any action taken by
the Administrative Agent or the exercise or non-exercise by the Administrative
Agent of any option, voting right, request, judgment or other right or remedy
provided for herein or resulting or arising out of this Agreement shall, as
between the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, be governed by
the Credit Agreement and by such other agreements with respect thereto as may
exist from time to time among them, but, as between the Administrative Agent and
the Grantors, the Administrative Agent shall be conclusively presumed to be
acting as agent for the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties with
full and valid authority so to act or refrain from acting, and no Grantor shall
be under any obligation, or entitlement, to make any inquiry respecting such
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ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 7.1 Amendments in Writing

None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement may be waived, amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified except in accordance with Section 11.1
(Amendments, Waivers, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that
annexes to this Agreement may be supplemented (but no existing provisions may be
modified and no Collateral may be released) through Pledge Amendments and
Joinder Agreements, in substantially the form of Annex 3 (Form of Pledge
Amendment) and Annex 4 (Form of Joinder Agreement) respectively, in each case
duly executed by the Administrative Agent and each Grantor directly affected
thereby.

Section 7.2 Notices

All notices, requests and demands to or upon the Administrative Agent or any
Grantor hereunder shall be effected in the manner provided for in Section 11.8
(Notices, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that any such
notice, request or demand to or upon any Grantor shall be addressed to the
Grantor’s notice address set forth in such Section 11.8.

Section 7.3 No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative Remedies

Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party shall by any act
(except by a written instrument pursuant to Section 7.1 (Amendments in
Writing)), delay, indulgence, omission or otherwise be deemed to have waived any
right or remedy hereunder or to have acquiesced in any Default or Event of
Default. No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the
Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party, any right, power or privilege
hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof. No single or partial exercise of
any right, power or privilege hereunder shall preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. A
waiver by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party of any right or
remedy hereunder on any one occasion shall not be construed as a bar to any
right or remedy that the Administrative Agent or such other Secured Party would
otherwise have on any future occasion. The rights and remedies herein provided
are cumulative, may be exercised singly or concurrently and are not exclusive of
any other rights or remedies provided by law.

Section 7.4 Amendment and Restatement; Effectiveness

(a) This Agreement shall become effective on the Effective Date.

(b) On the Effective Date, the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended and
restated by the Credit Agreement together with this Agreement, and the Existing
Credit Agreement (as amended and restated by the Credit Agreement and this
Agreement) shall continue to evidence the Liens granted thereunder and the
incurrence by the Grantors of obligations thereunder (whether or not such
obligations are contingent as of the Effective Date). This Agreement is not in
any way intended to constitute a novation of the Liens, interests or any
obligations or liabilities existing under or granted pursuant to the Existing
Credit Agreement or evidence payment or performance of all or any portion of
such obligations and liabilities or the release of any lien under the Existing
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(c) The terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Administrative Agent’s,
the Lenders’ and the Issuers’ rights and remedies under this Agreement and the
other Financing Agreements shall apply to (i) all of the Obligations incurred
under the Credit Agreement and the Revolving Credit Notes issued thereunder and
all Obligations of the Grantors incurred under the Financing Agreements and
(ii) all of the obligations incurred under the Existing Credit Agreement and all
obligations of the Grantors incurred under the “Financing Agreements” (as
defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) (the “Existing Financing Agreements”).

(d) Each Grantor hereby reaffirms the liens granted pursuant to the Existing
Financing Agreements to the Existing Agent for the benefit of the secured
parties thereunder, which Liens shall continue in full force and effect during
the term of this Agreement and any renewals thereof and shall continue to secure
the Secured Obligations.

(e) This amendment and restatement is limited as written and is not a consent to
any other amendment, restatement, waiver or other modification, whether or not
similar, and, except as expressly provided herein or in any other Financing
Agreement, all terms and conditions of the Financing Agreements remain in full
force and effect unless otherwise specifically amended by this Agreement or any
other Financing Agreement.

Section 7.5 Successors and Assigns

This Agreement shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of each Grantor
and shall inure to the benefit of the Administrative Agent and each other
Secured Party and their successors and assigns; provided, however, that no
Grantor may assign, transfer or delegate any of its rights or obligations under
this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

Section 7.6 Counterparts

This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement
on any number of separate counterparts (including by telecopy), each of which
when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be
detached from multiple counterparts and attached to a single counterpart so that
all signature pages are attached to the same document. Delivery of an executed
counterpart by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart.

