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Amended and Restated U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty, dated as of 12/19/2006

 
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 AMENDED AND RESTATED U.S. SUBSIDIARIES GUARANTY
 

 AMENDED AND RESTATED U.S.
SUBSIDIARIES GUARANTY, dated as of August 1, 2006 and amended and restated as of December 19, 2006 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, this
“Guaranty”), made by each of the undersigned guarantors
(each a “Guarantor” and, together with any other entity that becomes a guarantor hereunder pursuant to
Section 22 hereof, collectively, the “Guarantors”) in favor of
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, as Administrative Agent (together with any successor administrative agent, the “Administrative Agent”), for the benefit of the Secured Creditors (as defined below). Except as otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used herein and defined in the Credit Agreement (as
defined below) shall be used herein as therein defined.
  
 W ITNESSETH :
 

 WHEREAS, Aurora Acquisition Merger Sub, Inc., Aleris
International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Aleris”), each Subsidiary party thereto from time to time, the lenders party thereto from time
to time (the “Lenders”), Deutsche Bank AG, Canada Branch, as
the Canadian administrative agent (together with any successor Canadian administrative agent, the “Canadian Administrative Agent”), and the Administrative Agent, have entered into
an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2006 and amended and restated as of the date hereof providing among other things for the making of Loans to, and the issuance of, and participation in Letters of Credit for the respective accounts of, the Borrowers as contemplated therein (the Lenders, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Lenders, the
Canadian Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent are herein called the “Lender Creditors”) (as used herein, the term “Credit Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement described above in this paragraph, as the same may be amended, modified, extended, renewed, replaced, restated,
supplemented or refinanced from time to time, and including any agreement extending the maturity of, or refinancing or restructuring (including, but not limited to,
the inclusion of additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder or any increase in the amount borrowed) all or any portion of, the indebtedness under such agreement
or any successor agreement, whether or not with the same agent, trustee, representative, lenders or holders; provided that, with respect to any agreement providing for the refinancing or
replacement of indebtedness under the Credit Agreement, such agreement shall only be treated as, or as part of, the Credit Agreement hereunder if (i) either (A) all obligations under the Credit Agreement being refinanced or replaced shall be paid in full at the time of such refinancing or
replacement, and all commitments and letters of credit issued pursuant to the refinanced or replaced Credit Agreement shall have terminated in accordance with their
terms or, with respect to certain Letters of Credit, been continued, with the consent of the respective issuer thereof, under such refinancing or replacement
indebtedness or (B) the Required Lenders shall have consented in writing to the refinancing or replacement indebtedness being treated as indebtedness pursuant to the
Credit Agreement, and (ii) a notice to the effect that the refinancing or replacement indebtedness shall be treated as issued under the Credit Agreement shall be
delivered by Aleris to the Collateral Agent);
  
 WHEREAS, each Borrower
and/or one or more of their respective Subsidiaries (i) have entered into, or guaranteed the obligations of, or (ii) may at any time after the Restatement Effective
Date and from time to time enter into, one or more Secured Hedging Agreements with one or more Persons other than the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries (the “Other Creditors”);
  
 WHEREAS, each Borrower, one or more of their respective Subsidiaries and any Lender (and/or one or more of its banking affiliates) reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in each case designated to the Administrative Agent in writing by Aleris as a provider of Treasury Services (as defined below), (collectively, the “Treasury Services
Creditors” and, together with the Lender Creditors and the Other
Creditors, the “Secured Creditors”) in the future may enter into, credit arrangements providing for treasury, depositary or cash management services (including without limitation, overnight overdraft services) to Aleris and such Subsidiaries by the Treasury Services Creditors, and automated clearinghouse transfers of funds to the Treasury Service Creditors, in each case pursuant to uncommitted lines of credit (collectively, “Treasury Services,” and with any written agreement evidencing such credit arrangements (to the extent
expressly stated therein that the liabilities and indebtedness thereunder are “Guaranteed Obligations” for the purposes of this Agreement (or more
generally, for purposes of the various agreements guaranteeing or securing the Credit Agreement)), as amended, modified, supplemented, replaced or refinanced from time to time, herein called the “Treasury Services Agreements”).
  
 WHEREAS, each Guarantor is a direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary of Aleris;
  
 WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to (i) the making of Loans to, and the issuance of, and participation in, Letters of Credit for the respective accounts of, the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement, (ii) the Other Creditors entering into Secured
Hedging Agreements and (iii) the extension of the Treasury Services by Treasury Services Creditors, that each Guarantor shall have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent this Guaranty;
  
 WHEREAS, each Guarantor will obtain benefits from the incurrence of Loans by the Borrowers, and the issuance of, and participation in, Letters of Credit for
the account of, the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement, the entering into by the Borrowers and/or one or more of their respective Subsidiaries of Secured Hedging Agreements with the Other Creditors and the extension of Treasury Services to Aleris and its Subsidiaries and, accordingly, desires to execute this Guaranty in order to (i) satisfy the condition described in the preceding paragraph and (ii) induce (x) the Lenders to make Loans to the various Borrowers and issue, and/or
participate in, Letters of Credit for the respective accounts of the various Borrowers, (y) the Other Creditors to enter into Secured Hedging Agreements with the
Canadian Borrowers and/or one or more of their respective Subsidiaries and (z) the Treasury Services Creditors to enter into Treasury Services Agreements;
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and
other benefits accruing to each Guarantor, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Guarantor hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors and hereby covenants and agrees with each other Guarantor and the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors as
follows:
  
 1.  GUARANTY. (a) Each Guarantor, jointly and severally, irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as surety: (i) to the Lender Creditors the full and prompt payment when due (whether at the stated
maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise) of (x) the principal of (or, Face Amount of, as applicable), premium, if any, and interest on the Notes issued by, and the Loans made to, the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement, and all reimbursement obligations and
Unpaid Drawings with respect to Letters of Credit and (y) all other obligations (including, without limitation, obligations which, but for the commencement of any insolvency proceeding, would become due), liabilities and indebtedness owing by each
Borrower to the Lender Creditors under the Credit Agreement and each other Credit Document to which such Borrower is a party (including, without limitation,
indemnities, Fees and interest thereon (including, without limitation, in each case, any interest accruing after the commencement of any bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in the Credit Agreement, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim in any such proceeding)), whether now existing or hereafter incurred under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Credit Agreement and each such other Credit Document (all such principal (or, Face Amount, as applicable), premium, interest, reimbursement obligations, Unpaid Drawings, liabilities, indebtedness and other obligations under this clause (i), except to the extent consisting of obligations,
liabilities or indebtedness with respect to Secured Hedging Agreements and Treasury Services Agreements being herein collectively called the “Credit Document Obligations”); (ii) to each Other Creditor the full and prompt payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of all obligations (including obligations which, but for the automatic stay under Section 3 62(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, would become due), liabilities and indebtedness (including, in each case, any interest accruing after the commencement of any bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in the respective Secured Hedging Agreements, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim in any such proceeding) owing by each Borrower and/or one or more of its
Subsidiaries under any Secured Hedging Agreement, whether now in existence or hereafter arising, (all such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness described in
this clause (ii) being herein collectively called the “Other Obligations”) and (iii) to each Treasury Services Creditor the full and prompt
payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise) of all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness (including, without limitation, all interest that accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in the respective documentation, whether or not such interest is allowed in any such proceeding) owing by Aleris or any of its Subsidiaries to the Treasury Services Creditors with respect to Treasury Services, whether now in existence or hereafter arising in each case under any Treasury Services Agreement (all such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness described in this clause (iii) being herein collectively called the “Treasury Services Obligations”, and together with the Credit Document Obligations and the Other Obligations are herein collectively called the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Guarantor understands, agrees and confirms that the Secured Creditors may enforce this Guaranty up to the full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations against such Guarantor without proceeding against any other Guarantor, the Borrowers, any other Guaranteed Party, against any security for the Guaranteed Obligations, or under any other guaranty covering all or a portion of the Guaranteed Obligations.
  
 The following
capitalized terms used herein shall have the definitions specified below:
  
 “Guaranteed Party” shall mean (x) each Borrower and (y) each Subsidiary of Aleris
party to a Secured Hedging Agreement.
  
 “Secured Hedging Agreement” shall mean each Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreements provided that (i) such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement expressly states that (x) it constitutes a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes
of the Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents and (y) does not constitute a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of the Term Security Documents or any guaranties relating to the Term Loan Agreement, (ii) Aleris and the other
parties thereto shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent a written notice specifying that such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement (x) constitutes a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of the Credit
Agreement and the other Credit Documents, (y) does not constitute a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of the Term Security Documents or any
guaranties relating to the Term Loan Agreement and (z) in the case of Aleris, that such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement and the
obligations of Aleris and its Subsidiaries thereunder have been, and will be, incurred in compliance with the Credit Agreement, (iii) on the effective date of such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement and from time to time thereafter, at the request of the Collateral Agent, Aleris and the other parties thereto shall have notified the Administrative Agent in writing of the aggregate amount of exposure under such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement and (iv) such Other Creditor, if it is not a
Lender or an affiliate thereof (even if such Lender subsequently ceases to be a Lender under the Credit Agreement for any reason), has entered into an intercreditor
agreement with respect to the relevant Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Other Hedging Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
  
 (b)  Additionally,
each Guarantor, jointly and severally, unconditionally, absolutely and irrevocably, guarantees the payment of any and all Guaranteed Obligations whether or not due
or payable by any Borrower or any such other Guaranteed Party upon the occurrence in respect of any Borrower or any such other Guaranteed Party of any of the events
specified in Section 11.05 of the Credit Agreement, and unconditionally, absolutely and irrevocably, jointly and severally, promises to pay such Guaranteed
Obligations to the Secured Creditors, or order, on demand. This Guaranty shall constitute a guaranty of payment, and not of collection.
  
 2.  LIABILITY OF GUARANTORS ABSOLUTE. The liability of each Guarantor hereunder is primary, absolute, joint and several, and
unconditional and is exclusive and independent of any security for or other guaranty of the indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party, whether executed by such Guarantor, any other Guarantor, any other guarantor or by any other party, and the liability of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by any circumstance or occurrence whatsoever, including, without limitation: (a) any direction as to application of payment by any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party or any other party, (b) any other continuing or other guaranty, undertaking or maximum liability of a Guarantor or of any other party as to the Guaranteed Obligations, (c) any payment on or in reduction of any such other guaranty or undertaking, (d) any dissolution, termination or increase, decrease or change in personnel by any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party, (e) the failure of the Guarantor to receive any benefit from or as a result of its execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty, (f) any payment made to any Secured Creditor on the indebtedness
which any Secured Creditor repays any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding, and each Guarantor waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding, (g) any action or inaction by the Secured Creditors as contemplated in Section 5 hereof or (h) any invalidity, rescission, irregularity or unenforceability of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or of any security therefore; provided that nothing in this Guaranty shall prevent the Guarantor from asserting the defense of payment of all or any portion of the Guaranteed
Obligations.
  
 3.  OBLIGATIONS OF GUARANTORS INDEPENDENT. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Guarantor, any other guarantor, any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party, and a separate action or
actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor whether or not action is brought against any other Guarantor, any other guarantor, any Borrower or any
other Guaranteed Party and whether or not any other Guarantor, any other guarantor, any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party be joined in any such action or
actions. Each Guarantor waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefits of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement thereof. Any payment by any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party or other circumstance which operates
to toll any statute of limitations as to any Borrower or any such other Guaranteed Party shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each Guarantor.
  
 4.  WAIVERS BY
GUARANTORS. (a) To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, each Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guaranty and notice of the existence, creation or incurrence of
any new or additional liability to which it may apply, and waives promptness, diligence, presentment, demand of payment, demand for performance, protest, notice of
dishonor or nonpayment of any such liabilities, suit or taking of other action by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Creditor against, and any other notice to, any party liable thereon (including such Guarantor, any other Guarantor, any other guarantor, any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party) and each Guarantor further hereby waives any and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and notice or proof of reliance by any Secured Creditor upon this
Guaranty, and the Guaranteed Obligations shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred, or renewed, extended, amended, modified, supplemented or waived, in reliance upon this Guaranty.
  
 (b)  Each Guarantor waives any right to require the Secured Creditors to: (i) proceed against any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party, any other Guarantor, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other party; (ii) proceed against or exhaust any
security held from any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party, any other Guarantor, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other party; or (iii) pursue any other remedy in the Secured Creditors’ power whatsoever. Each Guarantor waives any defense based on or
arising out of any defense of any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party, any other Guarantor, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other party other than payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations, including, without limitation, any defense based on or arising out of the disability of any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party, any other Guarantor, any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other party, or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the
liability of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party other than payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations. The Secured Creditors may, at their election, foreclose on any collateral serving as security held by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the other
Secured Creditors by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable (to the extent such sale is
permitted by applicable law), or exercise any other right or remedy the Secured Creditors may have against any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party or any other party, or any security, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash. Each Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election by the Secured Creditors, even though such election operates to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement, contribution, indemnification or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Guarantor against any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party, any other guarantor of
the Guaranteed Obligations or any other party or any security.
  
 (c)  Each Guarantor has knowledge and assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of each Borrower’s, each other Guaranteed Party’s and each other Guarantor’s financial condition, affairs and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks which such Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and has adequate means to obtain from
each Borrower, each other Guaranteed Party and each other Guarantor on an ongoing basis information relating thereto and each Borrower’s, each other Guaranteed Party’s and each other Guarantor’s ability to pay and perform its respective Guaranteed Obligations, and agrees to assume the responsibility for keeping, and to keep, so informed for so long as this Guaranty is in effect. Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (x) the Secured Creditors shall have no obligation to investigate the financial condition or affairs of any Borrower, any
other Guaranteed Party or any other Guarantor for the benefit of such Guarantor nor to advise such Guarantor of any fact respecting, or any change in, the financial
condition, assets or affairs of any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party or any other Guarantor that might become known to any Secured Creditor at any time, whether or not such Secured Creditor knows or believes or has reason to know or believe that any such fact or change is unknown to such Guarantor, or might (or does) increase the risk of such Guarantor as guarantor hereunder, or might (or would)
affect the willingness of such Guarantor to continue as a guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations hereunder and (y) the Secured Creditors shall have no duty to
advise any Guarantor of information known to them regarding any of the aforementioned circumstances or risks.
  
 (d)  Each Guarantor
hereby acknowledges and affirms that it understands that to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations are secured by Real Property located in the State of California, such Guarantor shall be liable for the full amount of the liability hereunder notwithstanding foreclosure on such Real Property by trustee sale or any other reason impairing such Guarantor’s or any Secured Creditors’ right to proceed against any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed
Obligations.
  
 (e)  Each Guarantor hereby waives (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) all rights and benefits under Section 580a, 580b, 580d and 726 of the California Code of Civil
Procedure. Each Guarantor hereby further waives (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law), without limiting the generality of the foregoing or any other provision hereof, all rights and benefits which might otherwise be available to such Guarantor under Sections 2809, 2810, 2815, 2819, 2821, 2839, 2845, 2848, 2849, 2850, 2899 and 3433 of the California Civil Code.
  
 (f)  Until the
Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash, each Guarantor waives its rights of subrogation and reimbursement and any other rights and defenses available
to such Guarantor by reason of Sections 2787 to 2855, inclusive, of the California Civil Code, including, without limitation, (1) any defenses such Guarantor may have to this Guaranty by reason of an election of remedies by the Secured Creditors and (2) any rights or defenses such Guarantor may have by reason of protection afforded to any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party pursuant to the antideficiency or other laws of California limiting or
discharging such Borrower’s or such other Guaranteed Party’s indebtedness, including, without limitation, Section 580a, 580b, 580d or 726 of the California Code of Civil Procedure. In furtherance of such provisions, each Guarantor hereby waives all rights and defenses arising out of an election of remedies by the Secured Creditors, even though that election of remedies, such as a nonjudicial foreclosure, destroys such Guarantor’s rights of subrogation and reimbursement against any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party by the operation of Section 580d of the California Code of Civil Procedure or otherwise.
  

(g)  Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that no Secured Creditor nor any other Person shall be under any obligation (a) to marshal any assets in favor of such Guarantor or in payment of any or all of the liabilities of any Guaranteed Party under the Secured Debt Agreements or the obligation of such Guarantor hereunder or (b) to pursue any other remedy that such Guarantor may or may not be able to pursue itself any right to which
such Guarantor hereby waives.
  
 (h)  Each Guarantor warrants and agrees that each of the waivers set forth in Section 3 and in this Section 4 is made with full knowledge of its significance and consequences and that if any of such waivers are determined to be contrary to any applicable law or
public policy, such waivers shall be effective only to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
  

5.  RIGHTS OF SECURED CREDITORS. Subject to Sections 4 and 13, the Secured Creditors may (except as shall be required by
applicable statute and cannot be waived) at any time and from time to time without the consent of, or notice to, any Guarantor, without incurring responsibility to such Guarantor, without impairing or releasing the obligations or liabilities of such
Guarantor hereunder, upon or without any terms or conditions and in whole or in part:
  
 (a)  change the manner, place or terms of payment of, and/or change, increase or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate or alter, any of the Guaranteed Obligations (including, without limitation, any increase or decrease in the rate of interest thereon or the principal amount thereof), any security therefor, or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and the guaranty herein made shall apply to the
Guaranteed Obligations as so changed, extended, increased, accelerated, renewed or altered;
  
 (b)  take and hold security for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations and sell, exchange, release, surrender, impair, realize upon or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property or other collateral by whomsoever at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure, or howsoever securing, the Guaranteed Obligations or any liabilities
(including any of those hereunder) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and/or any offset there against;
  
 (c)  exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party, any other
Credit Party, any Subsidiary thereof, any other guarantor of any Borrower or others or otherwise act or refrain from acting;
  
 (d)  release or substitute any one or more endorsers, Guarantors, other guarantors, any Borrower, any other Guaranteed Party any other Credit Party or other obligors;
  
 (e)  settle or
compromise any of the Guaranteed Obligations, any security therefor or any liability (including any of those hereunder) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any part thereof to the
payment of any liability (whether due or not) of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party to creditors of such Borrower or such other Guaranteed Party other than the Secured Creditors;
  
 (f)  except as
otherwise expressly required by the Security Documents, apply any sums by whomsoever paid or howsoever realized to any liability or liabilities of any Borrower or
any other Guaranteed Party to the Secured Creditors regardless of what liabilities of such Borrower or such other Guaranteed Party remain unpaid;
  
 (g)  consent to or waive any breach of, or any act, omission or default under, any of the Secured Debt Agreements or
any of the instruments or agreements referred to therein, or otherwise amend, modify or supplement any of the Secured Debt Agreements or any of such other instruments or agreements;
  
 (h)  act or fail to
act in any manner which may deprive such Guarantor of its right to subrogation against any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party to recover full indemnity for
any payments made pursuant to this Guaranty; and/or
  
 (i)  take any
action or omit to take any other action which would, under otherwise applicable principles of common law, give rise to a legal or equitable discharge of such
Guarantor from its liabilities under this Guaranty (including, without limitation, any action or omission whatsoever that might otherwise vary the risk of such Guarantor or constitute a legal or equitable defense to or discharge of the liabilities of a guarantor or surety or that might otherwise limit recourse against such Guarantor); provided in each case that nothing in this Guaranty shall prevent the Guarantor from asserting the
defense of payment of all or any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations.
  
