Document:

Exhibit 10.11

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

 

dated as of

 

February 7, 2014

 

among

 

BARCLAYS BANK PLC,
 as Credit Agreement Agent and First-Priority Collateral Agent,

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 as Notes Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Collateral Agent,

 

SFX ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

 

and

 

The Subsidiaries of SFX ENTERTAINMENT, INC.  Named Herein

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
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Section 1.
    	
Definitions
    	
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1.1
    	
Defined Terms
    	
1
    
	
1.2
    	
Terms   Generally
    	
9
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Section 2.
    	
Lien Priorities
    	
9
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
2.1
    	
Subordination of Liens
    	
9
    
	
2.2
    	
Prohibition   on Contesting Liens
    	
10
    
	
2.3
    	
No New   Liens
    	
10
    
	
2.4
    	
Perfection   of Liens
    	
11
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Section 3.
    	
Enforcement
    	
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3.1
    	
Exercise of Remedies
    	
11
    
	
3.2
    	
Cooperation
    	
13
    
	
3.3
    	
Second-Priority   Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Secured Parties Waiver
    	
13
    
	
3.4
    	
Actions   upon Breach
    	
13
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Section 4.
    	
Payments
    	
14
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
4.1
    	
Application of Proceeds
    	
14
    
	
4.2
    	
Payments   Over
    	
14
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Section 5.
    	
Other Agreements
    	
14
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
5.1
    	
Releases
    	
14
    
	
5.2
    	
Insurance
    	
15
    
	
5.3
    	
Amendments   to Second-Priority Collateral Documents
    	
16
    
	
5.4
    	
Rights   As Unsecured Creditors
    	
17
    
	
5.5
    	
First-Priority   Collateral Agent as Gratuitous Bailee/Agent for Perfection
    	
18
    
	
5.6
    	
Second-Priority   Collateral Agent as Gratuitous Bailee/Agent for Perfection
    	
19
    
	
5.7
    	
When   Discharge of First-Priority Obligations Deemed to Not Have Occurred
    	
20
    
	
5.8
    	
No   Release Upon Discharge of First-Priority Obligations
    	
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Section 6.
    	
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings
    	
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6.1
    	
Financing Issues
    	
21
    
	
6.2
    	
Relief   from the Automatic Stay
    	
22
    
	
6.3
    	
Adequate   Protection
    	
22
    
	
6.4
    	
Preference   Issues
    	
23
    
	
6.5
    	
Application
    	
23
    
	
6.6
    	
506(c) Claims
    	
23
    
	
6.7
    	
Separate   Grants of Security and Separate Classifications
    	
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6.8
    	
Section 1111(b)(2) Waiver
    	
24
    
	
6.9
    	
Asset   Sales
    	
24
    
	
6.10
    	
Reorganization   Securities
    	
24
    
	
6.11
    	
Proofs   of Claim
    	
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Section 7.
    	
Reliance; Waivers; etc.
    	
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7.1
    	
Reliance
    	
25
    
	
7.2
    	
No   Warranties or Liability
    	
25
    
	
7.3
    	
Obligations   Unconditional
    	
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Section 8.
    	
Miscellaneous
    	
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8.1
    	
Conflicts
    	
26
    
	
8.2
    	
Continuing   Nature of this Agreement; Severability
    	
27
    
	
8.3
    	
Amendments;   Waivers
    	
27
    
	
8.4
    	
Information   Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries
    	
28
    
	
8.5
    	
Subrogation
    	
28
    
	
8.6
    	
Application   of Payments
    	
28
    
	
8.7
    	
Consent   to Jurisdiction; Waivers
    	
29
    
	
8.8
    	
Notices
    	
29
    
	
8.9
    	
Further   Assurances
    	
29
    
	
8.10
    	
Governing   Law
    	
30
    
	
8.11
    	
Binding   on Successors and Assigns
    	
30
    
	
8.12
    	
Specific   Performance
    	
30
    
	
8.13
    	
Section Titles
    	
30
    
	
8.14
    	
Counterparts
    	
30
    
	
8.15
    	
Authorization
    	
30
    
	
8.16
    	
No   Third Party Beneficiaries; Successors and Assigns
    	
30
    
	
8.17
    	
Effectiveness
    	
30
    
	
8.18
    	
First-Priority   Representatives and Second-Priority Representatives
    	
31
    
	
8.19
    	
Relative   Rights
    	
31
    
	
8.20
    	
Second-Priority   Collateral Agent
    	
31
    
	
8.21
    	
Joinder   Requirements
    	
31
    
	
8.22
    	
Intercreditor   Agreements
    	
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Exhibits and Schedule
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Exhibit A
    	
Form of   Joinder Agreement (Other First-Priority Obligations)
    	
 
    
	
Exhibit B
    	
Form of   Joinder Agreement (Other Second-Priority Obligations)
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Schedule I
    	
Subsidiary   Parties
    	
 
    
				

 

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FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

 

FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of February 7, 2014, among BARCLAYS BANK PLC (“Barclays”), as Credit Agreement Agent and First-Priority Collateral Agent, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“U.S. Bank”), as Notes Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Collateral Agent, SFX Entertainment, Inc. (the “Company”)) and each Subsidiary of the Company listed on Schedule I hereto.

 

A.                                    The Company, the lenders party thereto from time to time, Barclays, as administrative agent, and others are party to the Credit Agreement dated as of February 7, 2014 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).

 

B.                                    The Credit Agreement is included in the definition of “Credit Agreement” under the Notes Indenture (as defined below), and the Obligations of the Company and certain of its Subsidiaries under the Credit Agreement and the Credit Agreement Documents executed or delivered pursuant thereto constitute First-Priority Obligations.

 

C.                                    The Company, certain of its Subsidiaries and U.S. Bank, as trustee and collateral agent, are party to the Indenture dated as of February 4, 2014 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Notes Indenture”) pursuant to which the 9.625% Second Lien Senior Secured Notes due 2019 were issued on February 4, 2014.  The Obligations of the Company and certain of its Subsidiaries under the Notes Indenture and the other Notes Documents constitute Notes Obligations hereunder.

 

Accordingly, in consideration of the foregoing, the mutual covenants and obligations herein set forth and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

Section 1.                                          Definitions.

 

1.1                               Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

 

“Agreement” shall mean this Intercreditor Agreement, as amended, renewed, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

“Bankruptcy Law” shall mean Title 11 of the United States Code and any similar federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

 

“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day that is a legal holiday under the laws of the State of New York or on which banking institutions in the State of New York are required or authorized by law or other governmental action to close.

 

“Cash Management Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, all obligations, whether now owing or hereafter arising, of such Person in respect of overdrafts or

 

 

other liabilities owed to any other Person that arise from treasury, depositary or cash management services, including any automated clearing house or other electronic transfers of funds, credit cards, purchase or debit cards, e-payable services or any similar transactions, including any services or transactions of the type referred to in the definition of “Cash Management Document” in the Credit Agreement.

 

“Common Collateral” means all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, constituting both First-Priority Collateral and Second-Priority Collateral.

 

“Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

 

“Comparable Second-Priority Collateral Document” shall mean, in relation to any Common Collateral subject to any Lien created under any First-Priority Collateral Document, those Second-Priority Collateral Documents that create a Lien on the same Common Collateral, granted by the same Grantor.

 

“Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals.

 

“Credit Agreement Agent” shall mean Barclays, in its capacity as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement and as administrative agent and/or collateral agent, as applicable, under the other Credit Agreement Documents, and its permitted successors in such capacity.

 

“Credit Agreement Collateral” shall mean all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any Credit Agreement Secured Obligations.

 

“Credit Agreement Collateral Agreement” means the First Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, dated as of February 7, 2014, by and among the Company, each other pledgor party thereto and the Credit Agreement Agent, as collateral agent for the Credit Agreement Secured Parties, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

“Credit Agreement Collateral Documents” means the Credit Agreement Collateral Agreement and any other documents now existing or entered into after February 7, 2014 that create Liens on any assets or properties of any Grantor to secure any Credit Agreement Secured Obligations.

 

“Credit Agreement Documents” means the Credit Agreement, the Credit Agreement Collateral Documents and the other “Loan Documents” as defined in the Credit Agreement.

 

“Credit Agreement Obligations” means all “Obligations” (as such term is defined in the Credit Agreement) of the Company and other obligors under the Credit Agreement or any of the other Credit Agreement Documents, and all other obligations to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest (including any interest accruing after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) when due and payable, and all other amounts due or to become due under or in connection with the

 

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Credit Agreement Documents and the performance of all other Obligations of the obligors thereunder to the lenders and agents under the Credit Agreement Documents, according to the respective terms thereof.

 

“Credit Agreement Secured Obligations” means, collectively, (i) the Credit Agreement Obligations and (ii) any First-Priority Cash Management Obligations and First-Priority Hedging Obligations included in the term “Secured Obligations” as defined in the Credit Agreement Collateral Agreement.

 

“Credit Agreement Secured Parties” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Credit Agreement.

 

“Deposit Account” shall have the meaning set forth in the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

“Deposit Account Collateral” shall mean that part of the Common Collateral (if any) comprised of or contained in Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts.

 

“DIP Financing” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.

 

“Discharge of First-Priority Obligations” shall mean, except to the extent otherwise provided in Section 5.7, payment in full in cash (except for contingent indemnities and cost and reimbursement obligations to the extent no claim has been made) of (a) all Obligations in respect of all outstanding First-Priority Obligations and, with respect to letters of credit or letter of credit guaranties outstanding thereunder, delivery of cash collateral or backstop letters of credit in respect thereof in compliance with the First-Priority Credit Documents, in each case after or concurrently with the termination of all commitments to extend credit thereunder and (b) any other First-Priority Obligations that are due and payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid.

 

“First-Priority Cash Management Obligations” means any Cash Management Obligations secured by any Common Collateral under the First-Priority Collateral Documents.

 

“First-Priority Collateral” shall mean the Credit Agreement Collateral and all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any Other First-Priority Obligations.

 

“First-Priority Collateral Agent” shall mean Barclays, in its capacity as collateral agent for the First-Priority Secured Parties, together with its successors and permitted assigns under the First-Priority Documents exercising substantially the same rights and powers (or if there is more than one First-Priority Credit Document, such agent or trustee as is designated “First-Priority Collateral Agent” by First-Priority Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the First-Priority Documents).

 

“First-Priority Collateral Documents” means (a) the Credit Agreement Collateral Documents and (b) any documents now existing or entered into after the date hereof that create Liens on any assets or properties of any Grantor to secure any First-Priority Cash-Management Obligations, First-Priority Hedging Obligations or any Other First-Priority Obligations.