Section 7.7 Severability

Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
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Section 7.8 Section Headings

The Article and Section titles contained in this Agreement are, and shall be,
without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not part
of the agreement of the parties hereto.

Section 7.9 Entire Agreement

This Agreement together with the other Financing Agreements represents the
entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings relating to the subject matter hereof.

Section 7.10 Governing Law

This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be
governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law of the
State of New York.

Section 7.11 Additional Grantors

If, pursuant to Section 7.11 (Additional Collateral and Guaranties) of the
Credit Agreement, the Borrowers shall be required to cause any Subsidiary that
is not a Grantor to become a Grantor hereunder, such Subsidiary shall execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Joinder Agreement substantially in the
form of Annex 4 (Form of Joinder Agreement) and shall thereafter for all
purposes be a party hereto and have the same rights, benefits and obligations as
a Grantor party hereto on the Effective Date.

Section 7.12 Release of Collateral

(a) At the time provided in Section 10.8(b)(i) (Concerning the Collateral and
the Collateral Documents) of the Credit Agreement, the Collateral shall be
released from the Lien created hereby and this Agreement and all obligations
(other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the
Administrative Agent and each Grantor hereunder shall terminate, all without
delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all
rights to the Collateral shall revert to the Grantors. At the request and sole
expense of any Grantor following any such termination, the Administrative Agent
shall deliver to such Grantor any Collateral of such Grantor held by the
Administrative Agent hereunder and execute and deliver to such Grantor such
documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.

(b) If the Administrative Agent shall be directed or permitted pursuant to
Section 10.8(b)(ii) or (iii) (Concerning the Collateral and the Collateral
Documents) of the Credit Agreement to release any Lien created hereby upon any
Collateral (including any Collateral sold or disposed of by any Grantor in a
transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement), such Collateral shall be
released from the Lien created hereby to the extent provided under, and subject
to the terms and conditions set forth in, Section 10.8(b)(ii) or
(iii) (Concerning the Collateral and the Collateral Documents) of the Credit
Agreement. In connection therewith, the Administrative Agent, at the request and
sole expense of the Grantors, shall execute and deliver to the Grantors all
releases or other documents, including, without limitation, UCC termination
statements, reasonably necessary or desirable for the release of the Lien
created hereby on such Collateral. At the request and sole expense of the
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hereunder in the event that all the Stock of such Grantor shall be so sold or
disposed; provided, however, that the Grantors shall have delivered to the
Administrative Agent, at least ten Business Days prior to the date of the
proposed release, a written request for release identifying the relevant Grantor
and the terms of the sale or other disposition in reasonable detail, including
the price thereof and any expenses in connection therewith, together with a
certification by the Grantors in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent stating that such transaction is in compliance with the
Credit Agreement and the other Financing Agreements.

Section 7.13 Reinstatement

Each Grantor further agrees that, if any payment made by any Loan Party or other
Person and applied to the Obligations is at any time annulled, avoided, set
aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential or
otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or the proceeds of Collateral are
required to be returned by any Secured Party to such Loan Party, its estate,
trustee, receiver or any other party, including any Grantor, under any
bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then, to
the extent of such payment or repayment, any Lien or other Collateral securing
such liability shall be and remain in full force and effect, as fully as if such
payment had never been made or, if prior thereto the Lien granted hereby or
other Collateral securing such liability hereunder shall have been released or
terminated by virtue of such cancellation or surrender), such Lien or other
Collateral shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior
cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or
otherwise affect any Lien or other Collateral securing the obligations of any
Grantor in respect of the amount of such payment.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Amended and Restated Pledge and
Security Agreement to be executed and delivered by its duly authorized officer
as of the date first set forth above.

 

Grantors:

J. CREW OPERATING CORP.

J. CREW INC.

GRACE HOLMES, INC.

H.F.D. NO. 55, INC.

MADEWELL INC.