 No invalidity, illegality, irregularity or
unenforceability of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Secured Debt Agreements or any other agreement or instrument relating to the Guaranteed Obligations or of any security or guarantee therefor shall affect, impair or be a defense to this Guaranty, and this Guaranty shall be primary, absolute and unconditional notwithstanding the occurrence of any event or the existence of any other
circumstances which might constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor except payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations.
  
 6.  CONTINUING GUARANTY.
This Guaranty is a continuing one and all liabilities to which it applies or may apply under the terms hereof shall be conclusively presumed to have been created in reliance hereon. No failure or delay on the part of any Secured Creditor in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies which any Secured Creditor would otherwise have. No notice to or demand on any Guarantor in any case shall
entitle such Guarantor to any other further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of any Secured Creditor to any
other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand. It is not necessary for any Secured Creditor to inquire into the capacity or powers of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party or the officers, directors, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on its or their behalf, and any indebtedness made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be guaranteed hereunder.
  
 7.  SUBORDINATION OF INDEBTEDNESS HELD BY GUARANTORS. Any indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party now or hereafter
owing to any Guarantor is hereby subordinated to the Guaranteed Obligations of such Borrower or such other Guaranteed Party to the Secured Creditors, and such
Guaranteed Obligations of such Borrower or such other Guaranteed Party to any Guarantor, if the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, after the occurrence
and during the continuance of an Event of Default, so requests, shall be collected, enforced and received by such Guarantor as trustee for the Secured Creditors and be paid over to the Secured Creditors on account of the Guaranteed Obligations of
such Borrower or such other Guaranteed Parties to the Secured Creditors, but without affecting or impairing in any manner the liability of such Guarantor under the
other provisions of this Guaranty. Prior to the transfer by any Guarantor of any note or negotiable instrument evidencing any indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party to such Guarantor, such Guarantor shall mark such note or negotiable instrument with a legend that the same is subject to this subordination. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor hereby agrees with the Secured Creditors that it will not exercise any right of subrogation which it may at any time otherwise have as a result of this Guaranty (whether contractual, under Section 509 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise) until all Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash; provided, that if any amount shall be paid to such Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time prior to the irrevocable payment in full in cash of all the Guaranteed Obligations,
such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Creditors and shall forthwith be paid to the Secured Creditors to be credited and applied upon the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Documents or, if the Credit Documents do not provide for the application of such amount, to be held by the Secured Creditors as collateral security for any Guaranteed Obligations thereafter existing.
  
 8.  GUARANTY
ENFORCEABLE BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR COLLATERAL AGENT.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Guaranty, the Secured Creditors agree (by their acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) that this
Guaranty may be enforced only by the action of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, in each case acting upon the instructions of the Required Lenders (or, after the Credit Document Termination Date (as defined below), the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding Other Obligations) and that no other Secured Creditor shall have any right
individually to seek to enforce or to enforce this Guaranty or to realize upon the security to be granted by the Security Documents, it being understood and agreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or, after all the Credit Document Obligations have been paid in full, by the holders of at least a majority
of the outstanding Other Obligations, as the case may be, for the benefit of the Secured Creditors upon the terms of this Guaranty and the Security Documents. The
Secured Creditors further agree that this Guaranty may not be enforced against any director, officer, employee, partner, member or stockholder of any Guarantor (except to the extent such partner, member or stockholder is also a Guarantor hereunder). It is expressly understood, acknowledged and agreed by each Secured Creditor that by accepting the benefits of this Agreement each such Secured Creditor acknowledges and agrees that the obligations of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, are only those expressly set forth in this Agreement and in Annex M to the Security Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall act hereunder on the terms and conditions set forth
herein and in Annex M to the Security Agreement, the terms of which shall be deemed incorporated herein by reference, mutatis mutandis, as fully as if the same were set forth herein (and referencing this Agreement) in its
entirety. It is further understood and agreed that the agreement in this Section 8 is among and solely for the benefit of the Secured Creditors and that, if the
Required Lenders (or, after the date on which all Credit Document Obligations have been paid in full, the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding Other Obligations and Treasury Services Obligations) so agree (without requiring the consent of any Guarantor), this Guaranty may be directly enforced by any Secured Creditor.
  
 9.  REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS OF GUARANTORS. In order to induce the Lenders to make Loans to, and issue Letters of Credit for the respective accounts of, the Borrowers pursuant to the Credit Agreement, in order to induce
the Other Creditors to execute, deliver and perform the Secured Hedging Agreements to which they are a party and in order to induce the Treasury Services Creditors to execute, deliver and perform the Treasury Services Agreements to which they are a
party, each Guarantor represents, warrants and covenants that:
  
 (a)  Such Guarantor (i) is a duly organized and validly existing corporation, partnership or limited liability
company, as the case may be, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (ii) has the corporate, partnership or limited liability company power and authority, as the case may be, to own its property and assets and to
transact the business in which it is engaged and (iii) is duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership, leasing or operation of its property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification except for failures to be so qualified which, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
  
 (b)  Such Guarantor has the corporate, partnership or limited liability company power and authority, as the case may be, to execute, deliver and perform the terms and provisions of this Guaranty and each other Secured Debt Agreement to which it is a party and has taken all necessary corporate, partnership or limited liability company action, as the case may
be, to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Guaranty and each such other Secured Debt Agreement. Such Guarantor has duly executed and
delivered this Guaranty and each other Secured Debt Agreement to which it is a party, and this Guaranty and each such other Secured Debt Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Guarantor enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that the
enforceability hereof or thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws generally affecting creditors’ rights and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).
  
 (c)  Neither the
execution, delivery or performance by such Guarantor of this Guaranty or any other Secured Debt Agreement to which it is a party, nor compliance by it with the terms
and provisions hereof and thereof, will (i) contravene any provision of any material applicable law, statute, rule or regulation or any applicable order, writ,
injunction or decree of any court or governmental instrumentality in any material respect, (ii) conflict with or result in any breach of any of the material terms,
covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien (except pursuant to the Security Documents) upon any of the property or assets of such
Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, credit agreement, or any other material agreement, contract or instrument to which such Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party or by which it or any of its property or assets is bound or to which it may be subject or (iii) violate any provision of the certificate or articles of incorporation or by-laws (or equivalent organizational documents) of such Guarantor or any
of its Subsidiaries.
  
 (d)  No order, consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with (except for (x) those that have otherwise been obtained or made, (y) filings which are necessary to perfect the security interests created under the Security Documents and (z) other than with respect to the Secured Debt Agreements, those the
failure to obtain which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect), or exemption by, any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, is required to authorize, or is required in connection with, (i) the execution, delivery and
performance of this Guaranty by such Guarantor or any other Document to which such Guarantor is a party or (ii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Document to which such Guarantor is a party.
  
 (e)  There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to such Guarantor’s knowledge, threatened in
writing (i) with respect to this Guaranty or any other Secured Debt Agreement to which such Guarantor is a party or (ii) with respect to such Guarantor or any of its
Subsidiaries that, either individually or in the aggregate, has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
  
 (f)  Each Guarantor covenants and agrees that on and after the Restatement Effective Date and until the date upon which the Total Commitment under the Credit Agreement has been terminated, no Letter of Credit, Bankers’ Acceptance or Note (as defined in the Credit Agreement) is outstanding (and all Loans and Unpaid Drawings have been paid in full)
and all Letters of Credit have been terminated (the “Credit Document Termination Date”), all Guaranteed Obligations then due and payable under Secured Hedging Agreements and
Treasury Services Agreements and all other Guaranteed Obligations (other than indemnities under the Credit Documents which are not then due and payable) have been paid in full and the Secured Hedging Agreements have been terminated, such Guarantor will comply, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, with all of the applicable provisions, covenants and agreements contained in Sections 9 and 10 of the Credit Agreement, and will take, or will refrain from taking, as the case may be, all actions that are necessary to be taken or not taken so that it is not in violation of any provision, covenant or agreement contained in Section 9 or 10 of the Credit Agreement, and so that no Default or Event of Default is caused by the actions of such Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries.
  
 (g)  An executed (or conformed) copy of each of the Secured Debt Agreements has been made available to a senior officer of such Guarantor and such officer is familiar with the contents thereof.
  
 10.  EXPENSES. The Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of each Secured Creditor in connection with the enforcement of this Guaranty (including, without limitation, the fees and disbursements of counsel employed by each of the Secured Creditors) and of the Administrative Agent and Canadian Administrative Agent in connection with any amendment, waiver or consent relating hereto (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel employed by each of the Agents).
  
 11.  BENEFIT AND BINDING EFFECT. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall
inure to the benefit of the Secured Creditors and their successors and assigns.
  
 12.  AMENDMENTS; WAIVERS.
Neither this Guaranty nor any provision hereof may be changed or waived except with the written consent of each Guarantor directly affected thereby (it being understood that the addition or release of any Guarantor hereunder shall not constitute a change or waiver affecting any Guarantor other than the Guarantor so added or released) and with the written consent of either (x) the Required Lenders (or, to the extent required by Section 13.12 of the Credit Agreement, with the written consent of each Lender) at all times prior to the Credit Document Termination Date or (y) the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding Other Obligations and Treasury Services Obligations (taken as a whole) at all times after the time at which all Credit Document Obligations have been paid in full; provided, that (i) any change, waiver, modification or variance affecting the rights and benefits of a single Class (as defined below) of Secured Creditors (and not all Secured Creditors
in a like or similar manner) shall also require the written consent of the Requisite Creditors (as defined below) of such Class of Secured Creditors (it being
understood that the addition or release of any Guarantor hereunder in accordance with the terms hereof or the Credit Agreement or any increase in or addition of one or more classes of Guaranteed Obligations shall not constitute a change or waiver affecting any Guarantor other than the Guarantor so added or released and shall not require the consent of any Secured Creditor other than the Administrative Agent) and (ii) to the extent provided in an intercreditor agreement delivered pursuant to Section 6.19 of the Intercreditor Agreement (such intercreditor agreement, an
“Other Intercreditor Agreement”), the consent of the Other
Creditors to amendments, modifications and waivers described in the Other Intercreditor Agreement shall be required. For the purpose of this Guaranty, the term “Class” shall mean each class of Secured Creditors, i.e., whether (x) the Lender Creditors as
holders of the Credit Document Obligations, (y) the Other Creditors as the holders of the Other Obligations or (z) the Treasury Services Creditors as holders of the
Treasury Services Obligations. For the purpose of this Guaranty, the term “Requisite Creditors” of any Class shall mean (x) with respect to the Credit
Document Obligations, the Required Lenders (or, to the extent required by Section 13.12 of the Credit Agreement, each Lender), (y) with respect to the Other
Obligations, the holders of at least a majority of all obligations outstanding from time to time under the Secured Hedging Agreements and (z) with respect to the
Treasury Services Obligations, the holders of at least a majority of all Treasury Services Obligations outstanding from time to time.
  
 13.  SET
OFF. In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law
(including, without limitation, Section 151 of the New York Debtor and Secured Creditor Law) and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default (such term to mean and include (i) at any time when any Credit Document Obligations or Letters of Credit are outstanding or any Commitments under the Credit Agreement exist, any Event of Default under, and as defined in the Credit
Agreement and (ii) at any time after all of the Credit Document Obligations have been paid in full and all Commitments under the Credit Agreement have been terminated and no further Commitments and
Letters of Credit may be provided thereunder, any payment default on any of the Obligations after the expiration of any applicable grace period), each Secured
Creditor is hereby authorized, at any time or from time to time, without notice to any Guarantor or to any other Person, any such notice being expressly waived, to
set off and to appropriate and apply any and all deposits (general or special) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by such Secured Creditor to or for the credit or the account of such Guarantor, against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of such Guarantor to such Secured Creditor under this
Guaranty, irrespective of whether or not such Secured Creditor shall have made any demand hereunder and although said obligations, liabilities, deposits or claims, or any of them, shall be contingent or unmatured. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Guaranty, at any time that the Guaranteed Obligations shall be secured by any Real Property located in the State of California, no Secured Creditor shall exercise any right of set-off, lien or counterclaim or take any court or administrative action or institute any proceedings to enforce any provision of this Guaranty without the prior consent of (x) at all times prior to the Credit
Document Termination Date, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or (to the extent required by Section 13.12 of the Credit Agreement, all of the Lenders), or (y) the holders of a majority of the Other Obligations at all times after the Credit Document Termination Date, if such
setoff or action or proceeding would or might (pursuant to Sections 580a, 580b, 580d and 726 of the California Code of Civil Procedure or Section 2924 of the California Civil Code, if applicable, or otherwise) affect or impair the validity, priority, or enforceability of the liens granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents or the enforceability of the
Guaranteed Obligations hereunder, and any attempted exercise by any Secured Creditor or the Administrative Agent of any such right without obtaining such consent of (x) at all times prior to the Credit Document Termination Date, the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent or (y) the holders of a majority of the Other Obligations at all times after the Credit Document Termination Date, shall be null and void. It is understood and agreed that the foregoing
sentence of this Section 13 is for the sole benefit of the Secured Creditors and may be amended, modified or waived in any respect by (x) at all times prior to the Credit Document Termination Date, the Required Lenders or (y) the holders of a majority of the Other Obligations at all
times after the Credit Document Termination Date, (without any requirement of prior notice to or consent by any Credit Party or any other Person) and does not constitute a waiver of any rights against any Credit Party or against any Collateral.
  
 14.  NOTICE. All notices, requests, demands or other communications pursuant hereto shall be sent or delivered by mail, telegraph, telex, telecopy, cable or courier service and all such notices and communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed, telexed, telecopied, or cabled or sent by overnight courier, be effective when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company, cable company or overnight courier, as the case may be, or sent by telex or telecopier, except that notices and communications to the Administrative Agent or any Guarantor shall not be effective until received by the Administrative Agent or such Guarantor, as the case may be. All notices and other communications shall be in writing
and addressed to such party at (i) in the case of any Lender Creditor, as provided in the Credit Agreement, (ii) in the case of any Guarantor, at: Aleris
International, Inc., 25825 Science Park Drive, Suite 400, Beachwood, OH 44122, Attention: General Counsel, Telephone No.: (216) 910-3400, Telecopier No.: (216) 910-3650, and (iii) in the case of any Other Creditor or any Treasury Services Creditor, at such address as such Other Creditor shall have
specified in writing to Aleris and the Administrative Agent; or in any case at such other address as any of the Persons listed above may hereafter notify the others in writing.
  
 15.  REINSTATEMENT. If
claim is ever made upon any Secured Creditor for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment or on account of any of the Guaranteed
Obligations and any of the aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body
having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property or (ii) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any such claimant (including any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party) then and in such event each Guarantor agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon such Guarantor,
notwithstanding any revocation hereof or other instrument evidencing any liability of any Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party, and such Guarantor shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee.
  
 16.  CONSENT TO
JURISDICTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS; AND WAIVER OF TRIAL BY JURY.
(a) THIS GUARANTY AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE SECURED CREDITORS AND OF
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to
this Guaranty or any other Credit Document to which any Guarantor is a party may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York in each case which are located within the City of New York, and, by execution and delivery of this Guaranty, each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) hereby irrevocably accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts. Each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) hereby further irrevocably waives any claim that any such court lacks personal jurisdiction over it, and agrees not to plead or claim in any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Guaranty or any other Credit Document to which it is a party brought in any of the aforesaid courts that any such
court lacks personal jurisdiction over such Guarantor. Each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) further
irrevocably consents to the service of process out of any of the aforementioned courts in any such action or proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to such party at its address set forth in Section 14 hereof, such service to become effective 30 days after such mailing. Each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) hereby irrevocably waives any objection to such service of process and further irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any action or proceeding commenced hereunder or under any other Credit Document to which it is a party that such service of process was in any way invalid or ineffective. Nothing herein shall affect the right of any such party to serve process in any other manner permitted by law or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any other party in any other jurisdiction.
  
 (b)  Each Guarantor and each Secured Party (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) hereby irrevocably
waives (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid
actions or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Guaranty or any other Credit Document to which such Guarantor is a party brought in the courts referred to in clause (a) above and hereby further irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that such action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
  
 (c)  EACH GUARANTOR
AND EACH SECURED CREDITOR (BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE BENEFITS OF THIS GUARANTY) HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY, THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS TO WHICH
SUCH GUARANTOR IS A PARTY OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.
  
 17.  RELEASE OF LIABILITY OF GUARANTOR UPON SALE OR DISSOLUTION, ETC. In the event that all of the Equity Interests of a Guarantor are sold or otherwise disposed of or liquidated in compliance with the requirements of Section 10.02 of the Credit
Agreement (or such sale, other disposition or liquidation has been approved in writing by the Required Lenders (or all the Lenders if required by Section 13.12 of
the Credit Agreement) or is otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 13.12 of the Credit Agreement) and the proceeds of such sale, disposition or liquidation are applied in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable, such Guarantor shall upon consummation of such sale or other disposition (except to the extent that such sale or disposition is to Aleris or another Subsidiary thereof) be released from this Guaranty automatically and without further action and this Guaranty shall, as to each such Guarantor, terminate, and have no further
force or effect (it being understood and agreed that the sale of one or more Persons that own, directly or indirectly, all of the Equity Interests of any Guarantor shall be deemed to be a sale of such Guarantor for the purposes of this Section 17).
  