 

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“First-Priority Credit Documents” means (a) the Credit Agreement Documents and (b) any Other First-Priority Documents.

 

“First-Priority Documents” means (a) the Credit Agreement Documents, (b) the Other First-Priority Documents and (c) each agreement, document or instrument providing for or evidencing a First-Priority Hedging Obligation or First-Priority Cash Management Obligation.

 

“First-Priority Hedging Obligations” means any Hedging Obligations secured by any Common Collateral under the First-Priority Collateral Documents.

 

“First-Priority Obligations” means (a) the Credit Agreement Secured Obligations, (b) the Other First-Priority Obligations, and (c) the First-Priority Hedging Obligations and First-Priority Cash Management Obligations (which shall be deemed to be part of the Series of Other First-Priority Obligations to which they relate to the extent provided in the applicable Other First-Priority Document).

 

“First-Priority Representatives” shall mean (a) in the case of the Credit Agreement Secured Obligations, the Credit Agreement Agent and (b) in the case of any Series of First-Priority Obligations, the Other First-Priority Representative with respect thereto.  The term “First-Priority Representatives” shall include the First-Priority Collateral Agent as the context requires.

 

“First-Priority Secured Parties” shall mean (a) the Credit Agreement Secured Parties and (b) the Other First-Priority Secured Parties, including the First-Priority Representatives.

 

“Grantors” shall mean the Company and each of the Subsidiaries of the Company that has executed and delivered a First-Priority Collateral Document or a Second-Priority Collateral Document.

 

“Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under (a) currency exchange, interest rate or commodity swap agreements, currency exchange, interest rate or commodity cap agreements, and currency exchange, interest rate or commodity collar agreements and (b) other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange, interest rates or commodity prices, including any obligations of the type referred to in the definition of “Hedging Agreement” in the Credit Agreement.

 

“Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding” shall mean (a) any voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to any Grantor, (b) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding with respect to any Grantor or with respect to any of its assets, (c) any liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or winding up of any Grantor whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy (except for any voluntary liquidation, dissolution or other winding up to the extent expressly permitted by the applicable First-Priority Documents and Second-Priority Documents) or (d) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of assets and liabilities of any Grantor.

 

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“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, hypothecation, pledge, charge, security interest or similar monetary encumbrance in, on or on such asset and (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset; provided, that in no event shall an operating lease or an agreement to sell be deemed to constitute a Lien.

 

“Notes Collateral” shall mean all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any Notes Obligations.

 

“Notes Collateral Agent” shall mean U.S. Bank, in its capacity as collateral agent under the Notes Indenture and the Notes Collateral Documents, and its permitted successors in such capacity.

 

“Notes Collateral Agreement” means the Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, dated as of February 4, 2014, by and among the Company, certain of its Subsidiaries and the Notes Collateral Agent, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

“Notes Collateral Documents” means the Notes Collateral Agreement and any documents now existing or entered into after the date hereof that create Liens on any assets or properties of any Grantor to secure any Notes Obligations.

 

“Notes Documents” shall mean (a) the Notes Indenture and the Notes Collateral Documents and (b) any other related document or instrument executed and delivered pursuant to any Notes Document described in clause (a) above evidencing or governing any Obligations thereunder.

 

“Notes Indenture” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals.

 

“Notes Obligations” means all “Obligations” (as such term is defined in the Notes Indenture) of the Company and other obligors under the Notes Indenture or any of the other Notes Documents, and all other obligations to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest (including any interest accruing after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) when due and payable, and all other amounts due or to become due under or in connection with the Notes Documents and the performance of all other Obligations of the obligors thereunder to the Notes Secured Parties under the Notes Documents, according to the respective terms thereof.

 

“Notes Secured Parties” shall mean the holders of any Notes Obligations, including the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent.

 

“Obligations” means any principal, interest (including any interest accruing after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any indebtedness; provided, that Obligations with respect to the Notes Obligations shall not include fees or indemnifications in

 

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favor of third parties other than the Trustee, the Notes Collateral Agent and the Notes Secured Parties.

 

“Other First-Priority Collateral Agent” means, with respect to any Series of Other First-Priority Obligations, any Other First-Priority Representative that acts in the capacity of a collateral agent with respect thereto.

 

“Other First-Priority Documents” means each of the agreements, documents and instruments providing for, evidencing or securing any Other First-Priority Obligations and any other related document or instrument executed or delivered pursuant to any Other First-Priority Document at any time or otherwise evidencing or securing any indebtedness arising under any Other First-Priority Document.

 

“Other First-Priority Obligations” means (a) all “Secured Obligations” as defined in the Credit Agreement Collateral Agreement (other than Credit Agreement Secured Obligations) and (b) any other indebtedness or Obligations (other than Credit Agreement Secured Obligations) of the Grantors that are to be secured with a Lien on the Collateral senior to the Liens securing the Notes Obligations and are designated by the Company as Other First-Priority Obligations hereunder; provided, however, that with respect to this clause (b), the requirements set forth in Section 8.21 shall have been satisfied.

 

“Other First-Priority Representative” means, with respect to any Series of Other First-Priority Obligations or any separate facility within such Series, the Person elected, designated or appointed as the administrative agent, trustee or other representative of such Series or facility by or on behalf of the holders of such Series or facility, and its respective successors in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed.

 

“Other First-Priority Secured Parties” shall mean the Persons holding Other First-Priority Obligations, including the Other First-Priority Representatives.

 

“Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent” with respect to any Series of Other Second-Priority Obligations, any Other Second-Priority Representative that acts in the capacity of a collateral agent with respect thereto.

 

“Other Second-Priority Documents” means each of the agreements, documents and instruments providing for, evidencing or securing any Other Second-Priority Obligations and any other related document or instrument executed or delivered pursuant to any Other Second-Priority Document at any time or otherwise evidencing or securing any indebtedness arising under any Second-Priority Obligations.

 

“Other Second-Priority Obligations” means (a) all “Obligations” as defined in the Notes Indenture (other than the Notes Obligations) and (b) any other any indebtedness or Obligations (other than the Notes Obligations) of the Grantors that are to be equally and ratably secured with the Notes Obligations and are designated by the Company as Other Second-Priority Obligations hereunder; provided, however, that with respect to this clause (b), the requirements set forth in Section 8.21 shall have been satisfied.

 

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“Other Second-Priority Representative” means, with respect to any Series of Other Second-Priority Obligations or any separate facility within such Series, the Person elected, designated or appointed as the administrative agent, trustee or other representative of such Series or facility by or on behalf of the holders of such Series or facility, and its respective successors in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed.

 

“Other Second-Priority Secured Parties” shall mean the Persons holding Other Second-Priority Obligations, including the Other Second-Priority Representatives.

 

“Person” means any natural person, corporation, business trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, limited liability company or government, individual or family trusts, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

“Plan of Reorganization” means any plan of reorganization, plan of liquidation, agreement for composition, or other type of plan of arrangement proposed in or in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

“Pledged Collateral” shall mean the Common Collateral in the possession of the First-Priority Collateral Agent (or its agents or bailees), to the extent that possession thereof is necessary to perfect a Lien thereon under the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

“Recovery” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.4.

 

“Required Lenders” shall mean, with respect to any First-Priority Credit Document, those First-Priority Secured Parties the approval of which is required to approve an amendment or modification of, termination or waiver of any provision of or consent to any departure from such First-Priority Credit Document (or would be required to effect such consent under this Agreement if such consent were treated as an amendment of such First-Priority Credit Document).

 

“Second-Priority Collateral” shall mean the Notes Collateral and all of the assets of any Grantor, whether real, personal or mixed, with respect to which a Lien is granted as security for any Other Second-Priority Obligations.

 

“Second-Priority Collateral Agent” shall mean such agent or trustee as is designated “Second-Priority Collateral Agent” by Second-Priority Secured Parties holding a majority in principal amount of the Second-Priority Obligations then outstanding; it being understood that as of the date of this Agreement, the Notes Collateral Agent shall be so designated Second-Priority Collateral Agent.

 

“Second-Priority Collateral Documents” shall mean (a) the Notes Collateral Documents and (b) any documents now existing or entered into after the date hereof that create Liens on any assets or properties of any Grantor to secure any Other Second-Priority Obligations.

 

“Second-Priority Credit Documents” shall mean (a) the Notes Indenture and (b) any Other Second-Priority Documents.

 

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“Second-Priority Documents” shall mean (a) the Notes Documents and (b) the Other Second-Priority Documents.

 

“Second-Priority Lien” shall mean any Lien on any assets of the Company or any other Grantor securing any Second-Priority Obligations.

 

“Second-Priority Obligations” means (a) the Notes Obligations, (b) the Other Second-Priority Obligations and (c) all other Obligations in respect of, or arising under, the Second-Priority Obligations Documents, including all fees and expenses of the collateral agent for any Other Second-Priority Obligations and shall include all interest and fees, which but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to the Issuer or any Subsidiary Guarantor, would have accrued on such obligations, whether or not a claim for such interest or fees is allowed in such proceeding.

 

“Second-Priority Representatives” shall mean (a) in the case of the Notes Obligations, the Notes Collateral Agent and (b) in the case of any Series of Other Second-Priority Obligations, the Other Second-Priority Representative with respect thereto.  The term “Second-Priority Representatives” shall include the Second-Priority Collateral Agent as the context requires.

 

“Second-Priority Secured Parties” shall mean (a) the Notes Secured Parties and (b) the Other Second-Priority Secured Parties, including the Second-Priority Representatives.

 

“Second-Priority Standstill Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a).

 

“Secured Parties” means the First-Priority Secured Parties and the Second-Priority Secured Parties.

 

“Securities Account” shall have the meaning set forth in the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

“Series” means (a) the Credit Agreement Secured Obligations and each series of Other First-Priority Obligations, each of which shall constitute a separate Series of First-Priority Obligations, except that to the extent that the Credit Agreement Secured Obligations and/or any one or more series of such Other First-Priority Obligations (i) are secured by identical collateral held by a common collateral agent and (ii) have their security interests documented by a single set of security documents, such Credit Agreement Secured Obligations and/or each such series of Other First-Priority Obligations shall collectively constitute a single Series and (b) the Notes Obligations and each series of Other Second-Priority Obligations, each of which shall constitute a separate Series Second-Priority Obligations, except that to the extent that the Notes Obligations and/or any one or more series of such Other Second-Priority Obligations (i) are secured by identical collateral held by a common collateral agent and (ii) have their security interests documented by a single set of security documents, such Notes Obligations and/or each such series of Other Second-Priority Obligations shall collectively constitute a single Series.