J. CREW GROUP, INC.

By:   \s\ James S. Scully   Name: James S. Scully   Title: Chief Financial
Officer J. CREW INERNATIONAL, INC. By:   \s\ Nicholas P. Lamberti   Name:
Nicholas P. Lamberti   Title: Vice President and Controller

ACCEPTED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

 

CITICORP USA, INC.,

as Administrative Agent

By:   \s\ Thomas M. Halsch   Name: Thomas M. Halsch   Title: Director

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ANNEX 1

TO

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF DEPOSIT ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT

                         ,         

[Financial Institution]

[Address]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to account no. [                    ] maintained with you (the
“Bank”) by [            ] (the “Company”), [as borrower] [as guarantor] into
which funds are deposited from time to time (the “Account”). The Company has
entered into a Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of May __, 2007 (as the
same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Pledge and Security Agreement”), among the Company, J. CREW OPERATING
CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Operating”), J. CREW INC., a New Jersey
corporation (“J. Crew”), GRACE HOLMES, INC., a Delaware corporation doing
business as J. CREW RETAIL (“Retail”), H.F.D. NO. 55, INC., a Delaware
corporation doing business as J. Crew Factory (“Factory”), Madewell Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“Madewell”), J. CREW GROUP INC. (“Holdings”) and J. Crew
International, Inc. (“JCI”) (each a “Grantor” and collectively the “Grantors”)
and Citicorp USA, Inc., as agent for the Secured Parties referred to therein (in
such capacity the “Administrative Agent”).

Pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement and related documents, the Company
has granted to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
a security interest in certain property of the Company, including, among other
things, accounts, inventory, equipment, instruments, general intangibles and all
proceeds thereof (the “Collateral”). Payments with respect to the Collateral are
or hereafter may be made to the Account. You, the Company and the Administrative
Agent are entering into this letter agreement to perfect the security interest
of the Administrative Agent in the Account.

The Company hereby transfers to the Administrative Agent exclusive control of
the Account and all funds and other property on deposit therein. By your
execution of this letter agreement, you (i) agree that you shall comply with
instructions originated by the Administrative Agent directing disposition of the
funds in the Account without further consent of the Company and (ii) acknowledge
and agree that the Administrative Agent now has exclusive control of the
Account, that all funds and other property on deposit in the Account shall be
transferred to the Administrative Agent as provided herein, that the Account is
being maintained by you for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and that all
amounts and other property therein are held by you as custodian for the
Administrative Agent.

Except as provided in clauses (b)(iii) and (e) below, the Account shall not be
subject to deduction, set-off, banker’s lien, counterclaim, defense, recoupment
or any other right in favor of any person or entity other than the
Administrative Agent. By your execution of this letter agreement you also
acknowledge that, as of the date hereof, you have received no notice of any
other pledge or assignment of the Account and have not executed any agreements
with third parties covering the disposition of funds in the Account. You agree
with the Administrative Agent as follows:

 

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(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary or any other agreement relating to
the Account, the Account is and shall be maintained for the benefit of the
Administrative Agent shall be subject to written instructions only from an
authorized officer of the Administrative Agent.

(b) [A post office box (the “Lockbox”) has been rented in the name of the
Company at the [                    ] post office and the address to be used for
such Lockbox is:

[Insert address]

Your authorized representatives shall have access to the Lockbox under the
authority given by the Company to the post office and shall make regular
pick-ups from the Lockbox timed to gain maximum benefit of early presentation
and availability of funds. You shall endorse process all checks received in the
Lockbox and deposit such checks (to the extent eligible) in the Account in
accordance with the procedures set forth below.

(i) You shall follow your usual operating procedures for the handling of any
[checks received from the Lockbox or other] remittance received in the Account
that contains restrictive endorsements, irregularities (such as a variance
between the written and numerical amounts), undated or postdated items, missing
signatures, incorrect payees and the like.

(ii) You shall endorse and process all eligible checks and other remittance
items not covered by clause (iii) below and deposit such checks and remittance
items in the Account.

(iii) You shall mail all checks returned unpaid because of uncollected or
insufficient funds under appropriate advice to the Company (with a copy of the
notification of return to the Administrative Agent). You may charge the Account
for the amounts of any returned check that has been previously credited to the
Account. To the extent insufficient funds remain in the Account to cover any
such returned check, the Company shall indemnify you for the uncollected amount
of such returned check upon your demand.

(iv) You shall maintain a record of all checks and other remittance items
received in the Account and, in addition to providing the Company with
photostatic copies thereof, vouchers, enclosures and the like of such checks and
remittance items on a daily basis, furnish to the Administrative Agent a monthly
statement of the Account to Citicorp USA, Inc., as Administrative Agent at the
following address: 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013, Attention:
[            ], with a copy to the Company.]