 18.  CONTRIBUTION. At any
time a payment in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations is made under this Guaranty, the right of contribution of each Guarantor against each other Guarantor shall be determined as provided in the immediately following sentence, with the right of contribution of each Guarantor to be revised and restated as of each date on which a payment (a “Relevant Payment”) is made on the Guaranteed Obligations under this Guaranty. At any time that a Relevant Payment is made by a Guarantor that results in the aggregate payments made by such Guarantor in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations to and including the date of the Relevant Payment exceeding such Guarantor’s Contribution
Percentage (as defined below) of the aggregate payments made by all Guarantors in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations to and including the date of the Relevant Payment (such excess, the “Aggregate Excess Amount”), each such Guarantor shall have a right of contribution against each other Guarantor
who has made payments in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations to and including the date of the Relevant Payment in an aggregate amount less than such other
Guarantor’s Contribution Percentage of the aggregate payments made to and including the date of the Relevant Payment by all Guarantors in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations (the aggregate amount of such deficit, the “Aggregate Deficit Amount”) in an amount equal to (x) a fraction the numerator of which is the Aggregate Excess
Amount of such Guarantor and the denominator of which is the Aggregate Excess Amount of all Guarantors multiplied by (y) the Aggregate Deficit Amount of such other Guarantor. A Guarantor’s right of contribution pursuant to the preceding sentences shall arise at the time of each computation, subject to adjustment to the time of each computation; provided that no Guarantor may take any action to enforce such right until the
Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash, it being expressly recognized and agreed by all parties hereto that any Guarantor’s right of contribution arising pursuant to this Section 18 against any other Guarantor shall be expressly junior and subordinate to such other Guarantor’s obligations and liabilities in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations and any other obligations owing under this Guaranty. As used in this Section 18: (i) each Guarantor’s “Contribution Percentage” shall mean the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the Adjusted Net Worth (as defined
below) of such Guarantor by (y) the aggregate Adjusted Net Worth of all Guarantors; (ii) the “Adjusted Net Worth” of each Guarantor shall mean the greater of (x) the Net Worth
(as defined below) of such Guarantor and (y) zero; and (iii) the “Net Worth” of each Guarantor shall mean the amount by which the fair saleable value of such Guarantor’s assets on the date of any Relevant Payment exceeds its existing debts and other liabilities (including contingent liabilities, but without giving effect to any Guaranteed Obligations arising under this Guaranty on such date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, any Guarantor that is released from this Guaranty pursuant to Section 17 hereof shall thereafter have no contribution obligations, or rights, pursuant to this Section 18, and at the time of any such release, if the released Guarantor had an Aggregate Excess Amount or an Aggregate Deficit Amount, same shall
be deemed reduced to $0, and the contribution rights and obligations of the remaining Guarantors shall be recalculated on the respective date of release (as otherwise provided above) based on the payments made hereunder by the remaining Guarantors. All parties hereto recognize
and agree that, except for any right of contribution arising pursuant to this Section 18, each Guarantor who makes any payment in respect of the Guaranteed
Obligations shall have no right of contribution or subrogation against any other Guarantor in respect of such payment until all of the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash. Each of the Guarantors recognizes and acknowledges that the rights to contribution arising hereunder shall constitute an asset in favor of the party entitled to such contribution. In this connection, each Guarantor has the right to waive its contribution right against any Guarantor to the extent that after giving effect to such waiver such Guarantor would remain solvent, in the determination of the Required Lenders.
  
 19.  LIMITATION ON GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS. Each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this
Guaranty) hereby confirms that it is its intention that this Guaranty not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code, the
Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act of any similar Federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its
acceptance of the benefits of this Guaranty) hereby irrevocably agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed by such Guarantor shall be limited to such amount as will, after giving effect to such maximum amount and all other (contingent or
otherwise) liabilities of such Guarantor that are relevant under such laws and after giving effect to any rights to contribution pursuant to any agreement providing for an equitable contribution among such Guarantor and the other Guarantors, result in the Guaranteed Obligations of such
Guarantor in respect of such maximum amount not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
  
 20.  COUNTERPARTS. This
Guaranty may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the
same instrument. A set of counterparts executed by all the parties hereto shall be lodged with the Guarantors and the Administrative Agent.
  
 21.  PAYMENTS. All
payments made by any Guarantor hereunder will be made without setoff, counterclaim or other defense and on the same basis as payments are made by the U.S. Borrowers under Sections 5.03 and 5.04 of the Credit Agreement.
  
 22.  ADDITIONAL
GUARANTORS. It is understood and agreed that any Subsidiary of Aleris that is required to become a party to this Guaranty after the date hereof pursuant to the requirements of the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, shall become a Guarantor hereunder by (x) executing and delivering a counterpart hereof, or a joinder agreement in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and delivering same to the Administrative Agent and (y) taking all actions as specified in this Guaranty as would have
been taken by such Guarantor had it been an original party to this Guaranty, in each case with all documents required by the Credit Documents to be delivered to the
Administrative Agent and with all documents and actions required by the Credit Documents to be taken to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative
Agent.
  
 23.  HEADINGS DESCRIPTIVE. The headings of the several Sections of this Guaranty are inserted for convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or construction of any provision of this Guaranty.
  
 24.  VIRGINIA
WAIVER. Guarantor waives all rights of Guarantor arising under Sections 49 - 25 and 49 - 26 of the Code of Virginia.
  
 25.  CALCULATION
OF OBLIGATIONS UNDER SECURED HEDGING AGREEMENTS. Any calculation of obligations outstanding under a Secured Hedging Agreement for purposes of this Agreement shall be for purposes of the definition of Required Secured Creditors (x) if prior to the termination of such Secured Hedging Agreement, the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that Aleris and the
Guarantors would be required to pay if such Secured Hedging Agreement were terminated at such time, but in no event should such amount with respect to the Secured Hedging Agreement entered into on the Restatement Effective Date be deemed to be less than $35,000,000
and (y) if after the termination of such Secured Hedging Agreements, the amount which is actually due and payable by Aleris and the Guarantos under such Secured Hedging Agreement at such time.
  
 26.  AMENDMENT
AND RESTATEMENT. This Guaranty shall amend and restate in its entirety the
U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty dated as of August 1, 2006 among certain of the Guarantors and the Administrative Agent (the “Existing U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty”), and all obligations of the Guarantors thereunder shall be deemed replaced and extended as obligations under this Guaranty and be governed hereby without novation. In no event shall such amendment
and restatement be construed as a termination of the obligations under the Existing U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty.
  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to lie executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
  
 
	 	 ALCHEM
ALUMINUM, INC., as, a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALCHEM
ALUMINUM SHELBYVILLE
 INC., as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALERIS, INC.,
as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALERIS OHIO
MANAGEMENT, INC.,
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALSCO
HOLDINGS, INC., as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALSCO METALS
CORPORATION
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH OF
CLEVELAND, INC.,
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH OF
WABASH, INC., 
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 ALUMITECH OF
WEST VIRGINIA, INC., 
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH,
INC., as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 AWT
PROPERTIES, INC., as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 CA LEWISPORT,
LLC, as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 CI HOLDINGS,
LLC. as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
ALUMINUM 
 CONCAST, INC., as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
ALUMINUM 
 LEWISPORT, LLC, as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
ALUMINUM METALS, 
 LLC, as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
ALUMINUM SALES 
 CORPORATION, as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
ALUMINUM TUBE 
 ENTERPRISES, LLC, as a Guarantor
  

	 	 COMMONWEALTH
ALUMINUM, LLC, 
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
FINANCING CORP., 
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH
INDUSTRIES, INC., 
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ETS SCHAEFER
CORPORATION,
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 GULF REDUCTION
CORPORATION, 
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO
INTERNATIONAL, INC., 
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO
INVESTMENT COMPANY, 
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF CALIFORNIA, INC., 
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF IDAHO INC., 
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF ILLINOIS INC.,
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF INDIANA INC., 
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF MICHIGAN L.L.C., 
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF OHIO INC., 
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
OF UTAH INC.,
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING
SERVICES COMPANY,
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 IMSAMET, INC.,
as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 ALERIS
BLANKING AND RIM PRODUCTS, 
 INC. (f/k/a
INDIANA. ALUMINUM INC.), 
 as
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 INTERAMERICAN
ZINC, INC.,
 as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 METALCHEM,
INC., as a Guarantor
  
 
	 	 MIDWEST ZINC
CORPORATION, 
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 ROCK CREEK
ALUMINUM, INC., 
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 SILVER FOX
HOLDING COMPANY, 
 as a
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 U.S. ZINC
CORPORATION,
 as a Guarantor

 
 
	 	 U.S. ZINC
EXPORT CORPORATION,
 as a.
Guarantor
  
 
	 	 WESTERN ZINC
CORPORATION,
 as a Guarantor

 
 

 
 

  
 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/  Michael D. Friday
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Director

 
 

  
 

  

    
  
 
   
  
 
 
   
 
 

 

  
 
	 	 IMCO INDIANA
PARTNERSHIP L.P.
 By: IMCO International,
Inc., its General
 Partner,
 as a Guarantor
  
 

 
 

  
 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/  Michael D. Friday
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 President

 
 

  
 
	 	 IMCO
MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP, L.P.
 By: Aleris
International, Inc., its General
 Partner,
 as a Guarantor
  
 

 
 

  
 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/  Michael D. Friday
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Chief Financial Officer

 
 

  
    
 
   
  
 
 
   
 
 
 

 
	 	 CORUS ALUMINUM
CORP., as a Guarantor
 HOOGOVENS ALUMINIUM
EUROPE INC., as a Guarantor
  
 

 
 

 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/  Michael D. Friday
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Director

 
 

 

    
  
 
   
  
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
 Accepted and Agreed to:
  
 
	 DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
 	 
	 As Administrative Agent
 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 By:
 	 /s/  Carin Keegan
 	 
	     Name:  Carin Keegan
 	 	 
	     Title:    Vice President
  
 	 	 

 
 

 
	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 By:
 	 /s/  Scottye Lindsey
 	 
	     Name:  Scottye Lindsey
 	 	 
	     Title:    DirectorAmended and Restated U.S. Security Agreement, dated as of 12/19/2006

 
 

 

 

 Exhibit 10.7
  
 EXECUTION COPY
 

  
  
	 

 
 
  
  
 

 

 

 AMENDED AND RESTATED U.S.
SECURITY AGREEMENT
  
 among
  
 ALERIS INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
  
 CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF ALERIS INTERNATIONAL,
INC.,
  
  
 and
  
  
 DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
 as COLLATERAL AGENT
  
 _______________________________
 

 Dated as of August 1, 2006
 and amended and restated as of December 19, 2006
 _______________________________
 

 

 

  
 
 
  
  
  
 

 
 

	 

 
 
  
  
  
  
  
    
 
   
  
 
 
   
 
 
  
   

 
	 ARTICLE I. SECURITY INTERESTS
 	 2
 
	 	 1.1. Grant
of Security Interests
 	 2
 
	 	 1.2. Power
of Attorney
 	 5
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE II. GENERAL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
 	 5
 
	 	 2.1.
Necessary Filings
 	 6
 
	 	 2.2. No
Liens
 	 6
 
	 	 2.3. Other
Financing Statements
 	 6
 
	 	 2.4. Chief
Executive Office, Location of Inventory and Included Equipment
 	 6
 
	 	 2.5. Legal
Names; Type of Organization (and Whether a Registered Organization and/or a Transmitting Utility); Jurisdiction of Organization; Location; Organizational Identification Numbers; Changes Thereto; etc.
 	  
 6
 
	 	 2.6.
Certain Significant Transactions
 	 7
 
	 	 2.7.
As-Extracted Collateral; Timber-to-be-Cut
 	 7
 
	 	 2.8.
Collateral in the Possession of a Bailee
 	 7
 
	 	 2.9.
Recourse
 	 8
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE III. SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING ACCOUNTS; CONTRACT RIGHTS; INSTRUMENTS; CHATTEL PAPER AND CERTAIN OTHER COLLATERAL
 	 8
 
	 	 3.1.
Additional Representations and Warranties
 	 8
 
	 	 3.2.
Maintenance of Records
 	 8
 
	 	 3.3.
Direction to Account Debtors; Contracting Parties; etc.
 	 9
 
	 	 3.4.
Modification of Terms; etc.
 	 9
 
	 	 3.5.
Collection
 	 9
 
	 	 3.6.
Instruments
 	 10
 
	 	 3.7.
Assignors Remain Liable Under Accounts
 	 10
 
	 	 3.8.
Assignors Remain Liable Under Contracts
 	 10
 
	 	 3.9.
Deposit Accounts; Etc.
 	 
	 	 3.10.
Letter-of-Credit Rights
 	 11
 
	 	 3.11.
Commercial Tort Claims
 	 12
 
	 	 3.12.
Chattel Paper
 	 12
 
	 	 3.13.
Further Actions
 	 12
 
	 	 3.14.
Overriding Provisions with respect to ABL Priority Collateral
 	 12
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE IV. SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING TRADEMARKS AND DOMAIN NAMES
 	 13
 
	 	 4.1.
Additional Representations and Warranties
 	 13
 
	 	 4.2.
Licenses and Assignments
 	 13
 
	 	 4.3.
Infringements
 	 13
 
	 	 4.4.
Preservation of Marks and Domain Names
 	 13
 
	 	 4.5.
Maintenance of Registration
 	 14
 
	 	 4.6. Future
Registered Marks and Domain Names
 	 14
 
	 	 4.7.
Remedies
 	 14
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE V. SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADE SECRETS
 	 15
 
	 	 5.1.
Additional Representations and Warranties
 	 15
 
	 	 5.2.
Licenses and Assignments
 	 15
 
	 	 5.3.
Infringements
 	 15
 
	 	 5.4.
Maintenance of Patents or Copyrights
 	 15
 
	 	 5.5.
Prosecution of Patent or Copyright Applications
 	 16
 
	 	 5.6. Other
Patents and Copyrights
 	 16
 
	 	 5.7.
Remedies
 	 16
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE VI. PROVISIONS CONCERNING ALL COLLATERAL
 	 16
 
	 	 6.1.
Protection of Collateral Agent’s Security
 	 16
 
	 	 6.2.
Warehouse Receipts Non-Negotiable
 	 17
 
	 	 6.3.
Additional Information
 	 17
 
	 	 6.4.
Further Actions
 	 17
 
	 	 6.5.
Financing Statements
 	 17
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE VII. REMEDIES UPON OCCURRENCE OF AN EVENT OF DEFAULT
 	 18
 
	 	 7.1.
Remedies; Obtaining the Collateral Upon Default
 	 18
 
	 	 7.2.
Remedies; Disposition of the Collateral
 	 19
 
	 	 7.3. Waiver
of Claims
 	 20
 
	 	 7.4.
Application of Proceeds
 	 20
 
	 	 7.5.
Remedies Cumulative
 	 25
 
	 	 7.6.
Discontinuance of Proceedings
 	 25
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE VIII. INDEMNITY
 	 25
 
	 	 8.1.
Indemnity
 	 25
 
	 	 8.2.
Indemnity Obligations Secured by Collateral; Survival
 	 27
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE IX. DEFINITIONS
 	 27
 
	 	 
	 ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS
 	 36
 
	 	 10.1.
Notices
 	 36
 
	 	 10.2.
Waiver; Amendment
 	 37
 
	 	 10.3.
Obligations Absolute
 	 37
 
	 	 10.4.
Successors and Assigns
 	 38
 
	 	 10.5.
Headings Descriptive
 	 38
 
	 	 10.6.
GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
 	 38
 
	 	 10.7.
Assignors’ Duties
 	 39
 
	 	 10.8.
Termination; Release
 	 39
 
	 	 10.9.
Counterparts
 	 41
 
	 	 10.10.
Severability
 	 41
 
	 	 10.11. The
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Creditors
 	 41
 
	 	 10.12.
Additional Assignors
 	 41
 
	 	 10.13.
Amendment and Restatement
 	 41
 
	 	 10.14.
Calculation of Obligations under Secured Hedging Agreements
 	 41
 

 
 
 
  
  
	 ANNEX
A
 	 Schedule of
Chief Executive Offices; Inventory and Equipment Locations in Alabama, Arizona, Florida and Mississippi
 
	 ANNEX
B
 	 Registered
Organization And/Or A Transmitting Utility), Jurisdiction of Organization, Location and Organizational Identification Numbers
 
	 ANNEX
C
 	 Description of
Certain Significant Transactions Occurring Within One Year Prior To The Date of The U.S. Security Agreement
 
	 ANNEX
D
 	 Schedule of
Deposit Accounts
 
	 ANNEX
E
 	 Form of
Control Agreement Regarding Deposit Accounts
 
	 ANNEX
F
 	 Description of
Commercial Tort Claims
 
	 ANNEX
G
 	 Schedule of
Marks and Applications; Internet Domain Name Registration
 
	 ANNEX
H
 	 Schedule of
Patents
 
	 ANNEX
I
 	 Schedule of
Copyrights
 
	 ANNEX
J
 	 Form of Grant
of Security Interest in United States Trademarks
 
	 ANNEX
K
 	 Form of Grant
of Security Interest in United States Patents
 
	 ANNEX
L
 	 Form of Grant
of Security Interest in United States Copyrights
 
	 ANNEX
M
 	 The Collateral
Agent
 

 
  
  
 
    
 
   
  
 

   
 
 
 FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED U.S. SECURITY AGREEMENT
  
 AMENDED AND RESTATED
U.S. SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of August 1, 2006 and amended and restated as of December 19, 2006, made by each of the undersigned assignors (each, an
“Assignor” and, together with any other entity that becomes an
assignor hereunder pursuant to Section 10.12 hereof, the “Assignors”) in favor of DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, as administrative agent (together with any successor administrative agent, the “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral agent (together with any successor
Collateral Agent, the “Collateral Agent”), for the benefit of
the Secured Creditors (as defined below). Certain capitalized terms as used herein are defined in Article IX hereof. Except as otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms used herein and defined in the Credit Agreement (as defined below) shall be used herein as therein defined.

