Document:

Exhibit 10.4

 

Execution Version

 

Reference
is made to the Intercreditor Agreement described below. Each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the security provided
hereby, (i) consents (or is deemed to consent), to the subordination of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii)
agrees (or is deemed to agree) that it will be bound by, and will take no actions contrary to, the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement, (iii) authorizes (or is deemed to authorize) the Collateral Trustee on behalf of such Person to enter into, and perform
under, the Intercreditor Agreement and (iv) acknowledges (or is deemed to acknowledge) that a copy of the Intercreditor Agreement
was delivered, or made available, to such Secured Party. 

 

Notwithstanding
any other provision contained herein, this Pledge Agreement, the Liens created hereby and the rights, remedies, duties and obligations
provided for herein are subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict
or inconsistency between the provisions of this Pledge Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement shall control.

 

SECOND LIEN PLEDGE
AGREEMENT

and irrevocable proxy

 

This SECOND LIEN PLEDGE
AGREEMENT AND IRREVOCABLE PROXY, dated as of March 12, 2015 (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified
from time to time, this “Pledge Agreement”), is made by Energy XXI USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Pledgor”),
in favor of U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as Collateral Trustee (as defined in the Indenture hereinafter described)
for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined below).

 

WITNESSETH :

 

A.         Energy XXI Gulf Coast,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (including its successors, the “Company”), will issue its 11.000% Senior Secured
Second Lien Notes due 2020 in an initial aggregate principal amount of $1,450,000,000, pursuant to an Indenture dated as of the
date hereof (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”)
by and among the Company, Energy XXI Ltd, Energy XXI USA, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (“Intermediate Holdco”), the Subsidiary Guarantors party thereto from time to time and
U.S. Bank National Association, as the Trustee (as defined therein).

 

B.        The Pledgor owns
100% of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Company and the Indenture requires the Pledgor to enter into this Pledge Agreement
and grant to the Collateral Trustee, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in the Collateral (as
hereinafter defined).

 

C.        In connection with
the Indenture, the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined in the Indenture), the Pledgor, the Trustee and the Collateral
Trustee are entering into that certain Collateral Trust Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented, amended
and restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Collateral Trust Agreement”), which sets
forth the terms on which the Collateral Trustee will receive, hold, administer, maintain, enforce and distribute the proceeds of
all liens upon any property of the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor or the Pledgor at any time held by the Collateral Trustee,
in trust for the benefit of the current and future holders of the Parity Lien Obligations (as defined in the Indenture), including
the Secured Parties.

 

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D.        Certain
Priority Lien Obligations and Junior Lien Obligations (each, as defined in the Indenture) may be outstanding from time to time
and, as such, to set forth the relative rights of the holders of the Priority Lien Obligations, the holders of the Junior Lien
Obligations and the holders of the Parity Lien Obligations (including the Secured Parties), The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, as
the Priority Lien Collateral Agent (as defined in the Indenture), and the Collateral Trustee are entering into that certain Intercreditor
Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time,
the “Intercreditor Agreement”).

 

E.        The board of directors
of the Pledgor has determined that the Pledgor’s execution, delivery and performance of this Pledge Agreement may reasonably
be expected to provide substantial benefit to the Pledgor, directly or indirectly, and are in the best interests of the Pledgor.

 

F.        The Pledgor has duly
authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Pledge Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE
I

DEFINITIONS

 

SECTION 1.1.   Certain
Terms. The following terms (whether or not underscored) when used in this Pledge Agreement, including its preamble and recitals,
shall have the following meanings (such definitions to be equally applicable to the singular and plural forms thereof):

 

“Capital Securities”
means, with respect to any Person, all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated, whether voting
or non-voting) of such Person’s capital (including all capital stock, partnership, membership or other equity interests in
such Person), whether or not certificated.

 

“Collateral”
is defined in Section 2.1.

 

“Collateral Trust
Agreement” is defined in the recitals.

 

“Company” is defined in the
recitals.

 

“Control Agreement”
means an authenticated record in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Trustee, that provides for the Collateral
Trustee to have “control” (as defined in the UCC) over certain Collateral.

 

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“Distributions”
means all cash, cash dividends, stock dividends, other distributions, liquidating dividends, shares of stock resulting from (or
in connection with the exercise of) stock splits, reclassifications, warrants, options, non-cash dividends, mergers, consolidations,
and all other distributions or payments (whether similar or dissimilar to the foregoing) on or with respect to, or on account of,
any Pledged Share or Pledged Interest or other rights or interests constituting Collateral.

 

“Indenture”
is defined in the recitals.

 

“Intercreditor
Agreement” is defined in the recitals.

 

“Obligor” means the Company
and each Guarantor.

 

“Organic Document”
means, relative to any Person, its certificate or articles of incorporation, articles and memorandum of association, by-laws, certificate
of partnership, partnership agreement, certificate of formation, limited liability agreement, operating agreement and similar or
comparable agreement or certificate, and all shareholder agreements, voting trusts and similar arrangements applicable to any of
such Person’s Capital Securities.

 

“Pledge Agreement”
is defined in the preamble.

 

“Pledged Interests”
means all Capital Securities or other ownership interests of the Company; all registrations, certificates, articles, bylaws, regulations,
limited liability company agreements or constitutive agreements governing or representing any such interests; all options and other
rights, contractual or otherwise, at any time existing with respect to such interests, as such interests are amended, modified,
or supplemented from time to time, and together with any interests in the Company taken in extension or renewal thereof or substitution
therefor.

 

“Pledged Property”
means all Pledged Interests, Pledged Shares, all assignments of any amounts due or to become due with respect to the Pledged Interests
or the Pledged Shares, all other instruments which are required to be delivered by the Pledgor to the Collateral Trustee under
this Pledge Agreement or any other Note Document, and all proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

“Pledged Shares”
means all certificates evidencing any Pledged Interests.

 

“Pledgor”
is defined in the preamble.

 

“second priority”
means Liens that (a) may be junior in priority to the Liens securing Priority Lien Obligations, to the extent permitted to be incurred
or to exist under the Intercreditor Agreement, and (b) are senior in priority to the Liens securing Junior Lien Obligations, to
the extent permitted to be incurred or to exist under the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

“Secured Obligations”
is defined in Section 2.2.

 

“Secured Parties”
means the Trustee, the Collateral Trustee, the Holders and each other holder of any Secured Obligation.

 

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“Securities Act”
is defined in Section 6.2(a).

 

“Termination Date”
means the earliest to occur of (a) the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture pursuant to Article 10 thereof, (b) Legal Defeasance
pursuant to Article 8 of the Indenture, (c) Covenant Defeasance pursuant to Article 8 of the Indenture, and (d) the date on which
all outstanding Secured Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash and discharged.

 

“UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the State of New York, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

SECTION 1.2. Indenture
Definitions. Unless otherwise defined herein or the context otherwise requires, terms used in this Pledge Agreement, including
its preamble and recitals, have the meanings provided in the Indenture.

 

SECTION 1.3. UCC Definitions.
Unless otherwise defined herein or the context otherwise requires, terms for which meanings are provided in the UCC are used in
this Pledge Agreement, including its preamble and recitals, with such meanings.

 

ARTICLE
II

SECURITY INTEREST

 

SECTION 2.1. Grant of
Security Interest. The Pledgor hereby pledges, hypothecates, assigns, charges, mortgages, delivers, and transfers to the Collateral
Trustee, for its benefit and the ratable benefit of each of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Trustee, for
its benefit and the ratable benefit of each of the other Secured Parties, a continuing security interest in, all of the following
property (collectively, the “Collateral”):

 

(a)     the Pledged
Shares;

 

(b)     the Pledged
Interests;

 

(c)     all other
Pledged Property;

 

(d)     all Distributions,
interest, and other payments and rights with respect to any Pledged Property; and

 

(e)     all proceeds
of any of the foregoing.

 

SECTION 2.2. Security
for Obligations. This Pledge Agreement and the Collateral secure the prompt and indefeasible payment in full and performance
of all Notes Obligations now or hereafter existing under this Pledge Agreement, the Indenture or any other Note Document, whether
for principal, interest, costs, fees, expenses or otherwise, howsoever created, arising or evidenced, whether direct or indirect,
primary or secondary, fixed or absolute or contingent, joint or several, or now or hereafter existing under this Pledge Agreement
and each other Note Document (as used herein, the “Secured Obligations”).

 

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SECTION 2.3.   
Delivery of Pledged Property.

 

(a)       All certificates
or instruments representing or evidencing any Collateral, if any, including all Pledged Shares, shall be delivered to and held
by or on behalf of the Collateral Trustee pursuant hereto, shall be in suitable form for transfer by delivery, and shall be accompanied
by all necessary endorsements or instruments of transfer or assignment, duly executed in blank.

 

(b)       To the
extent any of the Collateral constitutes an “uncertificated security” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC)
or a “security entitlement” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC), the Pledgor shall take and cause the
appropriate Person (including any issuer, entitlement holder or securities intermediary thereof) to take all actions necessary
to grant “control” (as defined in 8-106 of the UCC) to the Collateral Trustee over such Collateral.

 

SECTION 2.4.   Distributions
on Pledged Shares. In the event that any Distribution with respect to any Pledged Shares or Pledged Interests pledged hereunder
is permitted to be paid (in accordance with the Indenture), such Distribution or payment may be paid directly to the Pledgor.
If any Distribution is made in contravention of the Indenture, the Pledgor shall hold the same segregated and in trust for the
Collateral Trustee until paid to the Collateral Trustee in accordance with ‎Section
4.4.

 

SECTION 2.5.   Continuing
Security Interest; Transfer of Notes; Reinstatement.

 

(a)       This Pledge Agreement
shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (i) remain in full force and effect until the Termination
Date, (ii) be binding upon the Pledgor and its successors, transferees and assigns, and (iii) inure, together with the
rights and remedies of the Collateral Trustee hereunder, to the benefit of the Collateral Trustee and each other Secured Party
and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any Holder may assign
or otherwise transfer (in whole or in part) any Note held by it as provided in the Indenture and any successor or assignee thereof
shall thereupon become vested with all the rights and benefits in respect thereof granted to such Holder under each Note Document
(including this Pledge Agreement) to the extent contemplated by the Indenture. Upon the Termination Date, (i) the security interest
granted herein shall automatically terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the Pledgor and (ii) the Collateral
Trustee will, at the Pledgor’s sole expense, deliver to the Pledgor, without any representations, warranties or recourse
of any kind whatsoever, all certificates and instruments representing or evidencing all Pledged Shares and Pledged Interests,
together with all other Collateral held by the Collateral Trustee hereunder, and execute and deliver to the Pledgor such documents
as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.

 

(b)       If at any time all
or any part of any payment theretofore applied by the Collateral Trustee or any Secured Party to any of the Secured Obligations
is or must be rescinded or returned by the Collateral Trustee or any such Secured Party for any reason whatsoever (including, without
limitation, the insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding of the Pledgor or any other Person), such Secured
Obligations shall, for purposes of this Pledge Agreement, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded or returned,
be deemed to have continued to be in existence, notwithstanding any application by the Collateral Trustee or such Secured Party
or any termination agreement or release provided to the Pledgor, and this Pledge Agreement shall continue to be effective or reinstated,
as the case may be, as to such Secured Obligations, all as though such application by the Collateral Trustee or such Secured Party
had not been made. This Section 2.5(b) shall survive the Termination Date.

 

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SECTION 2.6.   Security
Interest Absolute, etc. This Pledge Agreement shall in all respects be a continuing, absolute, unconditional and irrevocable
grant of a security interest, and shall remain in full force and effect until the Termination Date. All rights of the Secured Parties
and the security interests granted to the Collateral Trustee (for its benefit and the ratable benefit of each other Secured Party)
hereunder, and all obligations of the Pledgor hereunder, shall, in each case, be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective
of (a) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of any Note Document, (b) the failure of any Secured Party (i) to
assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Pledgor or any other Obligor or any other Person under
the provisions of any Note Document or otherwise, or (ii) to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of,
or collateral securing, any Secured Obligations, (c) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term
of, all or any part of the Secured Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any Secured Obligations, (d) any
reduction, limitation, impairment or termination of any Secured Obligations (except in the case of the occurrence of the Termination
Date) for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to
(and the Pledgor hereby waives any right to or claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever
by reason of the invalidity, illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise, unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence
affecting, any Secured Obligations or otherwise, (e) any amendment to, rescission, waiver, or other modification of, or any consent
to or departure from, any of the terms of any Note Document, (f) any addition, exchange or release of any Collateral for the Secured
Obligations, or any surrender or non-perfection of any collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition to, or
consent to or departure from, any other guaranty held by any Secured Party securing any of the Secured Obligations, or (g) any
other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, the Pledgor or
any other Obligor, any surety or any guarantor.