[(c) Prior to the delivery to you of a written notice from the Administrative
Agent in the form of Exhibit A hereto (a “Blockage Notice”), you are authorized
to transfer to the Company, in same day funds, on each business day, the entire
balance in the Account to the following account:

ABA Number:                     

[name and address of Company’s bank]

 

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Account Name: ____________________    Concentration Account    Account Number:
__________________    Reference: _______________________    Attn:
____________________________   

or to such other account as the Company may from time to time designate in
writing.]

(d) [From and after the delivery to you of a Blockage Notice, you] [You] shall
transfer (by wire transfer or other method of transfer mutually acceptable to
you and the Administrative Agent) to the Administrative Agent, in same day
funds, on each business day, the entire balance in the Account to the following
account:

 

ABA Number: _____________________    Citibank, N.A.    388 Greenwich Street   
New York, New York 10013   

 

Account Name: ____________________    Concentration Account    Account Number:
__________________    Reference: _______________________    Attn:
____________________________   

or to such other account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time
designate in writing (the “Administrative Agent Concentration Account”).

(e) All customary service charges and fees with respect to the Account shall be
debited to the Account. In the event insufficient funds remain in the Account to
cover such customary service charges and fees, the Company shall pay and
indemnify you for the amounts of such customary service charges and fees.

This letter agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of
you, the Company, the Administrative Agent, the Secured Parties referred to in
the Pledge and Security Agreement and the respective successors, transferees and
assigns of any of the foregoing. This letter agreement may not be modified
except upon the mutual consent of the Administrative Agent, the Company and you.
You may terminate the letter agreement only upon 30 days’ prior written notice
to the Company and the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may
terminate this letter agreement upon 10 days’ prior written notice to you and
the Company. Upon such termination you shall close the Account and transfer all
funds in the Account to the Administrative Agent Concentration Account or as
otherwise directed by the Administrative Agent. After any such termination, you
shall nonetheless remain obligated promptly to transfer to the Administrative
Agent Concentration Account or as the Administrative Agent may otherwise direct
all funds and other property received in respect of the Account.

This letter agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which when taken together
shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart
of a signature page to this letter agreement by telecopier shall be effective as
delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this letter agreement.

 

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This letter agreement supersedes all prior agreements, oral or written, with
respect to the subject matter hereof and may not be amended, modified or
supplemented except by a writing signed by the Administrative Agent, the Company
and you. You have not, and, without the prior consent of the Administrative
Agent and the Company, you shall not, agree with any third part to comply with
instructions or other directions concerning the Account or the disposition of
funds in the Account originated by such third party.

The Company hereby agrees to indemnify and hold you, your directors, officers,
agents and employees harmless against all claims, causes of action, liabilities,
lawsuits, demands and damages, including, without limitation, all court costs
and reasonable attorney fees, in each case in any way related to or arising out
of or in connection with this letter agreement or any action taken or not taken
pursuant hereto, except to the extent caused by your gross negligence or willful
misconduct.

This letter agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the law of the State of New York.

 

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Upon acceptance of this letter agreement it shall be the valid and binding
obligation of the Company, the Administrative Agent, and you, in accordance with
its terms.

 

Very truly yours, [NAME OF COMPANY] By:        Name:   Title: CITICORP USA,
INC.,
as Administrative Agent By:        Name:   Title:

 

ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written: [FINANCIAL INSTITUTION] By:        Name:  
Title:

 

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EXHIBIT A

TO

DEPOSIT ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT

Form of Administrative Agent Blockage Notice

[Financial Institution]

[Address]

Re: Account No.                     (the “Account”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to the Account and that certain Deposit Account Control
Agreement dated                  , 20     among you, Citicorp USA, Inc., as
Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent”), and [                ] (the
“Deposit Account Control Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein shall have
the meanings given to them in the Deposit Account Control Agreement.

The Administrative Agent hereby notifies you that, from and after the date of
this notice, you are hereby directed to transfer (by wire transfer or other
method of transfer mutually acceptable to you and the Administrative Agent) to
the Administrative Agent, in same day funds, on each business day, the entire
balance in the Account to the Administrative Agent Concentration Account
specified in clause (d) of the Deposit Account Control Agreement or to such
other account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time designate in
writing.