 W I T N E S S E T H:
 

 WHEREAS, Aurora Acquisition Merger Sub, Inc., Aleris International, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Aleris” or the “U.S. Borrower”), Aleris Deutschland Holding GmbH, a company with limited liability formed under the laws of Germany (the “German
Borrower” and, together with the U.S. Borrower, each a
“Borrower” and, collectively, the “Borrowers”), the lenders party thereto from time to time (the “Lenders”), and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) (the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent are herein called the “Lender Creditors”) have entered
into an Amended and Restated Term Loan Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2006 and amended and restated as of December 19, 2006, providing for the making of Loans to the Borrowers, all as contemplated therein (as used herein, the term
“Credit Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Term Loan Agreement described above in this paragraph, as the same may be amended, modified, extended, renewed, replaced, restated, supplemented or refinanced from time to time, and including any agreement extending the maturity of, or refinancing or restructuring (including, but not limited to, the inclusion of additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder or any increase in the amount borrowed) all or any portion of, the indebtedness under such agreement or any successor agreement, whether or not with the same agent, trustee,
representative, lenders or holders; provided that, with respect to any agreement providing for the refinancing or replacement of
indebtedness under the Credit Agreement, such agreement shall only be treated as, or as part of, the Credit Agreement hereunder if (i) either (A) all obligations
under the Credit Agreement being refinanced or replaced shall be paid in full at the time of such refinancing or replacement, and all commitments and letters of credit issued pursuant to the refinanced or replaced Credit Agreement shall have terminated in accordance with their terms or (B) the Required Lenders shall have consented in writing to the refinancing or replacement indebtedness being treated as indebtedness pursuant to the Credit Agreement, and (ii) a notice to the effect that the refinancing or replacement indebtedness shall be treated as issued under the Credit Agreement shall be delivered by Aleris to the Collateral
Agent);
 

 WHEREAS, the U.S. Borrower and/or one or more of its
Subsidiaries may at any time and from time to time enter into one or more Secured Hedging Agreements with one or more Persons other than the U.S. Borrow and its Subsidiaries (the “Other
Creditors” and collectively, with the Lender Creditors, the “Secured Creditors”);
 

 WHEREAS, pursuant to the U.S. Borrower Guaranty, the U.S. Borrower has guaranteed to the Secured Creditors the payment when due of all of its Relevant Guaranteed Obligations as
described therein;
 

 WHEREAS, pursuant to the U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty, each
U.S. Subsidiary Guarantor has jointly and severally guaranteed to the Secured Creditors the payment when due of all Guaranteed Obligations (as defined in the U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty);
 

 WHEREAS, the Intercreditor Agreement governs the relative rights and priorities of the Secured Creditors and the ABL Secured Parties in respect of the Term Priority Collateral
and the ABL Priority Collateral (and with respect to certain other matters as described therein);
  
 WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to (i) the making
and/or continuation of Loans to the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement and (ii) the Other Creditors entering into Secured Hedging Agreements, that each Assignor shall have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent this Agreement;
and
  
 WHEREAS, each Assignor will obtain benefits from the
incurrence and/or continuation of Loans by the Borrowers, and the entering into by the Borrowers and/or one or more of their respective Subsidiaries of the Secured Hedging Agreements, and, accordingly, each Assignor desires to enter into this
Agreement in order to (i) satisfy the condition described in the preceding paragraph and (ii) induce (x) the Lenders to make and/or continue Loans to the Borrowers and (y) the Other Creditors to enter into Secured Hedging Agreements with the
Borrowers and/or one or more of their respective Subsidiaries;
 

 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the benefits accruing
to each Assignor, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Assignor hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors and hereby covenants and agrees
with the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors as follows:
  
 ARTICLE I  
  
 SECURITY INTERESTS
  
 1.1.  Grant of
Security Interests. (a) Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement with respect to rights and remedies
between the Collateral Agent and the ABL Collateral Agent, as security for the prompt and complete payment when due of all of its Obligations, each Assignor does hereby assign and transfer unto the Collateral Agent, and does hereby pledge and grant
to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, a continuing security interest in all of the right, title and interest of such Assignor in, to and under all of the following personal property and fixtures (and all rights therein)
of such Assignor, or in which or to which such Assignor has any rights, in each case whether now existing or hereafter from time to time acquired:
  
  
	 (i)
  
 	 	 each and
every Account;
  
 
	 (ii)
  
 	 	 all
cash;
  
 
	 (iii)
  
 	 	 the Cash
Collateral Account and all monies, securities, Instruments and other investments deposited or required to be deposited in the Cash Collateral Account;
  
 
	 (iv)
  
 	 	 all
Chattel Paper (including, without limitation, all Tangible Chattel Paper and all Electronic Chattel Paper);
  
 
	 (v)
  
 	 	 all
Commercial Tort Claims;
  
 
	 (vi)
  
 	 	 all
Software and computer programs of such Assignor and all related licensing rights, documentation, drawings, specifications and schematics and all intellectual
property rights therein and all other proprietary information of such Assignor, including but not limited to Trade Secret Rights, customer lists and all recorded data of any kind or nature, regardless of the medium or recording;
  
 
	 (vii)
  
 	 	 all
Contracts, together with all Contract Rights arising thereunder;
  
 
	 (viii)
  
 	 	 all
Copyrights;
  
 
	 (ix)
  
 	 	 all
Deposit Accounts and all other demand, deposit, time, savings, cash management, passbook and similar accounts maintained by such Assignor with any Person and all monies, securities, Instruments and other investments deposited or
required to be deposited in any of the foregoing (in each case, excluding Exempted Deposit Accounts);
  

	 (x)
  
 	 	 all
Documents;
  
 
	 (xi)
  
 	 	 all
Equipment;
  
 
	 (xii)
  
 	 	 all
General Intangibles;
  
 
	 (xiii)
  
 	 	 all
Goods;
  
 
	 (xiv)
  
 	 	 all
Instruments;
  
 
	 (xv)
  
 	 	 all
Inventory;
  
 
	 (xvi)
  
 	 	 all
Investment Property;
  
 
	 (xvii)
  
 	 	 all
Letter-of-Credit Rights (whether or not the respective letter of credit is evidenced by a writing);
  
 
	 (xviii)
  
 	 	 all
Marks and any renewals thereof, the goodwill of the business of such Assignor symbolized by the Marks and all causes of action arising prior to or after the date
hereof for infringement of any of the Marks or unfair competition regarding the same;
  
 
	 (xix)
  
 	 	 all
Patents, together with all causes of action arising prior to or after the date hereof for infringement of any of the Patents or unfair competition regarding the same;
  
 
	 (xx)
  
 	 	 all
Permits;
  
 
	 (xxi)
  
 	 	 all
Supporting Obligations; and
  
 
	 (xxii)
  
 	 	 all Proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing (all of the above, the “Collateral”);
  
 

 
 
  
 provided that (x) no Voting Equity Interests (which shall include, for this purpose,
the Convertible Preferred Equity Certificates issued by Aleris Luxembourg S.a. r.l.) of any Foreign Corporation which represents more than 65% of the total combined
voting power of all classes of Voting Equity Interests of the respective Foreign Corporation (with all Voting Equity Interests of the respective Foreign Corporation in excess of said 65% limit being herein called “Excess Foreign Corporation Equity Interests”) shall secure any direct Obligations
of any U.S. Borrower (or guarantees of such Obligations by the respective Assignor) and such Excess Foreign Corporation Equity Interests shall secure Obligations of the respective Assignor only as a guarantor of the Obligations of the German
Borrower, and (y) each Assignor shall be required to pledge hereunder 100% of the Non-Voting Equity Interests of each Foreign Corporation at any time and from time to time acquired by such Assignor, which Non-Voting Equity Interests shall not be
subject to the limitations described in preceding clause (x).
 

 (b)  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Collateral include and no Assignor shall be deemed to have granted a security interest in, (x)
Excluded Equipment or (y) any of its right, title or interest in any license, contract or agreement to which such Assignor is a party, to the extent, but only to the extent (and only for so long as) that such license, contract or agreement or applicable law prohibits the assignment of, or granting of a security interest in, such license, contract or agreement and such prohibitions are not rendered invalid by Section 9-406 or Section 9-408 of the UCC, it being understood and agreed, however, any such excluded license, contract or agreement shall otherwise be
subject to the security interests created by this Agreement (and shall become “Collateral” for all purposes of this Agreement) upon the receipt by such Assignor of any necessary approvals or waivers permitting the assignment thereof or the granting of a security interest
therein.
  
 (c)  The security interest of the Collateral Agent under this Agreement extends to all Collateral
which any Assignor may acquire, or with respect to which any Assignor may obtain rights, at any time during the term of this Agreement.
  
 (d)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 1.1 or elsewhere in this Agreement, each Assignor and the Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Secured Creditors)
acknowledges and agrees that:
  
 (x) the security interest granted pursuant to this
Agreement (including pursuant to this Section 1.1) to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors (i) in the Term Priority Collateral, shall be a First Priority Lien and (ii) in the ABL Priority Collateral, shall be a Second
Priority Lien, fully junior, subordinated and subject to the security interest granted to the ABL Collateral Agent for the benefit of the ABL Creditors in the ABL Priority Collateral on the terms and conditions set forth in the ABL Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and all other rights and benefits afforded
hereunder to the Secured Creditors with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral are expressly subject to the terms and conditions of the Intercreditor Agreement;
and
 

 (y) the ABL Secured Parties’ security interests in the Collateral constitute security interests separate and apart (and of a different class and claim) from the Secured Creditors’ security interests in the Collateral.
 

 (e)  NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING HEREIN TO THE CONTRARY, THE LIENS AND SECURITY INTERESTS GRANTED TO THE TERM COLLATERAL AGENT PURSUANT TO THIS
AGREEMENT IN ANY ABL PRIORITY COLLATERAL AND THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHT OR REMEDY BY THE TERM COLLATERAL AGENT WITH RESPECT TO ANY ABL PRIORITY COLLATERAL HEREUNDER
ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF AUGUST 1, 2006 AND AMENDED AND RESTATED AS OF DECEMBER 19, 2006 (AS AMENDED, RESTATED, SUPPLEMENTED OR OTHERWISE MODIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME, THE
“INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT”), AMONG AURORA ACQUISITION MERGER
SUB, INC, ALERIS INTERNATIONAL, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION (THE “COMPANY”), THE OTHER GRANTORS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY THERETO, DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, (“DBNY”) AS ABL ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND AS ABL COLLATERAL AGENT, AND DBNY, AS TERM
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND TERM COLLATERAL AGENT, AND CERTAIN OTHER PERSONS PARTY OR THAT MAY BECOME PARTY THERETO FROM TIME TO TIME. IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TERMS OF THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND THIS AGREEMENT, THE TERMS OF THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT SHALL GOVERN AND CONTROL.
  
 1.2.   Power of Attorney. Each Assignor hereby constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent its true and lawful
attorney, irrevocably, with full power after the occurrence of and during the continuance of an Event of Default (in the name of such Assignor or otherwise) to act,
require, demand, receive, compound and give acquittance for any and all moneys and claims for moneys due or to become due to such Assignor under or arising out of
the Collateral, to endorse any checks or other instruments or orders in connection therewith and to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings
which the Collateral Agent may deem to be necessary or advisable to protect the interests of the Secured Creditors, which appointment as attorney is coupled with an interest.
  
 ARTICLE II
  
 GENERAL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND
COVENANTS
  
 Each Assignor represents, warrants and covenants, which
representations, warranties and covenants shall survive execution and delivery of this Agreement, as follows:
 

 2.1.  Necessary Filings.
All filings, registrations, recordings and other actions necessary or appropriate to create, preserve and perfect the security interest granted by such Assignor to the Collateral Agent hereby in respect of the Collateral have been accomplished, in
each case, within the time frames required by this Agreement, and the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement in and to the Collateral creates a valid and, together with all such filings, registrations, recordings and other actions, a
perfected security interest therein prior to the rights of all other Persons therein and subject to no other Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and is entitled to all the rights, priorities and benefits afforded by the Uniform Commercial Code or other relevant law as enacted in any relevant
jurisdiction to perfected security interests, in each case to the extent that the Collateral consists of the type of property in which a security interest may be
perfected by possession or control (within the meaning of the UCC as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York), by filing a financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in any relevant jurisdiction or by a filing of a Grant of Security Interest in the respective form attached hereto in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in the United States Copyright Office. Upon the actions taken under this Section 2.1, such security interest will be prior to all other Liens of all other Persons (other than Liens permitted pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (v), (viii), (xi), (xii), (xiii) and (xviii) of Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement), and enforceable as such as against all other Persons.
  
 2.2.  No Liens. Such
Assignor is, and as to all Collateral acquired by it from time to time after the Restatement Effective Date such Assignor will be, the owner of all Collateral free
from any Lien or other right, title or interest of any Person (other than Permitted Liens), and such Assignor shall defend the Collateral against all claims and
demands of all Persons at any time claiming the same or any interest therein adverse to the interests of the Collateral Agent.
  
 2.3.  Other
Financing Statements. As of the Restatement Effective Date, there is no
financing statement (or similar statement or instrument of registration under the law of any jurisdiction) covering or purporting to cover any interest of any kind
in the Collateral (other than financing statements filed in respect of Permitted Liens), and so long as the Termination Date has not occurred, such Assignor will not execute or authorize to be filed in any public office any financing statement (or similar statement or instrument of registration under the law of any jurisdiction) or statements relating to the Collateral, except financing statements filed or to be filed in respect of and covering the security interests granted hereby by such Assignor or in connection with Permitted Liens.
  
 2.4.  Chief
Executive Office, Location of Inventory and Included Equipment. On the Restatement Effective Date, and during the four calendar month period preceding this Agreement, no Assignor has maintained its chief executive office or held Inventory and Equipment in Alabama, Arizona, Florida or Mississippi other than as provided in Annex A
hereto.
  
 2.5.  Legal Names; Type of Organization (and Whether a Registered Organization and/or a Transmitting Utility);
Jurisdiction of Organization; Location; Organizational Identification Numbers; Changes Thereto; etc. The exact legal name of each Assignor, the type of organization of such Assignor, whether or
not such Assignor is a Registered Organization, the jurisdiction of organization of such Assignor, such Assignor’s Location, the organizational identification
number (if any) of such Assignor, and whether or not such Assignor is a Transmitting Utility, is listed on Annex B hereto for such Assignor. Such Assignor shall not
change its legal name, its type of organization or its organizational identification number (if any) from that used on Annex B hereto, except that any such changes shall be permitted (so long as not in violation of the applicable requirements of the Secured Debt Agreements and so long as same do not involve such Assignor changing its jurisdiction of organization or Location from the United States or a State thereof to a jurisdiction of organization or Location, as the case may be, outside the United States or a State thereof) if (i) it shall have given to
the Collateral Agent not less than 15 days’ prior written notice of each change to the information listed on Annex B (as adjusted for any subsequent changes thereto previously made in accordance with this sentence), together with a supplement to Annex B which shall correct all information contained therein for such Assignor, and (ii) in connection with the respective such change or changes, it shall have taken all action reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to maintain the
security interests of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral intended to be granted hereby at all times fully perfected and in full force and effect. In addition, to the extent that such Assignor does not have an organizational identification number on the Restatement Effective Date and later obtains one, such Assignor shall promptly thereafter notify the Collateral Agent of such organizational identification number and shall take all actions reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent to the extent necessary to maintain the security interest of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral intended to be granted hereby fully perfected and in full force and
effect.
  
 2.6.  Certain Significant Transactions. During the one year period preceding the Restatement
Effective Date, no Person shall have merged or consolidated with or into any Assignor, and no Person shall have liquidated into, or transferred all or substantially all of its assets to, any Assignor, in each case except as described in Annex C hereto. With respect to any transactions so described in Annex C hereto, the respective Assignor shall have
furnished such information with respect to the Person (and the assets of the Person and locations thereof) which merged with or into or consolidated with such
Assignor, or was liquidated into or transferred all or substantially all of its assets to such Assignor, and shall have furnished to the Collateral Agent such UCC
lien searches as may have been requested with respect to such Person and its assets, to establish that no security interest (excluding Permitted Liens) continues
perfected on the Restatement Effective Date with respect to any Person described above (or the assets transferred to the respective Assignor by such Person), including without limitation pursuant to Section 9- 316(a)(3) of the UCC.
  
 2.7.  As-Extracted Collateral; Timber-to-be-Cut. On the Restatement Effective Date, such Assignor does not own, or expect to acquire, any property which constitutes, or would constitute, As-Extracted Collateral or Timber-to-be-Cut. If at any time after the
date of this Agreement such Assignor owns, acquires or obtains rights to any As-Extracted Collateral or Timber-to-be-Cut, such Assignor shall furnish the Collateral Agent with prompt written notice thereof (which notice shall describe in reasonable detail the As-Extracted Collateral or Timber-to-be-Cut and the locations thereof) and shall take all actions as may be deemed reasonably necessary or desirable by the Collateral Agent to perfect the security interest of the
Collateral Agent therein.
  
 2.8.  Collateral in the Possession of a Bailee. Subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, if any Inventory or other Goods
are at any time in the possession of a bailee, (other than pursuant to tolling arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business) such Assignor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, if requested by the Collateral Agent, shall use its reasonable best efforts to promptly obtain an acknowledgment from such bailee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, that the bailee holds such Collateral for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and shall act upon the instructions of the Collateral Agent, without the further consent of such Assignor. The Collateral Agent agrees with such Assignor that the Collateral Agent shall not give any such instructions unless a Noticed Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur after taking into account any action by the respective Assignor with respect to any such bailee.
  
 2.9.   Recourse. This Agreement is made with full recourse to each Assignor and pursuant to and upon all the warranties, representations, covenants and agreements on the part of such Assignor contained herein, in the other Secured Debt Agreements and otherwise in writing in connection herewith or therewith.
  
 ARTICLE III
  
 SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING ACCOUNTS; CONTRACT RIGHTS; INSTRUMENTS; CHATTEL PAPER AND
CERTAIN OTHER COLLATERAL
  
 3.1.  Additional Representations and Warranties. As of the time when each of its Accounts arises, each Assignor shall be deemed to have
represented and warranted that each such Account, and all records, papers and documents relating thereto (if any) are genuine and what they purport to be, and that
all papers and documents (if any) relating thereto (i) will, to the knowledge of such Assignor, represent the genuine, legal, valid and binding obligation of the
account debtor evidencing indebtedness unpaid and owed by the respective account debtor arising out of the performance of labor or services or the sale or lease and
delivery of the merchandise listed therein, or both, (ii) will be the only original writings evidencing and embodying such obligation of the account debtor named
therein (other than copies created for general accounting purposes), (iii) will, to the knowledge of such Assignor, evidence true and valid obligations, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, and (iv) will be in compliance and will conform in all material respects with all applicable federal,
state and local laws and applicable laws of any relevant foreign jurisdiction.
  
 3.2.  Maintenance of Records. Each Assignor will keep and maintain at its own cost and expense accurate records of its
Accounts and Contracts, including, but not limited to, originals of all documentation (including each Contract) with respect thereto, records of all payments received, all credits granted thereon, all merchandise returned and all other dealings
therewith, and such Assignor will make the same available on such Assignor’s premises to the Collateral Agent for inspection, at such Assignor’s own cost
and expense, at any and all reasonable times upon prior notice to such Assignor and otherwise in accordance with the Credit Agreement. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default and at
the request of the Collateral Agent, such Assignor shall, at its own cost and expense, deliver all tangible evidence of its Accounts and Contract Rights (including,
without limitation, all documents evidencing the Accounts and all Contracts) and such books and records to the Collateral Agent or to its representatives (copies of which evidence and books and records may be retained by such Assignor). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default and if the Collateral Agent so directs, such Assignor shall legend, in
form and manner satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, the Accounts and the Contracts, as well as books, records and documents (if any) of such Assignor evidencing or
pertaining to such Accounts and Contracts with an appropriate reference to the fact that such Accounts and Contracts have been assigned to the Collateral Agent and
that the Collateral Agent has a security interest therein.
  
 3.3.  Direction to Account Debtors; Contracting Parties; etc. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default, if the Collateral Agent so directs, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, any
Assignor, such Assignor agrees (x) to cause all payments on account of the Accounts and Contracts to be made directly to the Cash Collateral Account, (y) that the Collateral Agent may, at its option, directly notify the obligors with respect to any Accounts and/or under any Contracts to make payments with respect thereto as provided in the preceding clause (x), and (z) that the Collateral Agent may
enforce collection of any such Accounts and Contracts and may adjust, settle or compromise the amount of payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as such Assignor. Without notice to or assent by any Assignor, the Collateral Agent may, upon the occurrence and during
the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, apply any or all amounts then in, or thereafter deposited in, the Cash Collateral Account toward the payment of the Obligations in the manner provided in Section 7.4 of this Agreement. The reasonable costs and expenses of collection (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), whether incurred by an Assignor or the Collateral Agent, shall be borne by the relevant Assignor. The Collateral Agent shall deliver a copy of each notice referred to in
the preceding clause (y) to the relevant Assignor, provided that (x) the
failure by the Collateral Agent to so notify such Assignor shall not affect the effectiveness of such notice or the other rights of the Collateral Agent created by
this Section 3.3 and (y) no such notice shall be required if an Event of Default of the type described in Section 9.05 of the Credit Agreement has occurred and is
continuing.
  
 3.4.  Modification of Terms; etc. Except in accordance with such Assignor’s ordinary
course of business and consistent with reasonable business judgment or as permitted by Section 3.5, no Assignor shall rescind or cancel any indebtedness evidenced by any Account or under any Contract, or modify any material term thereof or make any
material adjustment with respect thereto, or extend or renew the same, or compromise or settle any material dispute, claim, suit or legal proceeding relating thereto, or sell any Account or Contract, or interest therein, without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent. No Assignor will do anything to impair the rights of the Collateral Agent in the Accounts or Contracts.
  