 

SECTION 2.7.   Election
of Remedies. Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, if any Secured Party may, under applicable law, proceed to realize
its benefits under any of this Pledge Agreement or the other Security Documents, either by judicial foreclosure or by non-judicial
sale or enforcement, such Secured Party may, at its sole option, determine which of its remedies or rights it may pursue without
affecting any of its rights and remedies under this Pledge Agreement. If, in the exercise of any of its rights and remedies, any
Secured Party shall forfeit any of its rights or remedies, including its right to enter a deficiency judgment against any Obligor
or any other Person, whether because of any applicable laws pertaining to “election of remedies” or the like, the Pledgor
hereby consents to such action by such Secured Party and waives any claim based upon such action, even if such action by such Secured
Party shall result in a full or partial loss of any rights of subrogation that the Pledgor might otherwise have had but for such
action by such Secured Party.

  

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ARTICLE
III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

The Pledgor hereby represents
and warrants to the Collateral Trustee and each other Secured Party, as at the date hereof, as follows.

 

SECTION 3.1.  Reserved.

 

SECTION 3.2.  
Non-Contravention.   The execution, delivery and performance by the Pledgor of this Pledge Agreement do not contravene
the Pledgor’s Organic Documents.

 

SECTION 3.3.   Government
Approval, Regulation, etc. Except for filings to perfect and maintain the perfection of the Liens arising pursuant to the Security
Documents, no authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or other
Person (other than those that have been, or on the date hereof will be, duly obtained or made and that are, or on the date hereof
will be, in full force and effect) is required for (a) the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or the due
execution, delivery or performance by the Pledgor of this Pledge Agreement, (b) for the grant by the Pledgor of the security
interest granted hereby, (c) for the perfection or maintenance of the security interests hereunder, including the second priority
nature of such security interest, or the exercise by the Collateral Trustee of its rights and remedies hereunder, or (d) for
the exercise by the Collateral Trustee of the rights of control, possession, voting or other rights provided for in this Pledge
Agreement (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement), except (i) with respect to any Pledged Shares or Pledged Interests, as
may be required in connection with a disposition of such Pledged Shares or Pledged Interests by laws affecting the offering and
sale of securities generally, the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Pledge Agreement and (ii) any “change
of control” or similar filings required by state licensing agencies.

 

SECTION 3.4.   Validity,
etc. This Pledge Agreement and the other Note Documents to which the Pledgor is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Pledgor, enforceable against the Pledgor in accordance with their respective terms (except, in any case, as
such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’
rights generally and by principles of equity).

 

SECTION 3.5.   Ownership,
No Liens, etc. The Pledgor is the legal and beneficial owner of, and has good and defensible title to (and has full right and
authority to pledge, grant and assign) the Collateral, free and clear of all Liens and options, except for any Lien granted to
secure Secured Debt in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement, the Indenture and the other Note Documents.

 

SECTION 3.6.   Valid Security
Interest. The execution and delivery of this Pledge Agreement and the delivery of any Collateral to the Collateral Trustee
hereunder is effective to create a valid, perfected, second priority security interest in such Collateral and all proceeds thereof,
securing the Secured Obligations.

 

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SECTION 3.7.   As to the
Collateral.

 

(a)       With respect
to the Pledged Shares, all such Pledged Shares are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and represented
by a certificate.

 

(b)       With respect
to the Pledged Interests, no such Pledged Interests (i) are dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or in securities markets,
(ii) expressly provide that such Pledged Interests are securities governed by Article 8 of the UCC, or (iii) are held in a Securities
Account, except, with respect to this clause (b), Pledged Interests (A) for which the Collateral Trustee is the registered
owner or (B) with respect to which the Company has agreed in an authenticated record with the Pledgor and the Collateral Trustee
to comply with any instructions of the Collateral Trustee without the consent of the Pledgor.

 

(c)       The Pledgor
has delivered all Certificated Securities constituting Collateral held by the Pledgor on the date hereof to the Collateral Trustee,
together with duly executed undated blank stock powers, or other equivalent instruments of transfer reasonably acceptable to the
Collateral Trustee.

 

(d)       With respect
to any Uncertificated Securities constituting Collateral owned by the Pledgor, the Pledgor has caused the Company either (i) to
register the Collateral Trustee as the registered owner of such security, or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with the
Pledgor and the Collateral Trustee that the Company will comply with instructions with respect to such security originated by the
Collateral Trustee without further consent of the Pledgor.

 

(e)       All of
the Pledged Shares and Pledged Interests constitute one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding Capital Securities issued by
the Company (which is further described on Schedule I).

 

SECTION 3.8.  
Location of Pledgor and Records; Name; State of Incorporation; Etc. The Pledgor’s chief executive office and principal
place of business and the office where the records concerning the Collateral are kept is located at the address set forth on Schedule
II attached hereto, or such other address as the Collateral Trustee has received 15 days’ prior written notice. The true
legal name of the Pledgor as registered in the jurisdiction in which the Pledgor is organized, formed or incorporated, state of
incorporation or organization, and organizational identification number as designated by the state of its incorporation or organization
are as set forth on Schedule II attached hereto, and the Pledgor is not now known by any trade name. The Pledgor has not
been known by any legal name different from the one set forth on the signature page hereto, nor has the Pledgor been the subject
of any merger or other corporate reorganization.

 

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ARTICLE
IV

COVENANTS

 

The Pledgor covenants and
agrees that, until the Termination Date, it will perform, comply with and be bound by the obligations set forth below.

 

SECTION 4.1.   Protect
Collateral; Further Assurances, etc. The Pledgor will not sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise), transfer, pledge,
encumber in any other manner or otherwise dispose of the Collateral (except as permitted by the Indenture). The Pledgor shall warrant
and defend the right and title herein granted unto the Collateral Trustee in and to the Collateral (and all right, title and interest
represented by the Collateral) against the claims and demands of all Persons whomsoever. The Pledgor agrees that at any time, and
from time to time, at the expense of the Pledgor, the Pledgor will promptly execute and deliver all further instruments, and take
all further action, that may be necessary or desirable, or that the Collateral Trustee may reasonably request, in order to perfect,
preserve and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable the Collateral Trustee to exercise
and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral. The Pledgor shall not enter into any amendment or
supplement to, or modification or waiver of, any term or provision of any Organic Document of the Pledgor or the Company, which
could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the interests of the Collateral Trustee and the other Secured Parties.
The Pledgor shall provide, or cause the Company to provide, the Collateral Trustee with a copy of any amendment or supplement to,
or modification or waiver of, any term or provision of any of Organic Document of the Company. The Pledgor agrees that, upon the
acquisition after the date hereof by the Pledgor of any Collateral, with respect to which the security interest granted hereunder
is not perfected automatically upon such acquisition, to take such actions with respect to such Collateral or any part thereof
as required by the Note Documents.

 

SECTION 4.2.  
Instruments of Transfer, etc. The Pledgor agrees that all Pledged Shares (and all other certificated shares of Capital Securities
constituting Collateral) delivered by the Pledgor pursuant to this Pledge Agreement will be accompanied by duly endorsed undated
blank stock powers, or other equivalent instruments of transfer reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Trustee. The Pledgor will,
from time to time upon the request of the Collateral Trustee, promptly deliver to the Collateral Trustee such stock powers, instruments
and similar documents, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Collateral Trustee, with respect to the Collateral
as the Collateral Trustee may reasonably request and will, from time to time upon the request of the Collateral Trustee after the
occurrence of any Default, promptly transfer any Pledged Shares, Pledged Interests or other shares of Capital Securities constituting
Collateral into the name of any nominee designated by the Collateral Trustee, but subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

SECTION 4.3.  
Continuous Pledge. The Pledgor shall, at all times, keep pledged to the Collateral Trustee pursuant hereto, on a second
priority, perfected basis, all Pledged Shares, all Pledged Interests all other Pledged Property constituting Collateral, and all
other Collateral and rights from time to time received by or distributable to the Pledgor in respect of any Collateral. The Pledgor
agrees that it will, promptly (but in any event no later than seven Business Days) following receipt thereof, deliver to the Collateral
Trustee possession of all originals of Pledged Interests, Pledged Shares and any other Pledged Property that it acquires following
the date hereof and shall deliver to the Collateral Trustee a supplement to Schedule I identifying any such new Pledged
Interests, Pledged Shares or other Pledged Property.

 

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SECTION 4.4.  
Voting Rights; Distributions, etc. The Pledgor agrees:

 

(a)       that promptly
upon receipt of notice of the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default from the Collateral Trustee and without any request
therefor by the Collateral Trustee, so long as such Event of Default shall continue, to deliver (properly endorsed where required
hereby or requested by the Collateral Trustee) to the Collateral Trustee, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, all Distributions
with respect to the Collateral and all Proceeds of the Collateral, all of which shall be held by the Collateral Trustee as additional
Collateral;

 

(b)       that,
with respect to Collateral consisting of general partner interests, limited partner interests or limited liability company interests,
promptly upon receipt of notice of the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default from the Collateral Trustee and of the
Collateral Trustee’s intention to exercise its voting power under ‎Section 4.4(c)
the Pledgor shall modify the applicable Organic Documents to admit the Collateral Trustee as a general partner, limited partner
or member, as applicable; and

 

(c)       if an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Collateral Trustee has notified the Pledgor of the Collateral Trustee’s
intention to exercise its voting power under this ‎Section 4.4(c),

 

(i)       the Collateral
Trustee may exercise (to the exclusion of the Pledgor) the voting power and all other incidental rights of ownership with respect
to any Pledged Shares, or other Capital Securities constituting Collateral and THE PLEDGOR HEREBY GRANTS THE COLLATERAL TRUSTEE
AN IRREVOCABLE PROXY (WHICH IRREVOCABLE PROXY SHALL CONTINUE IN EFFECT UNTIL THE TERMINATION DATE) EXERCISABLE UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES,
TO VOTE THE PLEDGED SHARES, PLEDGED INTERESTS AND SUCH OTHER COLLATERAL; AND

 

(ii)       promptly
to deliver to the Collateral Trustee such additional proxies and other documents as may be necessary to allow the Collateral Trustee
to exercise such voting power.

 

All Distributions, interest,
principal, cash payments and Proceeds that may at any time and from time to time be held by the Pledgor but which the Pledgor is
then obligated to deliver to the Collateral Trustee, shall, until delivery to the Collateral Trustee, be held by the Pledgor separate
and apart from its other property in trust for the Collateral Trustee. The Collateral Trustee agrees that unless a Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Collateral Trustee shall have given the notice referred to in ‎Section
4.4(c), the Pledgor shall have the exclusive voting power, and is granted a proxy, with respect to any Capital Securities (including
any of the Pledged Shares) constituting Collateral. The Collateral Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Pledgor, promptly
deliver such proxies and other documents, if any, as shall be reasonably requested by the Pledgor which are necessary to allow
the Pledgor to exercise that voting power with respect to any such Capital Securities (including any of the Pledged Shares) constituting
Collateral; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast, or consent, waiver, or ratification given, or action taken by the Pledgor
that would violate any provision of the Indenture or any other Note Document (including this Pledge Agreement).