 

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any person (herein referred to as the “parent”), any corporation, partnership, association or other business entity (a) of which

 

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securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, at the time any determination is being made, directly or indirectly, owned, Controlled or held, or (b) that is, at the time any determination is made, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

 

“Trustee” means U.S. Bank, as trustee for the Noteholders under the Notes Indenture, together with its successors or co-agents or co-trustees in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed.

 

“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.

 

1.2                               Terms Generally.  The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.  Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.  The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”.  The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”.  Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with this Agreement, (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Sections shall be construed to refer to Sections of this Agreement and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

 

Section 2.                                          Lien Priorities.

 

2.1                               Subordination of Liens.  Notwithstanding the date, time, manner or order of filing or recordation of any document or instrument or grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens granted to the Second-Priority Secured Parties on the Common Collateral or of any Liens granted to the First-Priority Secured Parties on the Common Collateral (or any actual or alleged defect in any of the foregoing), and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC, or any applicable law or the Second-Priority Documents or the First-Priority Documents or any other circumstance whatsoever (including any non-perfection of any Lien purporting to secure the First-Priority Obligations and/or the Second-Priority Obligations), each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby agrees that: (a) any Lien on the Common Collateral securing any First-Priority Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the any First-Priority Secured Parties or any agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall have priority over and be senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the Common Collateral securing any Second-Priority Obligations, (b) any Lien on the Common Collateral securing any Second-Priority Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Second-Priority Secured Parties or any agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by grant,

 

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statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any First-Priority Obligations and (c) with respect to any Second-Priority Obligations (and as among the Second-Priority Secured Parties), the Liens on the Common Collateral securing any Second-Priority Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Second-Priority Secured Party or any agent or trustee therefor regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall rank equally and ratably in all respects, subject to the terms of the Second-Priority Documents.  All Liens on the Common Collateral securing any First-Priority Obligations shall be and remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any Second-Priority Obligations for all purposes, whether or not such Liens securing any First-Priority Obligations are subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person.

 

2.2                               Prohibition on Contesting Liens.  Each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, and each First-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable First-Priority Secured Party, agrees that it shall not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), the validity, perfection, priority, validity or enforceability of (a) a Lien securing any First-Priority Obligations held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of any of the First-Priority Secured Parties or any agent or trustee therefor in any First-Priority Collateral or (b) a Lien securing any Second-Priority Obligations held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of any Second-Priority Secured Party in the Common Collateral, as the case may be; provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of any First-Priority Secured Party or any agent or trustee therefor to enforce this Agreement (including the priority of the Liens securing the First-Priority Obligations as provided in Section 2.1) or any of the First-Priority Documents.

 

2.3                               No New Liens.  Subject to Section 11.04 of the Notes Indenture and the corresponding provision of any other Second-Priority Credit Document, so long as the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has not occurred, the parties hereto agree that, after the date hereof, if any Second-Priority Representative shall hold any Lien on any assets intended to be Common Collateral of the Company or any other Grantor securing any Second-Priority Obligations that are not also subject to the first-priority Lien in respect of the First-Priority Obligations under the First-Priority Documents, such Second-Priority Representative shall notify the First-Priority Collateral Agent promptly upon becoming aware thereof and, upon demand by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the Company, will either (i) release such Lien or (ii) assign such Lien to the First-Priority Collateral Agent (and/or its designee) as security for the applicable First-Priority Obligations (and, in the case of an assignment, each Second-Priority Representative may retain a junior lien on such assets subject to the terms hereof).  Subject to Section 11.04 of the Notes Indenture and the corresponding provision of any Second-Priority Credit Document, each Second-Priority Representative agrees that, after the date hereof, if it shall hold any Lien on any assets of the Company or any other Grantor securing any Second-Priority Obligations that are not also subject to the Lien in favor of each other Second-Priority Representative such Second-Priority Representative shall notify any other Second-Priority Representative promptly upon becoming aware thereof.

 

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2.4                               Perfection of Liens.  None of the First-Priority Secured Parties shall be responsible for perfecting and maintaining the perfection of Liens with respect to the Common Collateral for the benefit of the Second-Priority Secured Parties.  The provisions of this Intercreditor Agreement are intended solely to govern the respective Lien priorities as between the First-Priority Secured Parties and the Second-Priority Secured Parties and shall not impose on the First-Priority Secured Parties or the Second-Priority Secured Parties or any agent or trustee therefor any obligations in respect of the disposition of proceeds of any Common Collateral which would conflict with prior perfected claims therein in favor of any other Person or any order or decree of any court or governmental authority or any applicable law.

 

Section 3.                                          Enforcement.

 

3.1                               Exercise of Remedies.

 

(a)                                So long as the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, (i) no Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party will (x) exercise or seek to exercise any rights or remedies (including setoff) with respect to any Common Collateral in respect of any applicable Second-Priority Obligations, institute any action or proceeding with respect to such rights or remedies (including any action of foreclosure), (y) contest, protest or object to any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to the Common Collateral by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any First-Priority Secured Party in respect of the First-Priority Obligations, the exercise of any right by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any First-Priority Secured Party (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the First-Priority Obligations under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by any such party, of any rights and remedies relating to the Common Collateral under the First-Priority Documents or otherwise in respect of First-Priority Obligations, or (z) object to the forbearance by the First-Priority Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies relating to the Common Collateral in respect of First-Priority Obligations and (ii) except as otherwise provided herein, the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the First-Priority Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to enforce rights, exercise remedies (including setoff and the right to credit bid their debt) and make determinations regarding the release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Common Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party; provided, that the Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party may exercise any or all such rights after the passage of a period of 180 days from the date of delivery of a notice in writing to the First-Priority Representatives of such Second-Priority Representative’s or Second-Priority Secured Party’s intention to exercise its right to take such actions which notice shall specify that an “Event of Default” as defined in the applicable Second-Priority Documents has occurred and as a result of such “Event of Default”, the principal and interest under such Second-Priority Debt Documents have become due and payable (the “Second-Priority Standstill Period”) unless a First-Priority Representative has commenced and is diligently pursuing remedies with respect to any material portion of the Common Collateral (or attempted to commence such exercise of remedies and is stayed by applicable Insolvency or Liquidation

 

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Proceedings); provided further, that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, each Second-Priority Representative may file a claim or statement of interest with respect to the applicable Second-Priority Obligations and (B) each Second-Priority Representative may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Common Collateral securing the First-Priority Obligations, or the rights of the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Common Collateral.  In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the First-Priority Collateral, the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the First-Priority Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the First-Priority Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion.  Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Common Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition, and to exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured lender under the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

 

(b)                                So long as the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has not occurred, each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that it will not, in the context of its role as a Secured Party, take or receive any Common Collateral or any proceeds of Common Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including setoff) with respect to any Common Collateral in respect of the applicable Second-Priority Obligations.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in each proviso of Section 3.1(a), the sole right of the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties with respect to the Common Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Common Collateral in respect of the applicable Second-Priority Obligations pursuant to the Second-Priority Documents, as applicable, for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred.

 

(c)                                 Subject to each proviso of Section 3.1(a), (i) each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that no Second-Priority Representative or Second-Priority Secured Party will take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies undertaken by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties with respect to the Common Collateral under the First-Priority Documents, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Common Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, and (ii) each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby waives any and all rights it or any Second-Priority Secured Party may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the First-Priority Obligations or the Liens granted in any of the First-Priority Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First-Priority Collateral Agent or First-Priority Secured Parties is adverse to the interests of the Second-Priority Secured Parties.

 

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(d)                                Each Second-Priority Representative hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any applicable Second-Priority Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties with respect to the First-Priority Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the First-Priority Documents.

 

(e)                                 Subject to each proviso of Section 3.1(a), until the Discharge of the First-Priority Obligations, the First-Priority Collateral Agent shall have the exclusive right to exercise any right or remedy with respect to the Common Collateral and shall have the exclusive right to determine and direct the time, method and place for exercising such right or remedy or conducting any proceeding with respect thereto.

 

3.2                               Cooperation.  Subject to each proviso of Section 3.1(a), each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that, unless and until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, it will not commence, or join with any Person (other than the First-Priority Secured Parties and the First-Priority Collateral Agent upon the request thereof) in commencing, any enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure action or proceeding with respect to any Lien held by it in the Common Collateral under any of the applicable Second-Priority Documents or otherwise in respect of the applicable Second-Priority Obligations.

 

3.3                               Second-Priority Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Secured Parties Waiver.  The Second-Priority Collateral Agent and the Second-Priority Secured Parties hereby waive any claim they may now or hereafter have against the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any First-Priority Secured Parties arising out of (i) any actions which the First-Priority Collateral Agent (or any of its representatives) takes or omits to take (including actions with respect to the creation, perfection or continuation of Liens on any Collateral, actions with respect to the foreclosure upon, disposition, release or depreciation of, or failure to realize upon, any of the Collateral and actions with respect to the collection of any claim for all or any part of the Obligations from any account debtor, guarantor or any other party) in accordance with any relevant First-Priority Collateral Documents or any other agreement related thereto, or to the collection of the Obligations or the valuation, use, protection or release of any security for the Obligations, (ii) any election by the First-Priority Collateral Agent (or any of its agents), in any proceeding instituted under the Bankruptcy Code, of the application of Section 1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, or (iii) subject to Section 6, any borrowing by, or grant of a security interest or administrative expense priority under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code by, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as debtor-in-possession.

 

3.4                               Actions upon Breach.  Should any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party, contrary to this Agreement, in any way, take, attempt to take or threaten to take any action with respect to the Common Collateral (including any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with respect to this Agreement) or fail to take any action required by this Agreement, the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any First Priority Representative or any other First-Priority Secured Party (in its or their own name or in the name of the Company or any other Grantor) may obtain relief against such Second-Priority Representative or such Second-Priority Secured Party by injunction, specific performance or other appropriate equitable relief.  Each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority

 

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Secured Party, hereby (i) agrees that the First-Priority Secured Parties’ damages from the actions of the Second-Priority Representatives or any Second-Priority Secured Party may at that time be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable and waives any defense that the Senior Secured Parties cannot demonstrate damage or be made whole by the awarding of damages and (ii) irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense that might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action that may be brought by the First-Priority Collateral Agent, any First-Priority Representative or any other First-Priority Secured Party.

 

Section 4.                                          Payments.

 

4.1                               Application of Proceeds.  After an Event of Default under (and as defined in) any First-Priority Documents has occurred with respect to which the First-Priority Collateral Agent has provided written notice to each Second-Priority Representative, and until such event of default is cured or waived, so long as the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has not occurred, the Common Collateral or proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or other disposition of, or collection on, such Common Collateral upon the exercise of remedies, shall be applied by the First-Priority Collateral Agent to the First-Priority Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant First-Priority Documents until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred.  Upon the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, the First-Priority Collateral Agent shall deliver promptly to the Second-Priority Collateral Agent any Common Collateral or proceeds thereof held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct to be applied by the Second-Priority Collateral Agent ratably to the Second-Priority Obligations and, with respect to each class of Second-Priority Obligations, in such order as specified in the relevant Second-Priority Documents.