 3.5.  Collection. Each Assignor shall endeavor in accordance with reasonable business practices to cause to be collected from the account debtor named in each of its Accounts or obligor under any Contract, as and when due (including, without limitation, amounts which are delinquent, such amounts to be collected in accordance with generally accepted lawful collection procedures) any and all amounts owing under or on account of such Account or Contract, and apply forthwith upon receipt thereof all such amounts as are so collected to the outstanding balance of such Account or under such Contract. Except as otherwise directed by the Collateral Agent after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, any Assignor may allow in the ordinary course of business as adjustments to amounts owing under its Accounts and Contracts (i) an extension or renewal of the time or times of payment, or settlement for less than the total unpaid balance, which such Assignor finds
appropriate in accordance with reasonable business judgment and (ii) a refund or credit due as a result of returned or damaged merchandise or improperly performed services or for other reasons which such Assignor finds appropriate in accordance with reasonable business judgment. The reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) of collection, whether incurred by an Assignor or the Collateral Agent, shall be borne by the relevant Assignor.
  
 3.6.  Instruments. Subject
to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, if any Assignor owns or acquires any Instrument in excess of $1,000,000 constituting Collateral (other than (x) checks
and other payment instruments received and collected in the ordinary course of business and (y) any Instrument subject to pledge pursuant to the U.S. Pledge Agreement), such Assignor will within 20 Business Days notify the Collateral Agent thereof,
and upon request by the Collateral Agent will promptly deliver such Instrument to the Collateral Agent appropriately endorsed to the order of the Collateral Agent.
  
 3.7.  Assignors Remain Liable Under Accounts. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Assignors shall remain liable under
each of the Accounts to observe and perform all of the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by them thereunder, all in accordance with the terms of any agreement giving rise to such Accounts. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any other Secured Creditor shall have any obligation or liability
under any Account (or any agreement giving rise thereto) by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Creditor of any payment relating to such Account pursuant hereto, nor shall the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Creditor be obligated in any manner to perform any of the obligations of any Assignor under or pursuant to any Account (or any agreement giving rise thereto), to make any payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or the sufficiency of any payment received by them or as to the
sufficiency of any performance by any party under any Account (or any agreement giving rise thereto), to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to collect the payment of any amounts which may have been assigned to them or to which they may be entitled at any time or times.
  
 3.8.  Assignors Remain Liable Under Contracts. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Assignors shall remain liable under
each of the Contracts to observe and perform all of the conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by them thereunder, all in accordance with and pursuant to the terms and provisions of each Contract. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any other Secured Creditor shall have any obligation or
liability under any Contract by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Creditor of any payment relating to such Contract pursuant hereto, nor shall the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Creditor be obligated in any manner to
perform any of the obligations of any Assignor under or pursuant to any Contract, to make any payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or the sufficiency of any performance by any party under any Contract, to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to collect the payment of any amounts which may have been assigned to them or to which they may be entitled at any time or times.
  
 3.9.  Deposit
Accounts; Etc. (a) Annex D hereto accurately sets forth, as of the Effective Date, for each Assignor, each Deposit Account maintained by such Assignor (including a description thereof and the respective account number), the name of the respective bank with which such Deposit Account is maintained, and the jurisdiction of the respective bank with respect to such Deposit Account. For each Deposit Account (other than (i) the Cash Collateral Account or any other Deposit Account maintained with the Collateral Agent, (ii)
Exempted Deposit Accounts and (iii) Exempted Disbursement Accounts) the respective Assignor shall, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and Section 3.14 hereof, cause the bank with which the Deposit Account is maintained to
execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, within 45 days after the Restatement Effective Date or, if later, at the time of the establishment of the respective Deposit Account, a “control agreement” in substantially the form of Annex E hereto (appropriately completed), with such changes thereto as may be
reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, or such other form as may be reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent. If any bank with which a Deposit Account which is required to be subject to a “control agreement” hereunder is maintained refuses to, or does not, enter into such a
“control agreement”, then the respective Assignor shall promptly (and in any event within 45 days after the date of this Agreement or, if later, 30 days (or such longer period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) after the establishment of such account) close the respective Deposit Account and transfer all balances therein to the Cash
Collateral Account or another Deposit Account meeting the requirements of this Section 3.9. If any bank with which a Deposit Account which is required to be subject to a “control agreement” hereunder is maintained refuses to subordinate all its claims with respect to such Deposit Account to the Collateral Agent’s security interest therein on terms reasonably satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent, then the Collateral Agent, at its option, may (x) require that such Deposit Account be terminated in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence or (y) agree to a “control agreement” without such subordination, provided that in such event the Collateral Agent may at any time, at its option, subsequently require
that such Deposit Account be terminated (within 45 days after notice from the Collateral Agent) in accordance with the requirements of the immediately preceding
sentence.
  
 (b)  After the date of this Agreement, no Assignor shall establish any new demand, time, savings,
passbook or similar account, except for Deposit Accounts established and maintained with banks and meeting the requirements of preceding clause (a). At the time any
such Deposit Account is established, the appropriate “control agreement” shall be entered into in accordance with the requirements of preceding clause (a) and the respective Assignor shall furnish to the Collateral Agent a supplement to Annex D hereto containing the relevant
information with respect to the respective Deposit Account and the bank with which same is established.
  

3.10.  Letter-of-Credit Rights. If any Assignor is at any time a beneficiary under a letter of credit with a stated amount
of $5,000,000 or more, such Assignor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and, at the request of the Collateral Agent, such Assignor shall, pursuant to
an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, use its reasonable best efforts to (i) arrange for the issuer and any confirmer
of such letter of credit to consent to an assignment to the Collateral Agent of the proceeds of any drawing under such letter of credit or (ii) arrange for the
Collateral Agent, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, to become the transferee beneficiary of such letter of credit, with the Collateral Agent
agreeing, in each case, that the proceeds of any drawing under the letter of credit are to be applied as provided in this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement
after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default.
  
 3.11.  Commercial Tort Claims. All Commercial Tort Claims of each Assignor in existence on the date of this Agreement are
described in Annex F hereto. If any Assignor shall at any time after the date of this Agreement acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in an amount (taking the greater of the aggregate claimed damages thereunder or the reasonably estimated value thereof) of $1,000,000 or more, such Assignor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent
thereof in a writing signed by such Assignor and describing the details thereof and shall grant to the Collateral Agent in such writing a security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, with such writing to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
  
 3.12.  Chattel Paper. Upon
the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent made at any time or from time to time, each Assignor shall promptly furnish to the Collateral Agent a list of all
Electronic Chattel Paper held or owned by such Assignor. Furthermore, if requested by the Collateral Agent, each Assignor shall promptly take all actions which are
reasonably practicable so that the Collateral Agent, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, has “control” of all Electronic Chattel Paper in accordance with the requirements of Section 9-105 of the UCC. Each Assignor will promptly (and in any event within 10 days) following any request by the Collateral Agent during the occurrence of any Noticed Event of Default, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, deliver all of its Tangible Chattel Paper to the Collateral Agent.
  
 3.13.  Further Actions.
Each Assignor will, at its own expense, make, execute, endorse, acknowledge, file and/or deliver to the Collateral Agent from time to time such vouchers, invoices, schedules, confirmatory assignments, conveyances, financing statements, transfer
endorsements, certificates, reports and other assurances or instruments and take such further steps, including any and all actions as may be necessary or required under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act, relating to its Accounts, Contracts,
Instruments and other property or rights covered by the security interest hereby granted, as the Collateral Agent may reasonably require.
  
 3.14.  Overriding Provisions with respect to ABL Priority Collateral. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this Article III, or elsewhere in this Agreement or any other U.S. Security Agreement, to the extent the provisions of this Agreement (or any other Security Documents) require the delivery of, or control over, ABL Priority Collateral to be granted to the Collateral Agent at any time prior to the ABL Credit Documents Obligations Termination Date, then delivery of such ABL Priority Collateral (or
control with respect thereto) shall instead be granted to the ABL Collateral Agent, to be held in accordance with the ABL Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement.
Furthermore, at all times prior to the ABL Credit Document Obligations Termination Date, the Collateral Agent is authorized by the parties hereto to effect transfers
of ABL Priority Collateral at any time in its possession (and any “control” or similar agreements with respect to ABL Priority Collateral) to the ABL Collateral Agent.
  
 ARTICLE IV
  
 SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING TRADEMARKS AND DOMAIN
NAMES
  
 4.1.  Additional Representations and Warranties. Each Assignor represents and warrants that it is the true and lawful owner of the registered Marks and Domain Names listed in Annex G hereto for such Assignor and that said listed Marks and Domain Names include all trademark registrations and applications for registration of marks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and all Domain Names that such Assignor owns in connection with its business
as of the Effective Date. Except as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Assignor represents and warrants that it owns, is licensed to use or otherwise has the right to
use, all trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dresses and other business and source identifiers that it uses. Each Assignor further warrants that it has no
knowledge of any third party claim received by it that any aspect of such Assignor’s present or contemplated business operations infringes or will infringe any
trademark, service mark or trade name of any other Person other than as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. Each Assignor represents and warrants that it is the true and lawful owner of all U.S. trademark registrations and applications and Domain Name
registrations listed in Annex G hereto and that said registrations are valid, subsisting, have not been canceled and that such Assignor is not aware of any third-party claim that any of said registrations is invalid or unenforceable, and is not aware that there is any reason that any of said registrations is invalid or unenforceable, and is not aware that there is any reason that any of said applications will not
mature into registrations. Each Assignor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent an absolute power of attorney to sign, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Noticed Event of Default, any document which may be required by the United States Patent and Trademark Office or similar registrar in order to effect an absolute assignment of all right, title and interest in each Mark and/or Domain Name, and record the same.
  
 4.2.  Licenses
and Assignments. Except as otherwise permitted by the Secured Debt
Agreements, each Assignor hereby agrees not to divest itself of any right under any Mark or Domain Name absent prior written approval of the Collateral Agent.
  
 4.3.  Infringements. Each Assignor agrees, promptly upon learning thereof, to notify the Collateral Agent in writing of the name and address of, and to furnish such pertinent information that may be available with respect to, any party who such Assignor
believes is, or may be, infringing or diluting or otherwise violating any of such Assignor’s rights in and to any Mark in any manner that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or with respect to any party claiming that such Assignor’s use of any Mark material
to such Assignor’s business violates in any material respect any property right of that party. Each Assignor further agrees to take appropriate actions in
accordance with reasonable business practices against any Person infringing any Mark or Domain Name in any manner that could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
  
 4.4.  Preservation of Marks and Domain Names. Each Assignor agrees to take all actions as are reasonably necessary to preserve the protection and registration of the Marks as trademarks or service marks under the laws of the United States (other than any such Marks which are no longer used or useful in its business or operations).
  
 4.5.  Maintenance of Registration. Each Assignor shall, at its own expense, diligently process all documents required in accordance with reasonable business practices to maintain all Mark and/or Domain Name registrations, including but not limited to affidavits of use and applications for renewals of registration in the United States Patent and Trademark Office for all of its material registered Marks, and shall pay all fees and disbursements in connection therewith and shall not abandon any such filing of affidavit of use or any such application of renewal prior to the exhaustion of all administrative and judicial remedies without prior written consent of the Collateral Agent (other than with respect to registrations and applications deemed by such Assignor in its reasonable business judgment to be no longer prudent to pursue).
  
 4.6.  Future Registered Marks and Domain Names. If any Mark registration is issued hereafter to any Assignor as a result of any application
now or hereafter pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office or any Domain Name is registered by Assignor, within 30 days of issuance, such Assignor shall deliver to the Collateral Agent a notification concerning the issuance of the registration, and a grant of a security interest in such Mark and/or Domain Name, to the Collateral Agent and at the expense of such Assignor,
confirming the grant of a security interest in such Mark and/or Domain Name to the Collateral Agent hereunder, the form of such security to be substantially in the
form of Annex J hereto or in such other form as may be reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
  

4.7.  Remedies. Subject to
the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, if a Noticed Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Collateral Agent may, by written notice to the relevant
Assignor, take any or all of the following actions: (i) declare the entire right, title and interest of such Assignor in and to each of the Marks and Domain Names,
together with all trademark rights and rights of protection to the same, vested in the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, in which event such rights, title and interest shall immediately vest, in the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to exercise the power of attorney referred to in Section 4.1 hereof to execute, cause to be acknowledged and notarized and record said absolute assignment with the applicable agency or registrar; (ii) take and use or sell the Marks or Domain Names and the goodwill of such Assignor’s business symbolized by the Marks or Domain Names and the right to carry on the business and use the assets of such Assignor in connection with which the
Marks or Domain Names have been used; and (iii) direct such Assignor to refrain, in which event such Assignor shall refrain, from using the Marks or Domain Names in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, and such Assignor shall execute such further documents that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to further confirm this and to transfer ownership of the Marks or Domain Names and registrations and any pending trademark applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or applicable Domain Name registrar to the Collateral Agent.
  
 ARTICLE V
  
 SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING
 PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND TRADE SECRETS
  
 5.1.  Additional
Representations and Warranties. Each Assignor represents and warrants that it is the true and lawful owner of all rights in (i) all Trade Secret Rights, (ii) the
Patents listed in Annex H hereto for such Assignor and that said Patents include all the United States patents and applications for United States patents that such Assignor owns as of the Restatement Effective Date and (iii) the Copyrights listed in Annex I hereto for such Assignor and that said Copyrights include all the United States copyrights registered with the United States Copyright Office and applications for United States copyrights that such Assignor owns as of the Restatement Effective Date. Each Assignor further warrants that it has no knowledge of any third party claim that any aspect of such Assignor’s present or contemplated business operations infringes or will infringe any patent or copyright of any other Person
or such Assignor has misappropriated any trade secret or proprietary information which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Assignor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent an absolute power of attorney to sign, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Noticed Event of Default, any document which may be required
by the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office in order to effect an absolute assignment of all right, title and interest in
each Patent or Copyright, and to record the same.
  
 5.2.  Licenses and Assignments. Except as otherwise permitted by the Secured Debt Agreements, each Assignor hereby agrees
not to divest itself of any right under any Patent or Copyright absent prior written approval of the Collateral Agent.
  
 5.3.  Infringements. Each
Assignor agrees, promptly upon learning thereof, to furnish the Collateral Agent in writing with all pertinent information available to such Assignor with respect to
any infringement, contributing infringement or active inducement to infringe or other violation of such Assignor’s rights in any Patent or Copyright or to any claim that the practice by any Assignor of any patent or use of any copyrighted work violates any property right of a third party, or with respect to any misappropriation of any Trade Secret Right or any claim that practice of any trade secret violates any property right of a third
party, in each case, in any manner which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Assignor further agrees, absent direction of the Collateral Agent to the contrary, to take appropriate action, in accordance with its reasonable business judgment against, any Person infringing any Patent or Copyright or any Person misappropriating any Trade Secret Right, in each case to the extent that such infringement or misappropriation, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
  
 5.4.  Maintenance of Patents or Copyrights. At its own expense, each Assignor shall make timely payment of all post-issuance fees
required to maintain in force its rights under each Patent or Copyright, absent prior written consent of the Collateral Agent (other than any such Patents or Copyrights which are no longer used or are deemed by such Assignor in its reasonable business judgment to no longer be useful in its business or
operations).
  
 5.5.  Prosecution of Patent or Copyright Applications. At its own expense, each Assignor
shall diligently prosecute all material applications for (i) United States Patents listed in Annex H hereto and (ii) Copyrights listed on Annex I hereto, in each
case for such Assignor and shall not abandon any such application prior to exhaustion of all administrative and judicial remedies (other than applications that are
deemed by such Assignor in its reasonable business judgment to no longer be necessary in the conduct of the Assignor’s business), absent written consent of the Collateral Agent.
  

5.6.  Other Patents and Copyrights. Within 30 days of the acquisition or issuance of a United States Patent, registration of a
Copyright, or acquisition of a registered Copyright, or of filing of an application for a United States Patent or Copyright, the relevant Assignor shall deliver to the Collateral Agent notification describing the acquisition, issuance, filing or
registration of said Copyright or Patent, as the case may be, with a grant of a security interest as to such Patent or Copyright, as the case may be, to the Collateral Agent and at the expense of such Assignor, confirming the grant of a security interest, the form of such grant of a security interest to be substantially in the form of Annex K or Annex L hereto, as
appropriate, or in such other form as may be reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
  
 5.7.  Remedies. If an
Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Collateral Agent may, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, by written notice to the relevant Assignor, take any or all of the following actions: (i) declare the entire right, title, and interest of such Assignor in each of the Patents and Copyrights vested in the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, in which event such right, title, and interest shall immediately vest in the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, in which case the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to exercise the power of attorney referred to in Section 5.1 hereof to execute, cause to be acknowledged and notarized and to record said absolute assignment with the applicable agency; (ii) take and practice or sell the Patents and Copyrights; and (iii) direct such Assignor to refrain, in which event such Assignor shall refrain, from practicing the Patents and using the Copyrights directly or indirectly, and such Assignor shall execute such further documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request further to confirm this and to transfer ownership of the Patents and Copyrights to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors.
  
 ARTICLE VI
  
 PROVISIONS CONCERNING ALL COLLATERAL
  
 6.1.  Protection
of Collateral Agent’s Security. Except as otherwise permitted by the
Secured Debt Agreements and the Intercreditor Agreement, each Assignor will do nothing to impair the rights of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral. Each Assignor
will at all times maintain insurance, at such Assignor’s own expense to the extent and in the manner provided in the Secured Debt Agreements. Except to the
extent otherwise permitted to be retained by such Assignor or applied by such Assignor pursuant to the terms of the Secured Debt Agreements, the Collateral Agent shall, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, at the time any proceeds of such insurance are distributed to the Secured Creditors, apply such
proceeds in accordance with Section 7.4 hereof. Each Assignor assumes all liability and responsibility in connection with the Collateral acquired by it and the liability of such Assignor to pay the Obligations shall in no way be affected or
diminished by reason of the fact that such Collateral may be lost, destroyed, stolen, damaged or for any reason whatsoever unavailable to such Assignor.
  
 6.2.  Warehouse Receipts Non-Negotiable. To the extent practicable, each Assignor agrees that if any warehouse receipt or receipt in
the nature of a warehouse receipt is issued with respect to any of its Inventory, such Assignor shall request that such warehouse receipt or receipt in the nature
thereof shall not be “negotiable” (as such term is used in Section 7-104 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction or
under other relevant law).
  
 6.3.  Additional Information. Each Assignor will, at its own expense, from time to time upon the reasonable request of the
Collateral Agent, promptly (and in any event within 30 days after its receipt of the respective request) furnish to the Collateral Agent such information with respect to the Collateral (including the identity of the Collateral or such components thereof as may have been requested by the Collateral Agent, the value and location of such Collateral, etc.) as may be requested by the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the forgoing, each Assignor agrees that it shall promptly (and in any event within 30 days after its receipt of the respective request) furnish to the Collateral Agent such updated Annexes hereto as may from time to time be reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent.
  