 

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SECTION 4.5.   Disposition
of Collateral; Issuance of Additional Stock or Equity Interests; Etc. The Pledgor shall not allow or permit the Company:

 

(a)       to the
extent it is a corporation, business trust, joint stock company or similar Person, to issue Uncertificated Securities, unless the
Pledgor causes the Company to either (i) register the Collateral Trustee as the registered owner thereof on the books and records
of the Company, or (ii) execute a Control Agreement relating to such Uncertificated Securities pursuant to which the Company agrees
to comply with the Collateral Trustee’s instructions with respect to such Uncertificated Securities without further consent
by the Pledgor;

 

(b)       to the
extent it is a partnership or limited liability company, to (i) issue Capital Securities that are to be dealt in or traded on securities
exchanges or in securities markets, (ii) expressly provide in its Organic Documents that its Capital Securities are securities
governed by Article 8 of the UCC, or (iii) place the Company’s Capital Securities in a Securities Account, unless such Person
promptly takes the actions set forth in clause (a)(i) or (ii) above with respect to any such Capital Securities, and

 

(c)       to issue
Capital Securities in addition to or in substitution for the Pledged Property or any other Capital Securities pledged hereunder,
except for additional Capital Securities issued to the Pledgor; provided that (i) such Capital Securities is immediately
pledged and delivered to the Collateral Trustee, and (ii) Pledgor delivers a supplement to Schedule I to the Collateral
Trustee identifying such new Capital Securities as Pledged Property, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Pledge Agreement.

 

The Pledgor shall not permit
the Company to issue any warrants, options, contracts or other commitments or other securities that are convertible to any of the
foregoing or that entitle any Person to purchase any of the foregoing, and except for this Pledge Agreement or any agreement in
respect of Secured Debt compliant with the Intercreditor Agreement, shall not, and shall not permit the Company to, enter into
any agreement creating any restriction or condition upon the transfer, voting or control of any Pledged Property.

 

SECTION 4.6.   Reserved.

 

SECTION 4.7.   State of
Incorporation, Formation or Organization, etc. The Pledgor shall not change its state of incorporation, formation or organization
or its name, identity, organizational identification number or corporate structure unless the Pledgor shall have (a) given
the Collateral Trustee at least fifteen (15) days’ prior notice of such change and (b) taken all actions necessary or as
requested by the Collateral Trustee to ensure that the Liens on the Collateral granted in favor of the Collateral Trustee for the
benefit of the Secured Parties remain perfected, second priority Liens.

 

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SECTION 4.8.   Filings.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Pledgor hereby authorizes the Collateral Trustee (a) to file any and all
Uniform Commercial Code financing statements with respect to the Collateral describing the collateral as “all equity interests”
or words of similar import, and (b) to file any and all Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, and continuations thereof
and amendments thereto, and other similar documents necessary or desirable in the opinion of the Collateral Trustee to perfect
or maintain the perfection of the Collateral Trustee’s or any Secured Party’s security interest in the Collateral
or any portion thereof, in each of the foregoing cases, without the signature and without further authorization of the Pledgor.
The authorization contained in this ‎Section 4.8 shall be irrevocable and continuing
until the Termination Date. The Pledgor agrees that a carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Pledge Agreement or any
UCC financing statement covering the Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a UCC financing statement where permitted
by law.

 

ARTICLE
V

THE COLLATERAL TRUSTEE

 

SECTION 5.1.   Collateral
Trustee Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. The Pledgor hereby irrevocably appoints the Collateral Trustee its attorney-in-fact, with
full authority in the place and stead of the Pledgor and in the name of the Pledgor or otherwise, from time to time in the Collateral
Trustee’s discretion, following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to take any action and
to execute any instrument, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, which the Collateral Trustee may deem necessary or advisable
to accomplish the purposes of this Pledge Agreement, including (a) to ask, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compromise, receive
and give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect of any of the Collateral, (b) to receive,
endorse, and collect any drafts or other Instruments, Documents and Chattel Paper, in connection with clause (a) above,
(c) to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings which the Collateral Trustee may deem necessary or desirable
for the collection of any of the Collateral or otherwise to enforce the rights of the Collateral Trustee with respect to any of
the Collateral, and (d) to perform the affirmative obligations of the Pledgor hereunder. THE PLEDGOR HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES, CONSENTS
AND AGREES THAT THE POWER OF ATTORNEY GRANTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION 5.1 IS IRREVOCABLE AND COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST AND
SHALL BE EFFECTIVE UNTIL THE TERMINATION DATE.

 

SECTION 5.2.   Collateral
Trustee May Perform. The powers conferred on the Collateral Trustee hereunder are solely to protect its interest (on behalf
of the Secured Parties) in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty on it to exercise any such powers. Except for reasonable
care of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral Trustee
shall have no duty as to any Collateral or responsibility for (a) ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions,
exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters relative to any Pledged Property, whether or not the Collateral Trustee has or
is deemed to have knowledge of such matters or (b) taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other
rights pertaining to any Collateral.

 

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SECTION 5.3.   Collateral
Trustee Has No Duty.

 

(a)       The powers
conferred on the Collateral Trustee hereunder are solely to protect its interest (on behalf of the Secured Parties) in the Collateral
and shall not impose any duty on it to exercise any such powers. Except for reasonable care of any Collateral in its possession
and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral Trustee shall have no duty as to any Collateral
or responsibility for (a) ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other
matters relative to any Pledged Property, whether or not the Collateral Trustee has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters
or (b) taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral.

 

(b)       Anything
contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Collateral Trustee may from time to time, when the Collateral Trustee deems
it to be necessary, appoint one or more subagents (each a “Subagent”) for the Collateral Trustee hereunder with
respect to all or any part of the Collateral (and shall notify the Pledgor and the Priority Lien Collateral Agent; provided,
that the failure to so notify the Pledgor and/or the Priority Lien Collateral Agent shall not affect the provisions of this Section
5.3(b)). In the event that the Collateral Trustee so appoints any Subagent with respect to any Collateral, (i) the assignment
and pledge of such Collateral and the security interest granted in such Collateral by the Pledgor hereunder shall be deemed for
purposes of this Pledge Agreement to have been made to such Subagent, in addition to the Collateral Trustee, for the ratable benefit
of the Secured Parties, as security for the Secured Obligations, (ii) such Subagent shall automatically be vested, in addition
to the Collateral Trustee, with all rights, powers, privileges, interests, obligations and remedies of the Collateral Trustee hereunder
with respect to such Collateral, and (iii) the term “Collateral Trustee,” when used herein in relation to any rights,
powers, privileges, interests, obligations and remedies of the Collateral Trustee with respect to such Collateral, shall include
such Subagent; provided, however, that no such Subagent shall be authorized to take any action with respect to any
such Collateral unless and except to the extent expressly authorized in writing by the Collateral Trustee.

 

SECTION 5.4.   Reasonable
Care. The Collateral Trustee is required to exercise reasonable care in the custody and preservation of any of the Collateral
in its possession; provided, that the Collateral Trustee shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation
of any of the Collateral (a) if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which the Collateral Trustee
accords its own personal property, or (b) if the Collateral Trustee takes such action for that purpose as the Pledgor reasonably
requests in writing at times other than upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default; provided,
further that failure of the Collateral Trustee to comply with any such request at any time shall not in itself be deemed
a failure to exercise reasonable care.

 

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SECTION 5.5.   Collateral
Trust Agreement Controls. Subject to Section 7.11, in the event
of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement and this Article V, the provisions
of the Collateral Trust Agreement shall control.

 

ARTICLE
VI

REMEDIES

 

SECTION 6.1.   Certain
Remedies. Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

 

(a)       The Collateral
Trustee may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise available
to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under the UCC (whether or not the UCC applies to the affected
Collateral) and also may (i) take possession of any Collateral not already in its possession without demand and without legal process
and (ii) without notice except as specified below, sell the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or
private sale, at any of the Collateral Trustee’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, and upon such other terms as the Collateral
Trustee may deem commercially reasonable. The Pledgor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at least
ten days’ prior notice to the Pledgor of the time and place of any public sale or the time of any private sale is to be made
shall constitute reasonable notification; provided, however, that with respect to Collateral that is of a type customarily sold
on a recognized market, no notice of sale or disposition need be given. For purposes of this ‎Article
VI, notice of any intended sale or disposition of any Collateral may be given by first-class mail, hand-delivery (through a
delivery service or otherwise), facsimile or email, and shall be deemed to have been “sent” upon deposit in the U.S.
Mails with adequate postage properly affixed, upon delivery to an express delivery service or upon electronic submission through
telephonic or internet services, as applicable. The Collateral Trustee shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless
of notice of sale having been given. The Collateral Trustee may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement
at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was
so adjourned.

 

(b)       The Collateral
Trustee may do any or all of the following: (i) transfer all or any part of the Collateral into the name of the Collateral Trustee
or its nominee, with or without disclosing that such Collateral is subject to the Lien hereunder, (ii) notify the parties obligated
on any of the Collateral to make payment to the Collateral Trustee of any amount due or to become due thereunder, (iii) enforce
collection of any of the Collateral by suit or otherwise, and surrender, release or exchange all or any part thereof, or compromise
or extend or renew for any period (whether or not longer than the original period) any obligations of any nature of any party with
respect thereto, (iv) endorse any checks, drafts, or other writings in the Pledgor’s name to allow collection of the Collateral,
(v) take control of any Proceeds of the Collateral, and (vi) execute (in the name, place and stead of the Pledgor) endorsements,
assignments, stock powers and other instruments of conveyance or transfer with respect to all or any of the Collateral.

 

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SECTION 6.2.   Securities
Laws. If the Collateral Trustee shall determine to exercise its right to sell all or any of the Collateral pursuant to ‎Section
6.1, the Pledgor agrees that, upon request of the Collateral Trustee, the Pledgor will, at its own expense:

 

(a)       execute
and deliver, and cause the Company and the directors and officers thereof to execute and deliver, all such instruments and documents,
and do or cause to be done all such other acts and things, as may be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral
Trustee, advisable to register such Collateral under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as from time to time amended
(the “Securities Act”), and cause the registration statement relating thereto to become effective and to remain
effective for such period as prospectuses are required by law to be furnished, and to make all amendments and supplements thereto
and to the related prospectus which, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Trustee, are necessary or advisable, all in conformity
with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC applicable thereto;

 

(b)       use its
reasonable efforts to exempt the Collateral under the state securities or “Blue Sky” laws and to obtain all necessary
Governmental Approvals for the sale of the Collateral, as requested by the Collateral Trustee;

 

(c)       cause
the Company to make available to its security holders, as soon as practicable, an earnings statement that will satisfy the provisions
of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act; and

 

(d)       do or
cause to be done all such other acts and things as may be reasonably necessary to make such sale of the Collateral or any part
thereof valid and binding and in compliance with applicable law.

 

The Pledgor acknowledges the impossibility
of ascertaining the amount of damages that would be suffered by the Collateral Trustee or the Secured Parties by reason of the
failure by the Pledgor to perform any of the covenants contained in this Section 6.2 and consequently agrees that, if the
Pledgor shall fail to perform any of such covenants, it shall pay, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, an amount equal
to the value (as reasonably determined by the Collateral Trustee in good faith) of such Collateral on the date the Collateral Trustee
shall demand compliance with this ‎Section 6.2, in which event, the Collateral
Trustee shall transfer and assign any such Collateral in its possession to the Pledgor promptly following receipt of such damages.

 

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SECTION 6.3.   Compliance
with Restrictions. The Pledgor agrees that in any sale of any of the Collateral whenever an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Collateral Trustee is hereby authorized to comply with any limitation or restriction in connection with
such sale as it may be advised by counsel is necessary in order to avoid any violation of applicable law (including compliance
with such procedures as may restrict the number of prospective bidders and purchasers, require that such prospective bidders and
purchasers have certain qualifications, and restrict such prospective bidders and purchasers to Persons who will represent and
agree that they are purchasing for their own account for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale of such Collateral),
or in order to obtain any required approval of the sale or of the purchaser by any governmental authority, and the Pledgor further
agrees that such compliance shall not result in such sale being considered or deemed not to have been made in a commercially reasonable
manner, nor shall the Collateral Trustee be liable nor accountable to the Pledgor for any discount allowed by the reason of the
fact that such Collateral is sold in compliance with any such limitation or restriction.

 

SECTION 6.4.   Application
of Proceeds. All cash Proceeds received by the Collateral Trustee in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization
upon, all or any part of the Collateral shall be applied by the Collateral Trustee in accordance with Section 3.4 of the Collateral
Trust Agreement. The Collateral Trustee shall not be obligated to apply or pay over for application noncash proceeds of collection
or enforcement unless (a) the failure to do so would be commercially unreasonable, and (b) the affected party has provided the
Collateral Trustee with a written demand to apply or pay over such noncash proceeds on such basis.