 

4.2                               Payments Over.  Any Common Collateral or proceeds thereof received by any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including setoff) relating to the Common Collateral (or any distribution in respect of the Common Collateral, whether or not expressly characterized as such) prior to the Discharge of the First-Priority Obligations shall be segregated and held in trust for the benefit of and forthwith paid over to the First-Priority Collateral Agent (and/or its designees) for the benefit of the applicable First-Priority Secured Parties in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.  The First-Priority Collateral Agent is hereby authorized to make any such endorsements as agent for any Second-Priority Representative or any such Second-Priority Secured Party.  This authorization is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable.

 

Section 5.                                          Other Agreements.

 

5.1                               Releases.

 

(a)                                If, at any time any Grantor, the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the holder of any First-Priority Obligation delivers notice to each Second-Priority Representative that any specified Common Collateral (including all or substantially all of the equity interests of a Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries) is sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of (x) by the owner

 

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of such Common Collateral in a transaction (1) not prohibited by any First-Priority Credit Document or to which the First-Priority Collateral Agent has consented in accordance with the First-Priority Documents and (2) not prohibited by any Second-Priority Credit Document or (y) during the existence of any Event of Default under (and as defined in) the Credit Agreement or any other First-Priority Credit Document to the extent the First-Priority Collateral Agent has consented to such sale, transfer or disposition, then (whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding is pending at the time) the Liens in favor of the Second-Priority Secured Parties upon such Common Collateral will automatically be released and discharged as and when, but only to the extent, such Liens on such Common Collateral securing First-Priority Obligations are released and discharged.  Upon (i) delivery to each Second-Priority Representative of a notice from the First-Priority Collateral Agent stating that any release of Liens securing or supporting the First-Priority Obligations has become effective (or shall become effective upon each First-Priority Representative’s release), and (ii) in the case of the Notes Collateral Agent, delivery of such certificates and other documents required to be delivered under the Notes Documents, whether in connection with a sale of such assets by the relevant owner pursuant to the preceding clauses or otherwise, each Second-Priority Representative will promptly execute and deliver such instruments, releases, termination statements or other documents confirming such release on customary terms.  In the case of the sale of all or substantially all of the equity interests of a Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries, the guarantee in favor of the Second-Priority Secured Parties, if any, made by such Grantor or Subsidiary will automatically be released and discharged as and when, but only to the extent, the guarantee by such Grantor or Subsidiary of First-Priority Obligations is released and discharged.

 

(b)                                Each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the First-Priority Collateral Agent and any officer or agent of the First-Priority Collateral Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of each Second-Priority Representative or such holder or in the First-Priority Collateral Agent’s own name, from time to time in the First-Priority Collateral Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.1, to take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments that may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.1, including any termination statements, endorsements or other instruments of transfer or release.

 

(c)                                 Unless and until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby consents to the application, whether prior to or after a default, of Deposit Account Collateral or proceeds of Common Collateral to the repayment of First-Priority Obligations pursuant to the First-Priority Documents; provided that nothing in this Section 5.1(c) shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the Second-Priority Representatives or the Second-Priority Secured Parties to receive proceeds in connection with the Second-Priority Obligations not otherwise in contravention of this Agreement.

 

5.2                               Insurance.  Unless and until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the First-Priority Secured Parties shall have the sole and exclusive right, subject to the rights of the Grantors under the First-Priority Documents, to adjust settlement for any insurance policy covering the Common Collateral in the event of any loss

 

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thereunder and to approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding affecting the Common Collateral.  Unless and until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, all proceeds of any such policy and any such award if in respect of the Common Collateral shall be paid, subject to the rights of the Grantors under the First-Priority Documents, (a) first, prior to the occurrence of the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, to the First-Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of First-Priority Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the First-Priority Documents, (b) second, after the occurrence of the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, to the Second-Priority Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Second-Priority Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the applicable Second-Priority Documents and (c) third, if no Second-Priority Obligations are outstanding, to the owner of the subject property, such other person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.  If any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party shall, at any time, receive any proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award in contravention of this Agreement, it shall pay such proceeds over to the First-Priority Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of Section 4.2.

 

5.3                               Amendments to Second-Priority Collateral Documents.

 

(a)                                So long as the Discharge of the First-Priority Obligations has not occurred, without the prior written consent of the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the Required Lenders, no Second-Priority Collateral Document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or entered into to the extent such amendment, supplement or modification, or the terms of any new Second-Priority Collateral Document, would be prohibited by or inconsistent with any of the terms of this Agreement or any other First-Priority Document.  Unless otherwise agreed to by the First-Priority Collateral Agent, each Grantor agrees that each applicable Second-Priority Collateral Document shall include language substantially the same as the following paragraph (or language to similar effect approved by the First-Priority Collateral Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld):

 

“Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the liens and security interests granted to the [insert the relevant Second-Priority Representative] for the benefit of the [Secured Parties] pursuant to this Agreement are expressly subject and subordinate to the liens and security interests granted to (a) Barclays Bank PLC, as collateral agent (and its permitted successors) pursuant to the First Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement dated as of February 7, 2014 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), by and among SFX Entertainment, Inc., certain of its affiliates and Barclays Bank PLC, as collateral agent or (b) any agent or trustee for any Other First-Priority Secured Parties (as defined in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement referred to below) and (ii) the exercise of any right or remedy by the [insert the relevant Second-Priority Representative] hereunder or the application of proceeds (including insurance proceeds and condemnation proceeds) of any Common Collateral is subject to the limitations and provisions of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement dated as of February 7, 2014 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement”), by and among Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as the Credit Agreement Agent and First-Priority Collateral Agent, U.S. Bank

 

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National Association, in its capacity as the Notes Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Collateral Agent, and SFX Entertainment, Inc.  In the event of any conflict between the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall govern.”

 

(b)                                In the event that the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties enter into any amendment, waiver or consent in respect of or replace any of the First-Priority Collateral Documents for the purpose of adding to, or deleting from, or waiving or consenting to any departures from any provisions of, any First-Priority Collateral Document or changing in any manner the rights of the First-Priority Collateral Agent, the First-Priority Secured Parties, the Company or any other Grantor thereunder (including the release of any Liens in First-Priority Collateral), then such amendment, waiver or consent shall apply automatically to any comparable provision of each Comparable Second-Priority Collateral Document without the consent of any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party and without any action by any Second-Priority Representative, Second-Priority Secured Party, the Company or any other Grantor; provided, however, that (A) such amendment, waiver or consent does not (i) amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of any Second-Priority Representative without its prior written consent or (ii) otherwise materially adversely affect the rights of the Second-Priority Secured Parties or the interests of the Second-Priority Secured Parties in the Second-Priority Collateral and not the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties, as the case may be, that have a security interest in the affected collateral in a like or similar manner, and (B) written notice of such amendment, waiver or consent shall have been given to each Second-Priority Representative by the First-Priority Collateral Agent within 10 Business Days after the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or consent.

 

5.4                               Rights As Unsecured Creditors.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties may exercise rights and remedies as an unsecured creditor against the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that has guaranteed the Second-Priority Obligations in accordance with the terms of the applicable Second-Priority Documents and applicable law, so long as such rights and remedies do not violate (or are otherwise not prohibited by) an express provision of this Agreement.  Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party of the required payments of interest and principal so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party of rights or remedies as a secured creditor in respect of Common Collateral or enforcement in contravention of this Agreement of any Lien in respect of Second-Priority Obligations held by any of them.  In the event any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party becomes a judgment lien creditor in respect of Common Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor in respect of Second-Priority Obligations, such judgment lien shall be subordinated to the Liens securing First-Priority Obligations on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second-Priority Obligations are so subordinated to such Liens securing First-Priority Obligations under this Agreement.  Nothing in this Agreement impairs or otherwise adversely affects any rights or remedies the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties may have with respect to the First-Priority Collateral.

 

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5.5                               First-Priority Collateral Agent as Gratuitous Bailee/Agent for Perfection.

 

(a)                                The First-Priority Collateral Agent agrees to hold the Pledged Collateral that is part of the Common Collateral in its possession or control (or in the possession or control of its agents or bailees) as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of each Second-Priority Representative and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Pledged Collateral pursuant to the Second-Priority Collateral Documents, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.5.

 

(b)                                The First-Priority Collateral Agent agrees to hold the Deposit Account Collateral (if any) that is part of the Common Collateral and controlled by the First-Priority Collateral Agent as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of each Second-Priority Representative and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Deposit Account Collateral pursuant to the Second-Priority Collateral Documents, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.5.

 

(c)                                 In the event that the First-Priority Collateral Agent (or its agent or bailees) has Lien filings against Intellectual Property (as defined in the Notes Collateral Agreement) that is part of the Common Collateral that are necessary for the perfection of Liens in such Common Collateral, the First-Priority Collateral Agent agrees to hold such Liens as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of each Second-Priority Representative and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Liens pursuant to the Second-Priority Collateral Documents, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.5.

 

(d)                                Except as otherwise specifically provided herein (including Sections 3.1 and 4.1), until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, the First-Priority Collateral Agent shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged Collateral in accordance with the terms of the First-Priority Documents as if the Liens under the Second-Priority Collateral Documents did not exist.  The rights of the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties with respect to such Pledged Collateral shall at all times be subject to the terms of this Agreement.

 

(e)                                 The First-Priority Collateral Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party to assure that the Pledged Collateral is genuine or owned by the Grantors or to protect or preserve rights or benefits of any Person or any rights pertaining to the Common Collateral except as expressly set forth in this Section 5.5.  The duties or responsibilities of the First-Priority Collateral Agent under this Section 5.5 shall be limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of each Second-Priority Representative for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by the Second-Priority Secured Parties.

 

(f)                                  The First-Priority Collateral Agent shall not have by reason of the Second-Priority Collateral Documents or this Agreement or any other document a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party and the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties hereby waive and release the First-Priority Collateral Agent from all claims and liabilities arising pursuant to the First-Priority Collateral Agent’s role under this Section 5.5, as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent with respect to the Common Collateral.