 6.4.  Further
Actions. Each Assignor will, at its own expense and upon the reasonable
request of the Collateral Agent, make, execute, endorse, acknowledge, file and/or deliver to the Collateral Agent from time to time such lists, descriptions and designations of its Collateral, warehouse receipts, receipts in the nature of warehouse
receipts, bills of lading, documents of title, vouchers, invoices, schedules, confirmatory assignments, conveyances, financing statements, transfer endorsements, certificates, reports and other assurances or instruments and take such further steps
relating to the Collateral and other property or rights covered by the security interest hereby granted, which the Collateral Agent deems reasonably appropriate or advisable to perfect, preserve or protect its security interest in the
Collateral.
  
 6.5.  Financing Statements. Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, each Assignor agrees to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent such financing statements, in form reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, as the Collateral Agent may from time to time reasonably request or as are reasonably necessary or desirable in the opinion of the Collateral Agent to establish and maintain a valid, enforceable, perfected security interest in the Collateral as provided herein and the other rights and security contemplated hereby. Each Assignor will pay any applicable filing fees, recordation taxes and related expenses relating to its Collateral. Each Assignor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to file any such financing statements without the signature of such Assignor where permitted by law (and such authorization includes describing the Collateral as “all assets” of such Assignor).
  
 ARTICLE VII
  
 REMEDIES UPON OCCURRENCE OF AN EVENT OF DEFAULT

 
 7.1.  Remedies;
Obtaining the Collateral Upon Default. Each Assignor agrees that, if any
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then and in every such case, the Collateral Agent, in addition to any rights now or hereafter existing under
applicable law and under the other provisions of this Agreement, shall have all rights as a secured creditor under any UCC, and such additional rights and remedies
to which a secured creditor is entitled under the laws in effect in all relevant jurisdictions and, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, may:
  
 (i)  personally, or
by agents or attorneys, immediately take possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, from such Assignor or any other Person who then has possession of any part
thereof with or without notice or process of law, and for that purpose may enter upon such Assignor’s premises where any of the Collateral is located
and remove the same and use in connection with such removal any and all services, supplies, aids and other facilities of such Assignor;
  
 (ii)  subject to Section 3.3, instruct the obligor or obligors on any agreement, instrument or other obligation
(including, without limitation, the Accounts and the Contracts) constituting the Collateral to make any payment required by the terms of such agreement, instrument or other obligation directly to the Collateral Agent and may exercise
any and all remedies of such Assignor in respect of such Collateral;
  
 (iii)  instruct all banks which have entered into a control agreement with the Collateral Agent to transfer all
monies, securities and instruments held by such depositary bank to the Cash Collateral Account;
  
 (iv)  sell, assign or otherwise liquidate any or all of the Collateral or any part thereof in accordance with Section 7.2 hereof, or direct such Assignor to sell, assign or otherwise liquidate any or all of the Collateral or any part thereof, and, in each case, take possession of the proceeds of any such sale or liquidation;
  
 (v)  take possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, by directing such Assignor in writing to deliver the same to the Collateral Agent at any reasonable place or places designated by the Collateral Agent, in which event such Assignor shall at its
own expense:
  
 (x) forthwith cause the same to be moved to the place or places so designated by the Collateral Agent and there delivered to the Collateral Agent;
 

 (y) store and keep any Collateral so delivered to the Collateral Agent at such place or places pending further action by the Collateral Agent as provided in Section 7.2 hereof;
and
 

 (z) while the Collateral shall be so stored and kept,
provide such security and maintenance services as shall be reasonably necessary to protect the same and to preserve and maintain it in good condition;
 

 (vi)  so long as
the relevant Event of Default is a Noticed Event of Default license or sublicense, whether on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis, any Marks, Domain Names, Patents or Copyrights included in the Collateral for such term and on such conditions and in
such manner as the Collateral Agent shall in its sole judgment determine;
  
 (vii)  apply any monies constituting Collateral or proceeds thereof in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.4;
and
  
 (viii)  take any other action as specified in clauses (1) through (5), inclusive, of Section 9-607 of the UCC;
  
 it being understood that each Assignor’s obligation so to deliver the Collateral is of the essence of this Agreement and that, accordingly, upon application to a court of equity having jurisdiction, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to a decree requiring specific performance by such Assignor of said obligation. By accepting the benefits of this Agreement and each other Security Document, the Secured Creditors expressly acknowledge and agree that this Agreement and each other Security Document may be enforced only by the action of the Collateral Agent acting upon the instructions of the Required Secured Creditors and that no other Secured
Creditor shall have any right individually to seek to enforce or to enforce this Agreement or to realize upon the security to be granted hereby, it being understood and agreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised by the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors upon
the terms of this Agreement and the other Security Documents and subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
 

 7.2.  Remedies;
Disposition of the Collateral. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then any Collateral repossessed by the Collateral Agent under or
pursuant to Section 7.1 hereof and any other Collateral whether or not so repossessed by the Collateral Agent, may, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement, be sold, assigned, leased or otherwise disposed of under one or more contracts or as an entirety, and without the necessity of gathering at the place of sale the property to be sold, and in general in such manner, at such time or times, at such place or places and on such terms
as the Collateral Agent may, in compliance with any mandatory requirements of applicable law, determine to be commercially reasonable. Any of such Collateral may be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of, in the condition in which the same existed when taken by the Collateral Agent or after any overhaul or repair at the expense of the relevant Assignor which the Collateral Agent shall determine to be commercially reasonable. Any such sale, lease or other disposition may
be effected by means of a public disposition or private disposition, effected in accordance with the applicable requirements (in each case if and to the extent applicable) of Sections 9-610 through 9-613 of the UCC and/or such other mandatory requirements of applicable law as may apply to the respective disposition. The Collateral Agent may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private disposition or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed for the disposition, and such disposition may be made at any time or place to which the disposition may be so adjourned. To the extent permitted by any such requirement of law, the Collateral Agent may bid for and become the purchaser (and may pay all or any portion of the purchase price by crediting Obligations against the
purchase price) of the Collateral or any item thereof, offered for disposition in accordance with this Section 7.2 without accountability to the relevant Assignor.
If, under applicable law, the Collateral Agent shall be permitted to make disposition of the Collateral within a period of time which does not permit the giving of notice to the relevant Assignor as hereinabove specified, the Collateral Agent need give such Assignor only such notice of disposition as shall be required by such applicable law. Each Assignor agrees to do or cause to be done all such other acts and things as may be reasonably necessary to make such disposition or dispositions of all or any portion of the Collateral valid and binding and in compliance with any and all applicable laws, regulations, orders, writs, injunctions, decrees or awards of any and all courts, arbitrators or governmental instrumentalities, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over any
such sale or sales, all at such Assignor’s expense.
  
 7.3.  Waiver of Claims.
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, EACH ASSIGNOR HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NOTICE AND JUDICIAL HEARING IN CONNECTION WITH THE COLLATERAL AGENT’S TAKING POSSESSION OR THE COLLATERAL AGENT’S
DISPOSITION OF ANY OF THE COLLATERAL, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY AND ALL PRIOR NOTICE AND HEARING FOR ANY PREJUDGMENT REMEDY OR REMEDIES, and each Assignor hereby further waives, to the extent permitted by law:
  
 (i)  all damages
occasioned by such taking of possession or any such disposition except any damages which are the direct result of the Collateral Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and
non-appealable decision);
  
 (ii)  all other requirements as to the time, place and terms of sale or other requirements with respect to the
enforcement of the Collateral Agent’s rights hereunder; and
  
 (iii)  all rights of redemption, appraisement, valuation, stay, extension or moratorium now or hereafter in force
under any applicable law in order to prevent or delay the enforcement of this Agreement or the absolute sale of the Collateral or any portion thereof, and each Assignor, for itself and all who may claim under it, insofar as it or they now or
hereafter lawfully may, hereby waives the benefit of all such laws.
  
 Any sale of, or the grant of options to purchase, or any
other realization upon, any Collateral shall operate to divest all right, title, interest, claim and demand, either at law or in equity, of the relevant Assignor therein and thereto, and shall be a perpetual bar both at law and in equity against such Assignor and against any and all Persons claiming or attempting to claim the Collateral so sold, optioned or realized upon, or any part thereof, from, through and
under such Assignor.
 

 7.4.  Application of Proceeds. (a) (I) Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, all moneys collected by the Collateral Agent (or, to the extent the U.S. Pledge Agreement or any other Security Document requires proceeds of collateral thereunder, which constitutes Term Priority Collateral, to be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Pledgee under the U.S. Pledge Agreement or the collateral agent or
mortgagee under such other Security Document) upon any sale or other disposition of the Term Priority Collateral, together with all other moneys received by the Collateral Agent hereunder but subject to the provisions of following clauses (f) and (g), (or, to the extent the U.S. Pledge Agreement or any other Security Document requires proceeds of collateral thereunder, which constitutes Term Priority Collateral, to be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Pledgee under the U.S. Pledge Agreement or the collateral agent or mortgagee under such other Security Document) with respect thereto, shall be applied as follows:

 
 (i)  first, to the payment of all amounts owing by the respective Assignor the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent of the type described in clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of “Obligations”;
  
 (ii)  second, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clause (i), to the payment of all amounts owing by the respective Assignor to any
Agent of the type described in clauses (v) and (vi) of the definition of “Obligations”;
  
 (iii)  third, subject to
the provisions of following clauses (f) and (g), to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clauses (i) and (ii), an amount equal to
the outstanding Primary U.S. Borrower Obligations shall be paid to the Secured Creditors as provided in Section 7.4(d) hereof, with each Secured Creditor receiving an amount equal to its outstanding Primary U.S. Borrower Obligations or, if the
proceeds are insufficient to pay in full all such Primary U.S. Borrower Obligations, its Pro Rata Share of the amount remaining to be distributed;
  
 (iv)  fourth, subject to
the provisions of following clauses (f) and (g), to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clauses (i) through (iii), inclusive, an amount equal to the outstanding Primary German Borrower Obligations shall be paid to
the Secured Creditors as provided in Section 7.4(d) hereof, with each Secured Creditor receiving an amount equal to its outstanding Primary German Borrower Obligations or, if the proceeds are insufficient to pay in full all such Primary German
Borrower Obligations, its Pro Rata Share of the amount remaining to be distributed;
  
 (v)  fifth, subject to the provisions of the following clause (f), to the extent
proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (i) through (iv), an amount equal to the outstanding Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations shall be paid to the
Secured Creditors as provided in Section 7.4(d) hereof, with each Secured Creditor receiving an amount equal to its outstanding Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations or, if the proceeds are insufficient to pay in full all such Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations, its
Pro Rata Share of the amount remaining to be distributed;
  
 (vi)  sixth, subject to the provisions of the following clause (f), to the extent
proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (i) through (v), an amount equal to the outstanding Secondary German Borrower Obligations shall be paid to the
Secured Creditors as provided in Section 7.4(d) hereof, with each Secured Creditor receiving an amount equal to its outstanding Secondary German Borrower Obligations
or, if the proceeds are insufficient to pay in full all such Secondary German Borrower Obligations, its Pro Rata Share of the amount remaining to be distributed;
  
 (vii)  seventh, to the
extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clauses (i) through (vi), inclusive, if the ABL Credit Document Obligations Termination Date has
not theretofore occurred, amounts equal to the ABL Obligations shall be paid to the ABL Collateral Agent for application to the ABL Obligations in accordance with
sub-clauses fourth and fifth of Section 5.1(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement; and
  
 (viii)  eighth, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding
clauses (i) through (vii), inclusive, and following the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.8(a) hereof, to the relevant Assignor or to whomever
may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.
  
 Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained above, to the extent monies or proceeds to be applied pursuant to this Section 7.4 consist of proceeds received under any European Security Document (other than as otherwise provided in the Intercreditor Agreement, in the case of Pari Passu Collateral as defined therein), such proceeds will be applied as follows:
 

 (i)  first, to the payment of all amounts owing by a European Credit Party or the respective
Assignor owing to the Collateral Agent of the type described in clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of “Obligations”;
  
 (ii)  second, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding
clause (i), to the payment of all amounts owing by a European Credit Party or the respective Assignor(whether as direct obligor or as a guarantor) to any Agent of
the type described in clauses (v) and (vi) of the definition of “Obligations”;
  
 (iii)  third, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding
clauses (i) and (ii), an amount equal to the outstanding Primary German Borrower Obligations shall be paid to the Secured Creditors as provided in Section 7.4(d)
hereof, with each Secured Creditor receiving an amount equal to its outstanding Primary German Borrower Obligations or, if the proceeds are insufficient to pay in full all such Primary German Borrower Obligations, its Pro Rata Share of the amount remaining to be distributed;
  
 (iv)  fourth, to the
extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (i) through (iii), inclusive, an amount equal to the outstanding Secondary German
Borrower Obligations shall be paid to the Secured Creditors as provided in Section 7.4(d) hereof, with each Secured Creditor receiving an amount equal to its
outstanding Secondary German Borrower Obligations or, if the proceeds are insufficient to pay in full all such Secondary German Borrower Obligations, its Pro Rata Share of the amount remaining to be distributed; and
  
 (v)  fifth, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to the preceding clauses (i) through (iv), inclusive, and following the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.8(a) hereof, to the relevant Assignor or to whomever may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.
  

(II) Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement, all moneys collected by the Collateral Agent (or, to the extent the U.S. Pledge Agreement or any other Security Document requires proceeds of collateral thereunder, which constitutes ABL Priority Collateral, to be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Pledgee
under the U.S. Pledge Agreement or the collateral agent or mortgagee under such other Security Document) upon any sale or other disposition of the ABL Priority Collateral, together with all other moneys received by the Collateral Agent hereunder (or, to the extent the U.S. Pledge Agreement or any other Security Document requires proceeds of collateral thereunder, which
constitutes ABL Priority Collateral, to be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Pledgee under the U.S. Pledge Agreement or the collateral agent or mortgagee under such other Security Document) with respect thereto, shall be applied as follows:

 (vi)  first, in accordance with sub-clauses first and second of Section 5.2(a) of the Intercreditor Agreement, to the ABL Collateral Agent for application to ABL Obligations until same have been repaid in full;
  
 (vii)  second, to the extent proceeds remain after the application pursuant to preceding clause (i), as otherwise provided in Section 7.4(a)(I).
  
 (b)  For purposes
of this Agreement: (i) “Pro Rata Share” shall mean, when
calculating a Secured Creditor’s portion of any distribution or amount, that amount (expressed as a percentage) equal to a fraction the numerator of which is
the then unpaid amount of such Secured Creditor’s Primary U.S. Borrower Obligations, Primary German Borrower Obligations, Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations or Secondary German Borrower Obligations, as the case may
be, and the denominator of which is the then outstanding amount of all Primary U.S. Borrower Obligations, Primary German Borrower Obligations, Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations or Secondary German Borrower Obligations, as the case may be, (ii)
“Primary Obligations” shall mean (x) in the case of the Credit
Document Obligations, all unpaid principal of, premium, if any, fees and interest on, all Loans, (other than indemnities, fees (including, without limitation,
attorneys’ fees) and similar obligations and liabilities) and (y) in the case of the Other Obligations, all amounts due to an Other Creditor under each Secured
Hedging Agreement (other than indemnities, fees (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) and similar obligations and liabilities), (iii) “Secondary Obligations” shall mean all Obligations other than Primary Obligations, (iv) “Primary U.S.
Borrower Obligations” shall mean all Primary Obligations which are also
U.S. Borrower Obligations, (v) “Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations” shall mean all Secondary Obligations which are also U.S. Borrower
Obligations, (vi) “Primary German Borrower Obligations” shall mean all Primary Obligations which are also German Borrower Obligations and
(vii) “Secondary German Borrower Obligations” shall mean
all Secondary Obligations which are also German Borrower Obligations.
  
 (c)  When payments
to Secured Creditors are based upon their respective Pro Rata Shares, the amounts received by such Secured Creditors hereunder shall be applied
(for purposes of making determinations under this Section 7.4 only) (i) first, to their Primary Obligations and (ii) second, to their Secondary Obligations. If any payment to any Secured Creditor of its Pro Rata Share of any distribution would result in overpayment to such Secured Creditor,
such excess amount shall instead be distributed in respect of the unpaid Primary Obligations or Secondary Obligations, as the case may be, of the other Secured
Creditors, with each Secured Creditor whose Primary Obligations or Secondary Obligations, as the case may be, have not been paid in full to receive an amount equal to such excess amount multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the unpaid Primary Obligations or Secondary Obligations, as the case may be, of such Secured Creditor and the denominator of which is the unpaid Primary Obligations or Secondary Obligations, as the case may be, of all Secured Creditors entitled to such distribution.
  
 (d)  Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, all payments required to be made hereunder shall be made (x) if to the Lender Creditors, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender Creditors, (y) if to the Other Creditors, to the
trustee, paying agent or other similar representative (each, a “Representative”) for the Other Creditors or, in the absence of such a Representative, directly to the Other Creditors and (z) if to the ABL Secured Parties, to the ABL Collateral Agent for the account of the ABL Secured
Parties.
  
 (e)  For purposes of applying payments received in accordance with this Section 7.4, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely upon the Administrative Agent for a determination
of the outstanding Primary Obligations and Secondary Obligations (and Dollar Equivalents thereof) owed to the Secured Creditors. Unless it has received written
notice from a Secured Creditor, to the contrary, the Administrative Agent, in furnishing information pursuant to the preceding sentence, and the Collateral Agent, in acting hereunder, shall be entitled to assume that no Secondary Obligations are outstanding.
  
 (f)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, to the extent monies or proceeds to be applied pursuant to this Section 7.4 consist of proceeds received from a
sale or other disposition of Excess Exempted Foreign Entity Voting Stock, such proceeds will be applied as otherwise required above in this Section 7.4, but for this purpose treating the outstanding Primary Obligations and Secondary Obligations as only those obligations
secured by the Excess Exempted Foreign Entity Voting Stock in accordance with the provisions of clause (x) to the proviso appearing at the end of Section 3.1 of the U.S. Pledge Agreement and Section 1.1 above. In determining whether any Excess Exempted Foreign Entity Voting Stock has
been sold or otherwise disposed of, the Collateral Agent shall treat any sale or disposition of Voting Stock of any Exempted Foreign Entity as first being a sale of Voting Stock which is not Excess Exempted Foreign Entity Voting Stock until such time as the stock sold represents 65% of the total combined voting power of all classes of Voting Stock of the respective Exempted Foreign Entity and, after such threshold has been met, any further sales of Voting
Stock of the respective Exempted Foreign Entity shall be treated as sales of Excess Exempted Foreign Entity Voting Stock.
  
 (g)  It is understood that the Assignors shall remain jointly and severally liable to the extent of any deficiency
between the amount of the proceeds of the Collateral and the aggregate amount of the Obligations.
  
 (h)  It is understood and agreed by all parties hereto that the Collateral Agent shall have no liability for any
determinations made by it in this Section 7.4 (including, without limitation, as to whether given Collateral constitutes ABL Priority Collateral or Term Priority Collateral), in each case except to the extent resulting from the gross negligence or
willful misconduct of the Collateral Agent (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision). The parties also agree that the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be required to), at any time and in its sole discretion, and with no liability
resulting therefrom, petition a court of competent jurisdiction regarding any application of Collateral in accordance with the requirements hereof and of the Intercreditor Agreement, and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to wait for, and may conclusively rely on, any such determination.
  