 

Very truly yours,

CITICORP USA, INC,

as Administrative Agent

By:        Name:   Title:

 

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ANNEX 2

TO

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF SECURITIES ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT

[Name and Address

of Approved Securities

Intermediary]

                 , 20__

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned                 (the “Pledgor”) together with certain of its
affiliates are party to a Pledge and Security Agreement dated May __, 2007 in
favor of Citicorp USA, Inc., as agent for the Secured Parties referred to
therein (the “Pledgee” and such agreement the “Pledge and Security Agreement”)
pursuant to which a security interest is granted by the Pledgor in all present
and future Assets (hereinafter defined) in Account No.              of the
Pledgor (the “Pledge”).

In connection therewith, the Pledgor hereby instructs you (the “Approved
Securities Intermediary”) to do all of the following:

 

  1. hold in the Account the assets, including, without limitation, all
financial assets, securities, security entitlements and all other property and
rights now or hereafter received in such Account (collectively the “Assets”),
including, without limitation, those assets listed on Schedule A (List of
Assets) attached hereto and made a part hereof;

 

  2. provide to the Pledgee, with a duplicate copy to the Pledgor, a monthly
statement of Assets and a confirmation statement of each transaction effected in
the Account after such transaction is effected; and

 

  3.

honor only the instructions or entitlement orders (within the meaning of
Section 8-102 of the UCC (as defined below) (the “Entitlement Orders”) in regard
to or in connection with the Account given by an Authorized Officer of the
Pledgee, except as provided in the following sentence. Until such time as the
Pledgee gives a written notice in the form of Exhibit A hereto to the Approved
Securities Intermediary that the Pledgor’s rights under this sentence have been
terminated (on which notice the Approved Securities Intermediary may rely
exclusively), the Pledgor acting through an Authorized Officer may (a) exercise
any voting right that it may have with respect to any Asset, (b) give
Entitlement Orders and otherwise give instructions to enter into purchase or
sale transactions in the Account and (c) withdraw and receive for its own use
all regularly scheduled interest [and dividends] paid with respect to the Assets
[and all cash proceeds of any sale of Assets] (“Permitted Withdrawals”);
provided, however, that, unless the Pledgee has consented to the specific
transaction, the Pledgor shall not instruct the Approved Securities Intermediary
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may be required by law or by court order, the Approved Securities Intermediary
shall not deliver, cash, securities, or proceeds from the sale of, or
distributions on, such securities out of the Account to the Pledgor or to any
other person or entity other than Permitted Withdrawals.

By its signature below, the Approved Securities Intermediary agrees to comply
with the Entitlement Orders and instructions of an Authorized Officer of the
Pledgee (including, without limitation, any instruction with respect to sales,
trades, transfers and withdrawals of cash or other of the Assets) without the
further consent of the Pledgor or any other person (it being understood and
agreed by the Pledgor that the Approved Securities Intermediary shall have no
duty or obligation whatsoever to have knowledge of the terms of the Pledge and
Security Agreement or to determine whether or not an event of default exists
thereunder). The Pledgor hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Approved Securities Intermediary, its affiliates, officers and employees from
and against all claims, causes of action, liabilities, lawsuits, demands and
damages, including, without limitation, all court costs and reasonable
attorney’s fees, that may result by reason of the Approved Securities
Intermediary complying with such instructions of the Pledgee.

The Authorized Officer of the Pledgee who shall give oral instructions hereunder
shall confirm the same in writing to the Approved Securities Intermediary within
five days after such oral instructions are given.

For the purpose of this Agreement, the term “Authorized Officer of the Pledgor”
shall refer in the singular to each of the chairman, chief executive officer,
chief financial officer, any president or vice president, or the controller, or
any other director or officer identified by the Pledgor in a writing to the
Pledgee and the Approved Securities Intermediary (each of whom is, on the date
hereof, an officer or director of the Pledgor) and “Authorized Officer of the
Pledgee” shall refer in the singular to any person who is a vice president or
managing director of the Pledgee. In the event that the Pledgor shall find it
advisable to designate a replacement for any of its Authorized Officers, written
notice of any such replacement shall be given to the Approved Securities
Intermediary and the Pledgee.

Except with respect to the obligations and duties as set forth herein, this
Agreement shall not impose or create any obligation or duty upon the Approved
Securities Intermediary greater than or in addition to the customary and usual
obligations and duties of the Approved Securities Intermediary to the Pledgor.