 

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(g)                                 Upon the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, the First-Priority Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Second-Priority Collateral Agent, at the Company’s reasonable expense, to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, the Pledged Collateral (if any) and the Deposit Account Collateral (if any) that is part of the Common Collateral together with any necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow the Second-Priority Collateral Agent to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral and Deposit Account Collateral) or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct.  The Company shall take such further action as is required to effectuate the transfer contemplated hereby and shall indemnify the First-Priority Collateral Agent for any loss or damage suffered by the First-Priority Collateral Agent as a result of such transfer except for any loss or damage suffered by the First-Priority Collateral Agent as a result of its own willful misconduct, gross negligence or bad faith.  The First-Priority Collateral Agent has no obligation to follow instructions from any Second-Priority Representative in contravention of this Agreement.

 

(h)                                Neither the First-Priority Collateral Agent nor the First-Priority Secured Parties shall be required to marshal any present or future collateral security for the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ obligations to the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties under the First-Priority Credit Documents or the First-Priority Collateral Documents or any assurance of payment in respect thereof or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of their rights in respect of such collateral security or any assurance of payment in respect thereof shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights, however existing or arising.

 

(i)                                    The agreement of the First-Priority Collateral Agent to act as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent pursuant to this Section 5.5 is intended, among other things, to satisfy the requirements of Sections 8-106(d)(3), 8-301(a)(2), 9-104(a)(2) and 9-313(c) of the UCC.

 

5.6                               Second-Priority Collateral Agent as Gratuitous Bailee/Agent for Perfection.

 

(a)                                Upon the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent agrees to hold the Pledged Collateral that is part of the Common Collateral in its possession or control (or in the possession or control of its agents or bailees) as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of the other Second-Priority Representatives and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Pledged Collateral pursuant to the applicable Second-Priority Collateral Document, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.6.

 

(b)                                Upon the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent agrees to hold the Deposit Account Collateral that is part of the Common Collateral and controlled by the Second-Priority Collateral Agent as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of other Second-Priority Representatives and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Deposit Account Collateral pursuant to the applicable Second-Priority Collateral Document, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.6.

 

(c)                                 In the event that the Second-Priority Collateral Agent (or its agent or bailees) has Lien filings against Intellectual Property (as defined in the Notes Collateral Agreement) that is

 

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part of the Common Collateral that are necessary for the perfection of Liens in such Common Collateral, upon the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent agrees to hold such Liens as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of other Second-Priority Representatives and any assignee solely for the purpose of perfecting the security interest granted in such Liens pursuant to the applicable Second-Priority Collateral Document, subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 5.6.

 

(d)                                The Second-Priority Collateral Agent, in its capacity as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent, shall have no obligation whatsoever to the other Second-Priority Representatives to assure that the Pledged Collateral is genuine or owned by the Grantors or to protect or preserve rights or benefits of any Person or any rights pertaining to the Common Collateral except as expressly set forth in this Section 5.6.  The duties or responsibilities of the Second-Priority Collateral Agent under this Section 5.6 upon the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations shall be limited solely to holding the Pledged Collateral as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent for the benefit of other Second-Priority Representatives for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by the applicable Second-Priority Secured Parties.

 

(e)                                 The Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall not have by reason of the Second-Priority Collateral Documents or this Agreement or any other document a fiduciary relationship in respect of the other Second-Priority Representatives (or the Second-Priority Secured Parties for which such other Second-Priority Representatives are agent) and the other Second-Priority Representatives hereby waive and release the Second-Priority Collateral Agent from all claims and liabilities arising pursuant to the Second-Priority Collateral Agent’s role under this Section 5.6, as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent with respect to the Common Collateral.

 

(f)                                  In the event that the Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall cease to be so designated the Second-Priority Collateral Agent pursuant to the definition of such term, the then Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall deliver to the successor Second-Priority Collateral Agent, to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, the Pledged Collateral (if any) and the Deposit Account Collateral (if any) together with any necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow the successor Second-Priority Collateral Agent to obtain control of such Pledged Collateral and Deposit Account Collateral) or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, and such successor Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall perform all duties of the Second-Priority Collateral Agent as set forth herein.  The Company shall take such further action as is required to effectuate the transfer contemplated hereby and shall indemnify the Second-Priority Collateral Agent for any loss or damage suffered by the Second-Priority Collateral Agent as a result of such transfer except for any loss or damage suffered by the Second-Priority Collateral Agent as a result of its own willful misconduct, gross negligence or bad faith.  The Second-Priority Collateral Agent has no obligation to follow instructions from the successor Second-Priority Collateral Agent in contravention of this Agreement

 

(g)                                 The agreement of the Second-Priority Collateral Agent to act as gratuitous bailee and/or gratuitous agent pursuant to this Section 5.6 is intended, among other things, to satisfy the requirements of Sections 8-106(d)(3), 8-301(a)(2), 9-104(a)(2) and 9-313(c) of the UCC.

 

5.7                               When Discharge of First-Priority Obligations Deemed to Not Have Occurred.   If, at any time after the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, any of the Grantors

 

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incurs and designates any Other First-Priority Obligations, then such Discharge of First-Priority Obligations shall automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than with respect to any actions taken prior to the date of such designation as a result of the occurrence of such first Discharge of First-Priority Obligations), and the applicable agreement governing such Other First-Priority Obligations shall automatically be treated as a First-Priority Credit Document (and, upon designation by the Company thereof, the “Credit Agreement” hereunder) for all purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of Common Collateral set forth herein and the granting by the First-Priority Collateral Agent of amendments, waivers and consents hereunder.  Upon receipt of notice of such designation (including the identity of the new First-Priority Collateral Agent), each Second-Priority Representative shall promptly (i) enter into such documents and agreements (at the expense of the Company), including amendments or supplements to this Agreement, as the Company or such new First-Priority Collateral Agent shall reasonably request in writing in order to provide the new First-Priority Representative the rights of the First-Priority Collateral Agent contemplated hereby and (ii) to the extent then held by any Second-Priority Representative, deliver to the First-Priority Collateral Agent the Pledged Collateral that is Common Collateral together with any necessary endorsements (or otherwise allow such First-Priority Collateral Agent to obtain possession or control of such Pledged Collateral).

 

5.8                               No Release Upon Discharge of First-Priority Obligations.  Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in this Agreement, if a Discharge of First-Priority Obligations occurs, the second-priority Liens on the Second-Priority Collateral securing the Second-Priority Obligations will not be released, except to the extent such Second-Priority Collateral or any portion thereof was disposed of in order to repay the First-Priority Obligations secured by such Second-Priority Collateral (including as contemplated under Section 6.9 below) or otherwise as permitted under the First-Priority Documents and the Second-Priority Documents, as applicable.

 

Section 6.                                          Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings.

 

6.1                               Financing Issues.  If the Company or any other Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the First-Priority Collateral Agent shall desire to permit (or not object to) the use of cash collateral or to permit (or not object to) the Company or any other Grantor to obtain financing under Section 363 or Section 364 of Title 11 of the United States Code or any similar provision in any Bankruptcy Law (“DIP Financing”), then each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that it will raise no (a) objection to (and will not otherwise contest or join with or support any third party opposing, objecting to or contesting) such use of cash collateral or DIP Financing and will not request adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith (except to the extent permitted by each proviso of Section 3.1(a) and Section 6.3) and, to the extent the Liens securing the First-Priority Obligations under the First-Priority Documents are subordinated to, or pari passu with, such DIP Financing, will subordinate its Liens in the Common Collateral to such DIP Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second-Priority Obligations are so subordinated to Liens securing First-Priority Obligations under this Agreement, (b) objection to (and will not otherwise contest or join with or support any third party opposing, objecting to or contesting) any motion for relief from the automatic stay or from any injunction against foreclosure or enforcement in respect of First-Priority Obligations made by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any holder of

 

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First-Priority Obligations, (c) objection to (and will not otherwise contest or join with or support any third party opposing, objecting to or contesting) any lawful exercise by any holder of First-Priority Obligations of the right to credit bid First-Priority Obligations at any sale in foreclosure of First-Priority Collateral, (d) objection to (and will not otherwise contest or join with or support any third party opposing, objecting to or contesting) any other request for judicial relief made in any court by any holder of First-Priority Obligations relating to the lawful enforcement of any Lien on First-Priority Collateral or (e) objection to (and will not otherwise contest or join with or support any third party opposing, objecting to or contesting) any order relating to a sale of assets of any Grantor for which the First-Priority Collateral Agent has consented that provides, to the extent the sale is to be free and clear of Liens, that the Liens securing the First-Priority Obligations and the Second-Priority Obligations will attach to the proceeds of the sale on the same basis of priority as the Liens securing the First-Priority Collateral rank to the Liens securing the Second-Priority Collateral in accordance with this Agreement.

 

6.2                               Relief from the Automatic Stay.  Until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that none of them shall seek relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or take any action in respect of the Common Collateral, without the prior written consent of the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the Required Lenders.

 

6.3                               Adequate Protection.  Each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that none of them shall object or contest (or support any other Person objecting to or contesting) (a) any request by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties for adequate protection, (b) any objection by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties to any motion, relief, action or proceeding based on the First-Priority Collateral Agent’s or the First-Priority Secured Parties’ claiming a lack of adequate protection or (c) the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts of the First-Priority Collateral Agent, any First-Priority Representative or any other First Priority Secured Party under Section 506(b) or 506(c) of Title 11 of the United States Code or any similar provisions of any other Bankruptcy Law.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (i) if the First-Priority Secured Parties (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate protection in the form of additional collateral in connection with any DIP Financing or use of cash collateral under Section 363 or Section 364 of Title 11 of the United States Code or any similar Bankruptcy Law, then each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and any applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, may seek or request adequate protection in the form of a replacement Lien on such additional collateral, which Lien is subordinated to the Liens securing the First-Priority Obligations and such DIP Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second-Priority Obligations are so subordinated to the Liens securing First-Priority Obligations under this Agreement and (ii) in the event any Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself or any applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, seeks or requests adequate protection and such adequate protection is granted in the form of additional collateral, then such Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself or each such Second-Priority Secured Party, agrees that the First-Priority Representatives shall also be granted a senior Lien on such additional collateral as security for the applicable First-Priority Obligations and any such DIP Financing and that any Lien on such additional collateral securing the Second-Priority Obligations shall be subordinated

 

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to the Liens on such collateral securing the First-Priority Obligations and any such DIP Financing (and all Obligations relating thereto) and any other Liens granted to the First-Priority Secured Parties as adequate protection on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Second-Priority Obligations are so subordinated to such Liens securing First-Priority Obligations under this Agreement.