 7.5.  Remedies
Cumulative. Subject to the terms of (and to the extent not inconsistent with)
the Intercreditor Agreement, each and every right, power and remedy hereby specifically given to the Collateral Agent shall be in addition to every other right,
power and remedy specifically given to the Collateral Agent under this Agreement, the other Secured Debt Agreements or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute and each and every right, power and remedy whether specifically herein given or otherwise existing may be exercised from
time to time or simultaneously and as often and in such order as may be deemed expedient by the Collateral Agent. All such rights, powers and remedies shall be
cumulative and the exercise or the beginning of the exercise of one shall not be deemed a waiver of the right to exercise any other or others. No delay or omission of the Collateral Agent in the exercise of any such right, power or remedy and no renewal or extension of any of the Obligations shall impair any such right, power or remedy or shall be construed to be a waiver of any Default
or Event of Default or an acquiescence thereof. No notice to or demand on any Assignor in any case shall entitle it to any other or further notice or demand in
similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of any of the rights of the Collateral Agent to any other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand. In the event that the Collateral Agent shall bring any suit to enforce any of its rights hereunder and shall be entitled to judgment, then in such suit the Collateral Agent may recover reasonable expenses, including reasonable
attorneys’ fees, and the amounts thereof shall be included in such judgment.
  
 7.6.  Discontinuance of Proceedings. In case the Collateral Agent shall have instituted any proceeding to enforce any right, power or remedy under this Agreement by foreclosure, sale, entry or otherwise, and such
proceeding shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Collateral Agent, then and in every such case the relevant Assignor, the Collateral Agent and each holder of any of the Obligations shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder with respect to the Collateral subject to the security interest created under this Agreement, and all
rights, remedies and powers of the Collateral Agent shall continue as if no such proceeding had been instituted.
  
 ARTICLE VIII
  
 INDEMNITY
  
 8.1.  Indemnity. (a) Each Assignor jointly and severally agrees to indemnify, reimburse and hold the Collateral Agent, each other Secured Creditor and their respective successors, assigns, employees, affiliates and agents (hereinafter in this Section 8.1 referred to individually as “Indemnitee,” and collectively as “Indemnitees”) harmless from any and all liabilities, obligations, damages, injuries, penalties,
claims, demands, actions, suits, judgments and any and all costs, expenses or disbursements (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) (for the purposes of this Section 8.1 the foregoing are collectively called “expenses”) of whatsoever kind and nature imposed on, asserted against or incurred by any of the Indemnitees in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, any other Secured Debt Agreement or any other document executed in connection herewith or therewith or in any
other way connected with the administration of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or the enforcement of any of the terms of, or the preservation of any rights under any thereof, or in any way relating to or arising out of the manufacture, ownership, ordering, purchase, delivery, control, acceptance, lease, financing, possession, operation, condition, sale, return or other disposition, or use of the Collateral (including, without limitation, latent or other defects, whether or not discoverable), the violation of the laws of any country, state or other governmental body or unit, any tort (including, without limitation, claims arising or imposed under the doctrine of strict liability, or for or on account of injury to or the
death of any Person (including any Indemnitee), or property damage), or contract claim; providedthat no Indemnitee shall be indemnified pursuant to this Section 8.1(a) for losses, damages or liabilities to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision); provided further that the Assignors shall not be required to reimburse the legal fees and
expenses of more than one outside counsel (in addition to any necessary or advisable special counsel and up to one local counsel in each applicable local jurisdiction) for all Indemnitees unless, in the written opinion of outside counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Assignors and the Collateral Agent,
representation of all such Indemnitees would be inappropriate due to the existence of an actual or potential conflict of interest. Each Assignor agrees that upon written notice by any Indemnitee of the assertion of such a liability, obligation, damage, injury, penalty, claim, demand, action, suit or judgment, the relevant Assignor shall assume full responsibility for the defense thereof. Each Indemnitee agrees to use its best efforts to promptly notify the relevant Assignor of any such assertion of which such Indemnitee has knowledge.
  
 (b)  Without
limiting the application of Section 8.1(a) hereof, each Assignor agrees, jointly and severally, to pay or reimburse the Collateral Agent for any and all reasonable
fees, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature incurred in connection with the creation, preservation or protection of the Collateral Agent’s Liens on, and security interest in, the Collateral, including, without limitation, all fees and taxes in connection
with the recording or filing of instruments and documents in public offices, payment or discharge of any taxes or Liens upon or in respect of the Collateral,
premiums for insurance with respect to the Collateral and all other fees, costs and expenses in connection with protecting, maintaining or preserving the Collateral and the Collateral Agent’s interest therein, whether through judicial
proceedings or otherwise, or in defending or prosecuting any actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or relating to the Collateral.
  
 (c)  Without
limiting the application of Section 8.1(a) or (b) hereof, each Assignor agrees, jointly and severally, to pay, indemnify and hold each Indemnitee harmless from and against any loss, costs, damages and expenses which such Indemnitee may suffer,
expend or incur in consequence of or growing out of any misrepresentation by any Assignor in this Agreement, any other Secured Debt Agreement or in any writing
contemplated by or made or delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Secured Debt Agreement.
  
 (d)  If and to the
extent that the obligations of any Assignor under this Section 8.1 are unenforceable for any reason, such Assignor hereby agrees to make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of such obligations which is permissible under
applicable law.
  
 8.2.  Indemnity Obligations Secured by Collateral; Survival. Any amounts paid by any Indemnitee as to which such Indemnitee has the right to reimbursement shall constitute Obligations secured by the Collateral. The indemnity obligations of each Assignor
contained in this Article VIII shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding the full payment of all of the other Obligations and notwithstanding the full
payment of all the Notes issued, and Loans made, under the Credit Agreement, the termination of all Secured Hedging Agreements entered into with the Other Creditors
and the payment of all other Obligations and notwithstanding the discharge thereof and the occurrence of the Termination Date.
  
 ARTICLE IX
  
 DEFINITIONS
  
 The following terms shall have the meanings herein
specified. Such definitions shall be equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.
  
 “ABL Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
  
 “ABL Credit Document Obligations Termination Date” shall mean that date upon which
the Discharge of ABL Obligations shall have occurred.
  
 “ABL Documents” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the Intercreditor
Agreement.
  
 “ABL Obligations” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the Intercreditor
Agreement.
  
 “ABL Priority Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
  
 “ABL Secured Parties” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
  
 “Account” shall mean any “account” as such term is defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York, and in any event shall include but shall not be limited to, all rights to payment of any monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (i)
for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned or otherwise disposed of, (ii) for services rendered or to be rendered, (iii) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (iv) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be
incurred, (v) for energy provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, (vii) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (viii) as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a State, governmental unit of a State, or person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a State or governmental unit of a State. Without limiting
the foregoing, the term “account” shall include all Health-Care-Insurance Receivables.
 

 “Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this Agreement.
  
 “Agreement” shall mean this U.S. Security Agreement, as the same may be amended, modified, restated and/or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 
 “Aleris” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this Agreement.
  
 “As-Extracted Collateral” shall mean “as-extracted collateral” as such term is defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Assignor” shall have the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
  
 “Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals to this Agreement.
  
 “Cash Collateral Account” shall mean a non-interest
bearing cash collateral account maintained with, and in the sole dominion and control of, the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors.

 
 “Chattel Paper” shall mean “chattel
paper” as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York. Without limiting the foregoing, the term “Chattel Paper” shall in any event include all Tangible Chattel Paper and all Electronic Chattel Paper.
  
 “Class” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.2 of this Agreement. 
 

 “Collateral” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.1(a) of this Agreement.
 

 “Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

 
 “Commercial Tort Claims” shall mean “commercial tort claims” as such term is defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof in the State of New York.
  
 “Contract Rights” shall mean all rights of any Assignor under each Contract, including, without
limitation, (i) any and all rights to receive and demand payments under any or all Contracts, (ii) any and all rights to receive and compel performance under any or
all Contracts and (iii) any and all other rights, interests and claims now existing or in the future arising in connection with any or all Contracts.

 
 “Contracts” shall mean all contracts between any Assignor and one or more additional parties
(including, without limitation, any Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Currency Hedging Agreements, licensing agreements and any partnership agreements, joint
venture agreements and limited liability company agreements).
  
 “Copyrights” shall mean any United States or foreign copyright now or hereafter
owned by any Assignor, including any registrations of any copyrights, in the United States Copyright Office or any foreign equivalent office, as well as any application for a copyright registration now or hereafter made with the United States Copyright Office or any foreign equivalent office by any Assignor.
  

“Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this
Agreement.
  
 “Credit Document Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in the definition
of “Obligations” in this Article IX.
  
 “Deposit Accounts” shall mean all “deposit accounts” as such term is
defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Discharge of ABL Obligations” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
  
 “Documents” shall mean “documents” as such term is defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Domain Names” shall mean all Internet domain names and associated URL addresses in or to which any
Assignor now or hereafter has any right, title or interest.
  
 “Electronic Chattel Paper” shall mean “electronic chattel paper” as
such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Equipment” shall mean any “equipment” as such term is defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York, and in any event, shall include, but shall not be limited to, all machinery, equipment, furnishings, fixtures and vehicles now or hereafter owned by any Assignor and any and all
additions, substitutions and replacements of any of the foregoing and all accessions thereto, wherever located, together with all attachments, components, parts, equipment and accessories installed thereon or affixed thereto.
  
 “Excess Exempted Foreign Entity Voting Stock”
shall have the meaning provided in the U.S. Pledge Agreement.

 
 “Excess Foreign Corporation Equity Interests” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.1(a).
  
 “Excluded Equipment” shall mean at any date any Equipment of an Assignor which is subject to, or secured
by, a Capital Lease Obligation or purchase money Indebtedness which is permitted under Section 8.04 of the Credit Agreement if and to the extent that (i) the express terms of a valid and enforceable restriction in favor of a Person who is not Aleris
or one of its Subsidiaries contained in the agreements or documents granting or governing such Capital Lease Obligation or purchase money Indebtedness prohibits, or requires any consent or establishes any other conditions for, an assignment thereof, or a grant of a security interest therein, by an Assignor and (ii) such restriction relates only to the asset or assets acquired by an Assignor with the Proceeds of such Capital Lease Obligation or purchase money
Indebtedness; providedthat all Proceeds paid or payable to any Assignor
from any sale, transfer or assignment or other voluntary or involuntary disposition of such Equipment and all rights to receive such Proceeds shall be included in
the Collateral to the extent not otherwise required to be paid to the holder of the Capital Lease Obligation or purchase money Indebtedness secured by such
Equipment.
  
 “Exempted Foreign Entity” shall have the meaning provided in the U.S. Pledge
Agreement.
  
 “Existing U.S. Security Agreement” shall mean the U.S. Security Agreement,
dated as of August 1, 2006, among certain of the Assignors, the Administrative Agent and Citicorp North America, Inc., as Collateral Agent.
  
 “Event of Default” shall mean (i) at any time when any Credit Document
Obligations are outstanding or any Commitments under the Credit Agreement exist, any Event of Default under, and as defined in the Credit Agreement and (ii) at any
time after all of the Credit Document Obligations have been paid in full and all Commitments under the Credit Agreement have been terminated and no further
Commitments may be provided thereunder, any event of default under any Secured Hedging Agreement or any payment default on any of the Obligations after the expiration of any applicable grace period.
  
 “Foreign Corporation” shall have the meaning provided in the U.S. Pledge Agreement.
  
 “General Intangibles” shall mean “general intangibles” as such term is
defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “German Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this
Agreement.
  
 “German Borrower Obligations” shall mean all Obligations of the European
Borrower and any guarantees thereof (including by U.S. Credit Parties) pursuant to the Guaranties or pursuant to any other Credit Document.
  
 “Goods” shall mean “goods” as such term is defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect on Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Health-Care-Insurance Receivable” shall mean any “health-care-insurance
receivable” as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Indemnitee” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.1(a) of this Agreement.
  
 “Instrument” shall mean “instruments” as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial
Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Inventory” shall mean merchandise, inventory and goods, and all additions,
substitutions and replacements thereof and all accessions thereto, wherever located, together with all goods, supplies, incidentals, packaging materials, labels, materials and any other items used or usable in manufacturing, processing, packaging or shipping same, in all stages of production from raw materials through work in process to finished goods, and all products and
proceeds of whatever sort and wherever located any portion thereof which may be returned, rejected, reclaimed or repossessed by the Collateral Agent from any Assignor’s customers, and shall specifically include all “inventory” as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Investment Property” shall mean “investment property” as such term is defined in the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof in the State of New York.
  
 “Lender Creditors” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this Agreement.
  
 “Lenders” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this
Agreement.
  
 “Letter-of-Credit Rights” shall mean “letter-of-credit rights” as such
term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date hereof in the State of New York.
  
 “Location” of any Assignor, shall mean such Assignor’s
“location” as determined pursuant to Section 9-307 of the UCC.
  
 “Marks” shall mean all right, title and interest in and to any trademarks, service marks and
trade names now owned or held or hereafter acquired by any Assignor, including any registration or application for registration of any trademarks and service marks
now owned or held or hereafter acquired by any Assignor, which are registered or filed for registration in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the
equivalent thereof in any state of the United States or any equivalent foreign office or agency, as well as any unregistered trademarks and service marks owned by an Assignor and any trade dress including logos, designs, fictitious business names and other business identifiers owned by any Assignor; provided,
however that the definition of Marks shall not include any intent-to-use
trademark applications to the extent a grant of a security interest therein would invalidate such intent to use the trademark application.
  
 “Non-Voting Equity Interests” shall have the meaning provided in the U.S. Pledge Agreement.
  
 “Noticed Event of Default” shall mean (i) an Event of Default under Section 9.01 or 9.05 of the Credit Agreement
and (ii) any other Event of Default in respect of which the Administrative Agent has given Aleris notice that such Event of Default constitutes a “Noticed
Event of Default”.
  
 “Obligations” shall mean and include, as to any Assignor, all of the
following:
 
 (i) the full and prompt payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness (including, without limitation, unpaid principal, premium, interest (including, without limitation, all interest that accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding of any
Assignor at the rate provided for in the respective documentation, whether or not a claim for post-petition interest is allowed in any such proceeding), fees, costs and indemnities) of
such Assignor to the Lender Creditors, whether now existing or hereafter incurred under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Credit Agreement and the other
Credit Documents to which such Assignor is a party (including, without limitation, in the event such Assignor is a Guarantor, all such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of such Assignor under its Guaranty) (all such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness under
this clause (i), except to the extent consisting of obligations or indebtedness with respect to Secured Hedging Agreements, being herein collectively called the “Credit Document Obligations”);
  
 (ii) the full and prompt payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness (including, without limitation, all interest that accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding
or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding of any Assignor at the rate provided for in the respective documentation, whether or not a claim for post-petition interest is allowed in any such proceeding) owing by such Assignor to the Other Creditors, now existing or hereafter
incurred under, arising out of or in connection with any Secured Hedging Agreement, whether such Secured Hedging Agreement is now in existence or hereinafter arising (including, without limitation, in the case of a Assignor that is a Guarantor, all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of such Assignor under its Guaranty in respect of the Secured Hedging Agreements), (all such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness under
this clause (ii) being herein collectively called the “Other Obligations”);
  
 (iii) any and all sums advanced by the Collateral Agent in order to preserve the Collateral or preserve its security
interest in the Collateral;
  
 (iv) in the event of any proceeding for the collection or enforcement of any indebtedness, obligations, or liabilities of
such Assignor referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, after an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the reasonable expenses of retaking,
holding, preparing for sale or lease, selling or otherwise disposing of or realizing on the Collateral, or of any exercise by the Collateral Agent of its rights
hereunder, together with reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs;
  
 (v) all amounts paid by any Indemnitee as to which such Indemnitee has the right to reimbursement under Section 8.1 of
this Agreement; and
  
 (vi) all amounts owing to any Agent or any of its affiliates pursuant to any of the Credit Documents in its capacity as
such;
  
 it being acknowledged and agreed that the
“Obligations” shall include extensions of credit of the types described above, whether outstanding on the date of this Agreement or extended from time to time after the date of this Agreement.
 
 

 “Other Creditors” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals to this Agreement.
  
 “Other Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of “Obligations” in this Article IX.
  
 “Patents” shall mean any patent in or to which any Assignor now or hereafter has any right, title or interest therein and any divisions and continuations (including, but not
limited to, continuations-in-parts), as well as any application for a patent now or hereafter made by any Assignor.
  
 “Permits” shall mean, to the extent permitted to be assigned by the terms thereof
or by applicable law, all licenses, permits, rights, orders, variances, franchises or authorizations of or from any governmental authority or agency.
  
 “Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, association, limited liability company, trust or other enterprise or any government or political
subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.
  
 “Primary German Borrower Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section
7.4(b) of this Agreement.
  
 “Primary Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.4(b) of this
Agreement.
  
 “Primary U.S. Borrower Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section
7.4(b) of this Agreement.
  
 “Pro Rata Share” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.4(b) of this
Agreement.
  
 “Proceeds” shall mean all “proceeds” as such term is defined in the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York on the Restatement Effective Date and, in any event, shall also include, but not be limited to, (i) any and all proceeds of any insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty payable to the
Collateral Agent or any Assignor from time to time with respect to any of the Collateral, (ii) any and all payments (in any form whatsoever) made or due and payable to any Assignor from time to time in connection with any requisition, confiscation,
condemnation, seizure or forfeiture of all or any part of the Collateral by any governmental authority (or any person acting under color of governmental authority) and (iii) any and all other amounts from time to time paid or payable under or in
connection with any of the Collateral.
  
 “Registered Organization” shall have the meaning provided in the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York.
  
 “Representative” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.4(d) of this
Agreement.
  
 “Required Secured Creditors” shall mean (i) at any time when any Credit Document
Obligations are outstanding or any Commitments under the Credit Agreement exist, the Required Lenders (or, to the extent provided in Section 11.12 of the Credit Agreement, each of the Lenders) and (ii) at any time after all of the Credit Document
Obligations have been paid in full and all Commitments under the Credit Agreement have been terminated and no further Commitments may be provided thereunder, the holders of a majority of the Other Obligations.
  
 “Requisite Creditors” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.2 of this Agreement.
  
 “Secondary German Borrower Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.4(b) of this Agreement.
  
 “Secondary Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.4(b) of this Agreement.
  
 “Secondary U.S. Borrower Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.4(b) of this Agreement.
  
 “Secured Creditors” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this Agreement.
  
 “Secured Debt Agreements” shall mean and include (i) this Agreement, (ii) the other Credit Documents, (iii) the Secured Hedging Agreements and (iv) the Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor
Agreement entered into by the Collateral Agent with an Other Creditor.
  