As long as the Assets are pledged to the Pledgee, (i) the Approved Securities
Intermediary shall not invade the Assets to cover margin debits or calls in any
other account of the Pledgor and (ii) the Approved Securities Intermediary
agrees that, except for liens resulting from customary commissions, fees, or
charges based upon transactions in the Account, it subordinates in favor of the
Pledgee any security interest, lien or right of setoff the Approved Securities
Intermediary may have. The Approved Securities Intermediary acknowledges that it
has not received notice of any other security interest in the Account or the
Assets. In the event any such notice is received, the Approved Securities
Intermediary shall promptly notify the Pledgee. The Pledgor herein represents
that the Assets are free and clear of any lien or encumbrance and agrees that,
with the exception of the security interest granted to the Pledgee, no lien or
encumbrance shall be placed by it on the Assets without the express written
consent of both the Pledgee and the Approved Securities Intermediary.

 

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This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties
hereto and their respective successors and assigns and it and the rights and
obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by, and construed and
interpreted in accordance with, and the law of the Approved Securities
Intermediary’s jurisdiction for the purposes of Section 8-110 of the Uniform
Commercial Code in effect in the State of New York (the “UCC”) shall be, the law
of the State of New York.

The Approved Securities Intermediary shall treat all property at any time held
by the Approved Securities Intermediary in the Account as Financial Assets
within the meaning of the UCC. The Approved Securities Intermediary acknowledges
that this Agreement constitutes written notification to the Approved Securities
Intermediary, pursuant to the UCC and any applicable federal regulations for the
Federal Reserve Book Entry System, of the Pledgee’s security interest in the
Assets. The Pledgor, Pledgee and Approved Securities Intermediary are entering
into this Agreement to provide for the Pledgee’s control of the Assets and to
confirm the first priority of the Pledgee’s security interest in the Assets.

If any term or provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or
unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement shall be construed in all
respects as if the invalid or unenforceable term or provision were omitted. This
Agreement may not be altered or amended in any manner without the express
written consent of the Pledgor, the Pledgee and the Approved Securities
Intermediary. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all
of which shall constitute one original agreement.

The Pledgor hereby agrees to indemnify and hold you, your directors, officers,
agents and employees harmless against all claims, causes of action, liabilities,
lawsuits, demands and damages, including, without limitation, all court costs
and reasonable attorney fees, in each case in any way related to or arising out
of or in connection with this letter agreement or any action taken or not taken
pursuant hereto, except to the extent caused by your gross negligence or willful
misconduct.

This Agreement may be terminated by the Approved Securities Intermediary upon 30
day’s prior written notice to the Pledgor and the Pledgee. Upon expiration of
such 30-day period, the Approved Securities Intermediary shall be under no
further obligation except to hold the Assets in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, pending receipt of written instructions from the Pledgor and the
Pledgee, jointly, regarding the further disposition of the pledged Assets.

The Pledgor acknowledges that this Agreement supplements any existing agreement
of the Pledgor with the Approved Securities Intermediary and, except as
expressly provided herein, is in no way intended to abridge any right that the
Approved Securities Intermediary might otherwise have.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Pledgor and the Pledgee have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their duly authorized officers all as of the date first above
written.

 

[NAME OF PLEDGOR] By:        Name:   Title: CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent By:        Name:   Title:

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written: [APPROVED FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY] By:       
Name:   Title:

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO SECURITIES ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT]

 

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SCHEDULE A

TO

SECURITIES ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT

PLEDGED COLLATERAL ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     

 

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EXHIBIT A

TO

SECURITIES ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT

Form of Administrative Agent Notice of Control

[Securities Intermediary]

[Address]

 

  Re: Account No.                      (the “Account”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to the Account and that certain Securities Account Control
Agreement dated                          , 20     among you, Citicorp USA, Inc.,
as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent”), and [                    
(the “Pledgor”)] (such agreement, the “Securities Account Control Agreement”).
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the
Securities Account Control Agreement.

The Administrative Agent hereby notifies you that, from and after the date of
this notice, the Pledgor’s rights to give Entitlement Orders with respect to the
Account and the other rights afforded to the Pledgor under paragraph 4 of the
Securities Account Control Agreement are terminated. From and after the delivery
of this notice to you, you shall honor only the Entitlement Orders in regard to
or in connection with the Account and/or the financial assets contained therein
given by an Authorized Officer of the Administrative Agent.