 

SECTION 6.5.   Warranties.
The Collateral Trustee may sell the Collateral without giving any warranties or representations as to the Collateral. The Collateral
Trustee may disclaim any warranties of title or the like. The Pledgor agrees that this procedure will not be considered to adversely
affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.

 

ARTICLE
VII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

SECTION 7.1.   Note Document.
This Pledge Agreement is a Note Document executed pursuant to the Indenture and shall (unless otherwise expressly indicated herein)
be construed, administered and applied in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof.

 

SECTION 7.2.   Binding
on Successors, Transferees and Assigns; Assignment. This Pledge Agreement shall remain in full force and effect until the Termination
Date has occurred, shall be binding upon the Pledgor and its successors, transferees and assigns and shall inure to the benefit
of and be enforceable by each Secured Party and its successors, transferees and assigns; provided that the Pledgor shall
not (unless otherwise expressly permitted under the terms of the Indenture or this Pledge Agreement) assign any of its obligations
hereunder.

 

SECTION 7.3.   Amendments,
etc. No amendment to or waiver of any provision of this Pledge Agreement nor consent to any departure by the Pledgor from its
obligations under this Pledge Agreement shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Collateral
Trustee in accordance with the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Pledgor and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only
in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.

 

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SECTION 7.4.   Notices.
Except as otherwise provided in this Pledge Agreement, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in
writing or by facsimile and addressed, delivered or transmitted to the appropriate party at the address or facsimile number of
such party specified on the signature pages of this Pledge Agreement or at such other address or facsimile number as may be designated
by such party in a notice to the other party (in accordance with the procedures specified in the Indenture).

 

SECTION 7.5.   Release
of Liens. The security interests granted herein shall be released (a) in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.4 of the Collateral
Trust Agreement and (b) automatically upon the occurrence of the Termination Date. Upon any such release, the Collateral Trustee
will, at the Pledgor’s sole expense, deliver to the Pledgor, without any representations, warranties or recourse of any kind
whatsoever, all Collateral held by the Collateral Trustee hereunder, and execute and deliver to the Pledgor such documents as the
Pledgor shall reasonably request to evidence such release.

 

SECTION 7.6.   No Waiver;
Remedies. No failure on the part of any Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate
as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof
or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.

 

SECTION 7.7.   Headings.
The various headings of this Pledge Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation
of this Pledge Agreement or any provisions thereof.

 

SECTION 7.8.   Severability.
Any provision of this Pledge Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such provision and
such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions
of this Pledge Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

SECTION 7.9.   Governing
Law, Entire Agreement, etc. THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM OR CONTROVERSY RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF,
WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
THAT THE PERFECTION, EFFECT OF PERFECTION OR NONPERFECTION, AND PRIORITY OF THE SECURITY INTEREST HEREUNDER, OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER,
IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR COLLATERAL ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

 

THIS WRITTEN AGREEMENT
AND THE OTHER NOTE DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF AND THEREOF
AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES.

 

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THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN
ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

 

SECTION 7.10.   Counterparts.
This Pledge Agreement may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile or other electronic transmission. The effectiveness of any
such documents and signatures shall, subject to applicable law, have the same force and effect as manually-signed originals and
shall be binding on all parties hereto. The Collateral Trustee may also require that any such documents and signatures be confirmed
by a manually-signed original thereof; provided, however, that the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness
of any facsimile or electronically transmitted document or signature. This Pledge Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts,
each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

SECTION 7.11.   Intercreditor
Agreement Controls.

 

(a)       Each Secured Party,
by accepting the benefits of the security provided hereby, (i) consents (or is deemed to consent), to the subordination of Liens
provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) agrees (or is deemed to agree) that it will be bound by, and will take no actions
contrary to, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) authorizes (or is deemed to authorize) the Collateral Trustee
on behalf of such Person to enter into, and perform under, the Intercreditor Agreement and (iv) acknowledges (or is deemed to acknowledge)
that a copy of the Intercreditor Agreement was delivered, or made available, to such Secured Party.

 

(b)       Notwithstanding
any other provision contained herein, this Pledge Agreement, the Liens created hereby and the rights, remedies, duties and obligations
provided for herein are subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict
or inconsistency between the provisions of this Pledge Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement shall control.

 

(c)       Without limiting
the foregoing, at any time prior to the Discharge of Priority Lien Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement), any
provision hereof requiring any Grantor to deliver possession of any Collateral to the Collateral Trustee, or to cause the Collateral
Trustee to control any Collateral, shall be deemed to have been complied with, if and for so long as (i) the Intercreditor Agreement
is in full force and effect and (ii) the Priority Lien Collateral Agent shall have such possession or control for the benefit of
the Secured Parties and as bailee or sub-agent of the Collateral Trustee as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto
has caused this Pledge Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.

 

	 	PLEDGOR
	 	 
	 	ENERGY XXI USA, INC.
	 	 	 
	 	By:	  /s/ Antonio de Pinho
	 	 	Name: Antonio de Pinho
	 	 	Title:  President

 

	 	Notice Address for Pledgor:
	 	 
	 	Energy XXI USA, Inc.
	 	c/o Capitol Services, Inc.
	 	1675 S. State St., Ste. B
	 	Dover, DE  19901
	 	 
	 	with copy to:
	 	1021 Main (One City Centre), Suite 2626
	 	Houston, Texas 77002
	 	Attention:  Bruce Busmire
	 	Telephone No.:  713-351-3033
	 	Telecopier No.:  713-351-3333  

 

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	 	COLLATERAL TRUSTEE
	 	 
	 	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
	 	 
	 	By:	  /s/ Steven A. Finklea
	 	 	Name: Steven A. Finklea
	 	 	Title: Vice President

 

	 	Notice address for Collateral Trustee:
	 	 
	 	5555 San Felipe St., Suite 1150
	 	Houston, Texas 77056
	 	Attention:  Mauri J. Cowen
	 	Telephone:  713-235-9206
	 	Facsimile:  713-235-9213

 

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SCHEDULE I

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Common Stock	 
	Company	 	Cert. #	 	 	# of

                                                                               Shares
	 	 	Authorized

Shares	 	 	Outstanding

Shares	 	 	% of

Shares

Pledged	 
	Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc.	 	 	1, 2	 	 	 	101,000	 	 	 	1,000,000	 	 	 	101,000	 	 	 	100	%

 

    	 

    	 

    

 

SCHEDULE II

 

	(1)	Legal Name of Pledgor:  Energy XXI USA, Inc.
	 	 
	(2)	State of Organization of Pledgor:  Delaware
	 	 
	(3)	Organizational ID Number of Pledgor:  4106695Exhibit 10.5

 

Execution Version

 

Reference is made to the Intercreditor Agreement
described below. Each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the security provided hereby, (i) consents (or is deemed to consent),
to the subordination of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) agrees (or is deemed to agree) that it will be
bound by, and will take no actions contrary to, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) authorizes (or is deemed to
authorize) the Collateral Trustee on behalf of such Person to enter into, and perform under, the Intercreditor Agreement and (iv)
acknowledges (or is deemed to acknowledge) that a copy of the Intercreditor Agreement was delivered, or made available, to such
Secured Party. 

 

Notwithstanding
any other provision contained herein, this Security Agreement, the Liens created hereby and the rights, remedies, duties and obligations
provided for herein are subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict
or inconsistency between the provisions of this Security Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement shall control.

 

SECOND LIEN SECURITY
AGREEMENT

 

This SECOND LIEN SECURITY
AGREEMENT, dated as of March 12, 2015 (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time,
this “Security Agreement”), is made by ENERGY XXI USA, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Grantor”),
in favor of U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as Collateral Trustee (as defined in the Indenture hereinafter described)
for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties.

 

WITNESSETH :

 

A.           Energy
XXI Gulf Coast, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), will issue its 11.000% Senior Secured Second Lien
Notes due 2020 in an initial aggregate principal amount of $1,450,000,000, pursuant to an Indenture dated as of the date hereof
(as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”) by
and among the Company, Energy XXI Ltd, the Grantor, the Subsidiary
Guarantors party thereto from time to time, and U.S. Bank National Association, as the Trustee (as defined therein).

 

B.           The
Indenture requires the Grantor to enter into this Security Agreement and grant to the Collateral Trustee, for the ratable benefit
of the Secured Parties, a security interest in the Collateral (as hereinafter defined).

 

C.           In
connection with the Indenture, the Company, the Guarantors (including the Grantor), the Trustee and the Collateral Trustee are
entering into that certain Collateral Trust Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated
or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Collateral Trust Agreement”), which sets
forth the terms on which the Collateral Trustee will receive, hold, administer, maintain, enforce and distribute the proceeds of
all liens upon any property of the Grantor at any time held by the Collateral Trustee, in trust for the benefit of the current
and future holders of the Parity Lien Obligations (as defined in the Indenture), including the Secured Parties.

 

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D.           Certain
Priority Lien Obligations and Junior Lien Obligations (each, as defined in the Indenture) may be outstanding from time to time
and, as such, to set forth the relative rights of the holders of the Priority Lien Obligations, the holders of the Parity Lien
Obligations (including the Secured Parties), and the holders of the Junior Lien Obligations, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, as
the Priority Lien Collateral Agent (as defined in the Indenture), and the Collateral Trustee are entering into that certain Intercreditor
Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”).

 

E.           The
board of directors of the Grantor has determined that the Grantor’s execution, delivery and performance of this Security
Agreement may reasonably be expected to provide substantial benefit to the Grantor, directly or indirectly, and are in the best
interests of the Grantor.

 

F.           The
Grantor has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Security Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE
I

DEFINITIONS

 

SECTION 1.1. Certain
Terms. The following terms (whether or not underscored) when used in this Security Agreement, including its preamble and recitals,
shall have the following meanings (such definitions to be equally applicable to the singular and plural forms thereof):

 

“Bill of Sale”
means a bill of sale or other instrument evidencing the sale or transfer of the Grand Isle Gathering System from the Grantor to
the purchaser or transferee, as provided in such bill of sale or other instrument.

 

“Collateral”
is defined in Section 2.1.

 

“Computer Hardware
and Software Collateral” means (a) all computer and other electronic data processing hardware, integrated computer systems,
central processing units, memory units, display terminals, printers, features, computer elements, card readers, tape drives, hard
and soft disk drives, cables, electrical supply hardware, generators, power equalizers, accessories and all peripheral devices
and other related computer hardware, including all operating system software, utilities and application programs in whatsoever
form, (b) software programs (including both source code, object code and all related applications and data files), designed for
use on the computers and electronic data processing hardware described in clause (a) above, (c) all firmware associated
therewith, (d) all documentation (including flow charts, logic diagrams, manuals, guides, specifications, training materials, charts
and pseudo codes) with respect to such hardware, software and firmware described in the preceding clauses (a) through (c),
and (e) all rights with respect to all of the foregoing, including copyrights, licenses, options, warranties, service contracts,
program services, test rights, maintenance rights, support rights, improvement rights, renewal rights and indemnifications and
any substitutions, replacements, improvements, error corrections, updates, additions or model conversions of any of the foregoing.

 

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“Copyright Collateral”
means all copyrights of the Grantor, registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished, now or hereafter in force
throughout the world including all of the Grantor’s rights, titles and interests in and to all copyrights registered in the
United States Copyright Office or anywhere else in the world, including without limitation those copyrights referred to in Item
C of Schedule III hereto, and registrations and recordings thereof and all applications for registration thereof, whether
pending or in preparation, all copyright licenses, the right to sue for past, present and future infringements of any of the foregoing,
all rights corresponding thereto, all extensions and renewals of any thereof and all Proceeds of the foregoing, including licenses,
royalties, income, payments, claims, damages and Proceeds of suit, which are owned or licensed by the Grantor.

 

“Equipment”
is defined in Section 2.1(a).

 

“Governmental
Approval” is defined in Section 2.1(f).

 

“Grand Isle Gathering
System” means the Grand Isle flow line networks and process facilities, including all pumps, pipelines, gathering systems,
headers, separators, tanks, regulators, compressors, pumps, valves and associated equipment, formerly owned by Energy XXI Pipeline
LLC and/or Energy XXI Pipeline II LLC.