 “Secured Hedging Agreement” shall mean each Interest Rate Protection Agreement
and/or Other Hedging Agreements provided that (i) such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement expressly states that (x) it constitutes a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of this Agreement and the other
Credit Documents and (y) does not constitute a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of the ABL Credit Agreement, the ABL Security Documents or any guaranties relating to the ABL Credit Agreement, (ii) Aleris and the other parties
thereto shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent a written notice specifying that such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement (x) constitutes a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of this Agreement and
the other Credit Documents, (y) does not constitute a “Secured Hedging Agreement” for purposes of the ABL Credit Agreement, the ABL Security Documents or any guaranties relating to the ABL Credit Agreement and (z) in the case of Aleris,
that such Interest Rate Protection Agreement and/or Other Hedging Agreement and the obligations of Aleris and its Subsidiaries thereunder have been, and will be, incurred in compliance with this Agreement and (iii) such Other Creditor has become
party to the Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor Agreement with respect to the relevant Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Other Hedging Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
  
 “Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor
Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.14 of this Agreement.
  
 “Software” shall mean “software” as such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New
York.
  
 “Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any corporation more than 50% of
whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any class or classes of such corporation shall have
or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other
entity in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person has more than a 50% equity interest at the time.
  
 “Supporting Obligations” shall mean any “supporting obligation” as
such term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York, now or hereafter owned by any Assignor, or in which any Assignor has any rights, and, in any event, shall include, but shall
not be limited to all of such Assignor’s rights in any Letter-of-Credit Right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of, and all security for, any Collateral consisting of Accounts, Chattel Paper, Documents, General
Intangibles, Instruments or Investment Properties.
  
 “Tangible Chattel Paper” shall mean “tangible chattel paper” as such
term is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the Restatement Effective Date in the State of New York.
  
 “Term Priority Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
  
 “Termination Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.8(a) of this
Agreement.
  
 “Timber-to-be-Cut” shall mean “timber-to-be-cut” as such term is
defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof in the State of New York.
  
 “Trade Secret Rights” shall mean the rights of an Assignor in any Trade Secret it
holds.
  
 “Transmitting Utility” shall have the meaning given such term in Section
9-102(a)(80) of the UCC.
  
 “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the
relevant jurisdiction.
  
 “U.S. Borrower Obligations” shall mean all Obligations of the U.S. Borrower (but
not as a Guarantor of the German Borrower or any European Credit Party) and any guarantees of such Obligations pursuant to the Guaranties or pursuant to any other Credit Document.
  
 “U.S. Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals of this Agreement.
  
 “Vehicles” shall mean all cars, trucks, construction and earth moving equipment covered by a certificate of title law of any state (and where perfection of security interests
therein cannot be effected by filings under the UCC).
  
 “Voting Equity Interests” shall have the meaning provided in the U.S. Pledge
Agreement.
  
 ARTICLE X
  
 MISCELLANEOUS
  
 10.1.  Notices. Except as otherwise specified herein, all notices, requests, demands or other communications to or upon the respective parties hereto shall be sent or delivered by mail, telegraph, telex, telecopy, cable or courier service and all such notices and communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed, telexed, telecopied, or cabled or sent by courier, be effective when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company, cable company or overnight courier, as the case may be, or sent by telex or telecopier, except that notices and communications to the Collateral Agent or any Assignor shall not be effective until received by the Collateral Agent or such Assignor, as the case may be. All notices
and other communications shall be in writing and addressed as follows:
  
 (a)   if to any Assignor, c/o:
  
     Aleris International, Inc.,
     25825 Science Park Drive, Suite 400 
             Beachwood, OH 44122
     Attention: General Counsel 
             Telephone No.: (216) 910-3400 
             Telecopier No.: (216) 910-3650
  
 (b)   if to the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent, at:
  
     Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch
     60 Wall Street
     New York, NY 10005
     MS NYC 60-0208
     Attention: Marguerite Sutton
     Telephone No.: (212) 250-6150
     Telecopier No.: (212) 797-4655
  
 (c)        if to any Lender Creditor other than the Collateral Agent, at such address as such Lender Creditor shall have specified in the Credit Agreement
  
 (d)        if to any Other Creditor, at such address as
such Other Creditor shall have specified in writing to Aleris and the Collateral Agent;
  
 or at such other address or addressed to such other
individual as shall have been furnished in writing by any Person described above to the party required to give notice hereunder.
 

 10.2.  Waiver;
Amendment. None of the terms and conditions of this Agreement (or, to the
extent any other Security Document requires waivers or amendments thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, such other Security Document) may be changed, waived, modified or varied in any manner whatsoever unless in
writing duly signed by each Assignor (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires waivers or amendments thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the pledgor, transferor, mortgagor or other corresponding party under such other Security Document) directly affected thereby and the Collateral Agent (or, to the extent any other
Security Document requires waivers or amendments thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the collateral agent or mortgagee under such other Security Document) (with the written consent of the Required Secured Creditors) and subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement; provided, that, (i) subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, (x) additional Assignors may be added as parties hereto from time to time in accordance with Section 10.12 (or
the corresponding section in such other Security Document) without the consent of any other Assignor or of the Secured Creditors, and (y) Assignors may be
removed as parties hereto from time to time in accordance with Section 10.13 (or the corresponding section in such other Security Document), without the consent of any other Assignor or of the Secured Creditors, (ii) that any change, waiver, modification or
variance affecting the rights and benefits of a single Class of Secured Creditors (and not all Secured Creditors in a like or similar manner) also shall require the written consent of the Requisite Creditors of such affected Class and (iii) to the extent provided in the Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor Agreement, the consent of the Other Creditors to amendments, modifications and waivers described in the Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor Agreement
shall be required. For the purpose of this Agreement, the term “Class” shall mean each class of Secured Creditors, i.e., whether (x) the Lender Creditors as holders of the Credit Document Obligations, or (y) the Other Creditors as the holders of the Other Obligations. For the purpose of this Agreement, the term “Requisite Creditors” of any Class shall mean each of (x) with respect to the Credit Document Obligations,
the Required Lenders (or, to the extent provided in Section 11.12 of the Credit Agreement, each of the Lenders), and (y) with respect to the Other Obligations, the holders of at least a majority of all Other Obligations outstanding from time to
time.
  
 10.3.  Obligations Absolute. Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, the obligations of each Assignor hereunder shall remain in full force and effect without regard to, and shall not be impaired by, (a) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
arrangement, readjustment, composition, liquidation or the like of such Assignor; (b) any exercise or non-exercise, or any waiver of, any right, remedy, power or privilege under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Secured Debt Agreement; or (c) any amendment to or modification of any
Secured Debt Agreement or any security for any of the Obligations (in each case), whether or not such Assignor shall have notice or knowledge of any of the
foregoing.
  
 10.4.  Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in
the Collateral and shall (i) remain in full force and effect, subject to release and/or termination as set forth in Section 10.8, (ii) be binding upon each Assignor, its successors and assigns, provided however, that no Assignor shall assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior
written consent of the Collateral Agent (with the prior written consent of the Required Secured Creditors), and (iii) inure, together with the rights and remedies
of the Collateral Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Collateral Agent, the other Secured Creditors and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. All agreements, statements, representations and warranties made by each Assignor herein or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by such Assignor or on its behalf under this Agreement shall be
considered to have been relied upon by the Secured Creditors and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Secured Debt Agreements
regardless of any investigation made by the Secured Creditors or on their behalf.
  
 10.5.  Headings
Descriptive. The headings of the several sections of this Agreement are
inserted for convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or construction of any provision of this Agreement.
  
 10.6.  GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. (a) THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT
DOCUMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF
THIS AGREEMENT, EACH ASSIGNOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN
RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. EACH ASSIGNOR HEREBY FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH COURTS LACK
JURISDICTION OVER SUCH ASSIGNOR, AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT
BROUGHT IN ANY OF THE AFORESAID COURTS THAT ANY SUCH COURT LACKS JURISDICTION OVER SUCH ASSIGNOR. EACH ASSIGNOR FURTHER IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF
PROCESS OUT OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO ANY SUCH ASSIGNOR AT ITS ADDRESS
FOR NOTICES AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 10.1 ABOVE, SUCH SERVICE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE 30 DAYS AFTER SUCH MAILING. EACH ASSIGNOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION TO
SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS AND FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR
CLAIM IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING COMMENCED HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT THAT SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS WAS IN ANY WAY INVALID OR INEFFECTIVE. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THE COLLATERAL
AGENT UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, OR ANY SECURED CREDITOR, TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST ANY ASSIGNOR IN ANY OTHER
JURISDICTION.
  
 (b)  EACH ASSIGNOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO
THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT BROUGHT IN THE COURTS
REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (a) ABOVE AND HEREBY FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY SUCH COURT THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT
IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.
  
 (c)  EACH OF THE
PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR
THEREBY.
  
 10.7.  Assignors’ Duties. It is expressly agreed, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding, that each Assignor shall remain liable to perform all of the obligations, if any, assumed by it with respect to the Collateral and the Collateral Agent shall not have any obligations or liabilities with respect to any
Collateral by reason of or arising out of this Agreement, nor shall the Collateral Agent be required or obligated in any manner to perform or fulfill any of the obligations of any Assignor under or with respect to any Collateral.
  
 10.8.  Termination; Release. (a) After the Termination Date, this Agreement (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires termination or releases thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, such other Security Document) shall terminate (providedthat all indemnities set forth herein including, without limitation in Section 8.1 hereof,
shall survive such termination) and the Collateral Agent (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires termination or releases thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the collateral agent or mortgagee under
such other Security Document), at the request and expense of the respective Assignor (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires termination or releases thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the pledgor, transferor, mortgagor or other corresponding party under such other Security Document), will, subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, promptly execute and deliver to such Assignor a proper instrument or
instruments (including Uniform Commercial Code termination statements on form UCC-3) acknowledging the satisfaction and termination of this Agreement, and will duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such Assignor (without recourse and without any representation or warranty) such of the Collateral as may be in the possession of the Collateral Agent or any of its sub-agents hereunder and as has not theretofore been sold or otherwise applied or released pursuant to this Agreement. As used in this Agreement, “Termination Date” shall mean the date upon which the Total Commitment under the Credit Agreement has
been terminated, no Note (as defined in the Credit Agreement) is outstanding (and all Loans have been paid in full), all Obligations under Secured Hedging Agreements
and all other Obligations (other than indemnities under the Credit Documents and the Secured Hedging Agreements which are not then due and payable) have been paid in full and all Secured Hedging Agreements have been terminated.
  
 (b)  In the event
that any part of the Collateral (as defined in the Credit Agreement) is sold or otherwise disposed of (to a Person other than a Credit Party) (x) at any time prior
to the time at which all Credit Document Obligations have been paid in full and all Commitments under the Credit Agreement have been terminated, in connection with a
sale or disposition permitted by Section 8.06 of the Credit Agreement or is otherwise released at the direction of the Required Lenders (or all the Lenders if
required by Section 11.12 of the Credit Agreement) or (y) at any time thereafter, to the extent permitted by the other Secured Debt Agreements, and in the case of
clauses (x) and (y), and the proceeds of such sale or disposition (or from such release) are applied in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement or such
other Secured Debt Agreement, as the case may be, to the extent required to be so applied, the Collateral Agent, at the request and expense of Aleris, will duly release from the security interest created hereby (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires releases thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, from the security
interest created by such other Security Document) (and will execute and deliver such documentation, including termination or partial release statements and the like in connection therewith) and assign, transfer and deliver to Aleris, on behalf of the applicable Assignor (without recourse and without any representation or warranty) such of the Collateral (as defined in the Credit Agreement) as is then being (or has been) so sold or otherwise disposed of, or released, and as may be in the possession of the Collateral Agent (or any of its sub-agents hereunder) and has not theretofore been released pursuant to this Agreement. Furthermore, upon the release of any Guarantor from any Guaranty in accordance with the provisions thereof or in accordance with Section 11.12(b) of
the Credit Agreement, such Assignor (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires releases thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement, the assignor, grantor or pledgor under such other Security Document) (and the Collateral at such time assigned by the respective Assignor, grantor,
pledgor or assignor pursuant hereto or pursuant to such other Security Document) shall be released from this Agreement (or, to the extent any other Security Document requires releases thereunder to occur in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement, from such other Security Document).
  
 (c)  At any time that an Assignor desires that the Collateral Agent take any action to acknowledge or give effect to
any release of Collateral pursuant to the foregoing Section 10.8(a) or (b), such Assignor shall deliver to the Collateral Agent (and the relevant sub-agent, if any, designated hereunder) a certificate signed by a principal executive officer of such Assignor stating that the release of the respective Collateral is permitted
pursuant to such Section 10.8(a) or (b). At any time that any U.S. Borrower or the respective Assignor desires that a Subsidiary of such U.S. Borrower which has been released from the U.S. Subsidiaries Guaranty be released hereunder as provided in
the penultimate sentence of Section 10.8(b), it shall deliver to the Collateral Agent a certificate signed by a principal executive officer of such U.S. Borrower
and the respective Assignor stating that the release of the respective Assignor (and its Collateral) is permitted pursuant to such Section 10.8(b).
  
 (d)  The Collateral
Agent shall have no liability whatsoever to any other Secured Creditor as the result of any release of Collateral by it in accordance with, or which the Collateral
Agent believes to be in accordance with, this Section 10.8.
  
 10.9.  Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. A set of counterparts executed by all the parties hereto shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Collateral Agent.
  
 10.10.  Severability. Any provision of this Agreement which 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 other jurisdiction.
  
 10.11.  The Collateral Agent and the other Secured Creditors. The Collateral Agent will hold in accordance with this Agreement (and to the extent applicable, the Intercreditor Agreement) all items of the Collateral at any time received under this Agreement. It is expressly understood and agreed that the obligations of the Collateral Agent as holder of the Collateral and interests therein and with respect to the disposition thereof, and otherwise under this Agreement, are only those expressly set forth in this Agreement. The
Collateral Agent shall act hereunder on the terms and conditions set forth herein and in Annex M hereto, the terms of which shall be deemed incorporated herein by reference as fully as if same were set forth herein in their entirety.

 
 10.12.  Additional Assignors. It is understood and agreed that any Subsidiary Guarantor that
desires to become an Assignor hereunder, or is required to execute a counterpart of this Agreement after the Restatement Effective Date pursuant to the requirements
of the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, shall become an Assignor hereunder by executing a counterpart hereof and delivering same to the Collateral
Agent, or by executing a joinder agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (y) delivering supplements to Annexes A through D, inclusive, and F through I, inclusive, hereto as are necessary to cause such Annexes to be complete and accurate with respect to such additional Assignor on such date and (z) taking all actions as specified in this Agreement as would have been taken by such Assignor had it been an original party to this Agreement, in each case with all documents required above to be delivered to the Collateral Agent and with all documents and actions required above to be taken to the reasonable satisfaction of the Collateral Agent.
  
 10.13.  Amendment and Restatement. This Agreement shall amend and restate in its entirety the Existing U.S. Security Agreement, and all obligations of the Assignors thereunder shall be deemed replaced and extended as obligations under this Agreement and be governed hereby without novation.
  
 10.14.  Calculation of Obligations under Secured Hedging Agreements. Any calculation of obligations outstanding under a Secured Hedging Agreement for purposes of
this Agreement or any other Security Document shall be determined pursuant to the terms of the Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor Agreement dated as of December
19, 2006 among Aleris, the other grantors party thereto from time to time, the secured hedge counterparties party thereto from time to time and the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Secured Hedging Agreement Intercreditor Agreement”).
  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed and delivered by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
 
  
 
	 	 ALERIS INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
 
	 	 as
an Assignor
 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/ Michael D. Friday
 
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Executive Vice President and
 Chief Financial Officer

 
 

  
 
	 	 AURORA ACQUISITION MERGER SUB,
 INC., as an Assignor
 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/ Clive Bode
 
	 	 Name:
 	 Clive Bode
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Vice President

 
 

  
 
	 	 ALCHEM ALUMINUM, INC.
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALCHEM ALUMINUM SHELBYVILLE
 INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALERIS, INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALERIS OHIO MANAGEMENT, INC., 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALSCO METALS CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH OF CLEVELAND, INC., 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH OF WABASH, INC., 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC., 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALUMITECH, INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 AWT PROPERTIES, INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 CA LEWISPORT, LLC, as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 CI HOLDINGS, LLC, as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH ALUMINUM 
 CONCAST, INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH ALUMINUM 
 LEWISPORT, LLC, as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH ALUMINUM 
 METALS, LLC, as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH ALUMINUM SALES 
 CORPORATION, as an Assignor
  
 
	 	COMMONWEALTH ALUMINUM TUBE  ENTERPRISES, LLC, as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH ALUMINUM, LLC, 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH FINANCING CORP., 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 COMMONWEALTH INDUSTRIES, INC., 
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ETS SCHAEFER CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 GULF REDUCTION CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO INVESTMENT COMPANY,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF CALIFORNIA, INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF IDAHO INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF ILLINOIS INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF INDIANA INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF MICHIGAN L.L.C.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF OHIO INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING OF UTAH INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMCO RECYCLING SERVICES COMPANY,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 IMSAMET, INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ALERIS BLANKING AND RIM PRODUCTS,
 INC. (f/k/a INDIANA ALUMINUM INC.),
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 INTERAMERICAN ZINC, INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 METALCHEM, INC., as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 MIDWEST ZINC CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 ROCK CREEK ALUMINUM, INC.,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 SILVER FOX HOLDING COMPANY,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 U.S. ZINC CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 U.S. ZINC EXPORT CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 
	 	 WESTERN ZINC CORPORATION,
 as an Assignor
  
 

 
  
 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/ Michael D. Friday
 
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Director

 
  
    
 
   
  
 
 
   
 
 
 

 
	 	 IMCO INDIANA PARTNERSHIP L.P.,
 as
an Assignor
 
	 	 
	 	 By: IMCO International, Inc. its General
 
	 	 Partner,
 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/ Michael D. Friday
 
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 President

 
 

  
 
	 	 IMCO MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP L.P.,
 as an Assignor
 
	 	 
	 	 By: Aleris International, Inc. its General
 
	 	 Partner,
 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/ Michael D. Friday
 
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Executive Vice President and
 Chief Financial Officer

 
  
    
 
   
  
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
	 	 CORUS ALUMINUM CORP., 
 
	 	 as an Assignor
	 	 
	 	 HOOGOVENS ALUMINUM EUROPE INC.,
 
	 	 as
an Assignor
 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 By:
 	 /s/ Michael D. Friday
 
	 	 Name:
 	 Michael D. Friday
	 	 Title:
  
 	 Director

 
 

  
 

 Accepted and Agreed to:
  
 
	 DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
 	 
	 As Collateral Agent
 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 By:
 	 /s/  Carin Keegan
 	 
	     Name:  Carin Keegan
 	 	 
	     Title:    Vice President
 	 	 

 
  
 
	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 By:
 	 /s/  Scottye Lindsey
 	 
	     Name:  Scottye Lindsey
 	 	 
	     Title:    Director
 	 	 

  
  
 
  Accepted and Agreed to:

 
 
	 DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH,
 	 
	 As Administrative Agent
 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 By:
 	 /s/  Carin Keegan 
 	 
	     Name:  Carin Keegan
 	 	 
	     Title:    Vice President   
 	 	 

 
  
   
 
	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 By:
 	 /s/   Scottye Lindsey
 	 
	     Name:  Scottye Lindsey
 	 	 
	     Title:    Director

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