 

Very truly yours,

CITICORP USA, INC,

as Administrative Agent

By:        Name:   Title:

 

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ANNEX 3

TO

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF PLEDGE AMENDMENT

This PLEDGE AMENDMENT, dated as of                          , 20    , is
delivered pursuant to Section 4.3(a) (Pledged Collateral) of the Pledge and
Security Agreement, dated as of May __, 2007, by J. CREW OPERATING CORP., a
Delaware corporation (“Operating”), J. CREW INC., a New Jersey corporation (“J.
Crew”), GRACE HOLMES, INC., a Delaware corporation doing business as J. CREW
RETAIL (“Retail”), H.F.D. NO. 55, INC., a Delaware corporation doing business as
J. Crew Factory (“Factory”), Madewell Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Madewell”),
J. CREW GROUP INC. (“Holdings”) and J. CREW INTERNATIONAL, INC.(“JCI”) (each a
“Grantor” and collectively the “Grantors”) in favor of Citicorp USA, Inc., as
agent for the Secured Parties referred to therein (the “Pledge and Security
Agreement”) and the undersigned hereby agrees that this Pledge Amendment may be
attached to the Pledge and Security Agreement and that the Pledged Collateral
listed on this Pledge Amendment shall be and become part of the Collateral
referred to in the Pledge and Security Agreement and shall secure all Secured
Obligations of the undersigned. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined
herein are used herein with the meaning given them in the Pledge and Security
Agreement.

 

[GRANTOR] By:        Name:   Title:

Pledged Stock

 

ISSUER

  

CLASS

  

CERTIFICATE NO(S).

  

PAR VALUE

  

NUMBER OF
SHARES,
UNITS OR
INTERESTS

                                                                                
                          

Pledged Debt Instruments

 

ISSUER

  

DESCRIPTION OF DEBT

  

CERTIFICATE NO(S).

  

FINAL MATURITY

  

PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT

 

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ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

CITICORP USA, INC.,

as Administrative Agent

By:        Name:   Title:

 

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ANNEX 4

TO

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT

This JOINDER AGREEMENT, dated as of                          , 20    , is
delivered pursuant to Section 7.11 (Additional Grantors) of the Pledge and
Security Agreement, dated as of May __, 2007, by J. CREW OPERATING CORP., a
Delaware corporation (“Operating”), J. CREW INC., a New Jersey corporation (“J.
Crew”), GRACE HOLMES, INC., a Delaware corporation doing business as J. CREW
RETAIL (“Retail”), H.F.D. NO. 55, INC., a Delaware corporation doing business as
J. Crew Factory (“Factory”), Madewell Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Madewell”),
J. CREW GROUP INC. (“Holdings”), J. CREW INTERNATIONAL, INC.(“JCI”) (each a
“Grantor” and collectively the “Grantors”) in favor of Citicorp USA, Inc., as
agent for the Secured Parties referred to therein (the “Pledge and Security
Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein are used with
the meanings given them in the Pledge and Security Agreement.

By executing and delivering this Joinder Agreement, the undersigned, as provided
in Section 7.11 (Additional Grantors) of the Pledge and Security Agreement,
hereby becomes a party to the Pledge and Security Agreement as a Grantor
thereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Grantor
therein and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby grants to
the Administrative Agent, as collateral security for the full, prompt and
complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured Obligations of the undersigned, a Lien
on and security interest in, all of its right, title and interest in, to and
under the Collateral of the undersigned and expressly assumes all obligations
and liabilities of a Grantor thereunder.

The information set forth in Annex 1-A is hereby added to the information set
forth in Schedules 1 through 7 to the Pledge and Security Agreement. By
acknowledging and agreeing to this Joinder Agreement, the undersigned hereby
agree that this Joinder Agreement may be attached to the Pledge and Security
Agreement and that the Pledged Collateral listed on Annex 1-A to this Pledge
Amendment shall be and become part of the Collateral referred to in the Pledge
and Security Agreement and shall secure all Secured Obligations of the
undersigned.

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that each of the representations
and warranties contained in Article III (Representations and Warranties) of the
Pledge and Security Agreement applicable to it is true and correct on and as the
date hereof as if made on and as of such date.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Joinder Agreement to be duly
executed and delivered as of the date first above written.