 

“Grantor”
is defined in the preamble.

 

“Indenture”
is defined in the recitals.

 

“Intellectual
Property Collateral” means, collectively, the Computer Hardware and Software Collateral, the Copyright Collateral, the
Patent Collateral, the Trademark Collateral and the Trade Secrets Collateral.

 

“Intercreditor
Agreement” is defined in the recitals.

 

“Obligor”
means the Company and each Guarantor.

 

“Organic Document”
means, relative to any Person, its certificate or articles of incorporation, articles and memorandum of association, by-laws, certificate
of partnership, partnership agreement, certificate of formation, limited liability agreement, operating agreement and similar or
comparable agreement or certificate, and all shareholder agreements, voting trusts and similar arrangements applicable to any of
such Person’s Capital Stock.

 

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“Patent Collateral”
means (a) all inventions and discoveries, whether patentable or not, all letters patent and applications for letters patent throughout
the world, including without limitation those patents referred to in Item A of Schedule III hereto, and any patent
applications in preparation for filing, (b) all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals
and reexaminations of any of the items described in clause (a), (c) all patent licenses, and other agreements providing
the Grantor with the right to use any items of the type referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above, and (d) all Proceeds
of, and rights associated with, the foregoing (including licenses, royalties income, payments, claims, damages and Proceeds of
infringement suits), the right to sue third parties for past, present or future infringements of any patent or patent application,
and for breach or enforcement of any patent license.

 

“second priority”
means Liens that (a) may be junior in priority to the Liens securing Priority Lien Obligations, to the extent permitted to be incurred
or to exist under the Intercreditor Agreement, and (b) are senior in priority to the Liens securing Junior Lien Obligations, to
the extent permitted to be incurred or to exist under the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

“Secured Obligations”
is defined in Section 2.2.

 

“Secured Parties”
means the Trustee, the Collateral Trustee, the Holders and each other holder of any Secured Obligation.

 

“Security Agreement”
is defined in the preamble.

 

“Termination Date”
means the earlier of (i) the earliest to occur of (a) the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture pursuant to Article 10 thereof,
(b) Legal Defeasance pursuant to Article 8 of the Indenture, (c) Covenant Defeasance pursuant to Article 8 of the Indenture, and
(d) the date on which all outstanding Secured Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash and discharged, or (ii) the
date upon which the Bill of Sale becomes effective.

 

“Trademark Collateral”
means (a) (i) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names,
fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, certification marks, collective marks, logos and other source or business
identifiers, and all goodwill of the business associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, including without
limitation those trademarks referred to in Item B of Schedule III hereto, whether currently in use or not, all registrations
and recordings thereof and all applications in connection therewith, whether pending or in preparation for filing, including registrations,
recordings and applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any office or agency of the United States of
America, or any State thereof or any other country or political subdivision thereof or otherwise, and all common-law rights relating
to the foregoing, and (ii) the right to obtain all reissues, extensions or renewals of the foregoing (collectively referred to
as the “Trademark”), (b) all trademark licenses for the grant by or to the Grantor of any right to use any trademark,
(c) all of the goodwill of the business connected with the use of, and symbolized by the items described in, clause (a),
and to the extent applicable clause (b), (d) the right to sue third parties for past, present and future infringements of
any Trademark Collateral described in clause (a) and, to the extent applicable, clause (b), and (e) all Proceeds
of, and rights associated with, the foregoing, including any claim by the Grantor against third parties for past, present or future
infringement or dilution of any Trademark, Trademark registration or Trademark license, or for any injury to the goodwill associated
with the use of any such Trademark or for breach or enforcement of any Trademark license and all rights corresponding thereto throughout
the world.

 

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“Trade Secrets
Collateral” means all common law and statutory trade secrets and all other confidential, proprietary or useful information
and all know-how obtained by or used in or contemplated at any time for use in the business of the Grantor, (all of the foregoing
being collectively called a “Trade Secret”), including all Documents and things embodying, incorporating or
referring in any way to such Trade Secret, all Trade Secret licenses, and including the right to sue for and to enjoin and to collect
damages for the actual or threatened misappropriation of any Trade Secret and for the breach or enforcement of any such Trade Secret
license.

 

“UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the State of New York, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

SECTION 1.2. Indenture
Definitions. Unless otherwise defined herein or the context otherwise requires, terms used in this Security Agreement, including
its preamble and recitals, have the meanings provided in the Indenture.

 

SECTION 1.3. UCC Definitions.
Unless otherwise defined herein or the context otherwise requires, terms for which meanings are provided in the UCC are used in
this Security Agreement, including its preamble and recitals, with such meanings.

 

ARTICLE
II

SECURITY INTEREST

 

SECTION 2.1. Grant of
Security Interest. The Grantor hereby pledges, hypothecates, assigns, charges, mortgages, delivers, and transfers to the Collateral
Trustee, for its benefit and the ratable benefit of each of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Trustee, for
its benefit and the ratable benefit of each of the other Secured Parties, a continuing security interest in all of the Grantor’s
following property, whether now or hereafter existing, owned or acquired by the Grantor, and wherever located, (collectively, the
“Collateral”):

 

(a)          all
equipment in all of its forms of the Grantor, wherever located, and all machinery, apparatus, installation facilities, flow line
networks and process facilities, including all pumps, pipelines, gathering systems, headers, separators, tanks, regulators, compressors,
valves and associated equipment, related to the Grand Isle Gathering System, and other tangible personal property, and all parts
thereof and all accessions, additions, attachments, improvements, substitutions, replacements and proceeds thereto and therefor
(any and all of the foregoing being the “Equipment”);

 

(b)          (reserved);

 

(c)          all
contracts and contract rights of the Grantor used or useful in connection with the Equipment, and all rights of the Grantor now
or hereafter existing in and to all security agreements, guaranties, leases, agreements and other contracts securing or otherwise
relating to any such contracts and contract rights;

 

(d)          all
Intellectual Property Collateral of the Grantor used or useful in connection with the Equipment;

 

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(e)          all
books, correspondence, credit files, records, invoices, tapes, cards, computer runs, writings, data bases, information in all forms,
paper and documents and other property relating to, used or useful in connection with, evidencing, embodying, incorporating or
referring to, any of the foregoing in this Section 2.1;

 

(f)           all
governmental approvals, permits, licenses, authorizations, consents, rulings, tariffs, rates, certifications, waivers, exemptions,
filings, claims, orders, judgments and decrees used or useful in connection with the Equipment (each a “Governmental Approval”),
to the extent a security interest may be granted therein; provided that any Governmental Approval that by its terms or by operation
of law would be void, voidable, terminable or revocable if mortgaged, pledged or assigned hereunder is expressly excepted and excluded
from the Liens and terms of this Security Agreement, including the grant of security interest in this Section 2.1;

 

(g)          (reserved);

 

(h)          to
the extent not included in the foregoing, all fixtures and supporting obligations used or useful in connection with the Equipment;

 

(i)           (reserved);
and

 

(j)           all
accessions, substitutions, replacements, products, offspring, rents, issues, profits, returns, income and proceeds of and from
any and all of the foregoing Collateral (including proceeds which constitute property of the types described in clauses (a),
(c), (d), (e), (f) and (h), and to the extent not otherwise included, all payments and
proceeds under insurance (whether or not the Collateral Trustee is the loss payee thereof), or any condemnation award, indemnity,
warranty or guaranty, payable by reason of loss or damage to or otherwise with respect to any of the Collateral).

 

SECTION 2.2. Security
for Obligations. This Security Agreement and the Collateral secure the prompt and indefeasible payment in full and performance
of all Notes Obligations now or hereafter existing under this Security Agreement, the Indenture or any other Note Document, whether
for principal, interest, costs, fees, expenses or otherwise, howsoever created, arising or evidenced, whether direct or indirect,
primary or secondary, fixed or absolute or contingent, joint or several, or now or hereafter existing under this Security Agreement
and each other Note Document (as used herein, the “Secured Obligations”).

 

SECTION 2.3. Continuing
Security Interest; Transfer of Notes; Reinstatement.

 

(a)          This
Security Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (i) remain in full force and effect
until the Termination Date, (ii) be binding upon the Grantor and its successors, transferees and assigns, and (iii) inure, together
with the rights and remedies of the Collateral Trustee hereunder, to the benefit of the Collateral Trustee and each other Secured
Party and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any Holder may
assign or otherwise transfer (in whole or in part) any Note held by it as provided in the Indenture and any successor or assignee
thereof shall thereupon become vested with all the rights and benefits in respect thereof granted to such Holder under each Note
Document (including this Security Agreement) to the extent contemplated in the Indenture. Upon the Termination Date, the security
interest granted herein shall automatically terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall (x) revert to the Grantor or (y)
be transferred to the purchaser or transferee under the Bill of Sale, as applicable. Upon any such payment and termination or
expiration, the Collateral Trustee will, at the Grantor’s sole expense, deliver to the Grantor, without any representations,
warranties or recourse of any kind whatsoever any and all Collateral held by the Collateral Trustee hereunder, and execute and
deliver to the Grantor such documents as the Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.

 

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(b)          If
at any time all or any part of any payment theretofore applied by the Collateral Trustee or any Secured Party to any of the Secured
Obligations is or must be rescinded or returned by the Collateral Trustee or any such Secured Party for any reason whatsoever (including,
without limitation, the insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding of the Grantor or any other Person),
such Secured Obligations shall, for purposes of this Security Agreement, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded
or returned, be deemed to have continued to be in existence, notwithstanding any application by the Collateral Trustee or such
Secured Party or any termination agreement or release provided to the Grantor, and this Security Agreement shall continue to be
effective or reinstated, as the case may be, as to such Secured Obligations, all as though such application by the Collateral Trustee
or such Secured Party had not been made. This Section 2.3(b) shall survive the Termination Date.

 

SECTION 2.4. Grantor
Remains Liable. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) the Grantor shall remain liable under the contracts and
agreements included in the Collateral to the extent set forth therein, and will perform all of its duties and obligations under
such contracts and agreements to the same extent as if this Security Agreement had not been executed, (b) the exercise by the Collateral
Trustee of any of its rights hereunder shall not release the Grantor from any of its duties or obligations under any such contracts
or agreements included in the Collateral, and (c) neither the Collateral Trustee nor any other Secured Party shall have any obligation
or liability under any contracts or agreements included in the Collateral by reason of this Security Agreement, nor shall the Collateral
Trustee nor any Secured Party be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of the Grantor thereunder or to take any
action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.

 

SECTION 2.5. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 2.6. (Reserved).

 

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SECTION 2.7. Security
Interest Absolute, etc. This Security Agreement shall in all respects be a continuing, absolute, unconditional and irrevocable
grant of a security interest, and shall remain in full force and effect until the Termination Date. All rights of the Secured Parties
and the security interests granted to the Collateral Trustee (for its benefit and the ratable benefit of each other Secured Party)
hereunder, and all obligations of the Grantor hereunder, shall, in each case, be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable irrespective
of (a) any lack of validity, legality or enforceability of any Note Document, (b) the failure of any Secured Party (i) to assert
any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Grantor or any other Obligor or any other Person under the provisions
of any Note Document or otherwise, or (ii) to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of, or collateral securing,
any Secured Obligations, (c) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any part of
the Secured Obligations, or any other extension, compromise or renewal of any Secured Obligations, (d) any reduction, limitation,
impairment or termination of any Secured Obligations (except in the case of the occurrence of the Termination Date) for any reason,
including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to (and the Grantor hereby
waives any right to or claim of) any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity,
illegality, nongenuineness, irregularity, compromise, unenforceability of, or any other event or occurrence affecting, any Secured
Obligations or otherwise, (e) any amendment to, rescission, waiver, or other modification of, or any consent to or departure from,
any of the terms of any Note Document, (f) any addition, exchange or release of any Collateral for the Secured Obligations, or
any surrender or non-perfection of any collateral, or any amendment to or waiver or release or addition to, or consent to or departure
from, any other guaranty held by any Secured Party securing any of the Secured Obligations, or (g) any other circumstance which
might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, the Grantor or any other Obligor, any
surety or any guarantor.