 

6.4                               Preference Issues.  If any First-Priority Secured Party is required in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of the Company or any other Grantor (or any trustee, receiver or similar person therefor), because the payment of such amount was declared to be fraudulent or preferential in any respect or for any other reason, any amount (a “Recovery”), whether received as proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of setoff or otherwise, then the First-Priority Obligations shall be reinstated to the extent of such Recovery and deemed to be outstanding as if such payment had not occurred and the First-Priority Secured Parties shall remain entitled to the benefits of this Agreement until a Discharge of First-Priority Obligations with respect to all such recovered amounts and shall have all rights hereunder until such time.  If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto.  Each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby agrees that none of them shall be entitled to benefit from any avoidance action affecting or otherwise relating to any distribution or allocation made in accordance with this Agreement, whether by preference or otherwise, it being understood and agreed that the benefit of such avoidance action otherwise allocable to them shall instead be allocated and turned over for application in accordance with the priorities set forth in this Agreement.

 

6.5                               Application.  This Agreement shall be applicable prior to and after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.  All references herein to any Grantor shall apply to any trustee for such Person and such Person as debtor in possession.  The relative rights as to the Common Collateral and proceeds thereof shall continue after the filing thereof on the same basis as prior to the date of the petition, subject to any court order approving the financing of, or use of cash collateral by, any Grantor.

 

6.6                               506(c) Claims.  Until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred, each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, will not assert or enforce any claim under Section 506(c) of the United States Bankruptcy Code senior to or on a parity with the Liens securing the First-Priority Obligations for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any Common Collateral.

 

6.7                               Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classifications.  Each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, acknowledges and agrees that (a) the grants of Liens pursuant to the First-Priority Collateral Documents and the Second-Priority Collateral Documents constitute two separate and distinct grants of Liens and (b) because of, among other things, their differing rights in the Common Collateral, the Second-Priority Obligations are fundamentally different from the First-Priority Obligations and must be separately classified in any plan of reorganization proposed or adopted in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.  To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that the claims of the First-Priority

 

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Secured Parties and the Second-Priority Secured Parties in respect of the Common Collateral constitute a single class of claims (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby acknowledges and agrees that all distributions shall be made as if there were separate classes of senior and junior secured claims against the Grantors in respect of the Common Collateral (with the effect being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the Common Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Second-Priority Secured Parties), the First-Priority Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of principal, pre-petition interest and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of post-petition interest, fees and expenses (whether or not allowed or allowable) before any distribution is made in respect of the Second-Priority Obligations, with each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the First-Priority Collateral Agent amounts otherwise received or receivable by them to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of reducing the claim or recovery of the Second-Priority Secured Parties.

 

6.8                               Section 1111(b)(2) Waiver.  Each Second-Priority Representative, for itself and on behalf of the other Second-Priority Secured Parties, waives any claim it may hereafter have against any First-Priority Secured Party arising out of the election by any First-Priority of the application to the claims of any First-Priority of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, and/or out of any sale, use or lease, cash collateral or DIP Financing arrangement or out of any grant of a security interest in connection with the Common Collateral in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

6.9                               Asset Sales.  Each Second-Priority Representative agrees, for and on behalf of itself and the applicable Second-Priority Secured Parties represented thereby, that it will not oppose any sale consented to by the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any First-Priority Representative of any Collateral pursuant to Section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision under the law applicable to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), so long as the Second Priority Representative, for the benefit of the Second Priority Secured Parties, shall retain a Lien on the proceeds of such sale (to the extent  such proceeds of such sale are not applied in accordance with this Agreement).

 

6.10                        Reorganization Securities.  If, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, debt obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the reorganized debtor are distributed, pursuant to a Plan of Reorganization or similar dispositive restructuring plan, on account of both the First-Priority Obligations and the Second-Priority Obligations, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on account of the First-Priority Obligations and on account of the Second-Priority Debt Obligations are secured by Liens upon the same assets or property, the provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to such plan and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.  Any such reorganization debt obligations distributed on account of the Second-Priority Obligations must provide (i) for the payment of interest thereon in kind until such time as the reorganization debt obligations distributed on account of the First-Priority Obligations are paid in full and Discharged in accordance with the terms thereof and (ii) for a maturity date and weighted average life to maturity that is later than the maturity date, or longer than the weighted

 

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average life to maturity, as the case may be, of the reorganization debt obligations distributed on account of the First-Priority Obligations.

 

6.11                        Proofs of Claim.  Subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, the First-Priority Collateral Agent may file proofs of claim and other pleadings and motions with respect to any First-Priority Obligations, any Second-Priority Obligations or the Common Collateral in any Insolvency or Luiquidation Proceeding.  If a proper proof of claim has not been filed in the form required in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding at least ten days prior to the expiration of the time for filing thereof, the First-Priority Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the duty) to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the Second-Priority Secured Parties with respect to any of the Second-Priority Obligations for any of the Common Collateral.  In furtherance of the foregoing, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent hereby appoints the First-Priority Collateral Agent as its attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of the Second-Priority Collateral Agent and full power of substitution and in the name of the Second-Priority Secured Parties or otherwise, to execute and deliver any document or instrument that the First-Priority Collateral Agent is required or permitted to deliver pursuant to this Section, such appointment being coupled with an interest and irrevocable.

 

Section 7.                                          Reliance; Waivers; etc.

 

7.1                               Reliance.  The consent by the First-Priority Secured Parties to the execution and delivery of the Second-Priority Documents to which the First-Priority Secured Parties have consented and all loans and other extensions of credit made or deemed made on and after the date hereof by the First-Priority Secured Parties to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall be deemed to have been given and made in reliance upon this Agreement.  Each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party (other than the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent), acknowledges that it and the applicable Second-Priority Secured Parties (other than the Trustee and the Notes Collateral Agent) have, independently and without reliance on the First-Priority Collateral Agent or any First-Priority Secured Party, and based on documents and information deemed by them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into the applicable Second-Priority Documents, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and they will continue to make their own credit decision in taking or not taking any action under the applicable Second-Priority Documents or this Agreement.

 

7.2                               No Warranties or Liability.  Each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, acknowledges and agrees that neither the First-Priority Collateral Agent nor any First-Priority Secured Party has made any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any of the First-Priority Documents, the ownership of any Common Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon.  The First-Priority Secured Parties will be entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under the First-Priority Documents in accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate, and the First-Priority Secured Parties may manage their loans and extensions of credit without regard to any rights or interests that any Second-Priority Representative or any of the Second-Priority Secured Parties have in the

 

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Common Collateral or otherwise, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement.  Neither the First-Priority Collateral Agent nor any First-Priority Secured Party shall have any duty to any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party to act or refrain from acting in a manner that allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an event of default or default under any agreements with the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (including the Second-Priority Documents), regardless of any knowledge thereof that they may have or be charged with.  Except as expressly set forth in this Intercreditor Agreement, the First-Priority Collateral Agent, the First-Priority Secured Parties, the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties have not otherwise made to each other, nor do they hereby make to each other, any warranties, express or implied, nor do they assume any liability to each other with respect to (a) the enforceability, validity, value or collectibility of any of the Second-Priority Obligations, the First-Priority Obligations or any guarantee or security which may have been granted to any of them in connection therewith, (b) the Company’s or any other Grantor’s title to or right to transfer any of the Common Collateral or (c) any other matter except as expressly set forth in this Intercreditor Agreement.

 

7.3                               Obligations Unconditional.  All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the First-Priority Secured Parties, and the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties, respectively, hereunder shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:

 

(a)                                any lack of validity or enforceability of any First-Priority Documents or any Second-Priority Documents;

 

(b)                                any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all or any of the First-Priority Obligations or Second-Priority Obligations, or any amendment or waiver or other modification, including any increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, of the terms of the Credit Agreement or any other First-Priority Document or of the terms of the Notes Indenture or any other Second-Priority Document;

 

(c)                                 any exchange of any security interest in any Common Collateral or any other collateral, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing or by course of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the First-Priority Obligations or Second-Priority Obligations or any guarantee thereof;

 

(d)                                the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the Company or any other Grantor; or

 

(e)                                 any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Company or any other Grantor in respect of the First-Priority Obligations, or of any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party in respect of this Agreement.

 

Section 8.                                          Miscellaneous.

 

8.1                               Conflicts.  Subject to Section 8.19, in the event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the terms of any First-Priority Document or any Second-Priority Document, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.

 

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8.2                               Continuing Nature of this Agreement; Severability.  Subject to Section 5.7 and Section 6.4, this Agreement shall continue to be effective until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations shall have occurred or such later time as all the Obligations in respect of the Second-Priority Obligations shall have been paid in full.  This is a continuing agreement of lien subordination and the First-Priority Secured Parties may continue, at any time and without notice to each Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party, to extend credit and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Company or any other Grantor constituting First-Priority Obligations in reliance hereon.  The terms of this Agreement shall survive, and shall continue in full force and effect, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

8.3                               Amendments; Waivers.  No amendment, modification or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to be made unless the same shall be in writing signed on behalf of each Second-Priority Representative (or its authorized agent), each First-Priority Representative (or its authorized agent) and the Company and each waiver, if any, shall be a waiver only with respect to the specific instance involved and shall in no way impair the rights of the parties making such waiver or the obligations of the other parties to such party in any other respect or at any other time.  Notwithstanding anything in this Section 8.3 to the contrary, this Agreement may be amended from time to time at the request of the Company, at the Company’s expense, and without the consent of any First-Priority Representative, any Second-Priority Representative, any First-Priority Secured Party or any Second-Priority Secured Party to (i) add other parties holding Other First-Priority Obligations (or any agent or trustee therefor) and Other Second-Priority Obligations (or any agent or trustee therefor) in each case to the extent such Obligations are not prohibited by any First-Priority Credit Document or any Second-Priority Credit Document, (ii) in the case of Other Second-Priority Obligations, (a) establish that the Lien on the Common Collateral securing such Other Second-Priority Obligations shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any First-Priority Obligations and shall share in the benefits of the Common Collateral equally and ratably with all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any Second-Priority Obligations (subject to the terms of the Second-Priority Documents), and (b) provide to the holders of such Other Second-Priority Obligations (or any agent or trustee thereof) the comparable rights and benefits (including any improved rights and benefits that have been consented to by the First-Priority Collateral Agent) as are provided to the holders of Second-Priority Obligations under this Agreement (subject to the terms of the Second-Priority Documents), and (iii) in the case of Other First-Priority Obligations, (a) establish that the Lien on the Common Collateral securing such Other First-Priority Obligations shall be superior in all respects to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any Second-Priority Obligations and shall share in the benefits of the Common Collateral equally and ratably with all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any First-Priority Obligations (subject to the terms of the First-Priority Documents), and (b) provide to the holders of such Other First-Priority Obligations (or any agent or trustee thereof) the comparable rights and benefits as are provided to the holders of First-Priority Obligations under this Agreement (subject to the terms of the First-Priority Documents), in each case so long as such modifications are not prohibited by any First-Priority Credit Document or any Second-Priority Credit Document. Any such additional party and each Representative shall be entitled to rely on

 

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the determination of an officer of the Company that such modifications are not prohibited by any First-Priority Credit Document or any Second-Priority Credit Document if such determination is set forth in an officer’s certificate delivered to such party, the First-Priority Collateral Agent and each Second-Priority Representative.  At the request (and sole expense) of the Company, without the consent of any First-Priority Secured Party or Second-Priority Secured Party, each of the First-Priority Collateral Agent, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent and each other First-Priority Representative and Second-Priority Representative shall execute and deliver an acknowledgment and confirmation of such permitted modifications and/or enter into an amendment, a restatement or a supplement of this Agreement to facilitate such permitted modifications (it being understood that such actions shall not be required for the effectiveness of any such modifications).