 

[ADDITIONAL GRANTOR] By:        Name:   Title:

 

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ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

[EACH GRANTOR PLEDGING

ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL]

By:        Name:   Title:

CITICORP USA, INC.,

as Administrative Agent

By:        Name:   Title:

 

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ANNEX 5

TO

PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF SHORT FORM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of May,        ,
2007, by each of the entities listed on the signature pages hereof or that
becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 7.11 (Additional Grantors) of the
Security Agreement referred to below (each a “Grantor” and, collectively, the
“Grantors”), in favor of Citicorp USA, Inc. (“CUSA”), as agent for the Secured
Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) (in such
capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May
__, 2007 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among J. CREW OPERATING
CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Operating”), J. CREW INC., a New Jersey
corporation (“J. Crew”), GRACE HOLMES, INC., a Delaware corporation doing
business as J. CREW RETAIL (“Retail”), H.F.D. NO. 55, INC., a Delaware
corporation doing business as J. Crew Factory (“Factory”), Madewell Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“Madewell”, and together with Factory, J. Crew, Retail,
and Operating, each individually a “Borrower” and collectively, the
“Borrowers”), J. CREW GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”) and J.
CREW INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation (“JCI” and together with
Holdings, each individually a “Guarantor” and collectively, the “Guarantors”),
the Lenders and Issuers party thereto and CUSA, as agent for the Lenders and
Issuers, the Lenders and the Issuers have severally agreed to make extensions of
credit to the Borrowers upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
therein;

WHEREAS, the Grantors are party to the Guaranty pursuant to which they have
guaranteed the Obligations; and

WHEREAS, all the Grantors are party to a Pledge and Security Agreement of even
date herewith in favor of the Administrative Agent (the “Security Agreement”)
pursuant to which the Grantors are required to execute and deliver this
[Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Security Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Lenders, the
Issuers and the Administrative Agent to enter into the Credit Agreement and to
induce the Lenders and the Issuers to make their respective extensions of credit
to the Borrowers thereunder, each Grantor hereby agrees with the Administrative
Agent as follows:

Section 2. Defined Terms

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement or in the
Security Agreement and used herein have the meaning given to them in the Credit
Agreement or the Security Agreement.

Section 3. Grant of Security Interest in [Copyright] [Trademark] [Patent]
Collateral

Each Grantor, as collateral security for the full, prompt and complete payment
and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
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Secured Obligations of such Grantor, hereby mortgages, pledges and hypothecates
to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants
to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a lien on and
security interest in, all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the
following Collateral of such Grantor (the “[Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark]
Collateral”):

[(a) all of its Copyrights and Copyright Licenses to which it is a party,
including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I hereto;

(b) all extensions of the foregoing; and

(c) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation, any claim by
Grantor against third parties for past, present or future infringement of any
Copyright or Copyright licensed under any Copyright License.]

or

[(a) all of its Patents and Patent Licenses to which it is a party, including,
without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I hereto;

(b) all reissues, continuations or continuations-in-part of the foregoing; and

(c) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation, any claim by
Grantor against third parties for past, present or future infringement of any
Patent or any Patent licensed under any Patent License.]

or

[(a) all of its Trademarks and Trademark Licenses to which it is a party,
including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I hereto;

(b) all goodwill of the business connected with the use of, and symbolized by,
each Trademark; and

(c) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation, any claim by
Grantor against third parties for past, present, future (i) infringement or
dilution of any Trademark or Trademark licensed under any Trademark License or
(ii) injury to the goodwill associated with any Trademark or any Trademark
licensed under any Trademark License.]

Section 4. Security Agreement

The security interest granted pursuant to this [Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark]
Security Agreement is granted in conjunction with the security interest granted
to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement and each Grantor
hereby acknowledges and affirms that the rights and remedies of the
Administrative Agent with respect to the security interest in the [Copyright]
[Patent] [Trademark] Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth
in the Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by
reference herein as if fully set forth herein.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this [Copyright] [Patent]
[Trademark] Security Agreement to be executed and delivered by its duly
authorized officer as of the date first set forth above.

 

[GRANTOR],

as Grantor

By:        Name:   Title:

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

CITICORP USA, INC.,

as Administrative Agent

By:        Name:   Title:

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SCHEDULE I

TO

[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT

[Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Registrations

INCLUDE ONLY U.S. REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

 

[A. REGISTERED COPYRIGHTS

[Include Copyright Registration Number and Date]

 

B. COPYRIGHT APPLICATIONS

 

C. COPYRIGHT LICENSES]

 

[A. REGISTERED PATENTS

 

B. PATENT APPLICATIONS

 

C. PATENT LICENSES]

 

[A. REGISTERED TRADEMARKS

 

B. TRADEMARK APPLICATIONS

 

C. TRADEMARK LICENSES]

[Include complete legal description of agreement (name of agreement, parties and
date)]

 

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