 

SECTION 2.8. Waiver
of Subrogation. Until one year and one day after the Termination Date, the Grantor hereby irrevocably waives any claim or other
rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company or any other Obligor that arise from the existence, payment, performance
or enforcement of the Grantor’s obligations under this Security Agreement or any other Note Document, including any right
of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration or indemnification, any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Secured Party
against the Company or any other Obligor or any collateral which any Secured Party now has or hereafter acquires, whether or not
such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law, including the right to take or receive
from the Company or any other Obligor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any manner, payment
or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to the Grantor in violation of the preceding
sentence and the Termination Date shall not have occurred, then such amount shall be deemed to have been paid to the Grantor for
the benefit of, and held in trust for, the Collateral Trustee (on behalf of the Secured Parties), and shall forthwith be paid to
the Collateral Trustee to be credited and applied upon the Secured Obligations, whether matured or unmatured. The Grantor acknowledges
that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Indenture and that the waiver
set forth in this Section 2.8 is knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

 

SECTION 2.9. Election
of Remedies. Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, if any Secured Party may, under applicable law, proceed to realize
its benefits under this Security Agreement or any other Security Document, either by judicial foreclosure or by non-judicial sale
or enforcement, such Secured Party may, at its sole option, determine which of its remedies or rights it may pursue without affecting
any of its rights and remedies under this Security Agreement. If, in the exercise of any of its rights and remedies, any Secured
Party shall forfeit any of its rights or remedies, including its right to enter a deficiency judgment against the Grantor or any
other Obligor or any other Person, whether because of any applicable laws pertaining to “election of remedies” or the
like, the Grantor hereby consents to such action by such Secured Party and waives any claim based upon such action, even if such
action by such Secured Party shall result in a full or partial loss of any rights of subrogation that the Grantor might otherwise
have had but for such action by such Secured Party.

 

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ARTICLE
III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

The Grantor hereby represents
and warrants unto the Collateral Trustee and each other Secured Party, as at the date hereof, as set forth in this Article.

 

SECTION 3.1. Organization,
etc. The Grantor is validly organized and existing and in good standing under the laws of the state or jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign entity in each jurisdiction
where the nature of its business requires such qualification, except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify could
not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Grantor, and has full power and authority and holds all requisite
governmental licenses, permits and other approvals to enter into and perform its Obligations under this Security Agreement and
each Note Document to which it is a party, to own and hold under lease its property and to conduct its business substantially as
currently conducted by it, except for those licenses, permits or other approvals, the absence of which could not reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the Grantor.

 

SECTION 3.2. Due Authorization,
Non-Contravention, Defaults etc. The execution, delivery and performance by the Grantor of this Security Agreement are within
the Grantor’s powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary action, and do not

 

(a)          contravene any (i) of the Grantor’s Organic Documents, (ii) court decree or order binding on or affecting any Obligor,
or (iii) law or governmental regulation binding on or affecting the Grantor; or

 

(b)          result in (i) or require the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any of the Grantor’s properties (except as permitted
by the Note Documents), (ii) a default under any material contractual restriction binding on or affecting or (iii) any noncompliance,
suspension, impairment, forfeiture or nonrenewal of any material license, permit or other governmental approval, except as could
not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Grantor.

 

SECTION 3.3. Government
Approval, Regulation, etc. Except for filings to perfect and maintain the perfection of the Liens arising pursuant to the Security
Documents, no authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or other
Person (other than those that have been, or on the date hereof will be, duly obtained or made and that are, or on the date hereof
will be, in full force and effect) is required for (a) the due execution, delivery or performance by the Grantor of this Security
Agreement or any Note Document to which it is a party, (b) for the grant by the Grantor of the security interest granted hereby,
(c) for the perfection or maintenance of the security interests hereunder including the second priority (subject to Permitted Liens)
nature of such security interest or the exercise by the Collateral Trustee of its rights and remedies hereunder, or (d) for the
exercise by the Collateral Trustee of the rights of control, possession or other rights provided for in this Security Agreement,
except any “change of control” or similar filings required by state licensing agencies.

 

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SECTION 3.4. Validity,
etc. This Security Agreement and the other Note Documents to which the Grantor is a party constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Grantor, enforceable against the Grantor in accordance with their respective terms (except, in any case,
as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’
rights generally and by principles of equity).

 

SECTION 3.5. Ownership,
No Liens, etc. The Grantor is the legal and beneficial owner of, and has good and defensible title to (and has full right and
authority to pledge, grant and assign) the Collateral, free and clear of all Liens and options, except for any Lien (a) granted
pursuant to this Security Agreement in favor of the Collateral Trustee, or (b) that is a Permitted Lien. No effective UCC financing
statement or other filing similar in effect covering all or any part of the Collateral is on file in any recording office, except
those filed in favor of the Collateral Trustee relating to this Security Agreement or the Note Documents, Permitted Liens or as
to which a duly authorized termination statement relating to such UCC financing statement or other instrument has been delivered
to the Collateral Trustee on the date hereof. This Security Agreement creates a valid security interest in the Collateral, securing
the payment of the Secured Obligations, and, except for the proper filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
of a UCC-1 financing statement naming the Grantor as debtor and the Collateral Trustee as secured party (the “Filing Statement”),
all filings and other actions necessary to perfect and protect such security interest have been duly taken and such security interest
shall be a second priority security interest.

 

SECTION 3.6. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 3.7. Grantor’s
Name, Location, etc.

 

(a)          (i)
The jurisdiction in which the Grantor is located for purposes of Sections 9-301 and 9-307 of the UCC is set forth in Item A-1
of Schedule II hereto, (ii) the place of business of the Grantor or, if the Grantor has more than one place of business,
the chief executive office of the Grantor is set forth in Item A-2 of Schedule II hereto, and (iii) the Grantor’s
federal taxpayer identification number is set forth in Item A-3 of Schedule II hereto.

 

(b)          All
of the Equipment of the Grantor is located at the places specified in Item B of Schedule II hereto.

 

(c)          The
Grantor does not have any trade names.

 

(d)          The
Grantor has not been known by any legal name different from the one set forth on the signature page hereto, nor has the Grantor
been the subject of any merger or other corporate reorganization, except as set forth in Item E of Schedule II hereto.

 

(e)          (Reserved).

 

(f)           (Reserved).

 

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(g)          (Reserved).

 

(h)          (Reserved).

 

(i)           (Reserved).

 

(j)           The
name set forth on the signature page attached hereto is the true and correct legal name (as defined in the UCC) of the Grantor.

 

SECTION 3.8. Possession
and Control of Equipment. The Grantor hereby represents and warrants that it has exclusive possession and control of the Equipment.

 

SECTION 3.9. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 3.10. Intellectual
Property Collateral. The Grantor represents that except for any Patent Collateral, Trademark Collateral, and Copyright Collateral
specified in Item A, Item B and Item C, respectively, of Schedule III hereto, and any and Trade
Secrets Collateral, the Grantor owns and has no interests in any Intellectual Property Collateral as of the date hereof, other
than the Computer Hardware and Software Collateral. Grantor further represents and warrants that, with respect to all Intellectual
Property Collateral (a) such Intellectual Property Collateral is valid, subsisting, unexpired and enforceable and has not been
abandoned or adjudged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part except as could not reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on the Grantor, (b) the Grantor is the sole and exclusive owner of the entire and unencumbered right, title and
interest in and to such Intellectual Property Collateral and no claim has been made that the use of such Intellectual Property
Collateral does or may, conflict with, infringe, misappropriate, dilute, misuse or otherwise violate any of the rights of any third
party, (c) the Grantor has made all necessary filings and recordations to protect its interest in such material Intellectual Property
Collateral, including recordations of any of its interests in the Patent Collateral and Trademark Collateral in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office and in corresponding offices throughout the world, and its claims to the Copyright Collateral in the
United States Copyright Office and in corresponding offices throughout the world, and, to the extent necessary, has used proper
statutory notice in connection with its use of any material patent, Trademark and copyright in any of the Intellectual Property
Collateral, (d) the Grantor has taken all reasonable steps to safeguard its Trade Secrets and to its knowledge (i) none of the
Trade Secrets of the Grantor has been used, divulged, disclosed or appropriated for the benefit of any other Person other than
the Grantor, (ii) no employee, independent contractor or agent of the Grantor has misappropriated any Trade Secrets of any other
Person in the course of the performance of his or her duties as an employee, independent contractor or agent of the Grantor, and
(iii) no employee, independent contractor or agent of the Grantor is in default or breach of any term of any employment agreement,
non-disclosure agreement, assignment of inventions agreement or similar agreement or contract relating in any way to the protection,
ownership, development, use or transfer of the Grantor’s Intellectual Property Collateral, (e) to the Grantor’s knowledge,
no third party is infringing upon any material Intellectual Property owned or used by the Grantor in any material respect, or any
of its respective licensees, (f) no settlement or consents, covenants not to sue, nonassertion assurances, or releases have been
entered into by the Grantor or to which the Grantor is bound that adversely affects its rights to own or use any Intellectual Property
except as would not reasonably have a material adverse effect on the Grantor, (g) the Grantor has not made a previous assignment,
sale, transfer or agreement constituting a present or future assignment, sale or transfer of any Intellectual Property for purposes
of granting a security interest or as Collateral that has not been terminated or released, (h) the Grantor uses adequate standards
of quality in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of all products sold and in the provision of all services rendered under
or in connection with any Trademarks and has taken all commercially reasonable action necessary to insure that any licensees of
any Trademarks owned by the Grantor use such adequate standards of quality, (i) the consummation of the transactions contemplated
by the Indenture and this Security Agreement will not result in the termination or material impairment of any material portion
of the Intellectual Property Collateral, and (j) the Grantor owns directly or is entitled to use by license or otherwise, any Patents,
Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, mask works, licenses, technology, know-how, processes and rights with respect to any of
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SECTION 3.11. Authorization,
Approval, etc. Except as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, no Governmental Approval, authorization,
approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or any other third party is required either
(a) for the grant by the Grantor of the security interest granted hereby or for the execution, delivery and performance of this
Security Agreement by the Grantor, (b) for the perfection or maintenance of the security interests hereunder including the second
priority (subject to Permitted Liens) nature of such security interest (except with respect to the Filing Statement or, with respect
to Intellectual Property Collateral, the recordation of any agreements with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the U.S. Copyright
Office) or the exercise by the Collateral Trustee of its rights and remedies hereunder, or (c) for the exercise by the Collateral
Trustee of the voting or other rights provided for in this Security Agreement, except any “change of control” or similar
filings required by state licensing agencies.

 

SECTION 3.12. Best Interests.
It is in the best interests of the Grantor to execute this Security Agreement in as much as the Grantor will, as a result of being
an Affiliate of the Company, derive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the Notes, and the Grantor agrees that the Holders
are relying on this representation in agreeing to purchase the Notes.

 

SECTION 3.13. (Reserved).

 

ARTICLE
IV

COVENANTS

 

The Grantor covenants and
agrees that, until the Termination Date, it will perform, comply with and be bound by the obligations set forth below.

 

SECTION 4.1. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 4.2. Organic
Documents; Change of Name, etc. The Grantor will not change its state of incorporation, formation or organization or its name,
identity, organizational identification number or corporate structure unless the Grantor shall have (a) given the Collateral Trustee
at least fifteen (15) days’ prior notice of such change and (b) taken all actions necessary or as requested by the Collateral
Trustee to ensure that the Liens on the Collateral granted in favor of the Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties
remain perfected, second-priority Liens. The Grantor shall not enter into any amendment or supplement to, or modification or waiver
of, any term or provision of any Organic Document of the Grantor which could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to
the interests of the Collateral Trustee and the other Secured Parties.

 

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SECTION 4.3. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 4.4. As to Grantor’s
Use of Collateral.

 

(a)          Subject
to clause (b), the Grantor shall, at its own expense, endeavor to collect, as and
when due, any and all amounts due with respect to any of the Collateral, including the taking of such action with respect to such
collection as the Collateral Trustee may request following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or,
in the absence of such request, as the Grantor may deem advisable.

 

(b)          At
any time following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, whether before or after the maturity of any
of the Secured Obligations, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Trustee may (i) revoke any or all of the rights
of the Grantor set forth in clause (a), (ii) notify any parties obligated on any of the Collateral to make payment to the
Collateral Trustee of any amounts due or to become due thereunder, and (iii) enforce collection of any of the Collateral by suit
or otherwise and surrender, release, or exchange all or any part thereof, or compromise or extend or renew for any period (whether
or not longer than the original period) any indebtedness thereunder or evidenced thereby.