 

8.4                               Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries.  The First-Priority Collateral Agent, the First-Priority Secured Parties, each Second-Priority Representative and the Second-Priority Secured Parties shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a) the financial condition of the Company and the Subsidiaries of the Company and all endorsers and/or guarantors of the Second-Priority Obligations or the First-Priority Obligations and (b) all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Second-Priority Obligations or the First-Priority Obligations.  The First-Priority Collateral Agent, the First-Priority Secured Parties, each Second-Priority Representative and the Second-Priority Secured Parties shall have no duty to advise any other party hereunder of information known to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise.  In the event that the First-Priority Collateral Agent, any First-Priority Secured Party, any Second-Priority Representative or any Second-Priority Secured Party, in its or their sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to any other party, it or they shall be under no obligation (w) to make, and the First-Priority Collateral Agent, the First-Priority Secured Parties, the Second-Priority Representatives and the Second-Priority Secured Parties shall not make, any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of any such information so provided, (x) to provide any additional information or to provide any such information on any subsequent occasion, (y) to undertake any investigation or (z) to disclose any information that, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain confidential.

 

8.5                               Subrogation.  Each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby waives any rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of First-Priority Obligations has occurred.

 

8.6                               Application of Payments.  Except as otherwise provided herein, all payments received by the First-Priority Secured Parties may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to such part of the First-Priority Obligations as the First-Priority Secured Parties, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate, consistent with the terms of the First-Priority Documents.  Except as otherwise provided herein, each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, assents to any such extension or postponement of the time of payment of the First-Priority Obligations or any part thereof and to any other indulgence with respect thereto, to any substitution, exchange or release of any security that may at any time

 

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secure any part of the First-Priority Obligations and to the addition or release of any other Person primarily or secondarily liable therefor.

 

8.7                               Consent to Jurisdiction; Waivers.  The parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally agree that they will not commence any action, litigation or proceeding of any kind or description, whether in law or equity, whether in contract or in tort or otherwise, against the First-Priority Secured Parties or the Credit Agreement Agent, or any affiliate of the foregoing in any way relating to this Agreement or the transactions relating hereto, in any forum other than the courts of the State of New York sitting in New York County, and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof.  The parties hereto consent to the jurisdiction of any state or federal court located in New York County, New York, and consent that all service of process may be made by registered mail directed to such party as provided in Section 8.8 for such party.  Service so made shall be deemed to be completed three days after the same shall be posted as aforesaid.  The parties hereto waive any objection to any action instituted hereunder in any such court based on forum non conveniens, and any objection to the venue of any action instituted hereunder in any such court.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION BASED ON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, OR ANY COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, VERBAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT OR ACTION OF ANY PARTY HERETO IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF.

 

8.8                               Notices.  All notices to the First-Priority Secured Parties and the Second-Priority Secured Parties permitted or required under this Agreement may be sent to the First-Priority Collateral Agent, the Notes Collateral Agent, or any other First-Priority Representative or Second-Priority Representative as provided in the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture, the relevant First-Priority Document or the relevant Second-Priority Document, as applicable.  Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served, telecopied, electronically mailed or sent by courier service or U.S. mail and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt of a telecopy or electronic mail or upon receipt via U.S. mail (registered or certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed).  For the purposes hereof, the addresses of the parties hereto shall be as set forth below each party’s name on the signature pages hereto, or, as to each party, at such other address as may be designated by such party in a written notice to all of the other parties.  Each First-Priority Representative hereby agrees to promptly notify each Second-Priority Representative upon payment in full in cash of all indebtedness under the applicable First-Priority Documents (except for contingent indemnities and cost and reimbursement obligations to the extent no claim therefor has been made).

 

8.9                               Further Assurances.  Each of the Second-Priority Representatives, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, and each of the First-Priority Representatives, on behalf of itself and each applicable First-Priority Secured Party, agrees that each of them shall take such further action and shall execute and deliver to the First-Priority Collateral Agent and the First-Priority Secured Parties such additional documents and instruments (in recordable form, if requested) as the First-Priority Collateral Agent or the First-Priority Secured Parties may

 

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reasonably request to effectuate the terms of and the lien priorities contemplated by this Agreement.

 

8.10                        Governing Law.  THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY PRINCIPLE OF CONFLICTS OF LAW THAT COULD REQUIRE THE APPLICATION OF ANY OTHER LAW.

 

8.11                        Binding on Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon the First-Priority Collateral Agent, the other First-Priority Representatives, the First-Priority Secured Parties, the Second-Priority Representatives, the Second-Priority Secured Parties, the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries party hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns.

 

8.12                        Specific Performance.  The First-Priority Collateral Agent may demand specific performance of this Agreement.  Each Second-Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and each applicable Second-Priority Secured Party, hereby irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense that might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action that may be brought by the First-Priority Collateral Agent.

 

8.13                        Section Titles.  The section titles contained in this Agreement are and shall be without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a part of this Agreement.

 

8.14                        Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, including by means of facsimile or in portable document format (pdf), each of which shall be an original and all of which shall together constitute one and the same document.

 

8.15                        Authorization.  By its signature, each Person executing this Agreement on behalf of a party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that it is duly authorized to execute this Agreement.  Each First-Priority Representative represents and warrants that this Agreement is binding upon the applicable First-Priority Secured Parties for which such First-Priority Representative is acting.  Each Second-Priority Representative represents and warrants that this Agreement is binding upon the applicable Second-Priority Secured Parties for which such Second-Priority Representative is acting.

 

8.16                        No Third Party Beneficiaries; Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of each of, and be binding upon, the holders of First-Priority Obligations and Second-Priority Obligations.  No other Person shall have or be entitled to assert rights or benefits hereunder.

 

8.17                        Effectiveness.  This Agreement shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties hereto.  This Agreement shall be effective both before and after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.  All references to the Company or any other Grantor shall include the Company or any other Grantor as debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for the Company or any other Grantor (as the case may be) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

 

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8.18                        First-Priority Representatives and Second-Priority Representatives.  It is understood and agreed that (a) Barclays is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as collateral agent under the Credit Agreement and the provisions of Article VIII of the Credit Agreement applicable to Barclays as collateral agent thereunder shall also apply to Barclays as First-Priority Collateral Agent hereunder and (b) U.S. Bank is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as Notes Collateral Agent under the Notes Collateral Agreement, and the provisions of Article VII of the Notes Indenture applicable to the Notes Collateral Agent thereunder shall also apply to it as Second-Priority Collateral Agent and Notes Collateral Agent hereunder.

 

8.19                        Relative Rights.  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary (except to the extent contemplated by Sections 5.1 and 5.3(b)), nothing in this Agreement is intended to or will (a) amend, waive or otherwise modify the provisions of the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture or any other First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Document entered into in connection with the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture or any other First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Document or permit the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to take any action, or fail to take any action, to the extent such action or failure would otherwise constitute a breach of, or default under, the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture or any other First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Document entered into in connection with the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture or any other First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Credit Document, (b) change the relative priorities of the First-Priority Obligations or the Liens granted under the First-Priority Documents on the Common Collateral (or any other assets) as among the First-Priority Secured Parties or (c) otherwise change the relative rights of the First-Priority Secured Parties in respect of the Common Collateral as among such First-Priority Secured Parties or (d) obligate the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to take any action, or fail to take any action, that would otherwise constitute a breach of, or default under, the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture or any other First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Document entered into in connection with the Credit Agreement, the Notes Indenture or any other First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Document.

 

8.20                        Second-Priority Collateral Agent.  The Second-Priority Collateral Agent is executing and delivering this Agreement solely in its capacity as such and pursuant to directions set forth in the Notes Indenture; and in so doing, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the terms or sufficiency of this Agreement for any purpose.  The Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall not have duties or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement other than such duties expressly set forth in this Agreement as duties on its part to be performed or observed.  In entering into this Agreement, or in taking (or forbearing from) any action under or pursuant to this Agreement, the Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall have and be protected by all of the rights, immunities, indemnities and other protections granted to it under the Notes Indenture and, as applicable, the Notes Collateral Agreement.

 

8.21                        Joinder Requirements.  The Company may designate additional obligations as Other First-Priority Obligations or Other Second-Priority Obligations pursuant to this Section 8.21 if (x) the incurrence of such obligations is not prohibited by any First-Priority Document or Second-Priority Document then in effect and (y) the Company shall have delivered an officer’s certificate to each First-Priority Representative and each Second-Priority Representative certifying the same.  If not so prohibited, the Company shall (i) notify each Representative in writing of such designation and (ii) cause the applicable new First-Priority Representative or

 

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Second-Priority Representative to execute and deliver to each other First-Priority Representative and Second-Priority Representative, a Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit A or Exhibit B, as applicable, hereto, which each such First Priority-Representative and Second-Priority Representative shall promptly execute and deliver to the Company.

 

8.22                        Intercreditor Agreements.

 

(a)                                Each party hereto agrees that the First-Priority Secured Parties (as among themselves) and the Second-Priority Secured Parties (as among themselves) may each enter into intercreditor agreements (or similar arrangements) with the applicable First-Priority Representatives or Second-Priority Representatives, as the case may be, governing the rights, benefits and privileges as among the First-Priority Secured Parties or as among the Second-Priority Secured Parties, as the case may be, in respect of any or all of the Common Collateral, this Agreement and the other First-Priority Collateral Documents or the other Second-Priority Collateral Documents, as the case may be, including as to application of proceeds of any Common Collateral, voting rights, control of any Common Collateral and waivers with respect to any Common Collateral, in each case so long as the terms thereof do not violate or conflict with the provisions of this Agreement or the other First-Priority Collateral Documents or Second-Priority Collateral Documents, as the case may be.  In any event, if a respective intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement) exists, the provisions thereof shall not be (or be construed to be) an amendment, modification or other change to this Agreement or any other First-Priority Collateral Document or Second-Priority Collateral Document, and the provisions of this Agreement and the other First-Priority Collateral Documents and Second-Priority Collateral Documents shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof (as such provisions may be amended, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, including to give effect to any intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement)).