 

(c)          Upon
request of the Collateral Trustee following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, subject to the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Grantor will, at its own expense, notify any parties obligated on any of the Collateral to make payment to the Collateral
Trustee of any amounts due or to become due thereunder.

 

(d)          At
any time following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, the
Collateral Trustee may endorse, in the name of the Grantor, any item, howsoever received by the Collateral Trustee, representing
any payment on or other Proceeds of any of the Collateral.

 

SECTION 4.5. As to Equipment.
The Grantor hereby agrees that it shall (a) keep all of the Equipment located at the places therefore specified in Section 3.7(b)
or, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Collateral Trustee, at such other places in a jurisdiction within
the United States of America where all representations and warranties set forth in Article III shall be true and correct,
and all action required pursuant to the second sentence of Section 4.12 shall have been taken with respect to
the Equipment, and (b) pay promptly when due all property and other taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed
upon, and all claims (including claims for labor, materials and supplies) against, the Equipment, except to the extent the validity
thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have
been set aside.

 

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SECTION 4.6. As to Intellectual
Property Collateral. The Grantor covenants and agrees to comply with the following provisions as such provisions relate to
any Intellectual Property Collateral material to the operations or business of the Grantor:

 

(a)          the
Grantor will not (i) do or fail to perform any act whereby any of the Patent Collateral may lapse or become abandoned or dedicated
to the public or unenforceable, (ii) permit any of its licensees to (A) fail to continue to use any of the Trademark Collateral
in order to maintain all of the Trademark Collateral in full force free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, (B) fail to
maintain as in the past the quality of products and services offered under all of the Trademark Collateral, (C) fail to employ
all of the Trademark Collateral registered with any federal or state or foreign authority with an appropriate notice of such registration,
(D) adopt or use any other Trademark which is confusingly similar or a colorable imitation of any of the Trademark Collateral,
(E) use any of the Trademark Collateral registered with any federal, state or foreign authority except for the uses for which registration
or application for registration of all of the Trademark Collateral has been made, or (F) do or permit any act or knowingly omit
to do any act whereby any of the Trademark Collateral may lapse or become invalid or unenforceable, or (iii) do or permit any act
or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any of the Copyright Collateral or any of the Trade Secrets Collateral may lapse or become
invalid or unenforceable or placed in the public domain except upon expiration of the end of an unrenewable term of a registration
thereof, unless, in the case of any of the foregoing requirements in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the Grantor
shall either (x) reasonably and in good faith determine that any of such Intellectual Property Collateral is of negligible economic
value to the Grantor, or (y) the loss of the Intellectual Property Collateral would not be reasonably likely to have a material
adverse effect on the business;

 

(b)          the
Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Trustee if it knows, or has reason to know, that any application or registration relating
to any material item of the Intellectual Property Collateral may become abandoned or dedicated to the public or placed in the public
domain or invalid or unenforceable, or of any adverse determination or development (including the institution of, or any such determination
or development in, any proceeding in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any foreign
counterpart thereof or any court) regarding the Grantor’s ownership of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral, its right
to register the same or to keep and maintain and enforce the same;

 

(c)          in
no event will the Grantor or any of its agents, employees, designees or licensees file an application for the registration of any
Intellectual Property Collateral with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any
similar office or agency in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, unless it promptly informs the Collateral Trustee,
and upon request of the Collateral Trustee (subject to the terms of the Indenture and the Intercreditor Agreement), executes and
delivers all agreements, instruments and documents as the Collateral Trustee may reasonably request to evidence the Collateral
Trustee’s security interest in such Intellectual Property Collateral;

 

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(d)          the
Grantor will take all necessary steps, including in any proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United
States Copyright Office or (subject to the terms of the Indenture and the Intercreditor Agreement) any similar office or agency
in any other country or any political subdivision thereof, to maintain and pursue any application (and to obtain the relevant registration)
filed with respect to, and to maintain any registration of, the Intellectual Property Collateral, including the filing of applications
for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and opposition, interference and cancellation proceedings and the
payment of fees and taxes (except to the extent that dedication, abandonment or invalidation is permitted under the foregoing clause
(a) or (b));

 

(e)          following
the obtaining of an interest in any material Intellectual Property by Grantor shall deliver a supplement to Schedule III
identifying such new Intellectual Property; and

 

(f)           following
the obtaining of an interest in any material Intellectual Property by Grantor or, following the occurrence and during the continuance
of an Event of Default, upon the request of the Collateral Trustee (subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement), Grantor
shall deliver all agreements, instruments and documents the Collateral Trustee may reasonably request to evidence the Collateral
Trustee’s security interest in such Intellectual Property Collateral and as may otherwise be required to acknowledge or register
or perfect the Collateral Trustee’s interest in any part of such item of Intellectual Property Collateral unless the Grantor
shall determine in good faith that any Intellectual Property Collateral is of negligible economic value to the Grantor.

 

SECTION 4.7. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 4.8. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 4.9. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 4.10. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 4.11. Taxes.
Grantor agrees to comply, and will cause any of its Subsidiaries to comply, in all material respects with all applicable law, including
the appropriate payment (before the same become delinquent), by, or on behalf of, the Grantor and any of its Subsidiaries of all
Taxes imposed upon the Grantor or any of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries or upon their property except to the extent being
diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been
set aside on the books of the Grantor or such Subsidiaries, as applicable.

 

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SECTION 4.12. Further
Assurances, etc. The Grantor shall warrant and defend the right and title herein granted unto the Collateral Trustee in and
to the Collateral (and all right, title and interest represented by the Collateral) against the claims and demands of all Persons
whomsoever. The Grantor agrees that, from time to time at its own expense, it will promptly execute and deliver all further instruments
and documents, and take all further action, that may be necessary or that the Collateral Trustee may reasonably request, in order
to perfect, preserve and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable the Collateral Trustee
to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral. The Grantor agrees that, upon the acquisition
after the date hereof by the Grantor of any Collateral, with respect to which the security interest granted hereunder is not perfected
automatically upon such acquisition, to take such actions with respect to such Collateral or any part thereof as required by the
Note Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Grantor will:

 

(a)          (reserved);

 

(b)          file
(and the Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Trustee and its designees to file) the Filing Statement or continuation statements,
or amendments thereto, and such other instruments or notices (including any assignment of claim form under or pursuant to the federal
assignment of claims statute, 31 U.S.C. § 3726, any successor or amended version thereof or any regulation promulgated under
or pursuant to any version thereof), as may be necessary or that the Collateral Trustee may request in order to perfect and preserve
the security interests and other rights granted or purported to be granted to the Collateral Trustee hereby. The authorization
contained in this Section 4.12 shall be irrevocable and continuing until the Termination Date;

 

(c)          deliver
to the Collateral Trustee all Proceeds and rights from time to time received by or distributable to the Grantor in respect of any
of the Collateral;

 

(d)          (reserved);

 

(e)          (reserved);
and

 

(f)           furnish
to the Collateral Trustee, from time to time at the Collateral Trustee’s request, statements and schedules further identifying
and describing the Collateral and such other reports in connection with the Collateral as the Collateral Trustee may reasonably
request, all in reasonable detail.

 

With respect to the foregoing and the grant
of the security interest hereunder, the Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Trustee to file one or more financing or continuation
statements, any amendments thereto, and other similar documents necessary or desirable in the opinion of the Collateral Trustee
to perfect or maintain the perfection of the Collateral Trustee’s or any Secured Party’s security interest in the Collateral
or any portion thereof, in each of the foregoing cases, without the signature and without further authorization of the Grantor.
The Grantor agrees that a carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Security Agreement or any UCC financing statement
covering the Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a UCC financing statement where permitted by law. The Grantor
hereby authorizes the Collateral Trustee to file financing statements describing as the collateral covered thereby “all of
the debtor’s personal property or assets” or words to that effect, notwithstanding that such wording may be broader
in scope than the Collateral described in this Security Agreement.

 

SECTION 4.13. Performance
of Covenants in Note Documents. The Grantor will perform, comply with, observe and fulfill, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries
to perform, comply with, observe and fulfill, each of the covenants, agreements and obligations contained in the Indenture, the
Intercreditor Agreement and the other Note Documents pertaining to or otherwise applicable to the Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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ARTICLE
V

THE COLLATERAL TRUSTEE

 

SECTION 5.1. Collateral
Trustee Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. The Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Collateral Trustee its attorney-in-fact, with
full authority in the place and stead of the Grantor and in the name of the Grantor or otherwise, from time to time in the Collateral
Trustee’s discretion, following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to take any action and
to execute any instrument, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, which the Collateral Trustee may deem necessary or advisable
to accomplish the purposes of this Security Agreement, including (a) to ask, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compromise, receive
and give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect of any of the Collateral, (b) to file
any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings which the Collateral Trustee may deem necessary or desirable for the
collection of any of the Collateral or otherwise to enforce the rights of the Collateral Trustee with respect to any of the Collateral,
and (c) to perform the affirmative obligations of the Grantor hereunder. THE GRANTOR HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES, CONSENTS AND AGREES
THAT THE POWER OF ATTORNEY GRANTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION 5.1 IS IRREVOCABLE AND COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST AND SHALL BE
EFFECTIVE UNTIL THE TERMINATION DATE.

 

SECTION 5.2. Collateral
Trustee May Perform. If the Grantor fails to perform any agreement contained herein, the Collateral Trustee may itself perform,
or cause performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of the Collateral Trustee incurred in connection therewith shall be payable
by the Grantor pursuant to Section 7.8 of the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Collateral Trustee may from time to time take
any other action which the Collateral Trustee reasonably deems necessary for the maintenance, preservation or protection of any
of the Collateral or of its security interest therein.

 

SECTION 5.3. Collateral
Trustee Has No Duty. The powers conferred on the Collateral Trustee hereunder are solely to protect its interest (on behalf
of the Secured Parties) in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty on it to exercise any such powers. Except for reasonable
care of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral Trustee
shall have no duty as to any Collateral or responsibility for taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties
or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral.

 

SECTION 5.4. Reasonable
Care. The Collateral Trustee is required to exercise reasonable care in the custody and preservation of any of the Collateral
in its possession; provided, that the Collateral Trustee shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody
and preservation of any of the Collateral (a) if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which the Collateral
Trustee accords its own personal property, or (b) if the Collateral Trustee takes such action for that purpose as the Grantor reasonably
requests in writing at times other than upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default; provided,
further, that failure of the Collateral Trustee to comply with any such request at any time shall not in itself be deemed
a failure to exercise reasonable care.

 

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SECTION 5.5. Collateral
Trust Agreement Controls. Subject to Section 7.11, in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions
of the Collateral Trust Agreement and this Article V, the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement shall control.

 

ARTICLE
VI

REMEDIES

 

SECTION 6.1. Certain
Remedies. Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

 

(a)          The
Collateral Trustee may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise
available to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under the UCC (whether or not the UCC applies to the
affected Collateral) and also may (i) take possession of any Collateral not already in its possession without demand and without
legal process, (ii) require the Grantor to, and the Grantor hereby agrees that it will, at its expense and upon request of the
Collateral Trustee forthwith, assemble all or part of the Collateral as directed by the Collateral Trustee and make it available
to the Collateral Trustee at a place to be designated by the Collateral Trustee that is reasonably convenient to both parties,
(iii) enter onto the property where any Collateral is located and take possession thereof without demand and without legal process,
(iv) without notice except as specified below, lease, license, sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral or any part thereof
in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any of the Collateral Trustee’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit
or for future delivery, and upon such other terms as the Collateral Trustee may deem commercially reasonable. The Grantor agrees
that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at least ten days’ prior notice to the Grantor of the time and
place of any public sale or the time of any private sale is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification; provided,
however, that with respect to Collateral that is (x) perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value, or (y) is
of a type customarily sold on a recognized market, no notice of sale or disposition need be given. For purposes of this Article
VI, notice of any intended sale or disposition of any Collateral may be given by first-class mail, hand-delivery (through a
delivery service or otherwise), facsimile or email, and shall be deemed to have been “sent” upon deposit in the U.S.
Mails with adequate postage properly affixed, upon delivery to an express delivery service or upon electronic submission through
telephonic or internet services, as applicable. The Collateral Trustee shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless
of notice of sale having been given. The Collateral Trustee may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement
at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was
so adjourned.

 

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(b)          The
Grantor agrees and acknowledges that a commercially reasonable disposition of Equipment, Computer Hardware and Software Collateral,
or Intellectual Property may be by lease or license of, in addition to the sale of, such Collateral. The Grantor further agrees
and acknowledges that the following shall be deemed a reasonable commercial disposition: (i) a disposition made in the usual manner
on any recognized market, (ii) a disposition at the price current in any recognized market at the time of disposition, and (iii)
a disposition in conformity with reasonable commercial practices among dealers in the type of property subject to the disposition.

 

(c)          All
cash Proceeds received by the Collateral Trustee in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, all or
any part of the Collateral shall be applied by the Collateral Trustee in accordance with Section 3.4 of the Collateral Trust Agreement.
The Collateral Trustee shall not be obligated to apply or pay over for application noncash proceeds of collection or enforcement
unless (i) the failure to do so would be commercially unreasonable, and (ii) the affected party has provided the Collateral Trustee
with a written demand to apply or pay over such noncash proceeds on such basis.

 

(d)          The
Collateral Trustee may do any or all of the following: (i) transfer all or any part of the Collateral into the name of the Collateral
Trustee or its nominee, with or without disclosing that such Collateral is subject to the Lien hereunder, (ii) notify the parties
obligated on any of the Collateral to make payment to the Collateral Trustee of any amount due or to become due thereunder, (iii)
enforce collection of any of the Collateral by suit or otherwise, and surrender, release or exchange all or any part thereof, or
compromise or extend or renew for any period (whether or not longer than the original period) any obligations of any nature of
any party with respect thereto, (iv) endorse any checks, drafts, or other writings in the Grantor’s name to allow collection
of the Collateral, (v) take control of any Proceeds of the Collateral, or (vi) execute (in the name, place and stead of the Grantor)
endorsements, assignments, stock powers and other instruments of conveyance or transfer with respect to all or any of the Collateral.

 

SECTION 6.2. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 6.3. Compliance
with Restrictions. The Grantor agrees that in any sale of any of the Collateral whenever an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Collateral Trustee is hereby authorized to comply with any limitation or restriction in connection with
such sale as it may be advised by counsel is necessary in order to avoid any violation of applicable law (including compliance
with such procedures as may restrict the number of prospective bidders and purchasers, require that such prospective bidders and
purchasers have certain qualifications, and restrict such prospective bidders and purchasers to Persons who will represent and
agree that they are purchasing for their own account for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale of such Collateral),
or in order to obtain any required approval of the sale or of the purchaser by any governmental authority or official, and the
Grantor further agrees that such compliance shall not result in such sale being considered or deemed not to have been made in a
commercially reasonable manner, nor shall the Collateral Trustee be liable nor accountable to the Grantor for any discount allowed
by the reason of the fact that such Collateral is sold in compliance with any such limitation or restriction.

 

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SECTION 6.4. Protection
of Collateral. The Collateral Trustee may from time to time, at its option, perform any act which the Grantor fails to perform
after being requested in writing so to perform (it being understood that no such request need be given after the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default) and the Collateral Trustee may from time to time take any other action which the
Collateral Trustee deems reasonably necessary for the maintenance, preservation or protection of any of the Collateral or of its
security interest therein.

 

SECTION 6.5. (Reserved).

 

SECTION 6.6. Warranties.
The Collateral Trustee may sell the Collateral without giving any warranties or representations as to the Collateral. The Collateral
Trustee may disclaim any warranties of title or the like. The Grantor agrees that this procedure will not be considered to adversely
affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.

 

ARTICLE
VII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

SECTION 7.1. Note Document.
This Security Agreement is a Note Document executed pursuant to the Indenture and shall (unless otherwise expressly indicated herein)
be construed, administered and applied in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof.

 

SECTION 7.2. Binding
on Successors, Transferees and Assigns; Assignment. This Security Agreement shall remain in full force and effect until the
Termination Date has occurred, shall be binding upon the Grantor and its successors, transferees and assigns and shall inure to
the benefit of and be enforceable by each Secured Party and its successors, transferees and assigns; provided that the Grantor
shall not (unless otherwise expressly permitted under the terms of the Note Documents) assign any of its obligations hereunder.

 

SECTION 7.3. Amendments,
etc. No amendment to or waiver of any provision of this Security Agreement, nor consent to any departure by the Grantor from
its obligations under this Security Agreement, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by
the Collateral Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Grantor and then such waiver or consent
shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.

 

SECTION 7.4. Notices.
Except as otherwise provided in this Security Agreement, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in
writing or by facsimile and addressed, delivered or transmitted to the appropriate party at the address or facsimile number of
such party specified on the signature pages of this Security Agreement or at such other address or facsimile number as may be designated
by such party in a notice to the other party. Except as otherwise provided in this Security Agreement, any notice or other communication,
if mailed and properly addressed with postage prepaid or if properly addressed and sent by pre-paid courier service, shall be deemed
given when received; any such notice or other communication, if transmitted by facsimile, shall be deemed given when transmitted
and electronically confirmed.

 

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SECTION 7.5. Release
of Liens. The security interests granted herein shall be automatically released (a) in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.4
of the Collateral Trust Agreement and (b) upon the occurrence of the Termination Date. Upon any such release, the Collateral Trustee
will, at the Grantor’s sole expense, deliver to the Grantor, without any representations, warranties or recourse of any kind
whatsoever, all Collateral held by the Collateral Trustee hereunder, and execute and deliver to the Grantor such documents as the
Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such release.

 

SECTION 7.6. No Waiver;
Remedies. In addition to, and not in limitation of Section 2.7, no failure on the part of any Secured Party to
exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise
of any right hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided
are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.

 

SECTION 7.7. Headings.
The various headings of this Security Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation
of this Security Agreement or any provisions thereof.

 

SECTION 7.8. Severability.
Any provision of this Security Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such provision and
such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions
of this Security Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

SECTION 7.9. Governing
Law, Entire Agreement, etc. THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM OR CONTROVERSY RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF,
WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
THAT THE PERFECTION, EFFECT OF PERFECTION OR NONPERFECTION, AND PRIORITY OF THE SECURITY INTEREST HEREUNDER, OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER,
IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR COLLATERAL ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

 

THIS WRITTEN AGREEMENT
AND THE OTHER NOTE DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF AND THEREOF
AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES.

 

THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN
ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

 

SECTION 7.10. Counterparts.
This Security Agreement may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile or other electronic transmission. The effectiveness of any
such documents and signatures shall, subject to applicable law, have the same force and effect as manually-signed originals and
shall be binding on all parties hereto. The Collateral Trustee may also require that any such documents and signatures be confirmed
by a manually-signed original thereof; provided, however, that the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness
of any facsimile or electronically transmitted document or signature. This Security Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts,
each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

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SECTION 7.11. Intercreditor
Agreement Controls.

 

(a)          Each
Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the security provided hereby, (i) consents (or is deemed to consent), to the subordination
of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (ii) agrees (or is deemed to agree) that it will be bound by, and will take
no actions contrary to, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) authorizes (or is deemed to authorize) the Collateral
Trustee on behalf of such Person to enter into, and perform under, the Intercreditor Agreement and (iv) acknowledges (or is deemed
to acknowledge) that a copy of the Intercreditor Agreement was delivered, or made available, to such Secured Party.

 

(b)          Notwithstanding
any other provision contained herein, this Security Agreement, the Liens created hereby and the rights, remedies, duties and obligations
provided for herein are subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict
or inconsistency between the provisions of this Security Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement shall control.

 

(c)          Without
limiting the foregoing, at any time prior to the Discharge of Priority Lien Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement),
any provision hereof requiring the Grantor to deliver possession of any Collateral to the Collateral Trustee, or to cause the Collateral
Trustee to control any Collateral, shall be deemed to have been complied with, if and for so long as (i) the Intercreditor Agreement
is in full force and effect and (ii) the Priority Lien Collateral Agent shall have such possession or control for the benefit of
the Secured Parties and as bailee or sub-agent of the Collateral Trustee as provided in the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto
has caused this Security Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.

 

	 	GRANTOR
	 	 
	 	ENERGY XXI USA, INC.
	 	 	 	 
	 	By:	/s/ Antonio de Pinho
	 	 	Name:	Antonio de Pinho
	 	 	Title:	President
	 	 	 	 
	 	Address:	Energy XXI USA, Inc.
	 	 	c/o Capitol Services, Inc.
	 	 	1675 S. State St., Ste. B
	 	 	Dover, DE 19901
	 	 	 	 
	 	with a copy to:
	 	 
	 	1021 Main (One City Centre), Suite 2626
	 	Houston, Texas 77002
	 	Attention:  Bruce W. Busmire
	 	Telephone No.:  713-351-3033
	 	Telecopier No.:  713-351-3333

 

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	 	COLLATERAL TRUSTEE:
	 	 
	 	U.S. Bank National Association
	 	 
	 	By:	/s/ Steven A. Finklea
	 	Name: 	Steven A. Finklea
	 	Title:	Vice President
	 	 	 	 
	 	Address:	 	5555 San Felipe St., Suite 1150
	 	 	 	Houston, Texas 77056
	 	 	 	Attention:  Mauri J. Cowen
	 	 	 	Telephone:  713-235-9206
	 	 	 	Facsimile:  713-235-9213

 

    	 	S-2	Second Lien Security Agreement

    	 

    

 

SCHEDULE I

to Security Agreement

 

(RESERVED)

 

    	 	Schedule I-1	Second Lien Security Agreement

    	 

    

 

SCHEDULE II

to Security Agreement

 

Item A-1.          Location
of Grantor for purposes of UCC.

 

Delaware

 

Item A-2.          Grantor’s
place of business or principal office.

 

1021 Main Street, Suite 2626

Houston, TX 77002

 

Item A-3.          Taxpayer
ID number.

 

Taxpayer ID number: 20-4278552

 

Item B.              Equipment.

 

Texas and Louisiana

 

Item C.              (Reserved).

 

    	 	Schedule II-1	Second Lien Security Agreement

    	 

    

 

SCHEDULE II

to Security Agreement

 

Item D.              (Reserved).

 

Item E.              Merger
or other corporate reorganization.

 

Description of Merger:

 

N/A

 

Item F.              Government
Contracts.

 

Description of Contract: N/A

 

Item G.              (Reserved).

 

Item H.              (Reserved).

 

Item I.               (Reserved).

 

    	 	Schedule II-2	Second Lien Security Agreement

    	 

    

 

SCHEDULE III - A

to Security Agreement

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL

 

Item A.         Patent
Collateral.

 

Issued Patents

 

	Country	 	Patent No.	 	Issue Date	 	Inventor(s)	 	Title
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

Pending Patent Applications

 

	Country	 	Serial No.	 	Filing Date	 	Inventor(s)	 	Title
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

Patent Applications in Preparation

 

	 	 		 	Expected	 	 	 	 
	Country	 	Docket No.	 	Filing Date	 	Inventor(s)	 	Title
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

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SCHEDULE III - B

to Security Agreement

 

Item B.         Trademark
Collateral

 

Registered Trademarks

 

	Country	 	Trademark	 	Registration No.	 	Registration Date
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

Pending
Trademark Applications

 

	Country	 	Trademark	 	Serial No.	 	Filing Date
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

Trademark
Applications In Preparation

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	Expected	 	Products/
	Country	 	Trademark	 	Docket No.	 	Filing Date	 	Services
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

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SCHEDULE III - C

to Security Agreement

 

Item C.         Copyright
Collateral.

 

Registered Copyrights/Mask Works

 

	Country	 	Registration No.	 	Registration Date	 	Author(s)	 	Title
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

Copyright/Mask
Work Pending Registration Applications

 

	Country	 	Serial No.	 	Filing Date	 	Author(s)	 	Title
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

Copyright/Mask
Work Registration Applications In Preparation

 

	 	 		 	Expected	 	 	 	 
	Country	 	Docket No.	 	Filing Date	 	Author(s)	 	Title
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	N/A	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

 

    	 	Schedule III-C-1	Second Lien Security Agreement

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