 

(b)                                In addition, in the event that the Company or any Subsidiary thereof incurs any Obligations secured by a Lien on any Common Collateral that is junior to Liens thereon securing any First-Priority Obligations or Second-Priority Obligations, as the case may be, and such Obligations are not designated by the Company as Second-Priority Obligations, then the First-Priority Collateral Agent and/or Second-Priority Collateral Agent shall upon the request of the Company enter into an intercreditor agreement with the agent or trustee for the creditors with respect to such secured Obligations to reflect the relative Lien priorities of such parties with respect to the relevant portion of the Common Collateral and governing the relative rights, benefits and privileges as among such parties in respect of such Common Collateral, including as to application of the proceeds of such Common Collateral, voting rights, control of such Common Collateral and waivers with respect to such Common Collateral, in each case, so long as such secured Obligations are not prohibited by, and the terms of such intercreditor agreement do not violate or conflict with, the provisions of this Agreement or any of the First-Priority Documents or Second-Priority Documents, as the case may be.  If any such intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement) is entered into, the provisions thereof shall not be (or be construed to be) an amendment, modification or other change to this Agreement or any First-Priority Documents, and the provisions of this Agreement, the First-Priority Documents and the Second-Priority Documents shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof (as such provisions may be amended, modified or otherwise supplemented

 

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from time to time in accordance with the respective terms thereof, including to give effect to any intercreditor agreement (or similar arrangement)).

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

	
 
    	
BARCLAYS BANK PLC,
    
	
 
    	
as Credit Agreement Agent and
    
	
 
    	
First-Priority Collateral Agent
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Craig Malloy
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: Craig Malloy
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Director
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    
	
 
    	
as Notes Collateral Agent and
    
	
 
    	
Second-Priority Collateral Agent
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Linda Garcia
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: Linda Garcia
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Vice President
    

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

 

 

	
 
    	
SFX ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/ Richard Rosenstein
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name: Richard Rosenstein
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title: Chief Financial Officer
    

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

 

 

EXHIBIT A
 Joinder Agreement

 

JOINDER AGREEMENT
 (Other First-Priority Obligations)

 

JOINDER AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of [·], 20[·], among [·] (the “New Representative”), as an Other First-Priority Representative, [[·] (the “New Collateral Agent”)](1), as an Other First-Priority Collateral Agent, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as collateral agent for the Credit Agreement Secured Parties (together with its successors and co-agents in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed) and as Credit Agreement Agent and First-Priority Collateral Agent, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as collateral agent for the Notes Secured Parties (together with its successors and co-agents in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed) and as Notes Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Collateral Agent and SFX ENTERTAINMENT, INC. (on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries).

 

This Agreement is supplemental to that certain First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of February 7, 2014 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement”), by and among the parties (other than the New Representative and the New Collateral Agent) referred to above.  This Agreement has been entered into to record the accession of the New Representative[s] as Other First-Priority Representative[s] under the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement [and to record the accession of the New Collateral Agent as an Other First-Priority Collateral Agent under the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement].

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions

 

SECTION 1.01              Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

 

ARTICLE II

 

Accession

 

SECTION 2.01  [The][/Each] New Representative agrees to become, with immediate effect, a party to and agrees to be bound by the terms of, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as an Other First-Priority Representative as if it had originally been party to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as an Other First-Priority Representative.

 

(1)         To be included if applicable.

 

 

SECTION 2.02  [The New Collateral Agent agrees to become, with immediate effect, a party to and agrees to be bound by the terms of, the Intercreditor Agreement as an Other First-Priority Collateral Agent as if it had originally been party to the Intercreditor Agreement as an Other First-Priority Collateral Agent.]

 

SECTION 2.03  The New Representative[s] and the New Collateral Agent confirm[s] that their address details for notices pursuant to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement [is][/are] as follows: [·].

 

SECTION 2.04  Each party to this Agreement (other than the New Representative[s] and the New Collateral Agent) confirms the acceptance of the New Representative[s] and New Collateral Agent as an Other First-Priority Representative and Other First-Priority Collateral Agent, respectively, for purposes of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

 

SECTION 2.05  [·] [is][/are] acting in the capacities of Other First-Priority Representative[s] and [·] is acting in its capacity as Other First-Priority Collateral Agent solely for the Secured Parties under [·].

 

ARTICLE III

 

Miscellaneous

 

SECTION 3.01  This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.  The provisions of Section 8.7 of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement are incorporated herein mutatis mutandis.

 

SECTION 3.02  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  Delivery of an executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

[INSERT SIGNATURE BLOCKS]

 

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EXHIBIT B
 Joinder Agreement

 

JOINDER AGREEMENT
 (Other Second-Priority Obligations)

 

JOINDER AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of [·], 20[·], among [·] (the “New Representative”), as an Other Second-Priority Representative, [[·] (the “New Collateral Agent”)](2), as an Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as collateral agent for the Credit Agreement Secured Parties (together with its successors and co-agents in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed) and as Credit Agreement Agent and First-Priority Collateral Agent, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as collateral agent for the Notes Secured Parties (together with its successors and co-agents in substantially the same capacity as may from time to time be appointed) and as Notes Collateral Agent and Second-Priority Collateral Agent and SFX ENTERTAINMENT, INC. (on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries).

 

This Agreement is supplemental to that certain First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of February 7, 2014 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement”), by and among the parties (other than the New Representative and the New Collateral Agent) referred to above.  This Agreement has been entered into to record the accession of the New Representative[s] as Other Second-Priority Representative[s] under the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement [and to record the accession of the New Collateral Agent as an Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent under the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement].

 

ARTICLE I

 

Definitions

 

SECTION 1.01  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

 

ARTICLE II

 

Accession

 

SECTION 2.01  [The][/Each] New Representative agrees to become, with immediate effect, a party to and agrees to be bound by the terms of, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as an Other Second-Priority Representative as if it had originally been party to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as an Other Second-Priority Representative.

 

(2)         To be included if applicable.

 

 

SECTION 2.02  [The New Collateral Agent agrees to become, with immediate effect, a party to and agrees to be bound by the terms of, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as an Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent as if it had originally been party to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as an Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent.]

 

SECTION 2.03  The New Representative[s] and the New Collateral Agent confirm[s] that their address details for notices pursuant to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement [is][/are] as follows: [·].

 

SECTION 2.04  Each party to this Agreement (other than the New Representative[s] and the New Collateral Agent) confirms the acceptance of the New Representative[s] and the New Collateral Agent as an Other Second-Priority Representative and an Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent, respectively, for purposes of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

 

SECTION 2.05  [·] [is][/are] acting in the capacities of Other Second-Priority Representative[s] and [·] is acting in its capacity as Other Second-Priority Collateral Agent solely for the Secured Parties under [·].

 

ARTICLE III

 

Miscellaneous

 

SECTION 3.01  This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.  The provisions of Section 8.7 of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement are incorporated herein mutatis mutandis.

 

SECTION 3.02  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.  Delivery of an executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

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SCHEDULE I

 

Subsidiary Parties

 

	
Subsidiary
    	
 
    	
Jurisdiction
    
	
MADE EVENT, LLC  
    	
 
    	
Massachusetts
    
	
Beatport Japan, LLC 
    	
 
    	
Colorado
    
	
BEATPORT, LLC 
    	
 
    	
Colorado
    
	
EZ FESTIVALS, LLC 
    	
 
    	
New York
    
	
430 ACQUISITION LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
430R ACQUISITION LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
ID&T/SFX Mysteryland LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
ID&T/SFX North America LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
ID&T/SFX Q-Dance LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
ID&T/SFX Sensation LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
ID&T/SFX TomorrowWorld LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
Pita I LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
PITA III LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX ACQUISITION, LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX EDM Holdings Corporation 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX EX IP LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX EXPERIENCE, LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX INTERMEDIATE HOLDCO I LLC  
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX INTERMEDIATE HOLDCO II LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX International, Inc. 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX IP LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    

 

 

	
SFX Made IP LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX MARKETING LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX NIGHTLIFE TELEVISION LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-320 Lincoln Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Cameo Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Disco Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFXE IP LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Huka Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-IDT N.A. Holding II LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-IDT N.A. HOLDING LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-LIC Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Mokai Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Nightlife Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Opium Group Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Star Island Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-VMX Holding LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-VMX Operating LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
STEREOSONIC US IP LLC 
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Disco Intermediate Holdco LLC
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-REACT OPERATING LLC
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
Michigan JJ Holdings LLC
    	
 
    	
Delaware
    
	
SFX-Hudson LLC
    	
 
    	
DelawareExhibit 4.1

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of May 15, 2014, among Cogent Communications Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee under the Indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H

 

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of June 11, 2007 providing for the issuance of the Company’s 1.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”);

 

WHEREAS, on May 15, 2015, the Company merged with and into a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”) and immediately following the Merger, the Company was a subsidiary of the Guarantor;

 

WHEREAS, the Guarantor desires to fully and unconditionally guarantee all obligations of the Company under the Notes and the Indenture on a senior basis on the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture (the “Guarantee”); and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 10.01(d) of the Indenture, the Company and the Trustee are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture without notice to or consent of any Holder;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:

 

1.                                                              CAPITALIZED TERMS. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

2.                                                              AGREEMENT TO GUARANTEE. The Guarantor hereby agrees to irrevocably fully and unconditionally provide the Guarantee subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

3.                                                              NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN. This Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

4.                                                              COUNTERPARTS. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.

 

 

5.                                                              EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

6.                                                              THE TRUSTEE. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no duties, responsibilities or liabilities are assumed or shall be construed to be assumed by the Trustee by reason of this Supplemental Indenture.  The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Guarantor and the Company.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the date first above written.

 

	
 
    	
GUARANTOR:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
COGENT   COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Robert N. Beury, Jr.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Robert   N. Beury, Jr.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Vice   President, Chief Legal Officer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
and   Assistant Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
THE   COMPANY:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
COGENT   COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Robert N. Beury, Jr.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Robert   N. Beury, Jr.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Vice   President, Chief Legal Officer
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
and   Assistant Secretary
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
TRUSTEE:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
WELLS   FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
as   Trustee
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
By:
    	
/s/   Yana Kislenko
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    	
Yana   Kislenko
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    	
Vice   President
    
					

 

Signature Page to Cogent Communications Group, Inc.

Supplemental Indenture

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